By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Developing youth as long-term stewards for the Gulf of Maine watershed The Gulf of Maine watershed extends from south west tip of Nova Scotia to the tip of Cape Cod, and, until recently, it was the world’s richest commercial fishing ground. Alarmed at the...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Cowboy Fred Ortiz, 63, saw something in the youth of Lubbock, Texas that he recognized all too well, and it pained him. Ortiz grew up in an economically depressed area of South El Paso, Texas, and witnessed many of his peers failing to thrive and resistant to...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After retiring as Director of Academic Advising and Adjunct Faculty from The Sage Colleges in Troy, New York, Mildred Dandridge moved to California to develop her passion for engaging youth in their communities. In 2002, she launched Awareness for Communities about...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
To Jerry Conover, a retired trial lawyer and mediator, the Social Security checks he began receiving in his sixties were nice but not necessary. Financially secure, he, like many of his friends, had no real need for the government entitlement. The challenges facing...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A professional media consultant, Jane Wholey had long been frustrated by New Orleans’ dismal school system, where 75 percent of 8th graders scored “below basic” in English and ten superintendents had passed through in ten years. In the wake of...
