Charles Baker and his wife, Louise, inside the Baker Industries building in Malvern in 2003. Charles P. Baker III, who started a small business in his garage in 1980 to create a job for his son, went ...
Johnny Depp has often spoken about how fatherhood changed his perspective on life. In one of his reflections, the actor opened up about moving past anger and frustration and learning to appreciate lif...
Maxson said the decision to start Trash Turtles came from seeing rubbish being pushed towards the sea (Photo: Surfrider) At 10, Caymus ‘CO’ Maxson noticed something wrong on a beach in Mad...
In 2017, June Thomas began rescuing stray “rez dogs” from her own home on Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation in southern Manitoba, driven by concern for the many unvaccinated, unsterilised animals r...
(Source: Aaron Shellow-Lavine/WAMC) A couple who lost their home in 2010 now earns almost $700,000 a year growing vegetables on just two and a half acres in upstate New York. Corinne Hansch and her hu...
While filming ‘Running the Sahara,’ a documentary back in 2006, Matt Damon found the inspiration behind starting his own non-profit. The star wanted to help people across Africa who do not...
Since her father died in 2002, Lisa Scirpo has been working to persuade farmers and dealers that the Middlesex Livestock Auction will continue as the only sale barn in Connecticut. Without it, Scirpo ...
Carinne Meyrignac turned a simple idea sparked by motherhood into a children’s publishing business generating millions in annual revenue. After discovering musical books in France that kept her young ...
What started as a simple dessert fundraiser organised by a teenager two years ago has grown into a student-led volunteer project that has rescued more than 300,000 pounds of food for families across N...
William Milliken and Levi Swartz founded Swoop Scoop in late 2020 in Spokane Valley, Washington, after recognising that picking up dog waste was an overlooked service (Image Credit: Swoop Scoop) What ...