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October 2006
 CARE President Helene D. Gayle recently returned from Bangladesh. She joined Rigoberto Giron, director of CARE's emergency unit yesterday and spoke by phone about recent trips and CARE's role and challenges in recent emergencies, focusing on the crisis in Darfur and their work with Somalian refugees in the Dadaab camps in Kenya. Web Women Giving Circle Founder Joeann Fossland was there. The following is a collection of comments by all three. Comments have been paraphrased for brevity.
JF: I am pleased and honored to share my thoughts about a phone call yesterday with Dr. Helene Gayle and Rigoberto Giron. I was particularly struck with Dr. Gayle's description of job training and opportunities that help men feed their families. When these opportunities are not sustainable, many of these men become mercenaries so that they can have a source of income. What a terrible dilemma for a father to have to face.
©2006 Daemon Baizan
Helene D. Gayle
 HG: CARE is presently working in areas where other agencies are not working. Security in Pakistan and Afghanistan has deteriorated in the past few months. We must consider if we are putting our workers at risk. This is a constant concern for us. In Afghanistan men are taking up arms and fighting just to earn enough money to buy bread for their families.
JF: Helping men and women with micro-business hits home with me because it is what we are attempting to do with the Web Women Giving Circle, take this project in small steps. One small donation can enable one person buy seeds or flour to bake bread. Each and every donation we get is going to touch the life of someone who, up to now, hasn't had the means to take care of themselves.
HG: We help people worldwide. We don't take a political stand. We are in countries where the need is great regardless of the politics of the government. We don't give money directly to governments. We work through them but we do not feed their treasuries.
Joeann Fossland
 JF: While I know many are opposed to what they perceive as handouts, we must understand that many people are in situations that they cannot control. When marauding gangs come into your village and home and take all you have, as well as impacting your spirit through acts of rape and violence, we are not providing handouts, we are providing a way to rebuild self esteem.
RG: The Darfur conflict erupted in early 2003. Fighting among various factions has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced more than 2 million, most escaping to larger towns where they stay in camps for "internally displaced people," and some crossing the border into Chad, where they live in refugee camps, straining local resources. Attacks on civilians during the conflict have been brutal and include burning homes, killing and rape. CARE has worked in Sudan for over two decades. We been active in Darfur since April 2004 and currently provide direct humanitarian assistance to over 450,000 war-affected people. Some 1.6 people do not have homes. CARE's work includes water and sanitation, community services and distribution of food and other relief items.
 Help CARE make a difference in the world. Donate here.
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FREE HUGS Pass it on. (Thank you, Cynthia!)
Now, to business.
Have you ever fantasized about all the good things you could do if you only had more money?
Between now and the end of 2006, regardless of your disposable income, you can make a significant difference in impoverished communities worldwide by helping The Web Women Giving Circle raise at least $100,000 in the CARE-More Challenge.
 Research shows that educating girls and helping women establish modest, sustainable enterprises is one of the best ways to break the cycle of poverty and lead to enduring improvements in the welfare of entire communities.
The Care-More Challenge is an opportunity to make a significant contribution no matter how modest your means. If every reader of this e-zine donated $10, we would raise over $100,000 ourselves. That's what I call leverage.
It only takes a minute or two to donate the amount that is appropriate for your circumstances. Amounts that may seem inconsequential ($5. $25. $150.) can provide enough working capital for an impoverished woman to start a successful micro-business.
I Want to Give You More than a Hug.
Donate before midnight November 23rd (US Thanksgiving), and you will receive valuable premiums ranging from a copy of The Courage to Succeed: A Brief Guide to Cultivating Soulful Prosperity in Life and Work, an e-book by yours truly, to private facilitation of The Work of Byron Katie or a private coaching session.
The $10, 90 Second Solution
Care to give $10? This link will take you immediately to a secure form where you can provide your debit or credit card information. No premiums at this level except my gratitude and your satisfaction at being part of a very cool thing.
 Why donate to CARE? Because CARE has a real impact on women and their communities around the world. For example:
$50 can send an Afghan girl to school for a year.
$125 can train a woman in Nepal to teach maternal and child health in her community.
$600 can keep 10 girls in Sudan in school and teach them about AIDS prevention.
$9,000 can pay for a reservoir pond for a village with 1,000 people.
