Today is Blog Action Day on the web. And this year the focus is on poverty. The organizers' goals are to educate people about poverty and move them to action. Here are a couple of posts and ideas you might be interested in reading:First, I posted about poverty in Ulster County on our Unofficial Passions Blog and I posted to thank the people who work every day combating the effects of poverty on my company grant-writing blog, 79 Grant Writing Resources.
LifeHacker (my favorite place for "tips and downloads for getting things done") reminds us that other people can benefit from our old computers. We haven't mentioned our arrangement with John Foundas for some time. He refurbishes old computers and works with Arlene Bruck to get them to families of Kingston High School students.
Womenstake.org is a great blog that has a post today on The Shameful Link between Health and Wealth.
To check out more posts about poverty, you can visit the Blog Action Day website.
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Thanks for sharing information about the issue of poverty in your home counties, Ruth. You and AAUW are truly active in bringing about breaking through barriers for women and girls at the local, national, and global levels.
ReplyDeleteindeed. you're doing a very good thing. i wish you success.
ReplyDeletefor my part, i turn to sites like freerice (rice donation), kiva (microfinance), and goodsearch (donation per search), as ways to help alleviate poverty online. i also put up their banners on my blog. :)
saw this post via the front page of blog action day. it's great that you're participating. :)