One of the focuses of this blog is “social enterprise”. My good friend, Ward Andrews, recently asked me to define this term and mission of my blog. A social enterprise is a business (for-profit or non-profit) which has a socially driven mission. For example, Adoption.com, is a website which operates a [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2007 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Adoption, BYU Marriott School, Education, Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise, e-Business | No Comments »
When I started my first company, about 10 years ago, I dropped out of school and moved back to Arizona. My father gave us a file storage area that was about 12′ x 5′ that we used as the corporate offices for Adoption.com. I got free rent living at home and mooched food off my [...]
Posted on June 10th, 2007 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Adoption, BYU Marriott School, Education, Family, Self Improvement | No Comments »
My favorite scripture is James 1:27 (KJV) “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” I believe that the point of religion is not to spend a lifetime going to church or studying [...]
Posted on June 9th, 2007 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Ethics, Family, Global Orphan Crisis, Social Enterprise | No Comments »
Recently, a large adoption organization hired a new president. A few months ago I had the pleasure of having dinner with him and several members of his staff while attending an adoption tradeshow in Texas. I stick out a little in the child welfare community because of my conservative political views in a [...]
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Adoption, Ethics, Family, Life Lessons, Social Enterprise | 1 Comment »
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