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Ruth E. Skovron

Ruth E. Skovron

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

When Ruth Skovron retired to rural Connecticut in 1995 after running a community newspaper in New Jersey, she floundered. “Without the newspaper, and my children now far away, my moorings were gone,” she says. She threw herself into the local government of Falls...
Reverend Violet Little

Reverend Violet Little

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

On a cold day in 2006, the Reverend Violet Little walked into a public transit restroom in Philadelphia. She was exhausted. She’d been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease that causes weakness, vision problems and breathing difficulties. Unable to...
Richard Cherry

Richard Cherry

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Richard Cherry sees opportunities where others see smokestacks and landfills. In 1994, after two decades with the New York Urban Coalition, Cherry founded the Community Environmental Center to help low-income New Yorkers save money on utility bills by adding...
John Squires

John Squires

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

As executive director of a community development organization, John Squires has long worked to help the rural poor escape poverty. But the plight of poor Hispanics living in Third World conditions on this side of the border spurred him to action. In 2000, when he was...
Thomas Gipson

Thomas Gipson

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

As CEO of Thomas Gipson Homes and a member of Friends of Habitat of Raleigh in North Carolina, Gipson was tasked with finding a way to get professional homebuilders more involved in Habitat for Humanity’s work to increase the number of homes available to...