By Gary Hume | Oct 19, 2015
McKinney worked as a stipended volunteer in a preschool program run by the national education nonprofit JUMPSTART in Los Angeles. In this video, she talks about how her encore helped low-income children with language and literacy, and energized her later years at the...
By Gary Hume | Oct 19, 2015
I had seen from my Peace Corps volunteer experience in Ethiopia that camp is a near-universally appreciated phenomenon and I wanted to bring it back to Africa, but to use it in a way that promoted a social issue. That is why I created Global Camps Africa. Located in a...
By Gary Hume | Oct 19, 2015
I remember July 1, 2011 as I said “See ya” to my colleagues and friends and fellows who had been a part of my family at Baptist Health Care. I said to them that, in my butterfly persona, I truly had to fly to another point of view and this is my view of...
By Gary Hume | Oct 19, 2015
I work with a group in Mali, West Africa, Sini Sanuman, to end female genital mutilation (FGM.) Because of friends in Mali asking how they could help, I started the Pledge Against Excision, which now has 68,000 signatures. My Malian partners are using these signatures...
By Gary Hume | Oct 19, 2015
I’m a serial social entrepreneur working on my third big nonprofit project. I go to elementary schools where I spend a day working with teachers and students to bring them up to speed on climate change with my program: Green Actioneers. That same evening, the...
