By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Gordon Johnson remembers well the day in his teenage years when his father took in two nieces and two nephews whose father couldn’t raise them. The upheaval and evident lack of concern by state case workers sparked a lifelong commitment to care for abused and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Being shuffled from one home to the next and bounced around in the system, foster youth often struggle to trust adults. And after they “age out” of the system at 18, half are unemployed, one-third go on welfare and one-fourth become homeless. That’s...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Raised by his grandmother in Chicago’s public housing, Phillip Jackson spent most of his childhood learning to hustle on 43rd St., moving through 11 Chicago public schools and dropping out of college. That was until a young philosophy professor mentored him, helping...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When marketing executive Mark Goldsmith volunteered to be “Principal for a Day” at a New York-area school, he asked for the program’s toughest assignment. They sent him to Rikers Island prison for a day, and that experience led Goldsmith to an encore...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1999, Michael Gould’s brother, Allen, made a dying wish. He wanted Gould to use $700,000 from his estate to help low-income youth in Washington, D.C. “I am leaving $700,000 to charity and am too tired now to figure out what to do with it,” he told Gould. “I know...
