By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A community and labor organizer, Cleo Silvers worked for decades to bring underserved communities better health, job access and social justice. In the 1990s, incensed at high rates of asthma and infant mortality from pollution in her South Bronx neighborhood, she...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Through The Kitchen Door International Inc., created by Daniel Nachtigal and his late wife, Liesel Flashenberg (shown in photo, right), helps recent immigrants and low-income families in the Washington, D.C., area find jobs, acclimate to new cultures and communities,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1994, Betty Reiser volunteered at a local cancer organization in New York City to “give back” for her long term survival from both ovarian and thyroid cancer. She was 69 years old. A year later she was hired by the group to start the first direct...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Margaret Fleming was not surprised when her son adopted a child born with HIV. She has nine adopted children herself, including some with HIV and other factors that initially made them difficult to place with a family. Her journey began after a deep depression in...
