Philanthropist Earl W. Stafford on How Faith Taught Him to Give Wisely: Help People Help Themselves

Stafford family, 2015. Courtesy of Earl W. Stafford

East of Philadelphia, over the Delaware River, lies a hamlet named Mount Holly. This New Jersey town is where Quakers first settled in the late 1600s. At one time, during the Revolutionary War, it became the state capital.

And, in the late 1940s, Earl W. Stafford was born in this same tight-knit community—a community he dubs “one of those George-Washington-slept-here towns.”