By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
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...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
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...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
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...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
For 25 years, Helen Karr managed beauty salons, where she heard countless stories from older women about how they were being financially abused by their children or caregivers – the same people who had been entrusted to look after their finances. Their painful stories...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Early in his career in the garment industry, the St. Louis-raised Michael Smolens took his first trip abroad to the southern Philippines. The trip influenced his life’s direction, and he spent the next 30 years doing business with emerging economies. After 9/11, he...
