Personal Message – Thanksgiving Weekend 2018

Never have I been more excited about our future – and never have I been more thankful for you to play an important role in that future, raising and supporting young global leaders around the world. If there was ever a time in our history when global leadership was needed, it is now.

Our foundation’s Young Global Leadership Initiative is growing, we are preparing to open our Leadership Centre at the Caribbean Maritime University with an extensive and international online presence through PhD in Leadership, our third annual Leadership Experience is set for next summer in Jamaica, we will be at Marietta College in the spring for our fourth leadership conference, we are on track towards opening our own leadership center in Pennsylvania by 2020, and are in active conversations concerning leadership in China and Africa.

In 2019, the expanded Boards of the J. Luce Foundation and Orphans International will assist us in raising a $1.5 million endowment for our Luce Leadership Scholarship at Marietta College, converge at our annual Leadership Awards Dinner, this year at the Princeton Club, and then convene at Luce Hall on the campus of Yale for our World Congress V next fall.

How can you help us today? We would like to end the year with a positive cash balance. If you plan on contributing this year, NOW would be the perfect time. If you plan on giving in 2019, and would like to deduct your gift in 2018, we can accept your contribution now and credit it towards next year. Contributions to the Foundation may be made online at http://tinyurl.com/k7qa4wj. Contributions to OIWW at http://tinyurl.com/qyx6hlf. Checks payable to either may be sent to 540 Main Street #418, New York, N.Y. 10044.

Please mark your calendar and join us where you can in 2019!

• Feb. 28               19th Annual Leadership Awards Dinner, Princeton Club/NYC (Th)
• Apr.4-5              Marietta College McDonough Leadership Center Conference (F/S)
• June 16-28         Luce Leadership Experience 2019 Jamaica (Sun.-Fri.)
• Jul. 24                Orphans International Summer Soirée (NYC) (W):
  “Jamaica & Indonesia”
• Oct. 25-27          World Congress V at Henry Luce Hall, Yale University

Thanks to you, we are entering our nineteenth year, have raised over $2 million dollars to uplift humanity, are poised to enter our next twenty years when we build our endowment and legacy for raising and supporting young global leadership. Without you, I am simply chasing windmills. But in partnership with you, we can change the world. As they say in Jamaica, “Out of many, One people.” United.

Happy Holidays from Roosevelt Island in NYC!

Cheers,