Nick Vujicic is a 28 year old motivational speaker. Born with more challenges and obstacles than most of us will face in a lifetime, Nick found the strength to surmount what others might call impossible.
Nick says: “Life Without Limits” is all about sharing this same hope and genuine love that I have personally experienced with people all over the globe.”
AAA is about to roll out the nation’s first fleet of mobile electric-vehicle quick chargers.
The company, which serves more than 52 million motorists, has installed the chargers on trucks and trained its drivers to properly charge an EV.
The trucks are poised to hit the road in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Knoxville and Tampa, Florida.
The overall U.S. unemployment rate ticked down last month and the economy added more than 350,000 private sector jobs over the past three months. But, over 850,000 U.S. veterans were unemployed in October and the jobless rate for post-9/11 veterans was 12.1 percent.
Ensuring that the nation’s veterans have more opportunities, President Obama is expanding on his Administration’s earlier hiring of 120,000 veterans into the federal government.
In the spirit of Veterans Day this week, the White House announced a series of executive actions yesterday that will provide new resources to help veterans translate military experience to the private sector job market, give them additional career development support and better identify companies looking to hire them.
A South Pasadena woman says when she picked up an organic salad from Costco Monday night, she got a tiny surprise – a live tree frog that had hitched a ride among the lettuce leaves.
Some people might consider calling a lawyer after finding something unwanted in their food, but Ma asked the store manager if she could keep it as a pet. She said he agreed to let her have the salad and frog for free. She has named it Dave.
A Canadian man who pulled over to help a motorist change a tire in Wisconsin had his good deed repaid minutes later when the same motorist helped save his life.
“I guess it was a good idea for us to stop and help,” said Victor Giesbrecht’s wife, Ann.
“In return, this lady helped us. It was just a miracle, the way everything worked out. It was just pieced together just like a puzzle.”
(READ the story in the Toronto Globe and Mail)
One of the legendary triumphs of philanthropy was Andrew Carnegie’s construction of more than 2,500 libraries around the world. It’s renowned as a stimulus to learning that can never be matched — except that total has already been surpassed several times over by an American man you’ve probably never heard of.
John Wood has given out his 10 millionth book this year along with his charity, Room to Read, opening 12,000 of small libraries around the world, along with 1,500 schools.
In an attempt to transform an ordinary Monday morning into something special, an artist has given thousands of yellow balloons to Kenyan commuters to counter the idea of Monday-morning blues.
During the past year Yazmany Arboleda has also traveled to Japan and India orchestrating his “Living Sculpture” called Monday Morning.
General Motors Co.’s vehicle sales rose 10 percent last month in China.
The company sold 220,412 vehicles in China in October, outpacing GM’s 1.7 percent sales gain in the U.S. last month and followed a 15 percent rise in Chinese deliveries in September.
The largest U.S. carmaker joined Toyota Motor Corp. in reporting higher sales in China during October.
Before Toyota came, Cassius Perry was struggling like many in this hilly, sparsely populated region of north Mississippi that’s shed thousands of furniture manufacturing jobs since the 1990s.
This year Perry landed good pay and health insurance when he went to work for a supplier to the sprawling new Toyota plant on the outskirts of the tiny town of Blue Springs.
Hundreds have been hired, giving local leaders hope that their area will become another Southern automotive boomtown.
Landfills are a constant reminder of the waste we produce, but a new innovation could throw out the notion of a “dump” by turning them into productive solar power dynamos.
In Conley, Georgia, a first-of-its-kind landfill generates renewable energy while safely covering nine million cubic yards of municipal solid waste. The 45-acre geomembrane in this photo covers the landfill with 7,000 flexible solar panels.
Every component part is made in America.
Landfills are a constant reminder of the waste we produce, but a new innovation could throw out the notion of a “dump” by turning them into productive solar power dynamos.
In Conley, Georgia, a first-of-its-kind landfill generates renewable energy while safely covering nine million cubic yards of municipal solid waste. The 45-acre geomembrane in this photo covers the landfill with 7,000 flexible solar panels.
Every component part is made in America.
Intel is on a mission to bring computers to young people in developing regions. Since September 2009, a team of 100 Intel employees has traveled around the world training villagers to use its Intel-powered classmate PCs.
Intel’s Education Service Corps have empowered more than 40,000 students and a thousand teachers in places as 7 countries as diverse as Vietnam and Bolivia.
The Intel employees are thrilled with every opportunity to leave the gift of education around the world working with non-governmental organizations in support of the child-sized laptop computers.
Intel is on a mission to bring computers to young people in developing regions. Since September 2009, a team of 100 Intel employees has traveled around the world training villagers to use its Intel-powered classmate PCs.
Intel’s Education Service Corps have empowered more than 40,000 students and a thousand teachers in places as 7 countries as diverse as Vietnam and Bolivia.
The Intel employees are thrilled with every opportunity to leave the gift of education around the world working with non-governmental organizations in support of the child-sized laptop computers.
Millions of Americans since 2007 have sent holiday cards to soldiers serving overseas and wounded veterans in hospitals as part of the American Red Cross Holiday Mail for Heroes program.
