September 2012

My Interview With Women Deliver: Because Women Really Do

Jill Sheffield, President and Founder of Women Deliver, as a young nurse in Kenya, met a woman who was 25. This woman had 11 pregnancies, and 6 living children. She was desperate to be able to take care of her body and have the health and strength to care for the children she had. It set [...]

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Is Social Good Just Noise? Or Are We Really Doing Something?

Social media and technology don’t change the world. A phone doesn’t feed a hungry child. A tweet doesn’t save a mother from dying in childbirth. A Facebook page doesn’t overthrow dictators. And yet I’ve just spent three days immersed in the world’s biggest social good conversation at the Social Good Summit. I left reinforced in [...]

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Why Social Good Summit is My Favorite Event of the Year

Three years in to the ground breaking event that is the Social Good Summit, I still pinch myself that I get to be a part of it! A host of conversations with world leaders, companies, nonprofits and representatives from various United Nations agencies opens up the world of the UN to the world via digital [...]

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I’m Walking in Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in NYC Tonight!

You guys!!! Strut. The Fashionable Mom Show is at Lincoln Center in New York City tonight, and I’m in it! Egads! The theme is real mothers, wearing fabulous outfits styled by Rent the Runway! I went for my fitting on Friday afternoon and they are such a delightful team. Blaire, our show stylist is warm and practical [...]

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Bloggers: You WANT To Do This! Join the Social Good Summit in NYC Sept 22-24!

. This is cross-posted from The Million Moms Challenge, which is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation and ABC News, along with more than 30 partners, to share global health issues for mothers and babies. I am the Community Manager, however all opinions expressed here are my own. I’d love to see you again. Please subscribe via email or RSS. [...]

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We did it! YOU did it!

. NOTE: Total number of comments reached was in excess of 11,000! This is cross-posted from The Million Moms Challenge, which is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation and ABC News, along with more than 30 partners, to share global health issues for mothers and babies. I am the Community Manager, however all opinions expressed here are [...]

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