By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After more than three decades in the food distribution business and one year as a VISTA volunteer at the San Francisco Food Bank, Gary Maxworthy was quite familiar with two realities: 1) Food banks typically distribute canned and packaged goods, shunning most fresh...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Wilson Goode is perhaps best known for his two terms as mayor of Philadelphia (from 1984 to 1992). But in 2000, at age 62, Goode earned a Doctorate of Ministry and took a job as director of Amachi, a nonprofit established to help the 7 million children who have one or...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Wanjiru Kamau, a university administrator and adjunct professor, met the asylum seekers – victims of the Rwandan genocide and relatives of her colleagues at Penn State – she saw that some were illiterate and bewildered by modern city life. Seeing them took her...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Hubert Jones didn’t need another project. For five decades, he built and nourished nonprofit organizations that spoke to one of this country’s most enduring struggles: race. He had served as dean of the Boston University School of Social Work for 16 years, the first...
