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Carl Jordan

Carl Jordan

Carl Jordan is building on his 25-year career as a University professor and researcher in ecology and agriculture. After years studying red clay soils in the tropics, Jordan focused his expertise on the red soils native to his adopted state of Georgia. In both regions...
Judy Goldetsky

Judy Goldetsky

In her two decades running On Call Clinicians, the medical staffing company she founded in the Twin Cities metro area, Judy Goldetsky became very aware that long-term care facilities struggled to provide dental care for their elderly, poor, and disabled patients. The...
Christel DeHaan

Christel DeHaan

Christel DeHaan became a travel industry pioneer when she co-founded Resort Condominiums International, but after selling the company in 1996, she leveraged her entrepreneurial skills to join the fight against poverty. In 1998 she created Christel House International...
Tobey Dichter

Tobey Dichter

“I’m too old dear; I’m too dumb.” That’s what older people told Tobey Dichter in the late 1990’s when she asked if they were interested in the Internet. Dichter, then a vice president of a billion dollar healthcare company, was...
Paul Polak

Paul Polak

As a psychiatrist, Paul Polak fought the causes of mental illness, gradually deciding ending poverty was the best way to promote world health. In 1989, at age 56, he founded International Development Enterprises (IDE) to design products that would help the 90 percent...