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Jim Luce (born 1959, Hamilton, Ohio) baptized James Jay Dudley Luce, is a former investment banker, as well as activist, organizer, philanthropist, and international development specialist who founded the United Nations-affiliated Orphans International Worldwide in 1998 and Orphans International America in 1999. Luce called for ending orphanages globally, to be replaced by his organization's Family Care model, in 2008. He is based on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

Finance & Business

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Luce began his career as an Assistant Eurobond Portfolio Manager with Daiwa Bank on Wall Street upon his return from studying (Waseda University) and working in Tokyo in 1983 at the age of 23. He was the first Japanese-speaking American manager hired by the New York branch of Daiwa Bank . Luce assisted with management of bank’s $260 million Euro-bond portfolio and was responsible for daily report in Japanese to home office in Osaka and the New York branch president. Luce returned to Wall Street in 1998 working with Merrill Lynch in the World Financial Center, leaving just before 9/11. He then served, beginning in 2000, as the right-hand man to a Senior Managing Director and co-founder of a Lazard Frères spin-off known as Rhône Capital in Rockefeller Center. In 2008 he agreed to work as Managing Director at Elite Group International and its parter Rethinkit.com, both based in New York City, focusing on international business opportunities in Africa, Asia and the Americas. He works 50 hours per week in business, and volunteers another 50 hours per week to manage Orphans International. At Elite and Rethinkit, Luce works with electronic discovery, digital imaging, and new media consulting. His complete career history is available on LinkedIn.

Activism & Organizing

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Luce left Wall Street following an appearance on the Phil Donahue Show in 1985 discussing religious addiction and the need for an "anonymous" organization to help those recovering from religious addiction, including followers of the TV evangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Jimmy Swaggart. Luce co-founded Fundamentalists Anonymous, and with the help of the Henry Luce Foundation, raised $1.2 million from 1985-89 helping build support groups across the U.S. for recovering fundamentalists. He testified in Congress against the TV evangelists in 1988. During this period Luce served as resource/interviewed repeatedly by The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Today Show, in addition to CNN, A.P. & U.P.I. Following Fundamentalists Anonymous, Luce was approached to run as a moderate candidate against Republican U.S. Senator Alphonse D’Amato in the 1992 elections, and exploratory papers were filed with the Federal Election Commission. This campaign became the bi-partisan organization "Dump D’Amato in ’92," which Luce chaired for two years.

International Development

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In 1995 Luce traveled to Indonesia where he met the ten-month old infant who would become his son Mathew, living in squalid conditions in a traditional warehouse-like orphanage. Because of his revulsion at the condition of orphans in the developing world, Luce was influenced by his child psychologist mother to conceptualize an alternative, which he completed by 1999. His mother died shortly thereafter and Luce used proceeds from her estate to found Orphans International Worldwide (oiww.org). Luce left the financial world for the second time after the 2004 Tsunami. For his work with orphans, Luce was awarded the Certificate of Congressional Recognition through the office of U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel that year. Luce was anointed the "Tsunami Saint" by the New York Post for his work with orphans in Aceh, Indonesia in 2005. He was recognized again by Congress in 2007. He has occasionally faced danger in the field (see: BBC) and has since raised over $1.5 million for orphaned children in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Luce was a featured speaker at the following:

  • United Nations Sixtieth Annual DPI/NGO Conference - Climate Change: How It Impacts Us All,September5, 2007 Panel entitled "Caring After the Storm: The Impact of Climate Change on Children in Areas Where Rising Waters Create Despair and Destruction."
  • The Fourth Annual Youth Assembly at the U.N., August 14, 2007. Plenary and workshop on "Raising Global Citizens - How You Can Help Us In Making A Difference."
  • World AIDS Orphans Day Conference at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sponsored by United Nations Association of Minnesota, May 7, 2005

Philanthropy & Foundation

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Luce gave away his Wall Street savings to launch the not-for-profit organization Fundamentalists Anonymous in 1985, went back to Wall Street and then gave away his savings and assets to launch Orphans International beginning in 2001. In 2008 he accepted a position as Managing Director of a multinational corporation and founded the James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation. That same year he wrote an essay published on-line entitled, “Will A Vow Of Poverty Fill The Void In My Soul?” (HuffingtonPost ).

