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William J. Burwinkel

William J. Burwinkel

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Successful entrepreneur William J. Burwinkel started a company in his basement that grew into National Marketshare Group, a major consumer sales and marketing company based in Cincinnati. But that wasn’t enough. In 2003, he decided it was time to give something back....
Richard Fahey

Richard Fahey

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

When environmental lawyer Richard Fahey returned to Liberia in 2009 with his wife, Suzanne, 30 years after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer there, he found a much different place. The country, one of the world’s poorest, was devastated after 14 years of civil war....
John Corcoran

John Corcoran

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In the early 1990s, John Corcoran’s 4-year-old granddaughter began asking him to read books with her. But he couldn’t read. He was one of the 93 million Americans whose reading skills are below the basic level. In his 17 years teaching high school, he had fooled...
Michael Berkeley

Michael Berkeley

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

For decades, Michael Berkeley had a fulfilling career as an orthopedic surgeon for celebrities in Aspen, CO. By the late 1980s, he wanted a higher purpose. “I didn’t want my tombstone to say, ‘He fixed a lot of knees,’” he says. He found an encore career in Chihuahua,...
Jill Ker Conway

Jill Ker Conway

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Born in the Australian outback, Jill Ker Conway ventured to the United States for an illustrious academic career capped by her appointment as Smith College’s first woman president. But she wasn’t done yet. In 2011, at age 76, she embarked on an encore career as a...