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There are problems that seem overwhelming, that fixing them is a task far more weighty than any one person can endure. Poverty. Hunger. Disease. We all see them and witness the devastation they can wreak on a community. And we all say the same thing. “I’m just one person. What can I do?” One person can’t do much, if anything. But get 100 or so people together, bound to one another by a desire to make the world a better place, and you can work miracles. Mike Bruce found that out firsthand when his wife asked him to put his video-editing skills to use one day. The video at question was being produced for 100 Women Who Care, and at the time Bruce didn’t realize how much it would change his life. “After it was done, I asked my wife what became of that group, and she told me they had given a donation of $17,000,” he said. “I wondered, how could a group make a decision that quickly? Within an hour they had that money to give. I thought, the men can do that as well.”
100 MEN WHO CARE PRESENTS A CHECK TO PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE.
MEN WHO CARE OF HILTON HEAD STRIVE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
BY BARRY KAUFMAN | PHOTO BY MADISON ELROD
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He began looking into the organization, the 100 Who Care Alliance. A loosely affiliated group of 735 chapters worldwide, the concept behind the 100 Who Care Alliance is simple. You gather your group, leveraging your sheer numbers to multiply the impact you can have, and you meet periodically to determine the beneficiary of your largesse, then everyone gives $100 per quarter. The combined donating power of the entire group turns one person’s efforts into a massive effort. “What inspired me was the simplicity of it: the ability we have to move quickly and push funds out directly without overhead,” he said. The local chapter began, as nearly every great idea does, with a few guys sitting
