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How To Do a Sole Hope Shoe-Cutting Party

Posted by Elisa | Dec 8, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Children-in-Need, Global Health, Good Charities, Ways to Make a Difference |

Sole Hope is an organization whose goal is to give hope to widows, orphans and other children by...

AIDS/HIV 101: Why Should I Care?

Posted by Elisa | Dec 1, 2011 | Global Health |

Why should we care about AIDS? I was trying to figure out when I started caring about AIDS. I think I knew someone with AIDS briefly, as a kid, before he passed on. I definitely didn’t care about that person. But...

Art of Advocacy: Supporting the Causes of Others to be World Changers

Posted by Elisa | Nov 22, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Poverty, United States |

Moving Beyond Expectations When I talk about sports, I sound like an idiot. I choose teams based on the colors I like, unless I have some sort of vague attachment to a team, like through extended family. Or that I lived in...

Art of Advocacy: Being Thankful When I’ve Never Been Without

Posted by Elisa | Nov 15, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Poverty, United States |

The author of this guest post is Katie, who believes that she has experienced grace by knowing...

Inspiring: Breathing Life into Advocacy

Posted by Elisa | Nov 10, 2011 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Community, Spiritual Discipleship, United States |

Breathing Life into Advocacy I’ve been thinking about the word “inspired” a lot recently, in thanks to the people who voted this into the Average Advocate’s new tag phrase. According to Merriam-Webster, one of the definitions of...