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WENDY KRISPIN

In 1986, as AIDS was just beginning to slice its way through the local gay community, the public at large wasn't taking notice. But Wendy Krispin was. Her young, male employees were dying so fast that she had trouble replacing them. That year, she underwrote her first DIFFA (Design Industry Foundation Fighting AIDS) event. Since then, Krispin has contributed thousands of dollars and untold hours fighting AIDS, using her catering company as a way to help AIDS groups throw parties to raise big money. "One of the things I learned a long time ago is that you take the things you've been given and you give back," she says. "I've tried to do live by that motto, and I've prospered."