By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1995, J. McDonald Williams, then chair of a Texas-based real estate firm, founded the Foundation for Community Empowerment to help revitalize low-income neighborhoods in Dallas. Partnering with community and faith-based organizations and the public sector, the...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Wanjiru Kamau, a university administrator and adjunct professor, met the asylum seekers – victims of the Rwandan genocide and relatives of her colleagues at Penn State – she saw that some were illiterate and bewildered by modern city life. Seeing them took her...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
For 25 years, Helen Karr managed beauty salons, where she heard countless stories from older women about how they were being financially abused by their children or caregivers – the same people who had been entrusted to look after their finances. Their painful stories...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Ray McGrath’s work as a defense investigator for three Northern Ireland prison escapees facing extradition from the United States brought him to a revelation about international criminal courts and tribunals. As such bodies oversee serious international cases,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A former owner of a wrecking yard in an Arizona border town, Richard Kamp became alarmed when toxic smoke from a nearby copper smelter threatened the health of his family. He started collecting technical data about local pollution and used this knowledge to fight for...