Spotlight folks and organizations big and small making positive differences
Rachel Micah-Jones interned for Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, and then worked on the Senate campaign of Oregon’s Ron Wyden, which stoked her interest in the law. While working in the Washington, D.C., public defender’s office, she saw that immigration laws ill-served her foreign-born clients. She began to think about combining her knowledge …
According widely published data, as well as Project Return’s website, the United States makes up only 5% of the world’s total population but 25% of the world’s prison population. The nonprofit describes incarceration as a growth industry in Tennessee, ranking 12th in the nation in terms of per capita incarceration – which they document grew …
Nashville Nonprofit Providing More Than Hope To The Formerly Incarcerated Read More »
The Washing Machine Project (TWMP) is a U/K.-based grassroots social enterprise. A social enterprise is a business that maximizes its primary purpose. In general, the goal is to maximize both profits and benefits to society and the environment. In the case of TWMP, they have honed in on a glaring underserved niche….. the fact that …
60% Of World’s Population Washes Laundry By Hand Read More »
Bear with me, this IS a feel good story. And, sometimes we just need a feel-good story. I fee like this is one of those days Recently I posted on the perils suffered by the U.S. wild horse population. This despite the 1971 law passed by Congress to protect them and their right to roam …
Hear me out. I know this may seem out of left field. Wild horses and burros were granted protection by Congress in 1971 deemed “living symbols of history.” With the 1971 Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burro Act, Congress outlawed, capture, branding, harassment or killing of wild horses and burros. And As a result, thinking …
As part of this blog’s “Women In the Spotlight” series we are featuring a duo, Vanessa Garrison and T. Morgan Dixon, Co-founders of the internationally impactful GirlTREK Black women’s health initiative. They are both, in their own right, dynamic change agents, entrepreneurs and sought after public speakers. Vanessa is a volunteer Advisory Board member of …
Women In The Spotlight
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Meymuna Hussein-Cattan is Founder and CEO of The Tiyya Foundation. She is a socially conscious motivational speaker, and an award-winning grassroots community organizer. Her recognitions and accolades include being selected as Woman Of the Year by Congressman Adam Schiff, receiving local honors from then Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti, and being named a Local …
For 18 years Centro de los Derechos del Migrantes, Inc. has been working for and advocating for justice for migrant workers. Rachel Micah-Jones interned for Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, and then worked on the Senate campaign of Oregon’s Ron Wyden, which stoked her interest in the law. While working in the Washington, …
According to the GirlTREK website the organization is “the largest health movement and nonprofit organization for Black women and girls in the United States.” Founders Vanessa Garrison and T. Morgan Dixon met in Los Angeles as college students in 1996. They say they bonded over 2PAC, Nikki Giovanni and their mutual inability to say no …
Modest Needs is a small but ambitious nonprofit, founded in 2002. It has a three-fold mission; ·Provide responsible effective short-term financial assistance to families and individuals in temporary crisis Lessen the burden on state and federal agencies to care for the truly indigent by stopping at-risk households from slipping into a cycle of poverty Promote compassion …
