Improving Life for the “Bottom Billion” World Citizens

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 […]

The Hague International Adoption Convention Takes Effect

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 […]

Money Can Buy Happiness

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 […]

Why Bill Gates is Going to Heaven

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 […]