We’re Moving!

This blog will let you know that more changes are underway at The Humanity Project. We’re moving to a new headquarters, only four miles from our current Fort Lauderdale, Florida home. The new address will be in Dania Beach, a delightful sea town just south of Fort Lauderdale.

As we move over the next week, we’ll be unable to continue our regular features – but this is only a brief pause. Our podcast will be interrupted for two weeks and our daily feature, The Humanity Spotlight, also will be on hold for several days. This blog should continue as always, hopefully next week as scheduled. Hang in there on the interruptions, please! We’ll be back soon – and then we will begin to work hard on our website redesign. All of it just means one thing: The Humanity Project is becoming a better, more practical organization to help you in more ways.

New Mission Statement

If you go to our home page, then click on “About Us,” you’ll read something new. It’s our official new mission statement. This will tell you exactly what The Humanity Project is all about, now and in the future. The statement was adopted by a vote of our board of directors and is legally part of our organization.

But the new “About Us” text goes beyond that one-sentence mission. It tells you how we will be fulfilling this mission – which will be through our writings and educational materials and network of resources. And the new “About Us” also explains that we’re undergoing major changes now, with a complete website redesign planned in the near future. At the moment, we’re in the middle of moving our offices across town here in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida area. Things are a bit messy, as they always are in any move. But in a couple of weeks, we’ll be getting settled into the new place. Soon after that, we hope to focus on our website redesign. For now, bear with us – and please check out our changed mission statement. It’s part of the new Humanity Project, with a focused mission that we think will help you more than ever.

We’re Getting There

This is just a brief update for those who are following the development of our nonprofit group. We want you to know that we’re going through a major transition now. And it’s likely to continue for the next couple of weeks or so. Our headquarters is moving to a new location in South Florida on May 1, so there’s lots of packing and shuttling things back and forth to do. We’ve also re-focused our mission so that it’s clearer and can help more people. That mission will be reflected in a redesigned website as soon as we can get that done.

You see, we’re keeping the same basic idea that’s always been behind The Humanity Project: to help improve society one person at a time, from the bottom up. But we’ve now officially adopted a new way to go about this: “The Humanity Project is committed to helping people live more happily through dedicated service to others.” That’s our new mission statement. We think that idea will allow us to help individuals get their lives together. But the focus is clearer and more understandable than our original mission statement. And this approach offers the additional benefit of aiding both those who receive the service and those who give it. We’ll have more to say about the whys and hows of this whole idea. Very soon. But for now, hang in there with us because we’re going through some big changes. When we’re done in the coming weeks, we think you’ll very much like what you see in the NEW Humanity Project. _

Calling All Boomers

I’m a baby boomer – born in 1952. I lived through the tumult and chaos and tragedy and excitement of our era, as many of you did. We saw the Vietnam War unfold on our tv screens during dinner. We watched the Nixon administration unravel during Watergate. We mourned when the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King Jr. were killed. We marched and protested, flashed the peace sign, maybe made some free love and even did a few drugs along the way. It was our effort to change the world. And arguably, we did force some things to change. Now we’re mostly in our 50s, at mid-life. Not old, certainly. But not quite so young and unrealistic either. And many of us want to get involved again now. The re-emergence of boomers as a social force is real, something noted in recent news stories and documentaries. We haven’t given up on changing the world. The Humanity Project can help you get going with your quest.

Our mission is clear: To help you and others live happier lives through service to others. It’s our goal to convince as many people as possible to do this – and to provide some ways to help you carry out that effort. We are preaching a “giving lifestyle,” and we’re not talking about religion here. Your religious beliefs are your own. We promote the idea of pushing our unique personality, interests and talents into the world to help others throughout each day, in large ways and small ways. We see this as a higher form of love. I know this website doesn’t completely reflect our more focused mission yet. (The only thing holding us up is the money to pay for a complete website redesign. We’ve talked about this in other blogs and podcasts. If you can help, please make a tax-deductible contribution by going to “Join The Project” on this website.) But hang in there, please. We’re hoping that within a couple of months, this website will have many new features to help you help others. We also hope you’ll want to support our efforts by becoming a member. We’re a growing organization with big ambitions. The baby boomers among us can become one big force to put those ambitions into practice.

Your Turn

We want to hear your ideas. More than that, really – we need your ideas. The Humanity Project website is in the process of going through a complete redesign. That’s because we’ve focused our mission more clearly on one goal: The Humanity Project is committed to helping people live more happily through dedicated service to others. We plan to put this mission into action – first on our website and then, starting in a few months, by also going into the community one-on-one. We have some good ideas already. But we need more.

At The Humanity Project, we will teach the importance of a giving lifestyle, showing individuals how to translate their unique personalities, interests and talents into actions that aid their fellow human beings. This contributes at the grassroots level to a more well-adjusted society by improving life both for those who receive the assistance and those who give it. We will offer an interactive feature to show you why this is important. We’ll have links to volunteer opportunities. We’ll talk briefly about some of the latest scientific research that shows people are happiest by trying to do good, rather than trying to feel good. And we will continue our podcast and blog, though in a different form than now. But tell us what else we should be doing. We hope you’ll put your brainpower to work for humanity by helping us with your suggestions. Just go to the “Contact Us” page on this website: www.thehumanityproject.com. Then send an email or call us. Our phone is 954-205-2722. We want your ideas. And we need them!