In 1997, my wife and I founded the White Dove Foundation. We started out wanting to give kids a chance. We had been exploring ways to help young people make decisions based on more rationale than just doing what felt good or was easy to achieve.

Some of these decisions included: determining where to go to college, where they would live, how they could afford a major purchase, how they would go about selecting a spouse or a career, managing a budget, where to buy a house, and learning life skills for parenting. Their needs were greater than we could meet and I began seeing a shift in the processes of how people made decisions, solve problems and follow through to execute on those decisions.

Repeatedly, I experienced business and various organization leaders unable to identify what the issues are and how to solve for them. The consultant became the answer, and the keyword search on the internet, and the media with its 24/7 talking head convincing its viewers to believe what the head said and not to form our own opinions.

Each year since then, I have watched with intrigue as more and more organizations, businesses, leaders, young people, professionals, students, volunteers, business owners and government agencies wrestle with making the right decisions and then acting on those decisions to get positive results. Moral and ethical standards have eroded as people become more confused between what is right or wrong, good or bad, evil or pure, truth or lie, and what are the facts and the ultimate information to rely on for arriving at a solution.

I saw the same gap in decision making skills in my mentoring business with small business owners. I observed people are gradually losing their abilities to think beyond a 15 second attention span and “googling it” has become the substitute for thought flow.

As I mentored leaders, I developed the BridgePaths™ method and my constituencies would comment after I applied it to their personal and professional lives that they wished they would have met me 10 years earlier. It would have saved them their businesses, relationships with their children or their marriages or an inordinate amount of wasted ventures, time, effort, and money that was spent on ill-conceived ideas.

In the last few years, White Dove has deepened its focus to work with non-profit organizations, philanthropists, volunteers, churches, missionaries and ministries, humanitarian agencies, government and academic institutions. There is so much to do and there are so many people who need our help, we know we need to enlist people who have the same passion and mindset to help others learn how to think.

It is my passion to help people help others to succeed in life, business, finances, spiritual growth and fulfill their life purpose. It is my desire to find others like you, who have that passion, so together, we can impact the lives of generations to come. We need your help. Your donation and volunteer help will impact generations not yet born as we prepare people to think today. You will bring them hope.