The other night, Natalie saw a TV commercial which profiled children who are less fortunate than she is. She retreated to her room, returning a few times to confirm how to spell a few words (we didn’t know what she was working on). When she finally emerged 10 minutes later, she had the below envelope filled with change from her piggy bank. A good reminder of true Christmas Spirit…

Bono, Edge, Jay-Z and Rihanna performing Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) live at “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief,” hosted by George Clooney, Wyclef Jean, and Anderson Cooper to raise funds for earthquake relief. Too bad Bono’s microphone volume was too low during chorus.

Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was a well-known Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction?(Alice.org) professor at Carnegie Mellon (CMU) who gave his (now famous) “Last Lecture” at CMU on September 18, 2007.?The?”Last Lecture” was an ongoing series of lectures where top academics?were asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical “final talk” (i.e. what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew [...]

I first heard of Kiva when a Senior Leader at work mentioned it in a weekly update. Kiva is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 by two Stanford graduates with the design and purpose of allowing people like you and I to lend to specific entrepreneurs (that you select based on their profile) in the developing world. The key concept with Kiva is that your money is truly an investment which will be repaid to [...]