Join us for The International Day of The Girl Tweetathon
Thursday, October 11 is International Day of The Girl and we will be hosting a 12-hour tweetathon for 10×10 Educate Girls along with their strategic partner Intel,...
View ArticleGlobal Citizen: We Don’t Ask for Charity, We Ask for Justice
The first Global Citizen festival was held yesterday in Central Park on the Great Lawn. Bands including, the Foo Fighters, Neil Young, Crazy Horse, The Black Keys, and...
View ArticlePolio: A Generational Affect
When I was little I never liked getting a shot. I cried when the doctor would come near me, just like all the other babies and toddlers in the doctors office would do. It wasn’t...
View ArticleThe Sixty Cent Question: How Can We Eradicate Polio Globally?
Small pox was the first deadly disease to be wiped off the face of the earth. It killed and blinded millions of children and adults. It didn’t care if you were poor or the...
View ArticlePolio: From One to None
We need to not stop till every last child has been vaccinated against polio on the face of the earth. Right now we are down to 1 percent–99 percent of children in the world being polio-free. Let’s go...
View ArticleWe Made Some Noise on International Day of the Girl
It was a successful tweetathon and 10×10 Educate Girls is very happy. And we can’t thank everyone enough who helped with the first-ever International Day of The Girl: the co-hosts, NGOs...
View ArticleWorld Polio Day: 1% Makes a World of Difference
When I was asked by Shot@Life to raise awareness about the importance of global vaccinations, I enthusiastically agreed to be a voice for those without the opportunity. For so many of...
View ArticlePlay Has a New Name: KaBOOM!
What do you get when you add 225 community volunteers, one giant pile of mulch, an eight hour day, a swing-set, and the goal of changing a child’s life? A KaBOOM! build of course!...
View ArticleBullets Can’t Stop Malala
Photo Credit: The Guardian Imagine, just wanting an education and being shot by the Taliban in an attempt to silence you. That was the world’s horror when on October 9, 2012,...
View ArticleSchools Adopting Schools in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
When Superstorm Sandy hit the east coast, we knew it was bad. Friends and loved ones utilized social media to communicate out stories and photos on a minute by minute basis. We knew exactly when the...
View ArticleTis The Season For #GivingTuesday
As my extended family was gathered together to eat far too much food and watch far too much football, I noticed that several had huddled up far from the family festivities and were perusing newspaper...
View ArticleTurn On With TED
Watch a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) speaker and you’re likely to feel an “intellectual adrenaline rush,” according to one Forbes correspondent. No exaggeration here. I was transfixed while...
View ArticleInternational Volunteer Day: Commending Commitment to a Cause
While walking my daughter into school this morning, I was stopped by several teachers who (after greeting me warmly) all noted that they had missed me and wondered when I was coming back to volunteer....
View ArticleThis Holiday Season Give Children in Developing Nations a Shot@Life
I have always believed in the universality of motherhood – that all moms, no matter where they live, share their own special community and look out for each other. The reality is,...
View ArticleThe Anchal Project Is Transforming Lives
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” —...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Cast Stones of Change
There is a great quote by Mother Teresa “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” What resonates with me as a result of these words is the fact...
View ArticleA Dollar for Our Daughters
My daughter had the good fortune of being raised in a family that provided unconditional love, a college education, and the tools to be a productive, happy adult. But, what about young women who don’t...
View ArticleToday a League of Extraordinary Doers Hits Capitol Hill
The world is filled with armchair activists and people with good intentions. So imagine yourself in a room filled to capacity with “doers”–– a league of extraordinary women (and a few brave men) with...
View Article$5 Makes Birth Safe in Laos
I am on a mom on a mission to make birth safer in Laos. This month my organization, CleanBirth.org, has the goal of raising enough funds to save 1,000 mothers and 1,000 babies. I first witnessed the...
View ArticleAn Incurable Addiction to Social Good
Over and over during my time at the 2013 Shot@Life Champion Summit, I was asked how I got involved with the campaign. It all started with a “screw it, just do it” moment. Being a creative person, I’ve...
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