November 2019 Board Message
Anchored at Home by Carolina Allen With the tech revolution in full swing, we now have direct access to the world. In years past, what would take a lifetime to…
Cottage Industry Series: Sister Cottages – Houston and Nigeria Pair Up for Powerful Impact
What happens when two cottages that are a world apart geographically adopt each other as sisters? A Model of Powerful Impact. Bam! The Houston cottage in the United States had…
Video: Nigeria and Houston Sister Cottages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDaWkMqw_eY
Change – One Drop at a Time: Voices from CSW – Raindrop Foundation
“I have crossed so many rivers I no longer get wet” One evening this summer, just as the light was beginning to fade and the intense summer heat began to…
Dayo’s Dose of Wisdom: Model of Powerful Impact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2jDhiyZGZ0&feature=youtu.be
Houston, We Have a Problem: UN CSC Presentation by Erica Komisar
Erica Komisar shared her research on the first thousand days of a child’s life at the U.N. Civil Societies Conference in Salt Lake City. She said, “Mothers are not just…
Fables and Fearlessness
I remember reading a story to my children about a desert nomad who had a camel that kept asking to come into his tent. Of course, the man told the…
A Mighty Wave: Susan Roylance
Susan Roylance, first and foremost a wife and mother of seven children, as well as a strong advocate for families, founded United Families International in 1978. Since then she has…
On Autumn Days
Last week a student asked me why I became a writer, and more than that, a teacher, and although I usually reach for the easy answers—I loved to read, and…