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Dori Shimoda

Dori Shimoda

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 2000, after his kids left home, financial executive Dori Shimoda revived a promise he had made to himself nearly 20 years earlier, after he survived an 18-hour kidnapping at gunpoint: to help others. Searching for a way, he backpacked around Southeast Asia. As he...
Dana Freyer

Dana Freyer

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

From the desk of her corner office on the 48th floor of a Times Square skyscraper, Dana Freyer has a sweeping view of some of the most famous landmarks in the world, from the Empire State Building to the Statue of Liberty. What Freyer can’t see are trees. And yet for...
Aaron Shirley (1933-2014)

Aaron Shirley (1933-2014)

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 1995, after a decades-long career in public health that included managing Mississippi’s largest community health center, Aaron Shirley hatched a new plan for improving the lives of low-income residents of Jackson, Miss. Shirley partnered with the University of...
Andy Czerkas

Andy Czerkas

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 2000, Andy Czerkas and his wife, Jenny, began volunteering in low-income and senior housing complexes in Madison, Wisc., neighborhoods marked by poverty. Czerkas was motivated by religious faith and a sense of service that dated back more than 25 years, when – upon...