Generation BIG

A lot of big businesses have launched initiatives to encourage and celebrate BIG (bold, innovative, and generous) people or organizations. Pepsi has it’s Refresh Project. Chase has the Community Giving program. American Express has the Members Project®. My favorite is People Magazine’s All-Star’s Among Us. I tuned in to tonight’s all-star game to see Albert [...]

It started with a hand-knit cap that Christine Shively made for her son. One of Shively’s friends, a cancer survivor, said she wished she had a cap like that to cover her bald held when going through chemotherapy. Shively decided to donate that one cap to a charity that distributes caps to people who need them, [...]

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. The New York Times published a great article about Tebow [...]

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.”