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Jennifer James

Jennifer James is an early pioneer of the mom blogging movement and founder of Mom Bloggers for Social Good, a global coalition of mom bloggers who use social media and blogging to advance information to their networks about pressing global issues. In addition to writing for Babble, Jennifer also writes for the Gates Foundation blog, Impatient Optimists. In 2012, Jennifer was named a Fast Company Most Generous Social Media Maven.

Donate on the New Crowdfunding Site for Women and Girls

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Have you heard of Catapult? It’s a new crowdfunding web site where all dollars donated go specifically to programs that benefit women and girls; not to overhead or salaries, but to the specific programs you choose to donate to. I have been periodically giving to projects in Africa and Asia found on Catapult that accommodate MORE »

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Why I am In Ethiopia This Week

Why I am In Ethiopia This Week

Arriving in Addis Ababa On Sunday morning I left for a 13-hour transatlantic flight headed direct to Addis Ababa from Washington, DC on an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767.  As I type this post in a darkened airplane cabin we are crossing the Atlantic at 37,000 feet and are nearing Portugal and Spain to then head MORE »

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Shouldn’t the Whole Year be the Giving Season?

Shouldn’t the Whole Year be the Giving Season?

Around the end of every year the pace of giving quickens. Many want to do good for those who may be struggling during the holidays while others are making sure to get in their charitable giving before we ring in another calendar year. That leaves 10 months of the year when ample energy isn’t given MORE »

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Amplifying the Voices of Girls Who Have None

Amplifying the Voices of Girls Who Have None

Looking at my daughters always makes me think long and hard about how privileged they are to live in a society where they have a real fighting chance in this world. That’s certainly not to say we don’t have our own gender-based societal challenges here in the United States, but they are living a life MORE »

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Pushing to Reduce Maternal and Newborn Deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa

Pushing to Reduce Maternal and Newborn Deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa

According to the World Health Organization the vast majority of maternal deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. And 99% of maternal mortality occurs in developing nations.  In fact, 800 women die every day from maternal health complications like hemorrhage and infections. To work towards the reduction of maternal deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the Department of Social MORE »

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Quick and Simple Ways to Be a Part of World AIDS Day

Quick and Simple Ways to Be a Part of World AIDS Day

Tomorrow is World AIDS Day, the day where the global community honors those who have succumbed to AIDS and promises to work toward a greater future for those who are currently living with HIV/AIDS as well as take necessary steps to create an AIDS-free generation. UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, recently released MORE »

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Walking to Water

Walking to Water

I remember sitting in a breezy Luo hut in Kenya last summer while listening to a young expectant mother who, even though pregnant, had to walk five miles to get fresh water every day. At the very moment she told us how far fresh water was from her family’s compound I began to calculate how MORE »

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