I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

The couple's combined net worth is $900 million. Early life and education
Hughes grew up in Hickory North Carolina as the only child of Arlen "Ray" Hughes a paper salesman and Brenda Hughes a public-school teacher. Moritz Switzerland.

He is currently the publiChris Hughesr and editor-in-chief of The New Republic after purchasing the magazine in 2012.