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My Six Degrees of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Continues

June 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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I can't believe it has been over a year since I last reported on my involvement with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. It was very six degrees of separation: I met and interviewed Marlo Thomas at an event.  We stayed in touch via Twitter.  When the CEO of the company I was working for at the time expressed interest in running a social good campaign for St. Jude, I instantly reached out to her and then launched one of the most satisfying marketing campaigns of my career. As a participant of the St. Jude Annual Thanks and Giving campaign, we … [Read more...]

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Making 1 Simple Change to Keep Our Children Safe

June 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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  It's hard to believe that the unspeakable events in Newtown now occurred six months ago.  What began as a normal school day for everyone ended with 26 dead, a town changed forever, and a nation struggling to understand the worst kind of tragedy humanly possible.  I've made it clear on this blog where I stand on gun control, attending the Million Moms March back in January. We marched in freezing temps, hoping a law would be passed on stricter background checks as a start to relieving us all of any future pain.  However, Congress sadly shot … [Read more...]

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Invest in Women Who Can Change the World

May 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Indego Africa

If you are looking for an innovative way to help women succeed around the world, this may be the project for you. Indego Africa is an award-winning, design-driven 501(c)(3) nonprofit social enterprise that lifts women-owned businesses in Rwanda toward sustainable economic independence through access to markets and education. They provide opportunities for women in difficult circumstances to not only meet their families' basic needs but also acquire skills that enhance long-term earning potential.  Indego Africa's mission is to help each artisan … [Read more...]

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Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk and Save a Life

May 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
moonwalk cancer

  Last year I came face to face with a form of cancer that struck a close family member.  It was not breast cancer, it was lung cancer.  For the first time in my life, I was hit with the awful reality that I could potentially lose this person, the single most important person in my life.  I was faced with the fact that it would spread like fire, even after it was removed, which it was. Now this family member and I live in fear that it could come back, and it's not a pleasant way to live.  We will live like this for the next five years … [Read more...]

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Give Moms a Thought this Mother’s Day

May 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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  Pregnancy is the number one cause of death for women ages 15 - 19 in the developing world. This is not myth, it is fact. And we can help. Christy Turlington Burns, the founder of Every Mother Counts (ENC), is a great example of someone who has seized the opportunity to further the cause of preventing maternal deaths around the world and her organization has created a new campaign that she hopes to further her cause not just now, but all year long called "Give Mom a Thought". Remember when your Mom said, “It’s the thought that … [Read more...]

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$25 from you = $50 for Mothers2Mothers = a healthier mom & baby

May 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Mothers2Mothers

This Mother's Day, it's important to remind ourselves how special every day of the year is.  But it's also important to remember that not every mother around the world is as lucky.  There are mothers living with HIV.  It's easy to forget about them.  Life gets busy.  But they need our help. That's why the campaign I'm about to tell you about is important and it's an easy campaign to slip into your celebration this year. Mothers2Mother's puts mothers living with HIV are at the center of their efforts to eliminate pediatric AIDS and keep … [Read more...]

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Help Make a Childs Wish Come True on World Wish Day, April 29th

April 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Make a Wish

If you ever wonder how you can change a child's life from the seat in your living room, I have a few ideas for you. I first became aware of the Make-a-Wish Foundation about 15 years ago when I was working at at MTV/Nickelodeon.  A colleague of mine was very active with the cause and I knew that her work with the organization was making a real difference in children's lives.  Their work enriches the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions through its wish-granting work. Make-A-Wish was founded in 1980 after a little boy named Chris … [Read more...]

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Boston: A New Reality and Talking to Your Children

April 16, 2013 by 3 Comments
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We were traveling when we found out about the events that unfolded yesterday in Boston.  Every chance we got, we took a look at the news on our phones and caught glimpses of television sets airing the news in the airport.  Images of 9/11 instantly came to our minds as we registered each loss of life and it was too hard to fathom.  We lived in NYC in 2001, so these memories are still very real and vivid. One of my friends lost a husband, another lost a sister and many skirted death by a matter of minutes (one was late for work, another was late for a … [Read more...]

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A Mother’s Day fashionABLE Gift That Will Change Lives

April 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
FashionAble

A few months ago I read my amazing friend Liz's recount over at Mom-101 of what it was like to watch her mother run a small clothing label out of her attic when she was growing up.  She connected the story (beautifully) to a group of women that she met at the non-profit, FashionABLE while visiting Ethiopia. It's a place where all the proceeds on the scarves that they create go towards helping the artisans, not only through wages but with medical care, medicine for TB or HIV, counseling, a housing stipend, educational tools and daycare for their … [Read more...]

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A Meaningful Passover (w/a Bit of Girl Power)

March 30, 2013 by 11 Comments
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This year Passover took a whole new meaning in my house.  For one thing, it's the first time my children have ever kept the holiday's strict dietary rules.  In prior years, I felt they were too young for me to change their dietary habits and I couldn't get them to eat enough Passover food to keep them going.  This year I decided that at ages 8 and 9, they could survive a week without bread, pasta and rice.  For another thing, going to Hebrew School twice a year seems to be paying off.  This is the first time they were genuinely excited to sit down … [Read more...]

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