By Helen Zelon | Oct 26, 2017
After four decades in corporate life, I retired and did a lot of volunteer work. Before my EFN fellowship, I’d never worked with kids. I had no intention that I would work with kids. But here, at my Encore Fellowship at Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland, the key was...
By Helen Zelon | Mar 27, 2017
Throughout my adult life, my birthday has been a time for self-reflection. As I anticipate my 59th birthday, the past year included retiring from full-time employment and relocating 90 miles from the place I called “home” for most of my life, this I know: Transitions...
By Helen Zelon | Feb 8, 2017
I first learned about 826 Valencia as a fan of founder Dave Eggers’ novels; his dream of developing a love and aptitude for writing struck me an important effort to help kids thrive. I?m now in my second year of afterschool tutoring at Buena Vista Horace Mann...
By Helen Zelon | Feb 8, 2017
My work with youth started many years ago as a middle school teacher at the IS 201 school in East Harlem and then as a teacher in the Peace Corps. I still have a few of my of my former students from my college teaching days who tell me that I did good work. I even...
By Gary Hume | May 16, 2017
ROY MAINELLI The person that was the “master of ceremonies” at my retirement party is the president of an aerospace company in Connecticut. He knew I was about to go work at Journey Home on the issue of homelessness and he says, “Roy and I are going to go into...
