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NBC's Brian Williams: Changing the World for the Better

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: New Orleans, White House, Council on Foreign Relations, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Bono, Thought Leaders, Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, Columbia University School of Journalism, Global Citizens, Msnbc, Cnbc, Yitzhak Rabin, Jim Luce, Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World., Hurricane Katrina, Nigeria, Jane Stoddard Williams, Bill Clinton, Kabul, New Canaan, Ghana, Ohio State University, Making a Difference, Paul Stevers, Bates College, Facebook, Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, HIV/AIDS, Andeisha Farid, Tom Brokaw, Mali, Afghan Child Education and Care Organization, Walter Cronkite, Afceco, Disease, Jimmy Carter, Afghanistan, Orphans International Worldwide, Poverty, New York News
Jim Luce

Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...

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U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers

Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York

Read More: India, Aterciopelados, Summer Olympics Beijing 2008, U.N. Department of Public Information, Emmanuel Jal, U.N. Day Concert 2009 a Tribute to Peacekeeping, Humanitarian, Shankhar Mahadevan, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, The War Against War, Angelique Kidjo, Cnn International, Jayashri Wyatt, Sierra Leone, Global Citizens, Wyclef Jean, Lauren Saffa, U.N. Secretary General, Norway, Lang Lang, Salman & Samina Global Wellness Initiative, Earth Wind and Fire, Xian Song & Dance Troupe, Africa, Zahir Hussain, Senegal, Leonardo Dicaprio, Cotonou, U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operation, Oslo, Education Sans Mutilation, Wikipedia, Rwanda, Melissa Etheridge, Sting, South Asia, Berlin Philharmonic, Entwined Twins, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Pakistan, Isha Sesay, Culture Project, You Are Not Alone, Amnesty International, Blood Diamond, Shrinivas Uppalapu, Julianne Hoffenberg, John Mahavishnu McLaughlin, Benin, New York, Junoon, Barack Obama, Time 100, Colombia, Killing Me Softly, Ghatam, The First Time Ever, General Assembly, Salman Ahmad, Fisher Stevens, Interfaith Dialogue, Thought Leaders, Steven Lawrence, China, Bbc, Allan Buchman, National Geographic, Day-O, United Nations, Jim Luce, Harry Belafonte, Paris, Injustice, Vienna Philharmonic, Sudan, She Mama Africa, Selvaganesh Vinayakaram, Malaika, Cancion Protesta, John Lee, Sister Fa, Samir Chatterjee, Blue Helmets, Roberta Flack Singing, War Child Film, Berlin, Grammy-Award, Mridangam, Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Nile Rodgers, Indi-Jazz Fusion, Afghanistan, Kanjira, Eleanor Roosevelt, Freedom of Expression Award, Nobel Peace Prize, We Are the World, Alain Le Roy, God Grew Tired of Us, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, The Price of Silence, Two Sheps That Pass., Female Genital Mutilation, Emma McCune, Orphans International Worldwide, Haiti, New York Times, U.N. Peacekeepers, Swahili, Alicia Keys, Hutu-Tutsi Conflict, Sufi Rock, Remember Shakti, Michael Owen, USA for Africa, New York News
Jim Luce

Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...

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Patriarch of Maloney Clan, Clif Maloney, Passes On

Jim Luce | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York

Read More: Sutton Place, Brick Presbyterian Church, Nepal, Congressional Record, Park Avenue, New York Foundation for Senior Citizens, Carolyn B. Maloney, Mountain Climbing, Goldman Sachs, Leila Luce, Seven Summits, U.S. Navy, Bill Clinton, Christina Paul Maloney, New York Yacht Club, Indonesian Consulate, New York Marathon, Carole King, Clifton H.W. Maloney, Harvard Business School, Humanitarian Work, Blue Mt. Lake, Cho Oyu Mountain, Civitas, Explorer's Club, Good Stewardship, Hillary Clinton, New York State Assembly, C.H.W. Maloney & Co., Orphans International Worldwide, Chuck Schumer, Frances D. Alleman-Luce, David Dinkins, China, New York News
Jim Luce

Clif, 71, husband of Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, passed away in September after climbing one of the tallest mountains in the world, Mt. Cho Oyu, between Nepal and China.

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New Jersey 20-Year-Old Builds Orphanage in Nepal

Jim Luce | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Ramana’s Garden, Do Something Foundation, Nepal, Gen X, Maggie Doyne, Asia, Brian Swibel, Nepalese Refugees, Maoist Rebels, Rishikesh, Maoist Insurgency, New Jersey, Orphanage, Kopila Valley Children’s Home, Ngos, Volunteering, India, Orphans International Worldwide, Peter Yarrow, Surkhet, World News
Jim Luce

Maggie Doyne is your typical girl from New Jersey.  She happens to live in Nepal caring for 27 orphans - in an orphanage she built ...

