Global Initiatives' approach involves initiatives, ventures and a voice in mobilizing marketplace ambassadors and community builders. Together with the appropriation and use of the world's resources and systems to advance faith-based agendas for change, Global Initiatives advances God's healing and prophetic influence in environments of disruption and change where God's light is dim. Agendas range from entrepreneurial community development programs to trauma counseling.

Chairman and Founder: Morris E. Ruddick

Morris Ruddick is the founder of Global Initiatives Foundation. As an entrepreneur, consultant and business owner, he has led development of entrepreneurial activities in critical needy areas and brought together combined business-chartity initiatives across the globe, with a focus on facilitating economic community development in challenging economic environments.

Since 1995, he has been at the forefront of encouraging and mobilizing spiritually-minded business leaders to step out in faith by employing their talents to build their communities. In recent years, Mr. Ruddick's agendas have included hands-on activities in Russia, Belarus, Ethiopia, Botswana, Afghanistan, South Africa, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam and Israel. His initiatives have included biblical business startup programs, entrepreneurial workshops and conference talks to acquaint the West with the realities and strategies to bring change to the parts of the world living on less than $2 a day. He also has helped organize and launch an international consortium of humanitarian aid that assists Israeli immigrants.

He is the author of The Joseph-Daniel Calling and God's Economy, Israel and the Nations, as well as numerous articles on marketplace agendas, entrepreneurship and spiritual gifts, and the dynamics of markets undergoing change. Mr. Ruddick has been a board member of several international charitable and humanitarian organizations. He served as Corporate Secretary of the segment of the International Christian Chamber of Commerce that produced the popular Chinese television series “ You Can Start a Business .” Mr. Ruddick has been a keynote speaker and workshop leader for numerous national and international leadership summits, CEO forums and marketplace conferences; and is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Ministry Marketing and Management.

Over the years, he has served executive-suite management with his planning and strategy development talents in a diversity of progressive mid-sized operations, charitable organizations, and a diversity of well-known multi-national companies. He was at the helm of designing and implementing two successful corporate turnarounds, one being for a $1.4 billion firm. His specialty for both the business and charity spheres is in evaluating the dynamics impacting changing and emerging markets.

Board Members and Advisors

William P. Bartlett . Bill Bartlett is founder and CEO of Callidus Technologies, a global designer and manufacturer of equipment used in the petrochemical industry. Mr. Bartlett is an entrepreneur and community builder whose agendas have changed his industry.

Judith Haynes . Judy. Haynes has served in senior positions as a specialist in grass roots change in both the business and political arenas. Ms. Haynes was a founding member of the Christian Coalition and has served in key roles in national U.S election campaigns.

Carol Ruddick . Carol Ruddick is a business owner, entrepreneur, medical case manager and licensed psychotherapist. She is a member of the Red Cross mental health team. With specialties in disaster relief and trauma counseling, she has served from war-torn regions of Eastern Europe, to Israel, Asia and Africa.

Ann Woodruff . Ann Woodruff is a business-owner, entrepreneur and world-class marketing strategist. In addition to the development of women's workshops, she serves a chief marketing officer for Global Initiatives.

Joseph Mitchell-Shiloh . Mr. Shiloh is an Israeli-American business owner with a substantive background in the venture capital business, with special expertise with Israeli new ventures and business investments.

Calev Myers. Calev Myers is an Israeli-American attorney. He is one of the founders of the Jerusalem Institute for Justice, as well as serving as an advisor to Knesset members and government officials on humanitarian projects for impoverished sectors of Israeli society.

Bill Bolton. Dr. Bolton is the founder and first Director of Cambridge University's St. John Technology Innovation Centre. As a recognized international business consultant, and author, his business models are considered a global standard for entrepreneurship.

Barry Harper . Mr. Harper is one of the two original founders of Opportunity International, the world's largest micro-lending institution. As a renowned business consultant, his efforts over the years have made a major impact on mobilizing entrepreneurs in a way that brings change to lands of poverty and oppression.