Welcome to our Making a Difference section. Enjoy inspiring features on moms making a difference; tips to better your community; and ideas for giving back, volunteering, and serving others. This list spotlights our most popular posts, or scroll down for the most recent tips, ideas, and inspiration.
making a difference! • tips for giving back
Written by: Jill Greenlaw
Once a year, my community does a neighborhood service project. Our local church leaders find different families that may need extra help. They might be single mothers, widows, the elderly , or someone that is sick or unable to care for their yard on their own. Families are invited to gather together and serve one another by doing yard work. A list of service projects is compiled, and families are assigned to different projects and homes.
I look forward …
Anti-Bullying Ideas to Make Our Schools Safemaking a difference! • bettering communities
Making a Difference by Crowd Publishing: CausePubmaking a difference! • bettering communities
Griff Hanning had an idea, a wild idea.
Why not create a for-profit, crowd publishing company which gives writers the opportunity to create best-selling books and do serious good for others all at the same time? Enter CausePub…, short for Cause Publishing.
The idea behind CausePub is simple: Choose
Developing Imagination in Children Through Superheroesmaking a difference! • tips for giving back
Developing imagination is an important part of growing up. The superhero version of me when I was eight years old was a “Zoomer ” …with wings. Indeed, I once broke my arm imagining I was that very superhero and jumping off my front porch in roller skates. I am
Loving Hugs – Providing Stuffed Animals to Children Around the Worldmaking a difference! • bettering communities
One of the reasons I tend not to watch much of the news these days is that newscasts all seem to focus on negative or horrible stories. They rarely talk about the many good deeds that people are doing to make the world a better place. I love that Mom…
Billionaire Heiress: Doing Good is Good Businessmaking a difference! • moms making a difference
Imagine you’re a billionaire heiress. You’re the daughter of a well-known Israeli businessman who made his fortune building an internationally successful cruise line, and now you not only have a major stake in that cruise line, but also a large bank, and an infrastructure company. You are rich and busy…
Ashley Johnathan Clements: UN Worker in Myanmarmaking a difference! • tips for giving back
Want to make a difference while working towards a dream of photography? Take note from Ashley Jonathan Clements who has been doing just that in eastern Kachin state and showing the world through her blog….
This past February, Clements was a part of a convoy in eastern Kachin with
World Water Daymaking a difference! • bettering communities
Ever wonder where your clean drinking water comes from? Ever wonder what your life would be like if you didn’t have clean water? Many people around the world don’t have such a luxury. There are multiple water companies that help supply clean water to other countries.
In this upcoming year…
HIV/AIDS Awareness: Rock Your Red Pumps This Weekendmaking a difference! • bettering communities
When was the last time you had a meaningful excuse to dress up in those sexy red pumps hidden away in your closet…? Well it’s time to pull them out and throw them on in honor of women everywhere suffering from the life-changing illness of AIDS.
Leading ladies Karyn
Moms Making a Difference: Our Featured Moms from February 16 – 22:making a difference! • moms making a difference
Welcome to another installment of Mom of the Day. This week, we featured moms who are recovering perfectionists, grain-free and real food recipe users, fashion lovers, wine lovers, and adoption advocates. Give some extra love to our Moms of the Day on the Mom It Forward Facebook Page….