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Reflecting on the Gates Arrest

Jim Luce | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Driving While Black, Immigration & Naturalization, Gates’ Arrest, David Gilfix, Jim Luce, D.W.B., Racism, James Crowley, Orphans International Worldwide, Flying While Muslim, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, Media News
Jim Luce

The Gates arrest uncorked pent-up emotions and helped reveal a dirty national secret: racial profiling is real, it violates the highest ideals of our country, and it demeans the daily experiences of too many people.

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Helping Women: Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Facebook, Mexican National Institute of Health, Ronald Reagan, Myspace, “Global Gag Rule”, Women’s Health, Pregnancy, Thought Leaders, Vaginal Fistula, Global Citizens, South Africa, Clinton Global Initiative, Roe v. Wade, Argentina, World Health Organization, Abortion, Uganda, Bill Clinton, Developing World, M.D., Roman Catholic Church, EngenderHealth., Mexico, Twitter, AIDS Prevention, Barack Obama, Ana Langer, Women, Population Control, Reproductive Health, Smith Barney, India, Obstetric Fistula, Orphans International Worldwide, Frances D. Alleman-Luce, Usaid, Pep Far, Engenderhealth, World News
Jim Luce

EngenderHealth focuses on far more than fistula repair and prevention. They are dedicated to improving the overall health and well-being of people in the countries where they work.

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CharityHelp: An Electronic Bridge to Kids in Need

Jim Luce | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

Read More: Kabul, Tele-Mentoring, The Tech Awards, Human Rights Watch, Afceco, Taliban, Afghanistan, Afghans for Child Education and Care Organization, CharityHelp International, Orphans International Worldwide, Ripples International, Johns Hopkins International Medicine, Prince Albert II of Monaco, All for Good, Paul Stevers, World News
Jim Luce

"When you help a child, you help an entire family. That family, in turn, inspires a whole village. That village affects a whole society; and a changed society impacts the world," the orphanage director explained.

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In Sri Lanka: Orphans International Continues

Jim Luce | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: Unawatuna, Red Cross of Monaco, Newman’s Own, United Nations, Sri Lanka, Galle, Mathew’s Rule, Family Care Model, Indika Bandera, Interfaith, Sinhala, John Lee, Buddika Bandera, Orphans International Sri Lanka, Buddhism, Orphans International Worldwide, Cresenta Fernando, Tsunami, World News
Jim Luce

Orphans International Sri Lanka was founded in Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami. Now fully trained, the staff are beginning their own program for the children of Unawatuna.

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In Sri Lanka: The Basics for Americans

Jim Luce | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Islam, India, Funny Boy, Galle, New York State, Kandy, Jaffna, Jacmel, West Virginia, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Hindu Mythology, Colombo, Hinduism, Rama's Bridge, Indonesia, United Nations Peacekeeping Mission, Serendib, British East India Company, New Hampshire, Yala National Park, Adam's Bridge, Indonesian Shadow Puppets, Commonwealth of Ceylon., Buddhism, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Sanskrit, Unawatuna, South Asia, Terrorism, Malaysia, Manado, Galle Fort, Tsunami, Shyam Selvadurai, Tamil, Kotte, Orphans International Worldwide, Sinhalese, Sinhala, Gonaives, Port-Au-Prince, Mount Washington, China, World News
Jim Luce

As I travel through Sri Lanka, covering the nation as it seeks reconciliation among its diverse population after decades of conflict, I am receiving e-mails from my friends at home asking me to review the basics.

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In Sri Lanka: Reconciliation and Reconstruction

Jim Luce | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Sri Lanka, European Union, Times of London, China, Human Shields, Japan, Tamil, Tsunami, Sri Lankan Military, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sinhala, Orphans International Worldwide, Reconciliation, World News
Jim Luce

Sri Lanka is now focused on the "3 R's:" Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation. European leaders need to stop lecturing and start helping.

