Keren Brown Wilson
When Keren Brown Wilson was a 19-year-old college student, her mother had a stroke at age 55. Her mother lived 10 more years, mostly in nursing homes. “When I told her of my plans to teach gerontology, she said something that changed my life forever,” Brown recalls....
Timothy Will
Tim Will saw that his adopted community – chosen for its stunning beauty – was decaying. Manufacturing jobs, the Appalachian county’s economic base, had moved elsewhere, and the area lacked the infrastructure to support new business in a...
J. McDonald Williams
In 1995, J. McDonald Williams, then chair of a Texas-based real estate firm, founded the Foundation for Community Empowerment to help revitalize low-income neighborhoods in Dallas. Partnering with community and faith-based organizations and the public sector, the...