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Former Tech Titan Launches Site To Ease Caregiving Toll

Posted 02.17.2012 | Impact
Read More: Carezone, Video, Caregiving Help, Jonathon Schwartz Launches Carezone, Sun Microsystems, Caregiving Site, Elderly Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Family Care, Facebook, Health Care, John Halamka, Impact News

Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun Microsystems CEO, announced today the launch of his new internet startup site that works to ease the often-overwhelming ...

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Join Us in Integrated Approach to Build The New Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: We Can?T Have That Foundation, Usaid, University of West Indies, Microcredit, Nyu, Housing, Social Responsibility, World Bank, Liberal Arts, Internet Connectivity, Federation Des Caisses, International Developent Fund, Family Care, Harvard, Desjardins Developpement International, Yale, Leogane, Ganthier, Orphan Care, Kiwanis, International University of Haiti, Princeton, Lions International, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Nyu-Polytec, Cheddi Jagan, Skype, Health Care, Agricultural Cooperatives, Rotary, Creating Global Leadership, International Development, Haitian Diaspora, Earthquake, European Union, Croix-Des-Bouquets, Chf, Oiww, New York City, Tourism, Thomas Dudley, Education, Commerce, College of Wooster, New Haiti, Orphans International Worldwide, Haiti, Petit-Goave, Professional Development, Hospital St. Croix, Creole Language, Ecole De La Redemption, January 12, World News
Jim Luce

Léogâne, Haiti. I am perhaps the most excited I have been in my entire life as I prepare to move to Haiti next month. Ten months after the earthqu...

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Orphans International Worldwide Unveils New Website for Sponsoring Kids - Including Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Leadership in Helping Humanity, OIWW Global Standards, Miss J, Emmanuel Jal, Ambassador Giulio Terzi, North Sulawesi, Family Care, Orphelin at St-Paul, Oiww, Indonesia, Malagasy Orphaned Children, John Lee, Gonaives, Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, Bali, Aceh, Italy, Classical Music Education Program, Morgan Freeman, America?S Next Top Model, Manado, College Prep Leadership Training Program, Child Soldiers, Royal House of Rajpipla, Full Care, Haiti, Jay Alexander, J. Alexander, Tsunami, Michael Bierman, Child Slaves, Hurricane Jeanne, Musical Education, Italian Ambassador to U.S., Gua Africa, OIWW- Haiti, Sudan, Global Citizenship Award, CharityHelp International, India, Madagascar, Orphans International Worldwide, Oiww-Madagascar, Oiww-Indonesia, World News
Jim Luce

Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW) unveiled its new website, the third since its founding in 1999. I created the first, which was indeed primitiv...

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'Orphan Doctor' Calls on World Community to End Orphan Crisis by Tackling Poverty

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Jim Luce

Dr. Jane Aronson, founder and CEO of Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO), has issued a bold response today to a recent article on child trafficking. J...

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Airplane Interview with the American Ambassador to Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: First Lady of Haiti, Earthquake, Miami University, Justice, Beijing, United Nations, Leogane, Kenneth H. Merten, Agriculture, American Ambassador, Thought Leaders, Reconstruction, Stanford L. Luce!, Global Citizens, U.S. Secretary of State, Security, Oiww, Ohio, Port-Au-Prince, U.N. Blue Helmets, Gonaives, Bill Clinton, Rene Preval, Morgan Freeman, Health, University of Akron, Haiti, New York, Harvard University, Family Care, Hurricane Jeanne, U.N. Special Envoy for Haiti, Hillary Clinton, Orphans International Worldwide, Energy, U.N. Donors Conference, World News
Jim Luce

Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Returning from a recent post-disaster trip to Haiti, I was pleasantly surprised to bump into the American Ambassador, the Hon....

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Alzheimer's Disease: Caring for the Caregiver

Kathryn Haslanger | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Dementia, Family, Aging, Alzheimer's, Home Care, Family Care, Healthy Living News
Kathryn Haslanger

According to the Alzheimer's Association, there are 8.9 million people in the U.S. caring for someone over the age of 50 who has dementia. This is a full 20 percent of all family caregivers in this country.

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Peaceful Revolution: Time to Stop Free-Riding on Families

Phoebe Taubman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Working Women, Women Workforce, Family Care Expansion, Family Care, Healthy Living News
Phoebe Taubman

We have been operating under workplace norms and laws developed over 50 years ago when a different workforce model and a different family model prevailed.

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Will A Vow Of Poverty Fill The Void In My Soul?

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Jim Luce

As I approach my fiftieth birthday, I am feeling incomplete. Part of me - my soul? - is still missing. In secular terms, I think I am not yet in tou...

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Madonna, Mercy and Malawi

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Adopted Children, Dr. Jane Aronson, The Orphan Doctor, Adoption, Raising Malawi, Madonna, Unicef, Jim Luce, Malawi, Mphandula Childcare Center, Family Care, Save the Children, Orphans International Worldwide, Worldwide Orphans Foundation, World News
Jim Luce

Jane and I love our adopted children more than anything else in the world. We would both rather have them raised by Madonna than grow up where we found them.

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Role Reversal: In Trying Times, Children Become Caregivers

NYTimes.com | PAM BELLUCK | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Family Care, Children, Health, Children Caregivers, Effects on Children, Childhood, Health Care, Healthcare, Family, Caregivers, Healthy Living News

Across the country, children are providing care for sick parents or grandparents -- lifting frail bodies off beds or toilets, managing medication, was...

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Illinois Health Care Expansion Halted Again

AP | Mike Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Family Care Expansion, James Epstein, Blagojevich Health Care Expansion, Rod Blagojevich, Health, Family Care, Illinois Health Care, Health Care Ruling, Blagojevich Health Care, Chicago News

A judge on Wednesday renewed an order banning state officials from making payments under Gov. Rod Blagojevich's expanded health care program, and sa...

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