A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel with some really cool other women, including one Amy Carlton. She started a nonprofit to raise money to feed the hungry. That’s kinda cool, right? Except, um, she’s SEVENTEEN. Her nonprofit is called Teens Fighting Hunger. In her own words:

While working on [...]

Last week we were invited, as a “community leaders” (not sure who is spreading that rumor) to a local TV station. They had invited about twenty of us to come and participate in a focus group to discuss issues relevant to our community. It was interesting; there was quite a diversity of organizations represented and [...]

Here at Global Sistergoods, we are lucky to to have Irene Tinker as an advisor and mentor. Irene is a true women & development trailblazer, a scholar/activist who has written extensively and founded the International Center for Research on Women, among her many accomplishments. She also has hilarious stories. (If you ever meet her, ask [...]

Beth recommended I watch this CNN piece about women and economic recovery. Jacki Zehner of the Women’s Funding Network supports our assertion that women are the key to economic growth because women invest in their families and communities more reliably than men.
Check it out:
Embedded video from CNN Video

The United States Peace Corps was established today, March 1, in 1961 by Executive Order 10924. John F. Kennedy Jr., first proposed the idea during a campaign stop at the University of Michigan, asking students to give two years of their lives to help people in the developing world. Since 1960, more than 195,000 people [...]