 In 2007, he created SixDegrees.org, a charitable foundation.Bacon, the youngest of six children, was born and raised in a close-knit family in Philadelphia.His mother, Ruth Hilda (née Holmes; 1916–1991), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon (1910–2005), was an architect who served for many years as executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission.