MoxieTalk with Kirt Jacobs #260: Dick Wilson
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Dick Wilson’s philanthropic history starts in the late 1980s when he co-founded the Louisville Dream Factory at the request of Jane Eubank & 5 other friends of her:

  • BANKER, (CHESTER MISBACH)
  • LAWYER (CARSON PORTER)
  • HAIR STYLIST (CAROL SANDERS)
  • & 3 OTHER FRIENDS INCLUDING DICK

Today they now have over 33 chapters nationally with over 25,000 dreams granted & 1500 locally.

Another local charity which Dick wholly founded was the Robin Hood Project-by taking corporate excesses like computers and voice mailboxes, from motels etc.…  and distributing them to the poor through the coalition for the homeless coordinated 24 shelters throughout Louisville.

Dick states he has founded or cofounded dozens of charities with the basic model of BEG-BORROW & SCROUNGE

Dick has also been instrumental in a recovery center @ 25TH & Market that now serves 800+ folks in weekly recovery meetings. In addition to supplying over 1,400 jobs in the last 13 months with MS-IL staffing as a collaborator, as well as, maintaining

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