Mark Zuckerberg and wife donate 99% of their Facebook stock for a cause/advocacy/initiative

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Rizal Philippines
December 2, 2015

From Huffington Post

On the occasion of the birth of their child, Max, Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla, are donating 99% of their Facebook stock to a cause named Chan Priscilla Initiative.  It will focus on "personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities."

It was sort of a letter addressed to their baby, saying that there is so much this generation can do for the children to have a better world. It resonates well with the song "Greatest Love of All"

Reflection:

1.  This is the kind of thing we want our student leaders, to  find out their passion, to fill in the needs of this world.  This is what we want to address as we make our brainstorming (mind mapping).  There is so much to be done that neither civil society nor business, nor government has addressed.

2.  This is the area of concern of social entrepreneurship, where CSR and business principles meet.

3.   This is the kind of passion, the right kind of passion, the calling that is nice to see among our business leaders in the likes of Bill Gates, Warrent Buffett, and now Mark Zuckerberg.  The wealth and the gifts that they got, so huge are ultimately to be used for the benefit of mankind.  All in keeping with Genesis,1:28. ie that we are all mandated to take care of the creation of this world. As we, like Mark are blessed to be in the corridor of wealth and power, we too find that ultimately, wealth must be used to benefit not just our personal wants and needs, but the world,

4.  As with regards to his vision, mission in life one begins to think:

     1.  Did Mark start out with the idea that his mission is to help heal the world and/or make it better for future generation?

     2.  Was getting rich/very wealthy all ready a planned trajectory?   Or was it serendepity?

     3.  Or was it the birth of his son Max, make him rethink his objective, mission in life.   Now that that is clear to him, will he become richer, or will this new advocacy slow him down in his journey of wealth creation.

    Are your purpose/s in life clear to you as of now?

We have a student in MM and Clark whose advocacies are very clear to them. Their higher purpose.
Our good doctor Leader in Clark has a foundation to send poor students, and even their maid to school.  We have Cath espousing taking care of  abandoned pets.

As I publish this post, I am pursuing in our organization, lower and affordable memorialization costs via cremation, BC rentals and the like.  I would like to be given two more decades to live, so that whatever can be earned can be used in the pursuit of lower health care and simply helping others through a foundation, those who really have nothing  - for food, fare, place to sleep, clothes, etc.

HOW ABOUT YOU?