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Bill Simpson

Chief Executive Officer Since 2006

Bill Simpson was born and raised in Maryland.  He is a graduate of Frostburg State University with dual degrees in Political Science and History. Bill has 40 years of experience in the national security, business, and nonprofit sectors.  In partnership with Board Chairman Dan Crow, Bill founded Open Door America in 2005.  Bill is the proud father of Andrew and grandfather of Miles and Taylor.  Bill is currently writing an E-book about his 15 years of working with impoverished and incarcerated people.  

 

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From Our Blog

The Reverse Engineers of Poverty

Posted: Friday, December 3, 2021

BALTIMORE 15 YEARS AGO — Weaving our way through the chaotic streets of East Baltimore scrupulously plotting which corners to avoid at all costs after dark, we were unintentional co-conspirators in the life and death struggles of people we would never meet. Every choice we made dripped with sad, unintended consequences.

Buoyed by simple aspirations of an awakened America, we were intent on creating a renaissance vanguard one block at a time. Home to 300 murders a year and an unflinching poverty rate of 30 percent, we elected to see Baltimore as a city of endless possibilities. We believed in her people. Even in the early 2000s, the fearless optimism of the 1960s still seeded our thoughts and actions amidst unbelievable pain and despair.

 

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