By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
High school dropout rates for Hispanic teens in Texas are three times those of whites and 30 percent higher than the rates for African Americans. Jose-Pablo Fernandez, former director of the Mexican Institute of Houston, knew he needed to try something new to improve...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After more than three decades in the food distribution business and one year as a VISTA volunteer at the San Francisco Food Bank, Gary Maxworthy was quite familiar with two realities: 1) Food banks typically distribute canned and packaged goods, shunning most fresh...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Gordon Johnson remembers well the day in his teenage years when his father took in two nieces and two nephews whose father couldn’t raise them. The upheaval and evident lack of concern by state case workers sparked a lifelong commitment to care for abused and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When disaster strikes and people are buried by rubble and possibly unconscious, one trained dog can often find the injured more quickly than 20 human searchers. And yet, in 1995, when Wilma Melville and her Labrador, Buddy, were called to help after the Oklahoma City...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After 16 years as a neo-natal nurse in St. Louis watching too many newborns leave the hospital, then return with life-threatening medical conditions, Sharon Rohrbach knew it was time to take action. In 1992, she founded the Nurses for Newborns Foundation to bring...
