Michael A. Gould

Michael A. Gould

In 1999, Michael Gould’s brother, Allen, made a dying wish. He wanted Gould to use $700,000 from his estate to help low-income youth in Washington, D.C. “I am leaving $700,000 to charity and am too tired now to figure out what to do with it,” he told Gould. “I know...
Toni Heineman

Toni Heineman

Being shuffled from one home to the next and bounced around in the system, foster youth often struggle to trust adults. And after they “age out” of the system at 18, half are unemployed, one-third go on welfare and one-fourth become homeless. That’s...
Gary W. Selnow

Gary W. Selnow

While a Fulbright communications professor at the University of Zagreb in 1997, Gary W. Selnow was asked by the U.S. Department of State to visit war-ravaged Vukovar in eastern Croatia to tell schoolteachers about the Internet. But he found no Internet facilities...
Wilma Melville

Wilma Melville

When disaster strikes and people are buried by rubble and possibly unconscious, one trained dog can often find the injured more quickly than 20 human searchers. And yet, in 1995, when Wilma Melville and her Labrador, Buddy, were called to help after the Oklahoma City...