The Organization: Elm City Internationals (ECI) The Mission: To help low-income children in New Haven, mostly immigrants and refugees, succeed in school and go on to college. The catalyst—the international sport of soccer. The Story: Lauren Mednick was inspired to help refugee and immigrant youth in New Haven while working for a refugee relocation organization in 2008. She taught a first-grade classroom after graduating college, and helping in that room was a frequent consequ