Timothy W. Bilodeau

Timothy W. Bilodeau

As a volunteer working to improve medical conditions in Ecuador, Timothy Bilodeau stood by a mother whose 3-year-old child had just died for lack of 25 cents worth of medicine. The impoverished woman, in agony, had been forced to choose between buying food or medicine...
June Barrett

June Barrett

Each year, an estimated 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and 80% are released from the hospital. What happens once they leave? As Tennessee real estate developer June Barrett discovered in 1981 when her then 14-year-old daughter Lori suffered...
Fredrick J. Bramante

Fredrick J. Bramante

A quarter of American high school students drop out before graduation. What if the problem isn’t teachers or schools, but how we measure learning itself—as “seat time” spent in a class? Fred Bramante thinks it is. “School taught me that I wasn’t very bright,” Bramante...
Robert Crowell and Barbara Crowell Roy

Robert Crowell and Barbara Crowell Roy

In 2005, Robert Crowell and Barbara Crowell Roy’s lives changed forever. Their daughter, a 30-year old successful corporate attorney, Eve Crowell, accidentally died from a drug and alcohol overdose. Robert was months away from retiring from his long neurosurgery...
Richard Fox

Richard Fox

When Richard Fox learned in 2002 that some of the Lakota people living on the poverty-stricken Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota freeze to death every winter because they can’t afford to heat their poorly insulated or completely unheated homes, he was moved to...