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Traveling as Press vs. NGO Head: Same Adventure

Jim Luce | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Europe, Lome, United Nations Department of Public Information, Hong Kong, Guatemala City, Sri Lanka, Galle, Air France, South America, Asia, Ngo, Guyana, Chennai, Dallas, Paris, Singapore, Peru, Indonesia, Port-Au-Prince, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Miami, Dominican Republic, Aceh, Dubai, Swine Flu, Mexico City, Journalist, Africa, Ghana, San Salvador, Central America, International Development, Santo Domingo, Mexico, Colombia, New York, Haiti, Refugee Camps, Frankfurt, Jakarta, Tamil, Tsunami, Hurricane Jeanne, Togo, Post 9/11, India, Orphans International Worldwide, Huffington Post, JFK Airport, Bangalore, Gonaives, Bucharest, Media News
Jim Luce

I have flown from Haiti to Peru to Guyana in the Americas, Hong Kong to Indonesia to Sri Lanka in Asia, and Togo to Ghana in Africa.

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In Sri Lanka: On the Streets of Colombo

Jim Luce | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, President Mahinda Rajapaksha, Al Qaeda, Toronto, Sri Lanka, Galle, Hindu Temple, London, Tamil, Tsunami, Tuk-Tuk, Malaysia, Colombo, India, Orphans International Worldwide, Terrorism, Sinhalese, World News
Jim Luce

Since the defeat of the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, the streets of Columbo, the capital of Sri Lanka, are alive with euphoria.

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Sri Lanka Triumphant At Last

Jim Luce | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelamis, Al Qaeda, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Taliban, European Union, Thought Leaders, International Committee Red Cross, Orphans International Worldwide, Global Citizens, Terrorism, Canada, Tsunami, Tsunami Thailand, World News
Jim Luce

In spite of the slaughter, of using their own people as human shields, of creating the largest, bloodiest hostage drama of modern times, the Tigers have at long last been defeated.

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Bleecker Street Bar Crawls for Kids in Cambodia and Haiti

Jim Luce | Posted 06.18.2009 | Local

Read More: Thunder Jackson’s, Orphans International Tanzania, Scott Knoll, Northeastern University, Thought Leaders, Orphans International Haiti, Facebook, Haiti, Global Citizens, 1849 Bar, Bar Crawl, Elvis Presley, Lindsay Mure-O'Neill, Columbia University, The Cambodia Project, Jean-Michel Tijerina, Cambodia, Bleecker Street Bar, Wicked Willie’s, Orphans International Worldwide, Carleton College, Bleecker Street, Linda Stanley, Africa, Local News
Jim Luce

"Everyone can relate to Elvis and we hope to leverage this for great causes like Orphans International Haiti."

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News
Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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Indian Film Director to Open Orphanage

Jim Luce | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: Tribeca Cinema, Orphanage, Oregon State University, Orphans International India, Suspense Thriller, Eternal Mind Productions, “Slumdog Millionaire”, Marche Du Film Market, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Jim Luce, Mumbai, M. Night Shyamalan, Indian Film Director, Global Citizens, Alfred Hitchcock, “Where Are You Sophia?, Brad Pitt, Independent Film, Wall Street, Orphans International Worldwide, Shekhar Kapur, Thought Leaders, Cannes Film Festival, Nagendra Karri, Mira Niar, India, World News
Jim Luce

Karri believes that as an Indian national he will be particularly adept at guiding OI India towards successfully raising 'global citizens' in India.

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AFS: World Peace Begins in High School

Jim Luce | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: E.E. Cummings, Brian Atwood, French Fellowships, Ernest Hemingway, A. Piatt Andrew, Youth for Understanding, United Nations, Jaroslava Moserova, World Peace, Cady Coleman, Harvard, AFS Intercultural Programs, Facebook, American Hospital in Paris, Global Citizens, Rotary Exchange, CéSar Gaviria, W. Somerset Maugham, Hans Schlegel, Afs, Council on Foreign, Fulbright Scholars, American Field Service, Eduardo RodríGuez Veltzé, World War I, Orphans International Worldwide, American Red Cross, Tadatoshi Akiba, R. Nick Burns, Thought Leaders, Grayson Kirk, World News
Jim Luce

I would not be who I am today -- and the organization I founded, Orphans International Worldwide -- would not exist, if it were not for my life-impacting experiences with AFS.

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2,870 Mayors for Peace: Does Yours Belong?

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weaponry, Atomic Bomb Dome, Delhi, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, United Nations, Takeshi Araki, Sri Lanka, Boston, World Peace, Thought Leaders, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Denver, Global Citizens, Seattle, Nagasaki, 2020 Vision Campaign, Prague, Mayors for Peace, Tanzania, Tadatoshi Akiba, Aaron Tovish, Philadelphia, Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Santo Domingo, Mathew Luce, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Haiti, Japan, New York, Hiroshima Peace Park., Federation of the American Scientists, Tipping Point, Thousand Origami Cranes, San Francisco, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, Orphans International Worldwide, Senbazru, Lome, Galle, Moshi, Manado, Jacmel, World News
Jim Luce

It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.

