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Getting Past the Brick Walls on Your BIG Journey

Getting Past the Brick Walls on Your BIG Journey

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 10 of our new book, “Generation BIG – The Rising Tide of Dreams to Action.” In the book, we profile several bold, innovative, and generous (BIG) people, and then we offer you guidance to help you on your BIG journey. Every BIG person in this book dared to [...]

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Join the Rising Tide at Our Online Community

Join the Rising Tide at Our Online Community

Introducing Generation BIG Connections, the online community for the rising tide of BOLD, INNOVATIVE, and GENEROUS people. Our promise is to inspire, guide, and connect you to become BIG or get BIGger. We do all of the above on our main site. But we think the best way for you to make BIG connections is [...]

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her BIG Commitment to Special Olympics

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 dig in with a local Chicago event called Special Olympics, [...]

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The “I” in BIG

The “I” in BIG

GenerationBIG co-founder Jeffrey Smith discusses the importance of innovation…

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The Generation BIG Mindset

The Generation BIG Mindset

GenerationBIG co-founder Jeffrey Smith describes the GenerationBIG mindset…

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Donate Your IRA

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 who are taking their RMDs (required minimum distributions) and otherwise [...]

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Smile Train’s Pinki Wins Oscar

“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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Charity Begins in the Heart

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, whether or not they are faith-based, believe in some principle [...]

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Sir John Templeton: Ultimate Socially Responsible Thinker

Sir John Templeton: Ultimate Socially Responsible Thinker

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, a few short paragraphs hit on just a few of [...]

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Nicholas Negroponte – World-Changing Laptops

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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