I believe our education system in America can be better. Right now I am making a film that addresses the education crisis globally. In war-torn places like Uganda, where it looks like there should be no hope, groups are rising to the challenge. I also do not want to miss...

I woke up extra early this morning to write a great article about a new book that one of my mentors has coming out on Friday. Almost two hours later, viola, the "perfect" blog post for HuffPo. However, I was in a huge hurry to get to the airport and...

February 14, also known as Valentine's Day, is a Christian and commercial holiday. The story goes that back in the late 100s AD, Saint Valentine was imprisoned for performing illegal weddings for those persecuted by the Roman Empire. It was not until the 15th century that people in love celebrated...

I remember being 13-years-old in eighth grade Georgia History class and learning about slavery in antebellum America. It broke my heart to think that girls my age a hundred years earlier were treated as cattle instead of as people. Little did I know that slavery was still alive, let alone...

42-year-old Jason Maris has made a living and a career as a commercial photographer for the United States Marine Corps. Over the 15 years he has been photographing recruitment materials for the Corps, Maris has developed a unique rapport with many Marines.

"When...

Stephanie Jolluck had just landed back home in Atlanta after a typical trip to Guatemala where she runs a social enterprise, Coleccion Luna. She rushed right to a dinner party to meet one of her heroes -- the war child turned peace soldier, Emmanuel Jal.

The presidential debate this week said it all. Our economy is still a mess. Our educational resources are even worse. Can either candidate fix all the problems? Probably not. That's why it is so exciting to see businesses step up to help be the change we need in America.

Talk about having your cake and eating it too -- thanks to California-based social enterprise wine company Cultivate Wines six non-profit organizations addressing education and basic human needs will win a total of $100,000 this fall.

Cultivate has been giving away at least 10% of their profits...

After growing up the Minister's son, musician and pastor Randy Phillips is now leading his own church -- and a new movement.

"We are the choices we make," says Phillips, founder of the award-winning band Phillips, Craig and Dean and of LifeAustin. "Our legacy is simply a chain of choices."

Do you remember the Disney cartoon Anastasia? Well, similarly to their take on Madagascar there is also a very different yet just as magical story associated with a young women today of the same name.

"I was in brought up in a poor family," says Anestaicia Ssoz,...

He went from playing music in bar bands to leading a worship team in church. And now David Mander travels the developing world helping bring cultural music back to evolving churches.

"I am the Worship Pastor which means I try to follow the duties of the earliest worship leaders, the...

It was too early to be awake for a Saturday morning. The city was still. As we walked towards the park, a slew of others dressed in all white flooded the streets. Eerie. Like the scene of a movie in the Hollywood of the South: Atlanta, Georgia.

Oh, but...

"I believe we're all designed to build something great, and most of us will spend our entire lives trying to discover what it is we are to build," says Brian Preston, Founder and Director of design building company Lamon Luther.

Preston employs three homeless carpenters and "reconnects them to...

"In America all the children get to go to school for free," said eight-year-old Katende Moses. Moses is from a slum neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda. His home is one small mud-packed room which sleeps his mother, father, sister and four brothers.

Many days, Moses and his siblings are not...

Odile is a 56-year-old mother of six from the Congo. Leslie is a 47-year-old mother of four from Texas. Odile is a refugee. Leslie is an entrepreneur. These two women from extremely different backgrounds now work together. They up-cycle T-shirts headed to the landfill into trendy, hipster, life-giving skirts and...

Like many of us bloggers, she studied English and History in college. She graduated with no idea what she wanted to do. Betty Londergan moved to the mountains of Colorado and became an editor for a small magazine. Later, she became an advertising guru. Her passion was always writing.

Crazy, true fact: The entire 5.6 million population of Sierra Leone is currently at high risk for malaria. There are only 102 doctors in the entire country -- that's one doctor for every 56,000 people. (Source: WHO)

Crazy, true fact: Malaria takes over 750,000 lives a year.

A seemingly non-stop series of negative ads, angry rebuttals, hateful tones and hurt eyes is flashing through my mind as I sit down to share this story with you.

Do I really have the guts -- and intellect -- to back-up what I'm about to say? That politics is...

Have you ever heard a song which changed your life? This is the story of a group of children who sang a song which transformed theirs forever.

Let me back up a little bit.

When I was 14 years-old I was accepted for a summer service trip to South Africa...