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The One Thing Politicians Can Agree on

Michael Zacka | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Healthy Living News, Cell Phones, Food News, Motherhood, Children, Texting, Emotional Wellness, Parenting, Screen Time, Health, Work Life Balance, Parents-Parent-Coach, Impact News, United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development, Parent Coach, Computers, International Day of Families, Elections 2012 . Global Motherhood, Family Dinners, Unplugging, Parents News, Politics News
Michael Zacka

The magic that happens over shared meals can help preserve the American family, strengthen all of its members and enrich their lives. I'm sure America's Republicans and Democrats both agree that more families should be sitting together at dinner.

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WATCH: Ricki Lake's 'More Business Of Being Born'

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Ricki Lake, More Business of Being Born, Birth, Birth Stories, Impact News, Celebrities More Business of Being Born, Global Motherhood, Explore Your Options, Ricki Lake More Business of Being Born, Livestream, Parents News

After the groundbreaking success of her 2008 film "The Business Of Being Born," Ricki Lake is continuing her exploration of the birthing process with ...

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A Mother's Day Tribute For Women In Need

Twesigye Jackson Kaguri | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Corporate Philanthropy, Women, Impact-News, AIDs Epidemic, Africa, Bblog-Globalmotherhood, Microfinance, Aids Crisis, Global Motherhood, Mother's Day, Religion News
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri

Happy Mother's Day to every mother on this planet. We acknowledge your sacrifice, your hardships and your undying love. We only hope that we can give back a fraction of what you have given to us.

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A Prosecutor Sets His Sights On the Johns

Kevin M. Ryan | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: New York Crime, Covenant House, Crime, Sex Trafficking, Impact News, Manhattan District Attorney, New York City, Cyrus Vance Jr., Human Trafficking, Impact News
Kevin M. Ryan

This is one of the few high profile cases across the country in which the johns as well as the traffickers have been indicted, and I applaud the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., for his leadership.

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Mainstreaming Social Innovation With the Public Sector

Ben Hecht | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Social Innovation, Financial Empowerment, Social Entrepreneurship, New York Stock Exchange, Impact News, Impact News
Ben Hecht

When we refer to social innovation, what we really mean is innovation sponsored by the social sector ("social sector innovation"). We're talking about nonprofits created to fill gaps in a terribly broken system.

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Invisible Wounds: First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden Announce Nursing Initiative to Care for Veterans With PTSD

Charles Howard | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Department of Veterans Affairs, Michelle Obama First Lady, Michelle Obama, Mental Health, Veterans PTSD, Veterans Affairs, Impact News, Nurses, Joining Forces, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Military, Jill Biden, University of Pennsylvania, School of Rock, Ptsd, Health Care, Impact News
Charles Howard

While every member of the health care team needs to be attuned to the possibility of PTSD and TBI, nurses must be particularly prepared to serve our military and their families with expert clinical care and innovative research on these most serious disorders.

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Fourth Graders Change the Way School District Handles Unused Food

Josue Barrios | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Impact News, Los Angeles Impact, Cudahy City Council, Ricardo Lara, Cudahy City, Community Action Award, Good News, Escalante Elementary School in Cudahy, Women of Distinction Awards, La Impact, La-Education, Los Angeles News
Josue Barrios

Two young ladies at Jaime Escalante Elementary School in Cudahy have changed the way a school district looks at unused food. Children need to know they can make a difference. Leadership, like compassion and kindness, transcends age and gender.

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Inventing a New Future: Beyond Our Humpty Dumpty World

Pamela Hartigan | Posted 03.31.2012

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Pamela Hartigan

When one is surrounded by men and women with a "can do" attitude, an infectious energy, and an ability to see opportunities for innovation and transformation at every turn, it is pretty hard to be gloomy about the state of the world.

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Would You Work Out in A Sports Bra in Public?

Jenny Gaither | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Womens-Body-Issues, Sports Bra, Seak-Foundation, Impact News, Womens-Body-Image, Womens-Exercise, Sports-Bra-Challenge, Women News
Jenny Gaither

"Excuse me, Miss? if I asked you to participate in a fitness class right now, in broad daylight, in the middle of Union Square Park in a sports bra, would you do it?"

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Understanding the Response to Kony 2012: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Derek Flood | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Lord's Resistance Army, Kony 2012, Impact News, Joseph Kony, Invisible Children, LRA Uganda Kony, Video, Impact News
Derek Flood

The video itself, and its unprecedented viral spread, is breaking new ground for the power of social media to effect social and political change, and has sparked an international conversation -- both around the atrocities of the LRA, and of the video itself.

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Why I'm In Favor Of 'Homeless Hotspots'

Mark Horvath | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: South by Southwest, Street Papers, Bbh, Video, Homeless Hotspots, Homelessness, Mark Horvath, Impact News, SXSW 2012, Bbh Marketing, invisiblepeople.tv, Homeless, Homeless-Hotspots, Invisible People, Sxsw, Bbh Labs, Impact News
Mark Horvath

We've all been panhandled by a homeless person on street begging for money. I bet every one of you reading this has even been aggressively panhand...

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The American Promise: The Right to Vote

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Marc Morial, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Impact News, John Lewis, Civil Rights, Rev. Hosea Williams, Voting Rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Montgomery, Politics, National Urban League, Alabama, Human Rights, Selma, Presidential Campaign, Edmund Pettus Bridge, President Lyndon Johnson, Bloody Sunday, Impact, Voting, Black Voices, Voting Information, Elections 2012, Election, Elections, 2012 Election, Election 2012, Voter Suppression, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Right now many states are attempting to put new voting restrictions in place that parallel all the old tricks and turn back the clock on civil rights to the days when voting was used as a tool for political control and exclusion.

