Women for Women Members Project's Weblog

One Day Left to Vote

wfwmembersproject — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:32:22 +0000

We’re down to the last day of voting in the Members Project and things are so close that every vote counts now. So, if you have a friends or co-worker who have an American Express card and haven’t heard yet, please let them know Monday and tell them how much difference they could make for women survivors of war.

http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/AM0MV5

Your votes are needed to have a chance at the Top 5 and sharing in $2.5 million in grants.

Thanks for all your support in this campaign.

Message from Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO Women for Women International

wfwmembersproject — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:12:48 +0000

Dear Friends,

It’s not often we have a chance like this.

The Members Project we submitted, Help Women and Children Survivors of War Rebuild, is currently ranked #6 out of 25 Projects — less than 1,000 votes away from being eligible for funding of $100,000 to $1.5 million.

I would like to ask each of you to vote for Women for Women International and for you to tell as many people as you can this week.

Why vote? If we are in the Top 5 projects by Monday, Sept 29, we have a chance at $1.5 million from American Express to help thousands upon thousands of women survivors of wars:

• Rebuild their lives
• Send their kids to school
• Start a business to earn their income
• and most importantly build a support network among other women – who together learn about their rights and together make a difference.

Please vote at www.womenforwomen.org/membersproject

If you have voted (thank you!) or if you don’t have a card, the Amex site has suggestions on how to spread the word too.

I’ve seen firsthand what a small investment of these skills and our support can do and I get chills when I think about the impact $1.5 million can have. It could literally ignite the global women’s movement we are so proud to play a part in today.

Gratefully,

Zainab

Corporate Cards are OK for Voting

wfwmembersproject — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:00:08 +0000

Today I received a question about whether corprate American Express cards are okay for use in the Members Project and the answer is yes!

So tell your co-workers who have a corporate American Express card they can vote too.

The link to share is: www.womenforwomen.org/membersproject

It’s totally free and takes just a minute to click the Vote for this Project button.

How easy can it be to change the world today?

Thanks for all of your incredible support,

Trish at Women for Women International

Press Release for Members Project Today

wfwmembersproject — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:32:30 +0000

http://www.prweb.com/releases/Members-Project/Help-Women-Children/prweb1376124.htm

Here’s an idea for the day. If you have a local paper or radio station, you can forward this press release to them.

Bloggers – please consider posting the press release and in particular the URL for the project to your blog.

www.womenforwomen.org/membersproject

or cut and paste: Help Women and Children Survivors of War Rebuild

It’s 6 days and counting to reach the Top 5.

Thanks for all your support to keep the project and the women in the running.

The impact of $1.5 million

wfwmembersproject — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:15:39 +0000

Friends,

It’s September 19th and I was struck today when I thought about the impact that being a Top 5 Members Project could have for the women we serve. More than 4,000 women could enroll in our year-long program. That’s larger than our whole program in most of the countries where we work.

So if you have another 5 friends you could email today to share our project “Help Women and Children Survivors of War Rebuild” , you can send it knowing what a tangible impact we can have together.

Zainab Salbi on Members Project

wfwmembersproject — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:24:49 +0000

Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO

wfwmembersproject — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:53:24 +0000

Friday we had the chance to quickly interview Zainab Salbi, our Founder and CEO about the Members Project. She is thrilled we’re in the top 25 and feels strongly that it’s because of the grassroots connection with make with our supporters as well as the women we serve. We have a hands-on approach in our program, seeing the women 1, 2 and sometimes 3 times a week depending on where they are in their job skills training or rights awareness training. The women also meet with each frequently in the groups that are formed for their training sessions. That’s how they form co-operatives with one another to make tye-dye, to buy a grinding mill for their village and earn an income from its sales or to buy land together to farm. So, it makes sense to us that the same grassroots nature of our work would be true for our supporters too – you know the names of the women you are helping, their children’s names and you likely have a friend or two or more that are also active with Women for Women – your connectedness is what we’re counting on to help us not only stay in the top 5 but move up in the rankings for a chance at $1.5 million for the work we do. So please share our project with another 3-5 friends today by directing them to www.womenforwomen.org/membersproject

Best, Trish at Women for Women International

Members Projects

wfwmembersproject — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:07:21 +0000

17 days left – had a good call with Amex Members Project Team today

wfwmembersproject — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:18:08 +0000

Great news! Help Women and Children Survivors of War Rebuild is ranked #5 today.

We’ve gotten a new flyer up on our web site: www.womenforwomen.org – it’s a great way to put something into people’s hands to tell them how to vote. Consider distributing a flyer in your book club, church, gym or maybe your yoga studio!

I got the greatest email yesterday from a good friend of Women for Women. She wrote to me that she had emailed 438 friends and contacts she had with the link to our project – www.womenforwomen.org/membersproject – that’s amazing and I get chills thinking how many of her friends will pass this on too.

We also had a good call with the Amex Members Project team today – they have great tips for how to promote our projects but I’m most impressed with how much American Express is investing in the Members Project and the top 25 projects. They are really committed to the success of our efforts, really aware of the importance and impact all of our work can have and committed to giving their cardmembers a voice in how their corporate philanthropy is spent. That’s a pretty progressive corporation if you ask me.

Thanks for passing on the message today!

Trish at Women for Women International

Welcome to our Members Project Watch Blog

wfwmembersproject — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:28:07 +0000

Greetings! We have 19 days left and I thought I’d share progress on our Members Project campaign for those of you who want to know how we’re doing in the running. The great news is we cracked the Top 5 today. While we can expect the rankings to fluctuate over the days to come, it’s great to get such a strong start out of the gate.

There are some great ways to promote our project Help Women and Children Survivors of War Rebuild using the tools on the Amex web site. Just click Promote this Project link and you’ll find ways to add the project to your Facebook page, to share with more friends or post to your blog.

Don’t have a blog? Do you know someone who does? Well if you do, you can ask them to do a guest blog posting or just ask them to post it to their readers.

Think of how many women, their families and communities can benefit from our program with $1.5 million.