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K. Rashid Nuri

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Nuri, 61, worries that industrial agriculture breeds a host of problems. In his view, the industry’s practices are unsustainable; allow produce to lose nutrition during transport; lead to a scarcity of quality, fresh food in urban areas; and punish the...

Thomas Gipson

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

As CEO of Thomas Gipson Homes and a member of Friends of Habitat of Raleigh in North Carolina, Gipson was tasked with finding a way to get professional homebuilders more involved in Habitat for Humanity’s work to increase the number of homes available to...

Lynn Fritz

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

As the chairman and CEO of Fritz Companies, Lynn Fritz was an architect of the global logistics industry. With 12,000 employees in 120 countries, he understood the sources of the greatest inefficiencies in global supply chains. Fritz also witnessed numerous natural...

Peter Karoff

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

After a two-year sabbatical studying poetry, Boston business leader and civic activist Peter Karoff founded The Philanthropic Initiative in 1989. His plan, groundbreaking at the time, was to promote philanthropy and to greatly enlarge the pool of donors, encouraging...

Diana Barrett

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

After 25 years at Harvard University, where she taught business and public health, Barrett left academia to start a foundation called the Fledgling Fund. Barrett says she made the decision to switch careers the day after 9/11. She was teaching a class about Martin...

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