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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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
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The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption took effect in the U.S. on April 1, 2008. As such, the United States now partners with 75+ countries around the world in this convention to facilitate international adoption.
The U.S. implementation of this Convention has been the catalyst for [...]
Posted on May 2nd, 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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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
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