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Your Tweet Can Leverage A 10 Cent Donation to Care March 2-5th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first Tweet-a-thon took place in September, 2008. The dual purpose was to promote Comm's recently published book and to raise money for a ministry that provides clean water in Kenya. I support empowerment of women worldwide with this tweet. (See this white paper by Susan Mernit for a detailed case study.).

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This year, 2008, is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I am always a big believer in that.

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