Billy Lyve is a force to be reckoned with. He is well known in Carroll County for his Westminster-based nonprofit Find Your Purpose.
Movers and Shakers Enterprises, a nonprofit connected to Find Your Purpose, won the $2,000 United Way of Central Maryland Changemaker Challenge Award in the 2024 Carroll Biz Challenge for addressing a pressing issue in his community. Lyve said Movers and Shakers helps young people learn about business by involving them in the moving and junk removal business.
“We’re going to keep fighting and fighting until people start paying more attention to us,” Lyve said. “We’re definitely an organization that’s making a crazy impact in the Carroll County area.”
Lyve said growing up in a household with alcoholism and violence has motivated him to be there for kids without a father.
“I can be a victim of my circumstances, or I can become a victor,” Lyve said. “I chose to fight through it, and I ended up using all of the negative things that I went through in my life.”
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