For the fifth straight year, volunteers in scout troops and church groups will send a touch of home this holiday season to members of the U.S. military, many of whom will be far away from families and friends.
Legendary rockers Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of the Who have come to the UCLA Medical Center to launch the first teen-and-young-adults-only cancer treatment unit in the United States.
The Daltrey/Townshend Teen & Young Adult Cancer Program will serve patients ages 15 to 25 following on the successful efforts of the Teenage Cancer Trust, which has helped fund 19 special youth cancer centers in the United Kingdom.
The belief is that teenagers and young adults shouldn’t stop enjoying their youth just because they have cancer.
Instead of being hospitalized with children in a pediatric unit or with seniors in adult oncology, teens in the Daltrey/Townshend program will be housed in adjoining patient rooms that surround a large common lounge for hanging out with their peers. The units are designed to provide, as closely as possible, a normal life, bringing young people together so they can be themselves first, and gather with other young people coping with cancer care.
Legendary rockers Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of the Who have come to the UCLA Medical Center to launch the first teen-and-young-adults-only cancer treatment unit in the United States.
The Daltrey/Townshend Teen & Young Adult Cancer Program will serve patients ages 15 to 25 following on the successful efforts of the Teenage Cancer Trust, which has helped fund 19 special youth cancer centers in the United Kingdom.
The belief is that teenagers and young adults shouldn’t stop enjoying their youth just because they have cancer.
Instead of being hospitalized with children in a pediatric unit or with seniors in adult oncology, teens in the Daltrey/Townshend program will be housed in adjoining patient rooms that surround a large common lounge for hanging out with their peers. The units are designed to provide, as closely as possible, a normal life, bringing young people together so they can be themselves first, and gather with other young people coping with cancer care.
The Freecycle Network at Freecycle.org is a grassroots gifting network that — thanks to the sour economy and a growing commitment to the environment — has transformed into a global movement of millions who are offering and taking all manner of stuff.
Staffed by volunteer moderators, Freecycle aims to let you share your old TVs, clothes, broken blenders, tire chains and moving boxes with people nearby, using e-mail groups at Yahoo! and on the network’s website.
Stanford University will open an institution with the sole purpose of alleviating poverty in developing nations, thanks to a $150 million gift donated by a Silicon Valley businessman and his wife.
“More than a billion people live on less than $1.25 a day,” said Robert E. King with his wife, Dorothy, in a video. “That’s just not right.”
Called the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (known informally as “SEED”), it will draw from the school’s world-class MBA program and suite of courses in entrepreneurship to stimulate business ideas that can empower the people receiving food aid today so they can become self-sufficient and not need the aid in the future.
The Institute’s work is based on the belief that a powerful way to help alleviate poverty is through the stimulation of new entrepreneurial ventures and by scaling existing ones.
“Today’s students aspire to achieve a global impact that will change people’s lives for the better with everything from businesses that create employment and income sources to creating access to better education, health care, and governance,” said Garth Saloner, Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
The idea for the gift came out of home stays that founding donors Dottie and Bob King have offered to international students at Stanford for more than four decades. They witnessed first-hand the impact that education and entrepreneurship can have on a wider community back home. One student, Andreata Muforo from Zimbabwe, brought peers from her global study trip to Africa to the King home for dinner. “We heard how those first-hand experiences compelled some of the MBAs to return for internships in Africa,” said Dottie King. “We saw the direct connection between the learning experience and the motivation to make change.”
“We believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the engines of growth to lift people out of poverty,” said Bob King, who with his wife also founded the Thrive Foundation for Youth. “And we believe Stanford’s tradition of innovation coupled with a forward-thinking global bias as well as its multidisciplinary resources will make a real impact.”
The Kings have made a $100 million gift to fund the Institute. They have committed an additional $50 million in matching funds to inspire other donors to fuel Stanford University’s commitment to alleviating poverty, bringing the total philanthropic investment to potentially $200 million.
To amplify its impact, SEED will partner with organizations such as Endeavor, which mentors and accelerates the work of high-impact entrepreneurs; the Skoll Foundation, which drives change by investing in social entrepreneurs; and the global social enterprise investor Acumen Fund. All have established operations abroad.
Stanford University will open an institution with the sole purpose of alleviating poverty in developing nations, thanks to a $150 million gift donated by a Silicon Valley businessman and his wife.
“More than a billion people live on less than $1.25 a day,” said Robert E. King with his wife, Dorothy, in a video. “That’s just not right.”
Called the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (known informally as “SEED”), it will draw from the school’s world-class MBA program and suite of courses in entrepreneurship to stimulate business ideas that can empower the people receiving food aid today so they can become self-sufficient and not need the aid in the future.
There was more than a bit of good news in this week’s economic reports.
For one thing, U.S. unemployment fell from 9.1% to 9.0%.
But the real good news is the past upward revisions.
Last month’s headline report of 103K has been revised higher to 158K.
And August — the month when a ZERO-net-increase of jobs was originally reported — is now up to 104,000.
