I was recently meeting with Scott Lazerson, the President of Interface Foundation, an amazing organization that helps connect celebrities with great causes.
In the meeting Scott shared with the the Millennium Development Goals that were established by 187 nations during the United Nations Convention of 2000. The goals are as follows:
Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger
Achieve universal [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Nathan Gwilliam
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I love how the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is using innovative strategies to try to find innovative solutions to some of the most serious issues on the planet, such as poverty, hunger, disease and a lack of education. This foundation just announced that 81 projects will receive $100,000 grants for 5-year health research projects [...]
Posted on May 4th, 2009 by Nathan Gwilliam
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How can we use digital media and technology to fight world hunger?
On average, about 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes each day, or one child every five seconds. About 5.8 million children die from hunger-related issues each year, about double the total population of the state of Utah. (Source: Black, Robert, Morris, Saul, & Jennifer [...]
Posted on March 21st, 2009 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Charity, Domain Names, Ending Poverty, Giving Back, Hunger, Microlending, Social Enterprise, e-Business | 1 Comment »
On Saturday I took the ferry to Liberty Island in New York Harbor for the the first time to visit the statue which has become the most well-recognized symbol for America and liberty.
Did you know that the official name for this statue is not “The Statue of Liberty?” It was instead named “Liberty Enlightening the [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by Nathan Gwilliam
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I recently finished Made to Stick, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath and thoroughly enjoyed this book. One of my favorite portions described the “Mother Teresa Principle”. One of this saintly woman’s famous teachings was, ”If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.”
Made to Stick talks [...]
Posted on January 10th, 2009 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Adoption, Charity, Ending Poverty, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Giving Back, Global Orphan Crisis, Innovation, Microlending, Social Enterprise, e-Business | 5 Comments »
I just watch an online video clip of a speech given by Paul Collier, an economist and the author of “The Bottom Billion”. Paul advocates four steps that we can take to help the one billion people who are trapped in poor or failing countries. He calls this group the “bottom billion” and [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Charity, Giving Back, Global Orphan Crisis, Innovation, Microlending, Poverty | 1 Comment »
Bill Gross is the founder of the IdeaLab business incubator, with sales exceeding $435 million. It is one only tech incubator that survived the dotcom crash in its original form. IdeaLab has built many different ventures, such as:
· GoTo/Overture (became Yahoo Search Marketing) – paid inclusion search engine that was renamed Yahoo! Search Marketing after [...]
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Giving Back, Innovation, Leadership, Social Enterprise, Web Content, e-Business | No Comments »
The movie Amazing Grace is based on the true story of William Wilberforce who was elected a British MP (Member of Parliament) at the age of 21, and spent the rest of his life working as a reformer to end the British slave trade.
The Song “Amazing Grace”
When William Wilberforce was a child, his pastor was [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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Melinda Gates (the wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates) recently gave a talk about the future of social enterprise at an event organized by the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative. Here are some of the highlights from the article:
According to a recent study, people who spend money on others are happier than people who [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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Kiva is one of the greatest uses of the Internet to do good. Kiva is an online microlending service that allows people anywhere to lend money directly to entrepreneurs in developing countries around the world. Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
Kiva works to qualify [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Charity, Entrepreneurship, Financing, Giving Back, Microlending, Poverty, Social Enterprise, e-Business | 1 Comment »
