In 1982, in the spring of my junior year of college, I literally bumped into a person that would change…
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Archives for August 2022
President George H.W. Bush
“I think The Smile Train is a terrific idea. It will help hundreds of thousands of children who are…
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Afghanistan: Kandahar
After a very tense, exhausting couple of days in Kabul, we were finally headed to the airport and getting the…
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Warren Buffett
“A surgery that can change a child’s life, is one of the best investments anyone can make.” Warren Buffett, Smile…
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Walter Cronkite
I was a little nervous when I went to CBS Studios to meet the legendary Walter Cronkite. He had agreed…
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Smile Train
I founded Smile Train in 1999, and then served as President and a Board member for more than a decade….
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Birth of Smile Train
Smile Train: Around, 1994 I merged a surgical charity I’d started in New York City called Operation Smile, with another…
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WonderWork
My team and I wrote the business plan for WonderWork when we were running Smile Train. After we reached 125,000+…
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20/20/20
Our program name, 20/20/20, stands for 20/20 vision for 20 million blind children and adults. …
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