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Pick up the Sunday NYT Magazine: It's All About Empowering, Funding & Educating Women

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I also celebrated my 40th birthday by setting up a Birthday Wish using the Causes application on Facebook, and raised $580 for Women for Women International with my Facebook pals. Why am I so focused on this organization? To change the planet by helping women and children." I also make loans to women entrepreneurs using Kiva.org.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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In celebration of Women's History Month, we wanted to share some of these sheroic tales and introduce you to young women who are carrying the torch forward today. She's celebrated for "making films by women and about women," which featured females stars of the era, including Joan Crawford, Lucille Ball, and Clara Bow. Dorothy Arzner.

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In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl

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She traveled over 100,000 miles and interviewed 12 women activists who are working on solutions to everything from sex trafficking, to global warming, to AIDS. Glamour and powerHouseBooks have produced a collection of Pearl's interviews in, In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl , which includes a Foreword by Angelina Jolie.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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