The Ice Cream Flavor Where We Are Moving (and It is Not Milwaukee)

by Elisa | Apr 12, 2015 | Art of Advocacy, Family & Relationships, Stuff of the Heart, United States

A year ago, my husband received a call from an HR chick who had actually called him eight months earlier. It was about an opportunity in Milwaukee--yes, that frozen tundra--that had fallen off the radar. Very quickly, many seemingly perfect things fell into place and...

748 Million: World Water Day

by Elisa | Mar 22, 2015 | Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Create Awareness, Ways to Make a Difference

Start Counting Down The great thing about advocacy is that you can look back and see you have made a difference. The bad thing about advocacy is that your goal can only be achieved by working yourself out of a job. But, I think there are enough things to...

Community Living: How To Talk About Adoption/Fostering

by Elisa | Mar 8, 2015 | Art of Advocacy, Busy Moms, Children-in-Need, Community, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships

I recently read the post Six Comments about Adoption That Can Be Offensive focused on helping individuals recognize insensitivity when talking about adoption/fostering. Although I appreciated the intent of this post--highlighting what can be offensive--after I...

Five Steps to Take Part in the End It Movement

by Elisa | Feb 27, 2015 | Create Awareness, Human Trafficking, Ways to Make a Difference

Once a year, a bunch of people take a picture of a red "X" on their hand and share it with the world, declaring that we need to stop modern slavery as part of the End It Movement. A grassroots social movement to create awareness? Okay! It might be slactivism, but it...

How To Collect Bras For Free The Girls

by Elisa | Feb 19, 2015 | Create Awareness, Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment

This year as part of the Little Black Dress Project, I am excited to announce we are also collecting Bras for Free the Girls though the month of March! I am always fascinated by normal people coming up with great ideas that change the world, and Free the Girls...

How Becoming a Humanitarian Blogger Went Better Than Planned

by Elisa | Jan 30, 2015 | Art of Advocacy, Create Awareness, Stuff of the Heart, United States

Have you ever been challenged to take a step in life that scared you? Five years ago I decided to do something different. Although I had already been blogging since 2005, I felt like I should start a different type of website than I ever had before, one...

LBD Project 2015

by Elisa | Jan 29, 2015 | Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Sex Trafficking, Ways to Make a Difference

Little Black Dress Project March 2015 Update: Our Little Black Dress Project goal this year was raise a total of $5000 to help eradicate human trafficking and we surpassed it, fundraising over $7000 and collecting over 70 bras! By wearing the same...

Action Idea: Pass This Stand-Alone Sex Trafficking Law

by Elisa | Jan 21, 2015 | Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Good Charities, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, United States, Ways to Make a Difference

Today, with the Kids are Not For Sale Coalition, supporters all over Virginia are hoping to spread the word loud and clear: LET'S FINALLY PASS THIS! THERE ISN'T A STAND-ALONE SEX TRAFFICKING LAW IN VIRGINIA BUT WE NEED ONE! Okay, be honest. Did you know that?...

My Book Guru & With–Reimagining the Way I’ve Related To God (Part 1)

by Elisa | Jan 11, 2015 | Create Awareness, Spiritual Discipleship, Stuff of the Heart

Fousin, My Book Guru Some people offer book advice and and your subtle nod of 'yes,' is actually an emphatic, but polite, declaration that there is no way on God's green earth that is going to happen! Then there are the people who offer you books and you read them...

Adventure

Swamp Wisdom: An Ecclesiastes on Human Rights

Ever heard of ancient King Solomon? He was said to be the wisest of them all as he philosophized...

Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Raising Kids

Storm Chaser; Change Chaser: On Saying Goodbye

How Can Anyone Say Goodbye? I’m starting to feel all panicky that I am leaving all my...

Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Mental Health, Recovery, Safe Spaces

Understanding Terms for Poor Nations vs. Rich Nations

Terms of Poverty Whether in public political addresses or in pleas from non-profits, we have all heard some of these terms thrown around at some point or another. But just because we can infer their general meaning, I...

Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Giving Back, Socially Conscious Brands

The Honest Truth About Loving Deeper (Art of Advocacy)

Loving others seemed good and something to be defined by. Until it was loving the same small group...

Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Global Health, Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Poverty, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States

How Politics Pushed Me To Only Buy Ethically Sourced Clothes

It might be hard to believe, but it has been two years since our last presidential election....

Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking

How Stories Heal Us and Prevent Burnout for World Changers

Working through our own stories and triggers are essential as we make a difference if we want to be fully alive and prevent burnout. Check out this interview covering this.

Leadership

When Our Best Yes Meets Humble Service: When Should Changemakers Clean Toilets?

Often Changemakers find themselves doing the faithful background service of doing things like changing toilets. How to we balance our "best yes" with humility?

Spiritual Discipleship

When Our Best Yes Meets Humble Service: When Should Changemakers Clean Toilets?

Often Changemakers find themselves doing the faithful background service of doing things like changing toilets. How to we balance our "best yes" with humility?

Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Productivity

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