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Robert Sanders

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

A longtime minister, Sanders took his faith in God and applied it to his faith in his community. As pastor of All Nations Church of God in Christ in Joliet, Illinois, and a bishop with more than 70 churches in his jurisdiction, Sanders sees the effects of poverty,...

Robert Gnaizda

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 1966, at the age of 30, Robert Gnaizda co-founded California Rural Legal Assistance to organize and empower farm workers. Five years later, he started one of the nation’s first public interest law firms focusing exclusively on minority rights. But in 1993,...

David Roll

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

While visiting Peru in 2005, Roll was struck by the juxtaposition of rich and poor. On his way to a lavish law firm reception in Lima, the country’s capital, he rode through miles of slums and “grinding poverty.” Witnessing that stark contrast...

James Conroy

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Jim Conroy was a Jesuit priest in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, when a recent retiree expressed interest in participating in the community service experiences that the church had provided for his son. Conroy recognized an opportunity to connect retirees with nonprofit...

Judy Cockerton

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

A news story about a 5-month-old boy living in foster care who’d been kidnapped right out of his crib – never to be found – shook Judy Cockerton. She thought about all the other kids in foster care, the ones no one hears about until something awful happens. Soon...

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