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Unemployment: How One Mom Is Using Social Media to Better Her Community

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When you think about it, there is so much need out there—in our communities, our states, our country, and our world. There is hunger, poverty, illiteracy and lack of education, natural disaster recovery...the list goes on and on. If you think about it with a "glass-half-full" attitude, that means…

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Little Stinker: Kathy Dalton Makes a Difference With Diapers

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Baby Care—If you've lived long enough, you've had at least one of those moments, those epiphanic instances when a particular need or thought strikes you with mind-bending force. For a woman named Kathy Dalton, it was when she heard a woman talk about having to wrap her own baby…

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Premature Births: Heather and Mike Spohr are Making a Difference Through Music

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Premature Births—If you visit this iTunes link, you'll hear a sweet, folksy love song sung by a young man, Mike Spohr, to his soon-to-be-bride Heather. You'll see, however, that the cover art for the song is not a picture of a cute little couple but one of a…

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Domestic Violence: Maggie Ginsberg-Schutz Unsilences the Silenced

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Domestic Violence—Say you're a journalist and a mom. Say you get an assignment to write a piece about domestic violence survivors. Say you delve into this assignment with your usual professional zeal, not ever having experienced abuse yourself but anxious to share the real-life stories of actual survivors.…

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Support Groups: Heather Fortune Helps Moms With the Mommies Network

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Supporting Moms—If there's only thing that we at Mom It Forward wish our readers knew, it is the power of their roles as mothers. In inverse proportion to its thanklessness, it is a role that is ultimately more important than any other because it involves the careful shaping of…

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Angela Ishmael: Blogger, Mother, and Ambassador

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Make a Difference—Meet Angela Ishmael. She is a blogger, a brand new mom, and an ambassador to Africa. She came into each of those things in somewhat indirect ways, but they are each direct outgrowths of the family values she and her husband decided to embrace when they…

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