By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
For Haywood Fennell, Sr. 66, the turn-around came a little over 12 years ago. The former Vietnam Era vet had been in and out of jails and prisons, on and off drugs. After his final stay at a VA detox facility Fennell resided in a homeless shelter for 18 months and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
One thing was apparent to Dennis Littky after 23 years as a middle and high school principal: The system focused more on test scores than on learning. In 1996, he co-founded the Met Center High School in Providence, Rhode Island, a school designed to meet the personal...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
At the end of successful careers in international publishing and public relations, Howard and Marika Stone chose not to retire, and began new careers as life coach and yoga teacher, respectively. In 1998, they co-founded a website, 2young2retire.com, to advocate an...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
John Foley could have retired in 1996 after 34 years of working with schools in Peru. Instead, the Jesuit priest, then 60, returned to the United States to launch the Cristo Rey Network, an innovative approach to Catholic college preparatory education that now serves...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Businessman Richard Gygi witnessed the impact of HIV/AIDS when he traveled to Kenya and saw orphaned children surviving by living in the streets. The unforgettable images of poverty, hunger, and joblessness in Africa forged his resolve to tackle those issues to help...
