By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1993, Harvard-trained lawyer Dick Roy left behind his corner office in Portland, Oregon, to launch an encore career with his wife, Jeanne, devoted to a higher purpose: environmental sustainability. “We were acutely aware that climate change was on the horizon and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Visiting Africa, IDP Foundation president Irene Pritzker witnessed firsthand the deplorable conditions of Ghana’s poor, low-cost private schools – no books, no ventilation, open sewage. When she learned they rarely qualified for government funding or...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After more than 35 years as a film and television writer, producer and director, Peter Rosten had had enough of Hollywood, and in 2002 he decamped for rural Darby, Montana. He soon noted a social need in his new community: a paucity of arts education. He saw budget...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2011, the godson of well-known poet Heather McHugh welcomed his daughter to the world. The girl was severely disabled, and required constant support and therapy. Abandoning their expat careers in Cambodia, he and his wife returned to the U.S. Their situation was...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When he retired in 2005 after three decades in finance and economic development at the World Bank, Narendra Sharma moved to the famous resort island of Hilton Head in South Carolina. Retirement gave way to a higher purpose when he discovered pockets of entrenched...
