Dave and Liane Phillips

Dave and Liane Phillips

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...
Jin Zidell

Jin Zidell

Unsafe drinking water is a chief agent of health-related sickness and death worldwide, leading to more than 2 million deaths a year. Zidell, whose professional endeavors have included scrap iron/steel processing and real estate development, started Blue Planet Run...
Brenda Krause Eheart

Brenda Krause Eheart

At 58, Brenda Eheart took early retirement from her decades-long career as a university professor to put her research on the struggles foster kids face into action. “I could not write these things up for academic journals and not do anything about it. I just...
Ted Wohlfarth

Ted Wohlfarth

Ted Wohlfarth spent the first half of his life teaching economics, studying commercial real estate markets, and coaching his children’s baseball, basketball, and soccer teams. Those experiences taught Wohlfarth there is a problem with the games that adults give...
Zane Wilson

Zane Wilson

Julius and Wilson create Speaking Books that deliver health information to illiterate individuals about HIV, depression, and other health-related issues, emphasizing prevention.Illiteracy can be a matter of life and death. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide...