Here is the heart warming tale of Tom Williams, who at 25 had the world at his feet with a six-figure-income and a dream job at Apple, only to brush it all aside to find more meaning in his life. The Globe and Mail tells the story of Williams, a teen aged whizkid who left his British Columbia home for Silicon Valley at age 15 only to return 10 years later burned out and questioning life. Williams decided to put his skills to use to shake up the charity industry and created GiveMeaning.com. “The big charities are continuing to get a disproportionately large amount of donor dollars and the smaller organizations who are sometimes doing grassroots work in communities across the country, and other ones, are starved for cash, having to literally consider shutting down their operations,” said Williams. The site is all about giving and Williams says 100 cents of every dollar goes to the project you sponsor. It's not about big business giving large amounts, but rather the average citizen contributing what they can to causes large and small. It's a great story in time for Christmas...
