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Midterms mean high stakes for women voters
By Krystal Ball For many voters and political observers, the big question in the 2014 midterm election is which party will end up in control of the U.S.…
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Hold a Clothing Drive to Support Dress for Success
Donation drives are coordinated campaigns to collect business-appropriate attire for Dress for Success. If your office, professional organization, child’s school, place of worship or other…
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The Way to Fight Breast Cancer Is With a Vaccine — Not Another Pink Product
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But there is more to fighting breast cancer than selling pink products or wearing pink. Fran Visco, President of…
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Choosing to Have a Child
Two years ago, Martha Alanoca and her husband were trying unsuccessfully to start a family. In Bolivia, where Martha lives, the prohibitively high cost of…
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How Goodwill Helped Cherise Get Out of the Welfare to Work Program & Become Self-sufficient
Goodwill helped me get out of the Welfare to Work program and become self-sufficient by helping me train and providing the tools needed to apply…
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Why a Beauty Salon in Guyana is an Excellent Place for Sex Education
If you go to Michelle’s beauty salon in Georgetown, Guyana, you might leave with more than a new hairstyle. Inside the small shop, the walls…
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A Gender Lens For Giving: Women In Philanthropy Urged To Invest More In Women And Girls
By Tom Watson Women in philanthropy can – and should – commit far greater resources to advancing the cause of women and girls in the…
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New Report Recommends Classifying Cancer by Genetic and Molecular Type
(August 21, 2014) A research network in the US proposes that cancer should be classified according to genetic and molecular features rather than by the…
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SPLC Intelligence Report: Deadly Spring of Radical-Right Violence Examined
Extremists from various segments of the radical right lashed out this spring with three murder sprees that left a dozen victims dead – mass murders…
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What it’s Like to Work in Mississippi’s Only Abortion Clinic
By Sarah Kliff There are three doctors who terminate pregnancies at Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, a bright pink building in Jackson. Two keep their identities…
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Nurses’ visits curb deaths among poor, single women and their children
By Lenny Bernstein A program that provides poor, single, first-time mothers with intensive support from visiting nurses reduced death rates among both the women and their children,…
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Yoga For a Cure to Breast Cancer
On February 13, 2014, Maggie DiNome, MD, Director of the newly developed High-Risk Clinic at the Cancer Prevention Clinic at the Margie Petersen Breast Center…
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