Cabell Brand

Chairman - of the Cabell Brand Center, a research and action center that seeks to examine, understand and network for students to study poverty, environmental, and peace issues. Currently the centers emphasis on environmental sustainability with a focus on fresh water preservation. In particular rainwater harvesting and storm water management.

Author of the Book: If Not Me, Then Who? How you can help with Poverty, Economic Opportunity, Education, Healthcare, Environment, Racial Justice, and Peace Issues in America.

Web Sites: www.CabellBrandCenter.org or www.IfNotMeThenWho.org

Cabell Brand returned to his home in Salem in 1949 and took over his father’s small direct selling shoe business, the Ortho-Vent Shoe Company. Using this as a base, he expanded the business, formed The Stuart McGuire Company, Inc., took it public in 1970 and sold it in 1986 to the Home Shopping Network.

He founded Total Action Against Poverty in the Roanoke Valley in 1965 and was its President and Chairman for 30 years. During that 30 year period, he helped start many innovative programs such as – Head Start – the Child Health Investment Project (CHIP) – Virginia CARES – Virginia Water Project, all focused on low income people.

He is married to the former Shirley Hurt and together they have five children and 13 grandchildren.