Author Maria Spence, owner of The Pink Edge and partner of Women for Women International, seeks to empower women in career change and career enjoyment. Maria’s new book, Make Every Day a Friday! features a stress-free career change system that gently guides women to connect who they are to what they do. The book is full of stories, exercises, and short chapters, and will help you learn to thrive in a job, whether or not you leave it behind.
In celebration of the 200 million member mark on Facebook, they’ve created virtual gifts to support global charities and advocacy groups. Women for Women International is one of 16 charities selected to participate!
Show your support by purchasing a Women for Women International gift and sending it to a friend or family member today!
We are very excited and encourage you to spread the word! You can find the gift by clicking on this link and selecting the purple woven basket or the blue and orange one: http://www.facebook.com/giftshop.php?&ref=sb
Here are some things you can do:
- Update your status on your Facebook Page
- Post your gift as photos to your Page
- Add a message in your email signature
- Send the link to your friends!
These gifts are only available for a limited time so get the word out there quickly!
The Pajama Party is committed to strengthening the bonds of sisterhood. The Pajama Party provides the Ultimate Girlfriend Weekend Getaway – a weekend of pampering with world class services and amenities, outstanding cuisine, and unsurpassed comfort. The Ultimate Girlfriend Weekend Getaway is a time to rejuvenate, reconnect and relive all that is wonderful. It’s a girl’s getaway without responsibilities, a special and unique time devoted to YOU and strengthening the bonds of female friendships.
The Pajama Party is also committed to strengthening sisterhood by its continued involvement and support for Women for Women International. At the most recent Pajama Party in Jasper, Alberta, women raised over $1200 to support Women for Women International’s programs! Their donations will help provide the women we serve with the tools they need to re-build their families, communities, and ultimately, their nations. Thank you to Helene Ossen and participants of The Pajama Party for your involvement and support for women survivors of war.
Women from all over come to enjoy the friendship and sisterhood The Pajama Party provides, sharing wisdom, stories, secrets, support and laughter with each other – as only women can. To learn more, visit their website at http://www.thepajamaparty.info/
The Women Masters is holding a FREE tele-seminar series to support women across the world and Women for Women International. The Women Masters Tele-Seminar Series will feature an incredible line-up of women experts shedding light on female power and genius. The inspiring speakers are dedicated toward helping women realize their strength and use it to empower themselves in this time of change.
The Women Masters Tele-Seminar Series is a free weekly twelve-call virtual seminar accessible by phone on Thursdays, noon – 1 p.m. PST/ 3 – 4 p.m. EST beginning March 19th. You may attend as many or as few calls as you’d like, and you may register even after the series begins. The Women Masters want all people to have the opportunity to attend—so whether you attend one call or all twelve—don’t miss out on this opportunity!
The series will feature inspiring speakers such as SARK, Marci Shimoff, and Chellie Campbell. The Women Masters hope to motivate women to wake-up and step into their power and genius.
The Women Masters will donate 10% of the profits from ancillary recording packages to Women for Women International and Girls Inc. Join The Women Masters for an inspiring and insightful tele-seminar series and realize your own strength and ability to stimulate change.
Women for Women International has partnered with the RAISE Hope for Congo campaign to kick off the Congo Challenge, a three month program that will work with activists to expand the movement for Congo and familiarize them with the many ways that one can be an advocate for Congo. The Challenge will take place from March through May 2009, and each month will focus on a particular avenue for activism: RAISE Awareness, RAISE Your Voice, and RAISE the Profile. Participants will be given a menu of actions that they can take each month, which will be supplemented with backgrounders, training guides, conference calls, videos and activist profiles.
You can share what you’re doing to take action and make an impact by posting thoughts, photos, and video on the in the Congo Challenge Forum and inspire others to get involved!
If you’re looking for another way to raise awareness and sponsorships for Congolese women, join Women for Women International in theRun for Congo Women. Run for Congo Women was created as a grassroots movement to send a message of hope and dignity to women living through this conflict.Runs will be held all throughout the country in 2009, click here to learn how to get started.