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International Women's Day In The Participation Age

Premal Shah | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Kiva.org, Small Business, Microfinance, International Women's Day, Impact News, Kiva, Microlending, Women News
Premal Shah

"A rising tide of women in an economy raises the fortunes of all families and all nations ... we don't have a person to waste and we certainly don't have a gender to waste."

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'Fighting For A World Where Girls Are Not for Sale'

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Rachel Lloyd, Unicef, Race and Class, Stockholm Syndrome, Sexual Exploitation, Girls Like US, Human Trafficking, Impact, Lawrence Taylor, New York City, Ptsd, Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Impact News, Elizabeth Smart, Pimp, Gems, Trauma Bond, Anti-Trafficking Activism, Children, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

The first time I heard Rachel Lloyd speak was in 2005, the year of the 70th Annual Academy Awards. "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" had won for the b...

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Iron Ladies of Peace

Andrée Simon | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize, Impact News, Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Impact News
Andrée Simon

History was made in Oslo on Saturday, when the eyes of the world watched as three great women received the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. These women -- Pres...

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Protecting Indigenous Cultures From Unwanted Global Development

Nina Wegner | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Amazon Rainforest, Peru, Impact News, Activism, Mashco-Piro, Uncontacted Tribe, Impact News
Nina Wegner

A recent image of the Mashco Piro in Peru. (© D.Cortijo/www.uncontactedtribes.org) When development encroaches onto native lands where it is not we...

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'Vagina Monologues' Writer On Continuing To Fight Violence Against Women

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, Susan G. Komen, Planned Parenthood, Feminism, V-Day, Military Sexual Assault, Impact News, Activism, Elvire Eugene, Eve Ensler, Corrective Rape, Violence Against Women, One Billion Rising, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

Playwright, activist, and feminist Eve Ensler has revitalized the terrain with her announcement on February 14 of the ONE BILLION WOMEN initiative. The goal is to have one billion women and men demonstrate their demand to end global violence against women.

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How America Can Profit From the 'Asian Century'

Stephen P. Groff | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Poverty, Developing Countries, International Development, Impact News, Economic Development, Free Trade, Asia, Global Poverty, Development, Impact, Global Economic Crisis, World News
Stephen P. Groff

Many have dubbed this the 'Asian Century' with Asia's robust economies leading us to believe that all is well in a region that has generated some of the fastest growth and poverty reduction in history.

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Effective Service Delivery: Accompaniment

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Global Health, Global Motherhood, Partners in Health, Impact News, Haiti, HIV/AIDS, Haiti Health Care, Impact News
Christy Turlington Burns

For those of you who have heard of Paul Farmer, you can probably imagine him in this scene: he is trudging for miles to visit patients in their homes as they struggle to fight their own health battles.

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Changing Lives in Guatemala -- Including Our Own

Keith Ferrazzi | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Orphanage, Philanthropy, Guatemala, Developing World, Charity, Impact News, Third World, Service, Charitable Giving, Good News News
Keith Ferrazzi

I am feeling more committed than ever to weaving volunteerism and service into corporate America's culture. As in all real relationships, the benefits are mutual -- we receive as much or more than we give.

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Outflows, Not Aid, Must Be Curtailed to Fight Poverty

Raymond Baker | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Corruption, Transparency, Politics News, Foreign Aid, Global Development, Poverty, Impact News, International Development, Global Financial Integrity, Global Poverty, Illicit Financial Flows, World News
Raymond Baker

A shadow financial system consisting of tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions and anonymous corporate vehicles makes it easy for corrupt dictators, terrorists, drug traffickers and tax evaders to quietly shepherd their funds out of the developing world and around the planet without notice.

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Rescued Dog Saves Owner's Life

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Indianapolis Humane Society, Dogs of Valor, Video, Indianapolis, Dog Saves Owner's Life, Heroes, Impact News, Hero Dogs, John Green's Life Saved by Dog, John Green, Impact News

A dog who was rescued from an animal shelter has returned her owner's gesture by helping the man survive a heart attack, Fox 59 News Indianapolis repo...

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Family Builds Orphanage To Honor Lynn Student Killed In Quake

AP | By TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Lynn University, Video, Be-Like-Brit-Orphange, Haiti Earthquake, Family Builds Orphanage for Britney Gengel, Britney Gengel Orphanage, Missing Lynn University Students, Impact News, Haiti, Britney Gengel, Britney Gengel Haiti, Be Like Brit, Haiti Orphans, Miami News

GRAND GOAVE, Haiti -- Three hours before Britney Gengel died in the massive earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands in Haiti two years ago, she s...

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How Film and Philanthropy Work Together

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Impact Partners, Dan Cogan, Philanthropy, Impact News, Ethical Impact, Activism, Sandi DuBowski, Naomi Levine, Impact, Kickstarter, DOC NYC, Documentary Films, Social Action Philanthropy, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

The DOC NYC Festival featured a panel examining the intersection between documentary filmmaking and philanthropy.

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The Vetri Foundation for Children: A Vision for Healthy Eating and Healthy Living

Charles Howard | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Healthy Eating, Food News, Healthy Living, Marc Vetri, School Health, Children, Impact News, Restaurants, Cafeteria, Philadelphia, Impact News
Charles Howard

Chef Marc Vetri's vision of having every school cafeteria serving family style lunches may be some years away, but at least he has a vision. That vision is slowly coming to fruition, one family meal and one school at a time.

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