Follow the examples of these eight women. With the idea of giving the hotel a major personality overhaul, she set about to create Common Ground. Today the 650-plus residents include artists, actors and people struggling to get back on their feet. The organization currently offers additional housing tailored for AIDS patients and another facility is under way. Most people would call a lawyer at the first mention of low-income housing coming to their neighborhood.
Nonprofits have Who Cares.
Crutchfield, age 28, founded the magazine with two friends in 1993. So financially strapped organizations needn't lay out their resources for a subscription, the bimonthly magazine is free, thanks to funding from advertisers, foundations and individual donors. Who Cares supports people who do care. Tennessee Soon after Karen Rogers, age 32, and Jennifer Taylor, age 35, married brothers Larry and Watt Childress, they paid a visit to their husbands' grandparents' 160-acre family farm in Greenville, Tennessee. Rural Resources blossomed from both couples' determination to preserve the region's farming tradition.