Writer, Speaker & Personality

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Luce was editor of his high school newspaper and a member of the international honorary society Quill and Scroll. At the College of Wooster he wrote a weekly college for his school paper from his junior year abroad. In New York and Lomé, Togo, Luce wrote Riding The Tiger: The Story of Orphans International. In 1986, Luce wrote “The Fundamentalists Anonymous Movement” and “Breaking the Chains of Fundamentalism” for the national publication of the American Humanist Association. Beginning in 2007 he wrote pieces for The New York Times and the Huffington Post. He writes for six other blogs. He was president of a Toastmasters International public-speaking chapter in New York City, and has spoken repeatedly at the United Nations, to Rotary International Clubs around the world, and at universities such as Mt. Holyoke, Princeton, and Columbia. From 1995-90 he appeared on every major network repeatedly, discussing the dangers of religious addiction. He has spoken at Orphans International Worldwide Global Congresses in Bali and Aceh, Indonesia, and at Columbia and New York Universities. Luce was identified in the 1980’s as a force to be reckoned with by American Society. Phil Donahue, the Oprah Winfrey of the 1980’s, introduced Luce in May 1985 by stating “Mr. Luce, a former Wall Street banker… looks like a banker, and I mean that as a compliment.” The New York Observer wrote in October 1991, “Meet Jim Luce... Oh yes, you’re saying, you know the story — a young, rich kid short on beliefs and long on ambition, living in pseudo-poverty while sitting on a trust fund, ready to leap at whatever vehicle will best advance his career... Mr. Luce wears bookish round glasses, chooses his words carefully, and has an impossibly boyish face, qualities that would qualify him for the George Will Award as a quintessentially upper-class [[WASP#REDIRECT [[1]]]]... He’ll be noticed.”

Education

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He holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from the College of Wooster and studied at both Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and Centro de Estudiar Colombino-Americano, Bogotá, Colombia. He was an American Field Service (AFS) exchange student to Germany in high school and lived in Paris as a child. He began a Masters in Public Health program at the City University of New York at Hunter College which he discontinued to found Orphans International Worldwide.

Social Networks & New Media

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Jim Luce embraces new media and maintains a personal and professional presence on social network and sharing websites including FaceBook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Twitter, and YouTube. Luce directs New Media consultancy for the Elite Group International.

Family & Ancestry

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Luce’s mother was Frances Dudley Alleman-Luce, a child psychologist and civil rights advocate from Boston, and his father was Stanford Luce, Jr. a French professor and translator also from Boston. Stan Luce was also a civil rights advocate, as well as a volunteer supervisor for Habitat for Humanity. Luce is partnered with John Lee, a diamond trader. His teenage adopted son, ethnically Chinese from Manado, Indonesia, is named Mathew James. In 1997, Luce was certified and served as a new York City foster father, hosting three Puerto Rican girls. Luce comes from a distinguished family that includes Lieutenant Richard Warren of the Mayflower, Governor Thomas Dudley, Third Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and co-founder of Harvard University, and Rear Admiral Stephen Bleecker Luce, founder of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Luce is a thirteenth generation Anglican in North America. Jim Luce is not directly related to Henry Robinson Luce, founder of Time-Life.

Global Travel

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Luce is a product of his experiences. He has extensive international exposure, including trips to the following for work, study, leisure or humanitarian assistance: Accra, Amsterdam, Anchorage, Aomori, Atlanta, Austin, Bali, Banda Aceh, Bangkok, Berlin, Bielefeld, Bogotá, Boston, Brussels, Bucharest, Charlotte, Chiba, Chicago, Cologne, Colombo, Copenhagen, Denpasar, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Galle, Geneva, Georgetown (Guyana), Giradot, Gonaives, Hamburg, Hannover, Hiroshima, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Ístanbul, Jacmel, Jakarta, Kansas City, Kuala Lumpur, Lima, Lomé, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Mrso, Manado, Manila, Miami, Mexico City, Medan, Miyazaki, Montréal, Morioka, Moscow, Munich, Münster, Nakhodka, Osaka, Paris, Phoenix, Ponce, Port-au-Prince, Raleigh, Rome, Rotterdam, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, San Juan, San Salvador, Santiago, Santo Domingo, Sendai, Seoul, Singapore, St. Louis, Tijuana, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington, Yokohama, and Zürich.

