By Gary Hume | Mar 21, 2016
After more than two decades as a United Way executive who raised in excess of $100 million for local nonprofit agencies, it seemed that, despite all those charitable dollars and services delivered, the social problems we were trying to mitigate were only proliferating...
By Gary Hume | Mar 21, 2016
I have a very unique story that inspires cancer patients to never give up their dreams. My primary career for 13 years has been as director of accounting at a company in Las Vegas, but my intensive volunteer commitment started in 2008. It was then that St. Rose...
By Gary Hume | Mar 18, 2016
I founded Look. It’s My Book!, a nonprofit in Peoria, Illinois which gives away six books a year to each child in kindergarten through fourth grade. We currently serve all of the fourteen elementary schools in our local district 150 schools. So far, we have...
By Gary Hume | Mar 15, 2016
Miamisburg, Ohio, population 20,000, will be 200 years old in 2018. Down on Main Street is the Plaza Theatre, which was opened on Christmas Day 1919 by the Weaver brothers. With the arrival of malls and interstates, and the decline of small downtowns, the Plaza was...
By Gary Hume | Mar 15, 2016
I was born in Uganda in Eastern Africa and, at age 25, I was ordained a Catholic priest. I served the people of Uganda as a parish priest, a teacher and a dean at a seminary. In 2000, I moved to the United States and in 2009 became a citizen. While in the U.S., I...