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Madonna, Mercy and Malawi

Jim Luce | Posted 05.08.2009 | 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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Sister's Death Leads to Support of Young Artists

Jim Luce | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Agma, Metropolitan Opera, American Guild of Musical Artists, University of the Philippines, Orphans International Worldwide, Banaue Miclat, Lincoln Center, National Philippines Folkloric Dance Troupe, Maningning Miclat Art Foundation, New York Film Academy, Philippines, Brooklyn College, World News
Jim Luce

From a very young age, Banaue demonstrated a riveting talent on the stage. Banaue is that rare multifaceted artist working in several disparate genres simultaneously.

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Addressing Phi Theta Kappa on Social Responsibility

Jim Luce | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Facebook, Paradox of Affluence in America, Episcopal, Technology With a Conscience, Mother Jones, Twitter, The Learning Tree, Mathew Luce, AIDS Orphans, Haiti, Daiwa Bank, Mayflower, Starfish Story, Harvard, Jim Luce Story, Merrill Lynch, Thomas Dudley, Vow of Poverty, Wall Street, College of Wooster, Phi Theta Kappa, Orphans, Social Responsibility, Celebes Islands, Stanford Leonard Luce, Frances Alleman-Luce, Jim's Rule, Orphans International Worldwide, Japanese Studies, Shel Silverstein, Mathew's Rule, Orphanage, Phi-Theta-Kappa, Careers, Living News
Jim Luce

One person can make a difference. You can make a difference.

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Leila Hadley Luce: The Last of the Great Luces?

Jim Luce | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Sutton Place, Silliman University, Leila Hadley Luce, Tunghai University, Central Philippine University, Yonsei University, Diplomat Magazine, Tibet, Phil Donahue, Francine Douwes Whitney, Henry Luce of England, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Betsy Gotbaum, Marilyn Bridges, Society of Women Geographers., Tammy Grimes, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Dr. Steven Soter, Henry R. Luce Hall, Gloria Starr Kins, Rupert Murdoch, Arthur T. Hadley II, The Luce Memorial Chapel, Simon & Shuster, Rubin Museum of Art, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Saturday Evening Post, Tibet House, Gertrude Vanderbilt, Dalai Lama, Payap University, I.M. Pei, U.S. Naval Academy, Betsy Von Furstenberg, Michelle Ehrlich, Wings World Quest, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Henry Luce III, Liz Smith, College of Wooster, Henry Winters Luce, Give Me the World, Ira Gitler, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Orphans International Worldwide, Satya Wacana University, Martha's Vineyard, Time-Life, Clare Boothe Luce, Leila Hadley, Leila-Hadley-Luce, Leila Luce, Careers, World News
Jim Luce

Leila Hadley Luce was brutally honest. She was stunningly beautiful. And she had enough money to do what she wished with her life.

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Clean Water for China's Orphanages

Jim Luce | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Orphanages, Potable Water, Eric Stowe, SOS Kinderdorf, Rotary International, Chinese Studies, Orphans International Worldwide, Clean Water, China, Russell 20-20, A Child's Right, George Russell, World News
Jim Luce

Embracing the concept, "every child has a right to clean water," the Washington State-based non-profit A Child's Right is about to outfit every orphanage in China with water filtration units.

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Chief Economist on Talent and the Economy

Jim Luce | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan, Macro Economics, The Bottom, Wall Street, Lehman, N.Y.U., Bear Stearns, The Stimulus, Ingo Walter Ph.D., Economist, Orphans International Worldwide, New York University, Stern School of Business, Milstein Professor, Great Depression, Business News
Jim Luce

"Our recovery may take years," the economist concluded over our last cup of coffee, "But smart people who work hard will always find a place." Talent will as always, he believes, find a home.

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Slumdog: Greater Insult "Slum," Not "Dog"

Jim Luce | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Poverty Porn, Orphans International Worldwide, Slumdog Millionaire, Cité Soleil, Warner Brothers, Garib Nagar, Extreme Poverty, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Aseema, Anil Kapoor, Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail, Freida Pinto, Sally Struthers, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Dev Pate, World News
Jim Luce

Sally Struthers can stroll the garbage dumps of the world showing you pathetic children, but this is truly pornographic. Children, even impoverished children, may be cute, but there is nothing cute about poverty.

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