Piglets Save Girls From Slavery
July 22, 2008
Find out how by reading Meredith May’s “Woman’s Idea Saves Thousands of Nepalese Girls” at www.sfgate.com.
Learn what you can do for the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation at www.nyof.org.
New Clothes Needed for Foster Kids
July 8, 2008
Sleep Train is hosting a new clothing drive through July 20th as part of its Sleep Train Foster Kids program.
Please bring new clothes of any size to any Sleep Train mattress store.
For more info, check out www.sleeptrain.com.
Let There Be Light Kit
April 14, 2008
How to make yourself pretty & help kids who have lost their moms:
Buy a Mally Beauty’s Let There Be Light Kit (blush, eye shadow, lip gloss) at mommyslight.org.
100% of the proceeds will go toward helping kids carry on traditions they shared with their moms.
“Having lost my mother at a young age, I immediately felt a strong connection with Mommy’s Light. My mother has never stopped being present in my life and I know that keeping her spirit close is what has allowed me to feel fulfilled and complete. I am so happy to support Mommy’s Light, especially now that I am a mother, because I understand the profound difference it makes for children to keep their mother’s memory alive.”
Pulled Ponytail
April 12, 2008
Why do people think it’s OK to go up to someone with long hair in a ponytail and pull it? I am growing hair for Locks of Love. It makes me furious when people come up and jerk it. Not only is is painful, but isn’t it a form of assault? What would be an appropriate response?
HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
Dear Hair Today:
Pulling someone’s ponytail is a childish impulse, and yes, it is a form of assault–but probably not prosecutable. The proper response is, “Ouch! Don’t do that again. It hurts!”
(From www.DearAbby.com)
Biz Chess for Cattle Ranch
March 16, 2008
All proceeds from Bob Rice’s upcoming THREE MOVES AHEAD: What Chess Can Teach You About Business will go to the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer in Ribera, New Mexico.
“Be Mine” with Benefits
February 13, 2008
Express your love and help Save the Children in poor, rural parts of the U.S.
When you make a donation at SavetheChildren.com, you may download & print a pile of valentines or send someone sweet a personalized e-card.
Isabel Allende’s Heroes:
February 7, 2008
“Women who care for others, support their families, struggle with poverty, abuse and repression, and also manage to love and sing in spite of all the odds.”
“We believe that if we empower a woman, we save a family, and if we help families, the community at large benefits. By empowering women we can change the world. An empowered woman will educate her children and raise strong daughters.”
–Author Isabel Allende, whose Isabel Allende Foundation supports Chilean and San Francisco Bay Area non-profits such as Homeless Prenatal, Women’s Recovery Services and Mujeres Unidas y Activas.
20 Questions for Isabel Allende
February 5, 2008
1. What is an irresistible human trait?
Kindess.
2. What is the highest form of giving?
To give time and love.
3. What is your most positive flaw?
Generosity.
4. What skill do you wish you possessed?
I wish I could sing beautifully.
5. Which is more important: security or passion?
Passion. I am not interested in security, it’s boring and it’s also an illusion because life is risky and no one can be totally safe all the time.
6. What is your driving force?
Feminism. The desire to be independent, free, and fend for myself and my children.
7. Who are your favorite writers?
Too many to name them.
8. Who are your heroes?
Women who care for others, support their families, struggle with poverty, abuse and repression, and also manage to love and sing in spite of all odds.
9. What does the Isabel Allende Foundation do?
My Foundation tries to empower women and girls in the areas of education, health and protection. We believe that if we empower a woman, we save a family, and if we help families, the community at large benefits. By empowering women we can change the world. An empowered woman will educate her children and raise strong daughters.
10. Name three things that empower women.
Women need educational skills to support themselves. Health is essential, and that includes prevention and contraception. Women should be organized, keep in touch with each other and be informed, because isolation makes them vulnerable. Together they are strong.
11. Name three Bay Area nonprofits that need support.
Homeless Prenatal.
Mujeres Unidas y Activas.
Women’s Recovery Services.
12. What is the sweetest smell?
The smell of a baby.
13. What is the loveliest sound?
The laughter of children.
14. What do you do to relax?
Write.
15. What is your daily creed?
Do no harm and do good whenever possible.
16. Which novel is in your carry-on bag?
I travel all the time and in my carry-on there are always six or seven books. I don’t have just one book with me. I seldom read a book twice because there are too many good writers out there and not enough time in my life to read them all.
17. Where (and/or with whom) do you feel truly at home?
I feel at home where Willie, my husband, is. It can be in a plane, on a safari in Africa or underwater. He is my home.
18. What motivates people to give?
In most cases, the motivation to give is simple generosity and compassion, but I have heard that some people give to show off their wealth. It used to be diamonds, now it’s philanthropy. Excellent! The motivation doesn’t really matter, as long as they give.
19. What is a food you couldn’t live without?
Water.
20. What is the soundtrack of your life?
Silence. The sounds of Nature are enough for me.
Loud Bold Brad
December 7, 2007
“Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right to life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.”
–Brad Pitt, founder of New Orleans’ Make It Right
Five early birds got the $…
November 29, 2007
…if not the house in yesterday’s Dream House Raffle Early Bird drawing (at which a total of $43,500 was awarded).
A $2.1 million CA Dream House will be awarded at the Grand Prize Drawing on February 9, 2008 (as will 349 other prizes ranging in value from $300 - $25,000). All proceeds raised will go to Community Action Marin.
Price of each raffle ticket (the ultimate adult stocking stuffer): $150.
