By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After a meteoric rise in the advertising industry and running one of the top advertising agencies, I shuttered my doors to build a small consultancy with a big purpose. That is for business to save the world. BrightHouse specializes in articulating and activating...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When I was 60, in 2005, I was at a community organizing meeting in Los Angeles with organizers from all over the country. Sister Pearl Caeser, an organizer from Texas, was telling us how teachers there were doing home visits with extraordinary results. Reading scores,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
The first homeless person I ever met was at a shelter, where I was volunteering. I drove back to seminary, realizing that the women there were much more like me than different. For the next 20 years, I devoted myself to homeless services, but I saw no reductions in...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1997, I was the director of an emergency night shelter for homeless families, securing evening lodging for families in church basements. I was very focused on making sure families were well-kept at night, and I doubled the capacity of the program. Each day after...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
I served as a judge for 25 years, after two decades as a trial lawyer. Over my 25 years on the bench, I witnessed a disturbing transformation: More people who came before me were struggling, financially and economically; more were single parents; more and more...
