Cindy Paulos Show

Barry Nickelsberg Talks about the Carter Foundation, President Jimmy Carter and his love for Rosalynn. This was recorded 5 days before Rosalynn's death. is the Chief Development Officer for Estate & Gift Planning at The Carter Center. Barry has worked in development for colleges and universities throughout the world for the past four decades. He has written three books on fundraising for notfor-profits, hosted a three-part series on Fundraising in America for PBS and twice chaired the World Congress on Philanthropy. Working alongside government officials, Barry designed and organized a “nonprofit experiment” for the People’s Republic of China which opened that country to foreign adoption. Barry is a graduate of Ithaca College, received a Certificate from the Harvard Business School and completed his graduate work in Administration at Yale University. Barry organized and managed the first private sector campaign for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ($400 million raised) ITESM (the MIT of Latin America-$254 million raised) and for the World Health Organization ($60 million raised). He is credited with helping not-for-profit organizations raise in excess of $1 billion.. Barry has worked at The Carter Center since 2009. The organization was founded in 1982 by President Jimmy Carter to help build democracies around the world and eradicate five tropical diseases. Most notably, The Carter Center is responsible for reducing the number of cases of Guinea worm throughout the world from 3.5 million in 1986 to less than 30 today. In addition, The Carter Center has monitored 106 elections worldwide and has brokered peace treaties through its Center for Conflict Resolution. www.cartercenter.org

Blessings come in many forms. You can receive blessings and send blessings. You also can do blessings for homes and businesses. It is always so valuable to allow spirit to work through you when you give, receive or do blessings. When you understand blessings you can enhance gratitude for life and all the bounties of living. I share some poems on blessings and a song i wrote.

A true story of how I saved a horse's life and the horse in turn saved mine.

Each year in the United States, about 240,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women and about 2,100 in men. About 42,000 women and 500 men in the U.S. die each year from breast cancer. Black women have a higher rate of death from breast cancer than all other women. I talk with Grammy SF> Chapter President Nona Brown about our new song, It Takes a Miracle, about her encounter with breast cancer,