The first Earth Day, held in 1970, is remembered for launching modern environmental regulation and a wave of public awareness. Colcom Foundation, a Pittsburgh nonprofit created in 1996, sees another legacy in that moment. A resource page on its website explains that the early movement named two primary drivers of ecological harm: per capita overconsumption […]
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What Financial Firms Can Learn From JP Morgan’s Justin Nelson
Financial firms that want to widen their talent pool have a ready guide in Justin Nelson. The Managing Director at JP Morgan Private Bank in Connecticut, who heads the Asset Management and Financial Principals Coverage Team, has laid out a framework for hiring and managing neurodiverse employees. His team oversees more than $15 billion in […]
Justin Fulcher Sees AI Supporting, Not Replacing, Public Workers
Debates about artificial intelligence often fixate on job losses. Justin Fulcher, a technology founder who served as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, offers a different emphasis for the public sector. In his view, AI earns its place in government by clearing away friction so that human judgment can operate faster. Handing Off […]
How Dr. Andrew Jacono Turned Surgical Skill Into Service
A girl with a cleft lip and palate once rode the school bus alone, shunned by classmates who mocked her face. Reconstructive surgery later changed both her appearance and her place among her peers. A young medical student named Andrew Jacono saw that change happen, and the lesson stayed with him. Today, Dr. Andrew Jacono […]
The Personal Website as a Cornerstone of a Founder’s Reputation
Search results for any public figure are shaped by the pages that rank well, and a personal website is usually among the most important. Burak Basel’s official site gives him a place to present his own account of his background, which is valuable in a landscape where third-party pages can be incomplete or out of […]
Greg Soros on Teaching Through Story, Not Instruction
Children’s books increasingly carry an educational weight beyond simple literacy, and author Greg Soros Author has built his career around making that weight invisible to the reader. His stories teach, but only because his characters struggle first. “The best approach doesn’t feel didactic,” Greg Soros observes. “Children are learning, but they’re learning through narrative rather […]
Who Is Vanessa Getty? A San Francisco Philanthropist’s Path to Public Service
Some philanthropists come to charitable work later in life, but for Vanessa Getty the habit started early. A profile in the San Francisco Examiner’s Marketplace section traces how a family culture of service shaped her decades of work across animal welfare, the arts, and public health. Getty was born Vanessa Louise Jarman in San Francisco […]
Kelcy Warren Reflects on Emotional Weight of Sunoco Deal
Kelcy Warren has spent less than three decades building one of the largest pipeline networks in North America, but one deal stands apart from the rest. The 2012 acquisition of Sunoco carried a meaning no balance sheet could capture, tied directly to Kelcy Warren‘s father, who spent his career working as a pipeline field hand […]
Greg Soros Turns Referrals Into a Podcaster’s Advantage
Referrals, not ad spend, drive most new business at Podcraft Media Lab, the Austin production company Greg Soros founded after leaving a senior producer role at a major media company in 2020. Nearly 40 percent of the studio’s clients come through word of mouth inside the audio content world, a sign that the podcaster’s bet […]
Why Gulf Coast Western Invites Investors to the Field
Spreadsheets and projections only go so far when it comes to convincing someone to invest in an oil well. Gulf Coast Western, the Dallas-based exploration firm founded in 1970, has leaned into a more hands-on approach, inviting partners and prospective partners to visit active drilling sites in person before or after they commit capital. Seeing […]