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James Ketelsen

James Ketelsen

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Ketelsen created Project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams) when he was CEO of Tenneco, a Fortune 500 manufacturer of heavy equipment, in 1988. When he retired, he turned his full attention to doing more to help minority and low-income youth graduate from high...
Jock Brandis

Jock Brandis

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

On a trip to West Africa to help a friend fix a solar-powered drinking water system, Joost (Jock) Brandis came across an even bigger need: a simple, cost-effective peanut sheller to help poor women prepare tough ground nuts for sale. It seemed simple, and Brandis...
Margaret Gordon

Margaret Gordon

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Children living near the freeways in urban Oakland, Calif., are hospitalized for asthma at 12 times the rate of youths in the city’s more affluent – and greener – suburb of Lafayette. Years ago, Margaret Gordon didn’t know about how grave the situation was in her...
Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Over a varied career in business, Robert Chambers had occasion to work as a car salesman, where he saw both the routine ways dealerships prey on low-income buyers and the bind that rural low-income buyers are in – they don’t qualify for a loan to buy a...
Elizabeth and Stephen Alderman

Elizabeth and Stephen Alderman

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

The death of their son on 9/11 brought Elizabeth and Stephen Alderman merciless grief. Soon afterward, they learned in a news report that a billion people around the world had experienced severe trauma. The Aldermans could relate. They understand: Suffering is...