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BIG Athletes: Tim Tebow Understands the “Bigger Picture”

Tom Ruwitch / September 3rd, 2009 / No Comments »

He won the Heisman Trophy as a sophomore and national championships as a freshman and a junior. But if you ask University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, now a senior, to discuss what motivates him he talks about his faith and orphans in the Philippines.

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her BIG Commitment to Special Olympics

Tom Ruwitch / August 12th, 2009 / No Comments »

Living in the shadow of her brothers, and in the whirl of politics and testosterone, Eunice Shriver developed a tenacious advocacy for people with physical disabilities.  This was brought on due to her sister’s disabilities.  Once finding the opportunity to roll up her sleeves and

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Smile Train’s Pinki Wins Oscar

Tom Ruwitch / February 23rd, 2009 / No Comments »

“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.

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Sir John Templeton: Ultimate Socially Responsible Thinker

Tom Ruwitch / February 1st, 2009 / No Comments »

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,

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Bruce Cohn: Four Decades of Rockin’ for Charity

Tom Ruwitch / February 1st, 2009 / No Comments »

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

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Nicholas Negroponte – World-Changing Laptops

Tom Ruwitch / February 1st, 2009 / No Comments »

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.”

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Brian Mullaney – Spreading Smiles Around the Globe

Tom Ruwitch / February 1st, 2009 / No Comments »

Brian Mullaney understands you can’t achieve BIG things without a BIG goals. For Mullaney — the co-founder and president of Smile Train, the world’s leading cleft lip and palate charity — audacity is a virtue. Last month, Mullaney traveled to China, called a press conference,

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