Irene Pritzker

Irene Pritzker

Visiting Africa, IDP Foundation president Irene Pritzker witnessed firsthand the deplorable conditions of Ghana’s poor, low-cost private schools – no books, no ventilation, open sewage. When she learned they rarely qualified for government funding or...
Joseph James

Joseph James

Green-collar jobs are on everyone’s lips – politicians, economists and those fighting for social justice. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who recognized that freedom has little meaning, without the economic wherewithal to enjoy it, James abandoned...
Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers

Over a varied career in business, Robert Chambers had occasion to work as a car salesman, where he saw both the routine ways dealerships prey on low-income buyers and the bind that rural low-income buyers are in – they don’t qualify for a loan to buy a...
Randal Charlton

Randal Charlton

Bored with retirement and ripe for a new challenge, Randal Charlton walked into the office of the president of Wayne State University in 2007 and asked if he had a job – any job – for a lifelong entrepreneur. Charlton brought a versatile background to the table. In...
Lorraine Decker

Lorraine Decker

On Sept 11, 2001, Lorraine Decker and her husband, Ken, were ready to fly to the Middle East to teach financial, tax and estate planning workshops across the region. It was supposed to be a routine trip for them, both financial consultants who had brought their...