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Op-ed Published on Alternet!
We just found out that my teenage pregnancy piece from a while ago got picked up by Alternet, and is titled, “Why is Teenage Pregnancy Still on the Rise?“
Similar to before, we can gain more exposure and increase our chance to do this kind of advocacy with a bit of your help. Alternet counts clicks, [...]
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Why is Teenage Pregnancy Increasing?
We celebrated the 50th anniversary of the pill recently. In a New York Times Op-ed on Sunday, April 25, titled, “Promises the Pill Could Never Keep,” Elaine Tyler May goes as far to say that, “women no longer need to choose between having a family and a career.” But can we say this for all [...]
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Op-Ed in SF Chronicle!
My piece from earlier this week got picked up by the SF Chronicle, and is titled, “Why did it take so long for a woman to win best director?“!
We can gain more exposure and increase our chance to do this kind of advocacy with a bit of your help. The Chronicle counts clicks, emails, shares, comments and [...]
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Why Support American Girls? Part I: The Oscars, Glass Ceilings, and Girls
Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. This is no doubt a great accomplishment. People are starting to say that Kathryn Bigelow has broken a glass ceiling for women. However, it is all too easy for people to believe discrimination no longer exists when one exceptional individual rises to [...]
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Setting the Stage for the Girl Effect at the World Economic Forum, 2010
As I mentioned earlier in this blog, “The Girl Effect,” or the idea that investing in girls internationally is the key to economic empowerment and social change, is really gaining momentum in international development talks and in the media, especially because of national best sellers like Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn’s “Half of the Sky”. [...]
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Fellowships Awarded
The Eva Foundation grants committee, headed by president Anne Krantz, awarded two fellowships this week; one to support a year of ballet study for a dedicated ballet student whose family is having really, really hard times, and one to help send a girl to a youth leadership conference on medicine back east. These both epitomize the [...]
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The “Love Test”
We had our quaterly Eva Foundation Board meeting on Monday. We talk business, programs, fundraising, all the usual things non-profit Boards talk about. Then we got into a discussion about our vision; with the change in our situation over the past year and a half, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about this topic. We [...]
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Remembrance
While the mission of the Eva Foundation is to serve girls, an indelible part of our purpose is remember Eva, to make her presence alive for us as well as the community at large. I’ve just finished reading an extraordinary memoir by David Horowitz, “A Cracking of the Heart,” about his daughter Sarah Horowitz, who [...]
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Hillary Clinton on Women and Girls
In a speech today about international development issues, Hillary Clinton specifically emphasizes the importance of investing in women and girls in Third World countries. What do you think? And how can we use these strategies to promote investing in girls in the US?
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