By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
It’s another 95-degree day in Cincinnati when Crystal Palmer, a home visitation counselor with Every Child Succeeds, stops to see Carrie Moore, a 19-year-old mother with 6-month-old twins born several weeks premature. The day is a recipe for maternal frustration – no...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
T.V. and Vijaya Ramakrishna had successful careers in the U.S. for decades, he as an engineer and she as a businesswoman. But as they approached retirement, neither forgot the challenges they faced growing up in India. T.V. lived in deep poverty. Education had been...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1997 Mimi Lieber, founder of Lieber Attitude Research Inc., a consumer and public opinion research organization serving numerous Fortune 500 companies, tapped into her long-standing interest to promote childhood literacy in disadvantaged New York City...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Wilson Goode is perhaps best known for his two terms as mayor of Philadelphia (from 1984 to 1992). But in 2000, at age 62, Goode earned a Doctorate of Ministry and took a job as director of Amachi, a nonprofit established to help the 7 million children who have one or...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Wanjiru Kamau, a university administrator and adjunct professor, met the asylum seekers – victims of the Rwandan genocide and relatives of her colleagues at Penn State – she saw that some were illiterate and bewildered by modern city life. Seeing them took her...