Notes

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1. Luce, Jim.Career history. LinkedIn.com 2. ^ New York Times article dated November 12, 2007 3. ^ Luce, Jim. "Will A Vow Of Poverty Fill The Void In My Soul?" Huffington Post, August 16, 2008 4. ^ New York Post article of April 15, 2005, entitled "Tsunami Saint" 5. 6. Congressional Record, In Recognition Of Orphans International and Its Founder and President, Mr. James Luce. November 1, 2007 7. Bali Post, American Citizen To Build Interfaith Orphanage, 9/2/02 8. Canada & The World, Fundamentalists Anonymous, April 1988 9. Christian Science Monitor, Support Group For Ex-Fundamentalists: National TV Exposure Of FA Brings Volumes Of Letters, Controversy, 6/3/86 10. Congressional Record, Sub. Comm. On Oversight, Comm. On Ways & Means, U.S. House Of Representatives, 10/6/87 11. Fund Raising, Benefit Helps Victims Of Religious Fraud, Feb. 1988 12. London Observer, Praise Be To Sweet FA, 6/26/88 13. Los Angeles Times, Aiding An Exodus From Fundamentalist Folds: Religious Support Group Helps Disillusioned, 7/3/86 14. New York Daily News, D’Amato Has Ringside Hecklers, 1/27/92 15. New York Lay Journal, Lawyer Volunteers Aid Claims Against Cult Groups, 1/19/88 16. New York Observer, Fighting “Authoritarian Mindset”, 2/1/88 17. New York Observer, Dump D’Amato Making Waves, 11/2/92 18. New York Times, Amid Scandals, Fundamentalists Seek Consolation, 4/4/87 19. New York Times, Dump D’Amato Sows Worry To Reap Votes, 10/26/92 20. Newsweek, Is Fundamentalism Addictive? 8/5/85 21. Playboy, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Sept. 1986 22. Psychology Today, Leaving The Fold, Jan. 1988 23. Roosevelt Island WIRE, Jim Luce’s Orphans International Debuts In Haiti, 7/26/03 24. San Francisco Chronicle, FA Helps Devotees Break Away, 10/24/86 25. San Francisco Chronicle, Some Rethink Faith After Preacher Scandals, 6/7/87 26. San Francisco Chronicle, Fundamental Differences, 11/17/87 27. Toronto Star, Trying To Break Away From Fundamentalism, 6/13/87 28. US, Fundamentalists Anonymous: Ex-Believers Stand Up, 1/26/87 29. World: Journal Of The UUA, Just Say No To Fundamentalism, Jan.-Feb.' 91 30. USA Today, Self-Helpers Find Strength In Numbers, 8/11/88 31. Village Voice, The Geography Of The Soul: Finding A Way Out Of Fun-Damentalism, 6/23/87 32. Washington Post, Appeal Of Televangelists: Firm Answers To Life’s Questions, 5/3/87 33. Washington Post, The Fundamentals Of Disillusionment, 5/12/87 34. Washington Post, ‘Watchdog’ Task Force Set Up In Wake Of Preacher Scandals, 5/16/87 35. Washington Post, Healing After The Leap From Faith: Fundamentalists Anonymous Aids Those Who Cast Out Religion, 6/24/87

References

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• ^ Luce, Jim. "First One Orphan, Then Many More" New York Times November 12, 2007 • Chicago Public Radio: Worldview - Global Activism: Aiding Abandoned Children June 1, 2006 • ^ Luce, Jim. Riding the Tiger: The Creation of Orphans International Worldwide 2006 • ^ Luce, Jim. "Orphans International: Raising Global Citizens" Huffington Post, February 2, 2008 • ^ Luce, Jim. "Embracing Family Care For Orphans" Huffington Post, March 1, 2008 • ^ Luce, Jim. "Will A Vow Of Poverty Fill The Void In My Soul” Huffington Post, August 16, 2008 • ^ Luce, Jim. " Ending Orphanages Globally" Huffington Post, October 31, 2008 • ^ Breaking Away, with Fundamentalists Anonymous" Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 1986 http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB29BC06C855C2E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

• ^ Fundamentalists Anonymous Aids Those Seeking a Way Out of the Flock," Associated Press (A.P.), February 15, 1986 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19860215&id=KRsMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kVkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6950,3897351

Philadelphia Inquirer - February 16, 1986 - GROUP HELPS PEOPLE SEVER RELIGIOUS TIES http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB29A886DC796C7&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

• ^ Geist, William E. Amid Scandals, Fundamentalists Seek Consolation," New York Times, April 4, 1987 http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/04/nyregion/about-new-york-amid-scandals-fundamentalists-seek-consolation.html

'Spineless' Rushdie Condemned, Losa Angeles Times,. February 1, 1991. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-02-01/entertainment/ca-479_1_islamic-fundamentalists

Goldman, Ari L. Evangelicals Flourish, With New York Touch, New York Times, May 19, 1987 http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/19/nyregion/evangelicals-flourish-with-new-york-touch.html?pagewanted=all

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