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Telling Stories from Africa: Holly Pavlika Visits Tanzania With Shot@Life

Jennifer James wrote 1 week ago: Holly Pavlika, the President of MOMentum/Big Fuel and marketing to moms expert is in Tanzania this w … more →

Tags: Children, communicable disease, Blog, vaccines, Vaccines, Shot at Life

Africa Day Luncheon: Celebrate Africa & Combat Child Marriage!

unaassoc wrote 2 weeks ago: Africa Day is observed throughout the world on May 25th. The aim of this day is to celebrate the div … more →

Tags: Africa Day, Amanda Grant-Rose, Blessing Rogers, child marriage, GirlUP, GirlUp Campaign, International Center for Research on Women, :josephine, kulea

Vaccine Effectiveness - 1980 Through Today

Jennifer James wrote 4 weeks ago: In listening to a talk last week in Atlanta given by Dr. Jacob Kumaresan, the Executive Director, WH … more →

Tags: Children, communicable disease, Blog, vaccines, Measles, Polio, pneumonia, Vaccines, g.a.v.i.

Giving reaps benefits

Amy wrote 1 month ago: By AMY J. HAMILTON “A family of four can sleep under an insecticide-treated bed net, safe from … more →

Tags: Nothing But Nets, Nonprofit, harvard, The Oliver Gospel Mission, Beth N. Well, COLUMBIA, s! c, HBS Working Knowledge, ann curry

UN Foundation Taps into Online Moms for Global Vaccines

Charles Bentley wrote 1 month ago: Today (April 26) marks the launch of the United Nations Foundation’s Shot@Life campaign. Shot@Life i … more →

Tags: Global Health and Development, Campaign, Girl Up, Grassroots, Immunizations, Mobilization, mommy bloggers, Nothing But Nets, Online

Shot@Life: An Integrated Social Media Campaign for World Immunization Week

Debbie Hemley wrote 1 month ago: This week I wrote about the new shot@life social media campaign for world immunization week via the … more →

Tags: Social, #vaccinesweek, Shot@Life, Vaccines, World Immunization Week

Shot at Life

pkids wrote 1 month ago: Remember SARS? That virus popped up in China in 2003 and quickly coughed and sneezed its way to doze … more →

Tags: vaccines, Children, kids, Vaccination, Vaccines, Shot@Life

Teaching Philanthropy5 comments

growingmuses wrote 1 month ago: My oldest child turns six today. She’s a terrific kid. Perhaps one of her best attributes is t … more →

Tags: Education, Finances, teaching moments, Philanthropy, Shot@Life, fundraising with kids, Moonjar, childhood vaccinations, Crowdrise

What’s Your NET-Worth?1 comment

Charles Bentley wrote 1 month ago: Two weeks ago, I caught myself daydreaming. Okay, it happens a lot. But this particular time, the Po … more →

Tags: Global Health and Development, bed-nets, bednets, insecticide, malaria, Net Worth, Nothing But Nets, United Nations, World Malaria Day

The Cookstove Films Project by Rodney Rascona

Barona Productions wrote 1 month ago: INDIA, KENYA, GUATEMALA, PERU, … … Rodney, Russ, Scott, Chuck, Kendall, Phil, Michael, … more →

Tags: Rodney Rascona, rodney_rascona, PHOTOGRAPHY_PROJECTS, documentary_photography, international photographer, feature documentary, Mayan culture, Power

Event of the Day: Women’s Empowerment - The State of Affairs at the 101st International Women’s Day

todayindevelopment wrote 2 months ago: Photo Credit: International Women's Day 2012 When: Monday, March 12, 2012, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p … more →

Tags: Events, Gender, World Bank, International Women's Day, Society for International Development Washington D.C. C, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Vital Voices Global Partnership, women for women international, illiteracy

A Change the World Event During SxSW1 comment

David j Gilliam wrote 2 months ago: The weather guys say that if we get spring rains in Austin this year—can you imagine?—we could see s … more →

Tags: helping people, Imagine No Malaria, United Methodist Church

Clean Cookstoves: Dow Corning’s path to Public-Private Partnership1 comment

Laura Asiala wrote 3 months ago: Dow Corning entered into a Public-Private Partnership, at the invitation of the U.S. State Departmen … more →

Tags: clean cookstoves, Silicon, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, United Nations, Year of Sustainable Energy for All

Rascona's February Updates

Barona Productions wrote 3 months ago: Rascona is travelling the world. He is now in Guatemala for The Paradigm Project. Over a million hom … more →

Tags: Rodney Rascona, rodney_rascona, Photographer, PHOTOGRAPHY_PROJECTS, documentary_photography, international photographer, feature documentary, Commercial Photographer, Mayan culture

SOCIAL GOOD: Inside the Shot@Life Campaign, Part 26 comments

growingmuses wrote 3 months ago: (l to r) WMB editors Jennifer Burden, Nicole Melancon and Kyla P'an interviewing Shot@Life Exec … more →

Tags: INTERNATIONAL, USA, Kyla P'an, Humanity, World Mom's Blog, World Events, social good, Shot@Life, Jennifer Burden

SOCIAL GOOD: World Moms Blog Delegation to Washington, DC: Part I2 comments

growingmuses wrote 3 months ago: Here’s a terrific post written by World Moms Blog founder, Jennifer Burden, about our recent W … more →

Tags: writing, Global, Friendship, Jennifer Burden, World Mom's Blog, Shot@Life, meeting fellow bloggers, Nicole Melancon, Dee Harlow

New Partner Announcement - Girl Up1 comment

Jennifer James wrote 4 months ago: As the mom of two daughters, a pre-teen and teenager, I am thrilled to partner with Girl Up, an inno … more →

Tags: Children, Women and girls, Education, Blog, Updates, Girls, Women, Girl Up

Interviewing Peg Willingham, Shot at Life's Executive Director1 comment

Jennifer James wrote 4 months ago: Children in Kisumu, Kenya In many developing nations children are born with a distinct disadvantage: … more →

Tags: Children, communicable disease, non-communicable disease, Blog, Malaria/ Tuberculosis, Africa, Mozambique, Honduras, Measles

Being a World Mom9 comments

growingmuses wrote 4 months ago: I started blogging 15 months ago as a means to hone my writing skills, find my voice and to process … more →

Tags: Chinese American, multi-ethnic, Parenting, writing, Global, bi-racial, Friendship, Education, Blogging


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