By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Nancy Morgans-Ferguson had recently retired from a 30-year career in pharmaceutical and medical sales when one day in 2005 a homeless woman knocked on the door of her church in Chico, Calif. The woman asked for a glass of water, but she needed much more: She had...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
The life of a child in Uganda can be bleak: More than a million orphans are living with AIDS; millions have been affected by a 20-year war, including tens of thousands of child soldiers; and many live in extreme poverty, with one-third of Ugandans living on $1 a day....
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Toni Maloney first visited the Kabul Women’s Garden, a shopping center in Afghanistan’s capital city where only women can work or shop, it had no electricity. Kerosene stoves provided the heat for the 5-by-10-foot retail spaces. The marketing executive watched as...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When her son was in high school, Kathryn Hanson, a chief marketing officer in Silicon Valley, was taken aback by statistics that showed his low-income classmates were rarely enrolled in advanced placement courses. Low-income and minority students have the lowest high...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When she was 5, Maria Nagorski and her family came from Poland to the United States with the “hopes and dreams of a country that welcomed us.” She believed in the American dream and lived it. She had a successful career in launching and growing a national...