Selected pieces handcrafted by designer Eileen Baumeister McIntyre
All jewelry in the Garden of SilverCollection is handcrafted by artist/designer Eileen Baumeister McIntyre, making every piece unique.
Each one-of-a-kind piece celebrates the alluring qualities of art glass accented with semiprecious gems, pearls, Murano glass and sterling silver.
During the month of March, 25% of all jewelry purchases made online at http://www.gardenofsilver.etsy.com will be donated to Women for Women International in celebration of International Women’s Day.
Explore other Get Involved! blog entries to see what other supporters are doing across the World to support Women for Women International and International Women’s Day.
Show your support by adding the Women for Women International theme to your iGoogle home page. Add our theme to your iGoogle home page now!
Google has launched a Women for Women International “theme” on iGoogle as part of a collection called “Themes for Causes.” Women for Women International is one of a select group of nonprofit causes which includes an iGoogle header of photographs showcasing Women for Women International programs.
Today, we visited the Google campus in Mountain View, CA with Christine Karumba, Country Director for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ngozi Eze, Country Director for Nigeria. We couldn’t take pictures in the buildings but grabbed this quick one by the sign.
Google sponsors talks like this often and makes the recordings available on YouTube. As soon as the recording is posted, we’ll make it available on our web site. In the meantime, I wanted you all the know about the kinds of questions Googlers had for Christine and Ngozi and the cool work that we do together already. Ngozi and Christine both talked about the Men’s Leadership training courses that we offer in Nigeria and now the DRC and they were asked how men are enrolled for that program and what level of interest communities had in it given the state of women’s issues in their locations. Ngozi told us about how she worked with local government and community leaders and asked them who they wanted to attend their training. In this way, she had support of local leadership and the men who were chosen had some distinction in being asked as well.
Josh Mendelsohn, our host at Google, asked about how well we do or don’t work with the governments local and national where we work. This gave Christine an opportunity to talk about the work her offices are doing with the Women’s Affairs Council of the government in the DRC. She has worked hard to establish Women for Women’s leadership role in the country so that the government may look to us as a resource. Ngozi talked about working at a very local level in each of the communities we work in and how the local support is key to bringing us into a community. We also talked about how important having local leadership of our programs is to Women for Women International’s credibility on the ground and with the governments.
Tanya Keen, a sponsor who works at Google Earth was there so we got a chance to thank her in person for the Google Earth layer she created for Women for Women International. Look for more later when the video is posted.
When writing your holiday gift list – keep it green. Olive Smart is committed to providing you with environmentally conscious, quality products and they donate 20% of your purchase to Women for Women International! The Olive Smart Sack holds six big bags that will help you to eliminate your use of plastic bags entirely. The bags fold nicely into the Sack that fits perfectly in the cup holder of your car or slides easily into any bag. Pick one up for yourself too and use them to carry all your other holiday packages! Check out their simple convenient bags here and not only do the environment a favor but support women survivors of war.
Because of the outpouring of support, Women for Women International was chosen as one of the Top 25 in the American Express Members Project out of nearly 1,200 projects!
Women for Women International’s Help Women and Children Survivors of War Rebuild project is now in the running to receive part of $2.5 million in grants. The Winning Project will receive $1.5 Million in funding, the 2nd Place Project: $500,000; the 3rd Place Project: $300,000; and the remaining two Finalist Projects will receive $100,000 each. As I write to you, we are currently ranked #5!
This funding could be life changing. It could mean the chance to enroll the women who still wait in long lines in the DR Congo… the chance to expand our farming initiatives beyond Rwanda and Sudan so more women learn to earn a living… or the chance to give more women access to microcredit loans to start their own business.
Here’s how you can help:
1/ VOTE!Your help between now and September 29, will catapult us into the Top 5 Finalists.
American Express card members can click here to vote:
3/ POST A FLYER AT YOUR WORK, SCHOOL, GYM OR CHURCH!Download here!
3/ ADD OUR BANNER TO YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA SITE – FACEBOOK, MYSPACE, ETC. Spread the word to your friends about our project. Visit our site to upload banner today!
Posted by Jen Morabito 
Posted by Jen Morabito 
Posted by Jen Morabito 
