making a difference! • my world • moms making a difference • moms making a difference
by Jamie Moesser on January 11th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
There are so many people out there in this world who are in need of awareness, support, and help — people who are abused, homeless, hungry…the list goes on and on. Thankfully, there are organizations out there to help. There are also people out there who are making a major difference. Heather Huffman is one of them.
She is a mother of three boys and newly-published writer of romantic suspense fiction from St. Louis, Missouri. She is …
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my world • bettering communities
by Jamie Moesser on April 29th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
…Warning: what you are about to read will either make your skin crawl or your eyebrows rise to impossible heights in disbelief. Here it is: slavery—the forcing of one or more humans by another for the purposes of forced labor, bonded labor, or forced prostitution—and human trafficking are alive and
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my world • Mom It Forward Mondays
by Jamie Moesser on January 24th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Week 13′s Season of of Service challenge, sponsored by Liquid Plumr…, is to serve others by repairing. Repairing things, whether they be leaky faucets or broken relationships, can be intimidating, but it’s worth it in the end. Life itself is more enjoyable when they’re fixed. Consider this week how
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my world • global causes
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on November 11th, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Did you know that human trafficking… is the third largest illegal industry after guns and drugs?
Think about your job. Imagine if you worked 15 to 16 hours a day. Every day. Now imagine if you didn’t have a choice. You were taken from your family. You were provided meager
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my world • global causes
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on March 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
When we started the #gno Twitter party in September of 2008, our goal was to change the world one mom at a time. We created the blog Mom It Forward and gathered weekly on Twitter in an effort to do just that. Our mission… was and still is threefold: to
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#gno information!
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on March 11th, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Monday, March 8 marked International Women’s Day. While not a formally recognized holiday in the US, events and conferences took place in many states as well as all over the world. Avon…, in an effort to end violence against women, made a grant of $1.5 Million to the
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giveaways!
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on March 11th, 2010 | 204 Comments »
…This week, I’m excited to announce that our giveaway not only benefits the winners, but when purchased, this week’s prize funds and supports programs to raise awareness for issues of domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual assault.
In 2008, Avon Products, Inc. and the Avon Foundation introduced the company’s first-ever
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my world • global causes
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on March 8th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
While at my in-laws for dinner tonight, I asked: “So, what’s everyone doing to support International Women’s Day (IWD) tomorrow?” My mother-in-law replied: “It’s a real holiday?”
She recently returned from 18 months in Ukraine. While there, she learned about IWD… when some locals asked her and my father-in-law what
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my world • giving organizations
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on March 2nd, 2010 | No Comments »
Many companies, organizations, and brands give back. But the one I am highlighting today is a company I have a particular fondness for—Avon, Inc.… I had the pleasure of getting up close and personal with Avon while working on a 2-year project with them a little over 10 years
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making a difference!
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on September 7th, 2009 | 6 Comments »
A Florida-based journalist turned abolitionist recently named in Huffington Post as one of the “Top 10 Women Warriors of Twitter” has launched “09-09-09” – a one-day Twitterthon initiative on September 9, 2009, to raise funds to fight child trafficking.
Diana Scimone, a veteran journalist who has chronicled the $9.5 billion-a-year…
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