Not For Sale By David Batstone

by Elisa | Sep 11, 2011 | Create Awareness, Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Sex Trafficking, United States

Not For Sale by David Batstone is just one of those books. One of those books. It is the perfect coffee table book, sitting there alluringly in hopes that someone will ask you about it while you offer them some Not For Sale Rebbl to drink. Then you can freak them out...

Spreading Hope One Shoe at a Time

by Elisa | Sep 7, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Global Health, Good Charities, Spiritual Discipleship, Ways to Make a Difference

My name is Steph. I have passion to encourage women with practical principles for purposeful and powerful lives by knowing Jesus. I met my friend, Katie, when I spoke at a women’s retreat. We later found out that we lived one block away from each other. Katie has a...

Poverty vs. Indifference: An Advocate’s Hope

by Elisa | Aug 31, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Good Charities, Poverty, Spiritual Discipleship, Ways to Make a Difference

My name is Katie. I believe that I have experienced grace by knowing Jesus, trusting in Him as my ultimate hope. I am a nurse and a mom who loves the orphaned, abandoned, and those looked down upon in our society. These are some of my opinions, which I have been...

Hoops of Hope

by Elisa | Aug 25, 2011 | Global Health, Good Charities, Ways to Make a Difference

One of the things we like most at the Average Advocate is when we hear a great story of an average person who begins to care then act, even when they don't really know how to make a difference. This one kid, Austin Gutwein, at only age nine became one of these people....

The World Where Women Live: Dangerous Countries to be Female

by Elisa | Aug 21, 2011 | Human Trafficking, Poverty, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment

Are you a woman? Do you like women? I am making a wild guess that anyone who reads this would likely answer yes to at least one of these two questions in some way or another. I do wonder, though, how much we grasp about the plight of women. Of course, ya, we know...

Being an Advocate: What is our Responsibility to Help?

by Elisa | Aug 14, 2011 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Spiritual Discipleship

Today I was listening to a women talk about Hoops of Hope, a great organization which exists to give average people a practical way they can earn money to help orphans in Africa. It is a noble thing, really. And her plea to help droned like most pleas do. Everything...

Hunger Sucks: Understanding The Importance of Food in Developing Nations

by Elisa | Jul 21, 2011 | Good Charities, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Poverty, United States, Ways to Make a Difference

Today I took a woman out to coffee. This was actually the second time I went out the coffee that day, coffee and breakfast with my dad. In the morning we were musing about how we just can't give to everything, while considering the oh-so-horrible famine in the Horn of...

Sudan Splits: A Current Event

by Elisa | Jul 9, 2011 | Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Refugees and Immigration

The Current Event: Today, July 9th, 2011, has been a big day for some of those in North Africa. Today Sudan officially has divided into two different nations. After a long standing civil war between the mostly Islamic North and the Christian/Animistic South, this past...

Human Trafficking 101

by Elisa | Jun 15, 2011 | Human Trafficking, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States

What is human trafficking? Essentially, human trafficking is a fancy name for slavery. Of course, sometimes a slave might not perfectly fit into the legal category of a trafficked person, but most agree that a trafficked person is an enslaved person. Trafficking is...

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

Identity Crisis #3467 – My Messy Beautiful

The other day, my daughter was excitedly expressing her admiration of the teachers and helpers at her school. I usually resist the temptation to to ask my kids what they want to be when they grow up because at some point in my...

Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Mental Health, Recovery, Safe Spaces

What to Do With that Blasted Holy Discontent (I used to be a radical)

I used to be a radical. I used to be a radical–until I wasn’t. After high school, I...

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

June Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

Want to make doing good easier? Create awareness? Take advantage of the resources out there during the month through June’s themes and advocacy days. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we simply join in with what is already...