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Libby Pinchot

Libby Pinchot

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

The 9/11 attacks spurred Elizabeth and Gifford Pinchot to rethink how they could give back to the world. Long interested in environmental causes, they committed themselves to doing something for the health of the planet. The Pinchots had spent decades running a...
Lily Yeh

Lily Yeh

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 2004, I was unhappy as director of the Village of Arts and Humanities, the organization I co-founded in 1986 to transform North Philadelphia communities through art. I spent most of my time raising funds and managing staff. I yearned to be on the frontlines of...
Dave and Liane Phillips

Dave and Liane Phillips

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 1994, as Dave Phillips approached retirement as the managing director of a large accounting firm, he and his wife, Liane, explored possibilities for work they could do together. Liane Phillips, a former teacher, conducted research, finding that 18 percent of the...
Priscilla Higham

Priscilla Higham

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

At certain times, a human life takes a quantum leap. That happened to me in 2000 while on a journalism assignment in the Nairobi slums. The activist and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai introduced me to a network of women who – without funding – were taking...