Generation BIG – The Rising Tide of Dreams to Action will be available for sale online on July 6 on: This web site. Amazon.com and other sites.

GenerationBIG co-founder Jeffrey Smith describes the GenerationBIG mindset…

Jeffrey Smith is a writer and Certified Financial Planner™ who has spent more than 20 years connecting his clients’ finances with their dreams. An expert in estate planning, with a special expertise in assisting clients with their philanthropic endeavors, Jeffrey has worked as an auditor,

According to the April 4 Kiplinger Tax Letter, the opportunity to donate your IRA withdrawals to charity without tax affect will be reinstated retroactively to January 1, 2008. Congress allowed this benefit to expire at the end of 2007. This is good news for people

As if the bombardment of economic news isn’t enough to push us to the edge, today’s WSJ had an opinion letter “Philanthropy and Its Enemies”, by Naomi Schaefer Riley. If you are a thinking individual, especially an individual passionate about making the world a better

“Smile Pinki, A Real-World Fairy Tale” won the Oscar for Documentary Short. The movie is the story of a how BIG charity Smile train saved a young girl in India who was born with a cleft lip.

If I can say anything positive about tax code it is this: It sure makes charity rewarding. Charitable giving reduces not only your income tax burden, but also escapes the mother of all taxes, the estate tax. Most wise people I’ve met or read about,

Sir John Templeton died recently at the ripe old age of 95. If you want a study in a life well lived, you would be hard pressed to find a better example than Sir Templeton. In a Wall Street Journal column that followed his death,

The following is an excerpt from the upcoming book, Generation BIG. In the book, I profile several BIG people, including Bruce Cohn. The following is from the chapter about Cohn whom I visited at his winery, B.R. Cohn, in December. – Jeffrey Smith “In the

Nicholas Negroponte has a big dream — to eliminate poverty, create peace, and save the planet — and he thinks computers will make this possible. Negroponte is the founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child. There are roughly 2 billion children whom OLPC hopes to reach. That’s billion with a “B.”