On Jan. 5, Gary Young stood amidst the extreme devastation in Nepal, brought about by a massive earthquake a little over nine months earlier.

Imagine that it is early 2008 and you are an engineer working for a Silicon Valley-based software company. You are married to a statistician who teaches part time at Stanford, and together you are comfortably raising your family in the small Southern town of Apex outside of Raleigh, N.C.

Spreading the desire to help people in need is at the core of the philanthropic philosophy of Stampin’ Up!

Founder Sam Mizrahi fulfills lifelong dream with Fondation Forge. Children have always held a special place in Sam Mizrahi’s heart. As a young boy growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was filled with a desire to help his friends in any way he could, always ready with a helping hand and a willing heart.