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...study by the nonprofit Center for Women's Business Research, women are starting new businesses at twice the rate of men and own a 50% or greater stake in 10.6 million U.S. businesses. Organizations and websites have sprung up to serve the women behind these enterprises. Ladies Who Launch, an online, women's-only networking group, offers live workshops to its 25,000 members--40% of whom are moms. Authors Patricia Cobe and Ellen Parlapiano dispense advice and provide message boards on a website specifically directed at mompreneurs--a term they coined to describe moms running home businesses...
Technology and changing attitudes have made it easier to create home-based businesses, says Victoria Colligan, founder of Ladies Who Launch. "We can have our BlackBerrys and be waiting in line to pick up our child at school. We can respond to an e-mail at 2 a.m., and that's acceptable," she says. "You're taken seriously now if you have a work-from-home business...
After a recent ten-year hiatus, Laursen helped re-launch and edit the journal, which came out again last December...
Every other Monday, the organization puts ties on 30 black men, giving respectability a visible black face. Every spring, members mobilize young men on campus to stand out against rape. This weekend, the BMF will launch a summit on the international AIDS epidemic with a panel discussion to which they’ve invited students from over 40 other schools. In the last year, the BMF has co-sponsored events with 20 other campus organizations and has become a strong voice in UC politics...
...Darfur remains the foremost ranking humanitarian crisis on the UN “watchlist,” the new buzzword amongst activists is the Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF), launched on Thursday. April 7 by Swarthmore college students, Mark Hanis and Andrew Sniderman. The premise behind GIF is that AU forces on the ground in Darfur should be provided with funds to cover their non-lethal weapon needs. At a conference organized in February by the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, the Swathmore undergrads sold their idea to students from 92 colleges around the country, who reviewed and reworked this...