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Gary Halls describes himself as “social.” The owner of Halls Sales & Marketing food brokerage, Gary is very active in the St. Louis Zoo’s Marlin Perkins Society, which is how he first learned about the Danforth Center. “When my friend George Fonyo started telling me about the Danforth Center, I had never heard of it,”…

“So many of us take the resources of the Earth for granted. We expect we will have food to eat and clean water to drink. Unfortunately, our planet does not have an unlimited supply, and this is causing inequality, poverty, and misery around the world,” says Christine “Chris” Linnenbringer. She’s been asked to explain why…

“I just have a wild imagination. I try to think of connections that people don’t think of.” George Fonyo, 96, is trying to explain his success as one of the Danforth Center’s most successful ambassadors. George has introduced dozens of friends to the Danforth Center, many of whom go on to become donors themselves. He…

“It’s no mystery. Don’t we all want to leave the world a better place?” Phil Needleman, PhD, is thinking about motivations—why he supports the causes that mean something to him and Sima, his wife of 63 years; also, why he got into science. “If you’re curious and want to learn and turn over new rocks,…