Posts

World We Dare to Imagine Part 3

A Helping Hand Here at our organization, we focus on pairing families with people who find themselves in a time of need. We look for any family that wants to give back to the people in their community and help someone get back on their feet. By simply donating clothes, food, or other necessities like toothbrushes or soap, A Helping Hand will deliver the items to the person in need. We match people with their helper families based on what is need and what can be offered. Our main goal with launching A Helping Hand is to help homeless or struggling people get to where they want to be. Additionally, families get to connect with someone in their community and give back to someone that is less fortunate. Each month buddies will write a list of things that they wish they could afford. The wishlist is then sent over to our helper families. They then have the opportunity to look around their homes or go out and buy some of the items on the list. Families are expected to give donations to ...
Post a Comment
Read more

World We Imagine Part 1

I often think about how to make the world a better place. Every time I drive through poor neighborhoods where I see homeless people in make-shift tents I think how lucky I am. I also think about how much I have. And then how there are those making millions every year that spend their earnings on fancy cars and yachts, and still have excess money. It blows my mind how we have enough resources to feed and house almost everyone in the world, yet there are so many people still hungry and homeless. Even more shocking is how much food we actually waste every year. If I could begin to make the world I better place, I'd make sure that no one goes hungry. Food is the most basic necessity of life. I would create farms that specifically focus on feeding those who can't afford to feed themselves or their families. There would be specific distribution channels that gave the food to those in need. Additionally, I would focus on giving adequate housing to the homeless. Recently in Oakland t...
4 comments
Read more

Book 2 Post 2

Reading American Like Me has really opened my eyes to what it is like to grow up in the many different cultures in America. Being American and white myself, I haven't really ever had to deal with these same challenges. Rarely do I feel like I'm the minority in any group. However, it's very interesting to see how people from different cultures experience some the same struggles growing up. For example, two of my favorite stories were from Jeremy Lin and Joy Cho. While Lin came from Taiwanese decent, Cho's parents were from Thailand. In their stories, both of them describe how growing up they never seemed to fit in and wished that they were not Asian but "American." I also loved how in each of these stories their parents played a huge role in their lives. For Lin, his parents were his biggest supports when he was playing basketball, as they always came to all of his games. For Cho, well, she tried to parent her own parents. She wanted them to learn how to beco...
1 comment
Read more

Random Post 2

For the first random post, I decided to randomly write about three things on my mind. For this I'm going to keep up the trend and do the same thing. The first thing that I could think of are some of pet peeves. My first pet peeve is bad story tellers. This just really pisses me off. If you're going to tell a story (whether it's to make someone laugh or make a point) at least make it interesting. Don't waste my or your time by telling a story that's just so boring and so pointless. The absolute worst is when you know the story a person is going to tell and they just completely tell it wrong. I guess that's another pet peeve of mine. When people act like they know what they're talking about when they clearly have no clue at all. Maybe I just hate people -- who knows. The next thing that's on my mind is how god awful the Golden State Warriors are. After running a dynasty over the course of the last five years, they are now dreadful to watch. As a Warriors...
Post a Comment
Read more

Book 2 Post 1

For my second book I decided to read American Like Me by America Ferrera (along with 32 other individual authors). So far this book is much different than any other book I've read. Each story told is slightly different from the next based on the authors personal experiences, yet they all show very similar themes. Being different and not fitting in is something that a lot of these stories have in common. It's very interesting to see how such big celebrities have struggled at times with their own identity in the US. My favorite story that I've read is Jeremy Lin's. Being a huge sports fan, it's cool to see into a players childhood and experience growing up trying to fit in. Jeremy talks about how he was the only Asian kid on any of his basketball teams, and was often times the only non-white kid playing. He was always seen as the weak little Asian kid who didn't belong on a basketball court. He constantly fought with himself over his identity, as he got in his h...
2 comments
Read more

AMDP Final

TO: Clark Hansen, CEO, Anima Mundi Development Partners  FROM: Gavin Lituchy, Research & Development Associate DATE: October 15 th , 2019  SUBJECT: Investment Opportunity: Innocent Drinks Earlier this month you asked me to recommend a business worthy of our investment here at AMDP. After doing research on several companies, I have come across Innocent Drinks, a smoothie and juice company based in London. Not only is Innocent committed to doing business in a socially responsible, environmentally sustainable, and profitable manner, but it’s also at the forefront of innovation. As Innocent Drinks continues to grow, I’d highly recommend that AMDP invests in this company before it’s too late. Below I’ll describe how Innocent meets our standards, who they are as a sustainable company, and why their approach towards innovation is focused on helping society.  AMDP Standards Triple Bottom Line The Triple Bottom Line is a framework that measures a comp...
1 comment
Read more

Random Post

This blog post is the random post so I'm going to dedicated it to things randomly on my mind. So welcome aboard and let's see where this ship takes us. First thing that has popped into my mind is what makes us happy? Even better question is what's happiness? We all know when we're happy or not, but it's hard to describe what the feeling is. You could probably easily recall the last time that you were really angry, upset, or stressed, but it isn't as easy to pinpoint the last time you were really really happy. Was it when I that burrito earlier today? Was it after I finished my midterm? Or was it when I got to return home for the summer? I honestly don't know. I started to realize that the older I got the more complex everything around me became. Subsequently, my happiness has also become more complex. So what does make me happy? Being with friends, having nothing on my plate, watching sports, playing guitar, this list goes on for a while. Interesting, very i...
7 comments
Read more