I will be the first to admit that I won't be strutting down a catwalk anytime soon. This body of mine, while huggable and sometimes strong, isn't model material. I know and accept this as a universal truth, much like I acknowledge that the sun rises in the east, and Charlize Theron is an alien… Continue reading Vanity, thy name is …
Month: March 2012
21st PPC is in the books!
What a whirlwind week it has been. I was honored to take part in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Public Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., these past few days. Activists from around the country met for two days of rigorous training and discussions, and then the society let us loose on the Hill to talk… Continue reading 21st PPC is in the books!
People power
You ask any organization what its biggest resource is, and the obvious answer will be people. Not just staff, although they are the lynchpins to a nonprofit's cause, but volunteers. How to educate, motivate and mobilize those volunteers takes a Herculean effort. Some would say it's Sisyphean. But I'm not listening to those naysayers. Maybe… Continue reading People power
One, Wild & Precious 