Giving Back

My Favorite Ways to Give Back

May 3, 2012
Priorities for Giving Back | Ciao Mom

As I prepare to head off to Mom 2.0, I have been thinking a lot about the use of my voice and the causes and efforts that mean the most to me. The truth is that there are SO many causes out there, campaigns for social good, that deserve our attention. But we cannot do [...]

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Every Child Deserves a Shot@Self Sufficiency

April 23, 2012
Every Child Deserves a Shot at Self Sufficiency | Ciao Mom

Self sufficiency. Sustainability. Two ideas that over the last four months have become ingrained in my every thought. As an educator, I always knew that my teaching was not about the immediate learning, but more about fostering independent and critical thinking in my students.  As a mom I have always recognized that the best I [...]

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Getting Ready for Prom Season

March 16, 2012
Getting-Ready-for-Prom-with-Macy

I don’t know about you, but I have very distinct memories of getting ready for my senior prom. Scouring magazines like Seventeen to find ideas for a dress, making hair appointments, deciding where we would all go to dinner and whose house we would go to to take group pictures.  Imagining what it would be [...]

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Giving Back with Members Unite

March 6, 2012
Gving Back with Members Unite | Ciao Mom

Giving back to the community and to the world around us is a topic often discussed in our house. It is something I believe in and have wanted to instill in Principessa, hoping that she internalizes the importance of helping others. We have made giving back part of our Hanukkah tradition, and part of our [...]

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Working Towards Self Sufficiency in Haiti

January 31, 2012
Seeing progress at work at J/P HRO | Ciao Mom

“How was your trip? Was it so hard? Was it sad?” The amount of times that I have been asked this question upon my return from Haiti are too many to count. I understand the question. I understand the reason for the question.  We see images in the media all the time depicting the tragedy [...]

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Be Enough Me: Building Capacity

January 23, 2012
Building capacity in Haiti | ciao mom

As day two of our Bloggers4Haiti trip comes to an end, I am still processing much of what we have seen, learned, and felt since touching down in Port au Prince. But my gut knows something about this place, this magical country, whose story can be told through the smiles, the expressions, the crowds on [...]

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Celebrating Heart of Haiti

December 6, 2011
Heart of Haiti Event in DC | Ciao Mom

Last week I had the honor and joy to attend an event in Washington DC that made my heart sing.  It made my heart sing because not because I was getting out on the town, but because I was going to celebrate and support a cause and effort that I hold very close to my [...]

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Heart of Haiti

January 11, 2011

2011-01-11 One year ago, life changed in Haiti.  A 7.0 magnitude  earthquake struck forever changing the landscape and lives of the people who lived on this Caribbean island. Over 230,000 lives had been taken, 300,000 injured, and 1,000,000 left homeless.  What was left made it virtually impossible to sustain a livelihood and that is where [...]

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