It is often said you can tell a lot about a man by his dog. Take Louisiana artist George Rodrigue and Blue Dog. Katrina’s wake had barely settled when the pop art pooch sprung into action helping raise funds for disaster-ridden New Orleans. In three days, prints of the blue-hued canine raised over three hundred and fifty thousand dollars – …
The hum of hand-powered sewing machines buzz all day in Molly Dhan’s balcony-converted workshop located in the city of Cape Coast, Ghana, in West Africa. Business hasn’t always been good. Just two years earlier Molly, an experienced seamstress, struggled. She ran her tiny sewing business with one apprentice from a small, two-room flat. With too few customers in the town’s …
Right from the start when Dan Phillips and his wife Marsha mortgaged their home and raided their savings to fund Phillips’ vision, their hope was that his idea for truly affordable, quality housing for low income families would take hold and replicate itself across the country. Ten long years later it is finally catching on, fueled by growing concerns for …
“It’s almost life,” jokes Philip Burguieres, Vice Chairman of the Houston Texans recounting the young franchise’s meteoric rise followed by a spiraling crash and burn during its first few seasons of play. “We started off with a bang as everyone in Houston knows. We got better the second year. And much better the third year. The fourth year was a …
It’s funny how a vision gets its start, comes into being and then takes a turn in a totally unexpected direction. Just ask Stan Brock, pilot, adventurer, author, former TV star and founder of Remote Area Medical (RAM), an all-volunteer, free, mobile medical service he established 23 years ago to provide desperately-needed healthcare to people in rural, isolated areas of …
To most people a hill of beans doesn’t amount to much, but to Marcelina Basquez, a 45-year old soon-to-be grandmother who has spent much of the last 28 years in and out of the Colorado prison system, beans are a lifesaver. Today, for the first time in Basquez’ short but stormy life the future is looking brighter and holds promise …