If you'd like to donate but don't want to bother with premiums (or prefer to give a different amount), you can do that here. Send me a copy of your email receipt and I will gladly set you up with the applicable premiums.
Thank you!
Molly
 P.S. I'm proud to be a founding member of The Web Women Giving Circle, a group of professionals from the US that has come together to make a positive impact worldwide. We focus on equipping poor women with the proper resources to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty.
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Mukhtar Mai is a Pakistani woman who was gang raped and paraded naked before hundreds of onlookers. She sought justice in the court systems despite threats of reprisal. Officials in the government, seeking to suppress the news, tried to keep details about the case from appearing in the press. She prevailed in remarkable fashion. Time Magazine has called her one of Asia's heroes.
Bucks County, PA, REALTOR Marty Millner (Coldwell Banker Hearthside REALTORS) agrees. Marty nominated Mukhtar as a source of inspiration on our sister blog, Inspiring Woman, and says:
"The story of this absolutely amazing and courageous woman will make you cry. It is the most incredible example of the power of the human spirit that I have ever read ... This amazing woman's story inspired me. Her ability to create opportunities for thousands of impoverished, uneducated women, which evolved from her tremendous personal tragedy, is an amazing story."
Marty Millner is a source of inspiration in his own right. He read about the Take An Agent To The Top Raffle on the RealTalk Listserv and bought a bunch of tickets today. He didn't stop there. He wrote a warm and lovely note of encouragement to Web Women Giving Circle founder Joeann Fossland:
"I learned about the raffle on RealTalk, and just purchased 6 tickets.
"I wanted to personally take the time to thank you for this incredible idea, and commitment to making a difference in the world. I think what you and this group are doing, is amazing, and I am proud and honored to be a part of it.
"If there is anything else that I can do to help ensure the success of the project, please let me know. I am pretty well known in my market area, and I intend to reach out to all the REALTORS in our area, to let them know about the raffle, and will encourage all of our local REALTORS to participate.
"Again, thanks so much for the chance to participate."
And then he found his way to the Inspiring Woman blog and left his footprints there.
Marty Millner gets my nomination as the most Inspiring Man to cross the cyber pathway in quite a while. There are hearts of gold in those real estate Listservs. -- Frances Flynn Thorsen
The Take An Agent To The Top Raffle benefits CARE and features prizes valued at more than $40,000. The drawing will be held November 18 at Miraval in Tucson, AZ. Buy tickets online. All ticket purchasers will receive valuable premiums.
Not interested in a raffle? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
6:44 PM - Oct. 24, 2006 - {0} -
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2004 CARE Stefan Pleger
 The photo at the left may seem like an odd graphic to use in conjunction with a story about a group of real estate and coaching professionals, but it's pictures like these that tell the story about why we are engaged efforts to raise $100,00 for CARE. (There are more photos like this at the Inspiration category link.)
There is a great article in Realty Times today and another in Broker Agent News.
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
8:30 AM - Oct. 23, 2006 - {0} -
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"Happy Home Inspector" Wally Conway is a generous sponsor of the Web Women Giving Circle. He is the author of a Home Inspection Education for Consumers and Agents and a book, "Secrets of the Happy Home Inspector".
Home Inspection Course CDs include:
- Reducing Realtor Risk During Real Estate Repair
- When Good Wood Goes Bad
- The Compelling Case For Listing Inspections
- Is There a Fungus Among Us?
- Secrets of the Happy Home Inspector
- The Happy Home Inspector Greatest Hits LIVE
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
6:50 AM - Oct. 23, 2006 - {0} -
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South Sound Lane Virtual Assistance has donated five hours listing management or online marketing. They are generous patrons of the Web Women Giving Circle.
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
 Virtual Online Solutions, a generous Web Women Giving Circle patron, offers a full range of virtual assistant services.
"We believe in providing the latest tools for our customers' success. Some of the tools that we provide our clients are the usage of a private intranet that will contain their works completed and in process, a toll free number to reach us and many others..." -- Virtual Online Solutions
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
VREO produces the Real Estate Dashboard tablet PC software.
Real Estate Dashboard® is built for use on tablet PCs, ultra-mobile laptops that have a pen-enabled screen. Signing forms and contracts electronically is now as easy as signing for an overnight package or a department store credit card purchase.
Real estate agents using Real Estate Dashboard® eliminate paper from their workday, spend more time selling and less time shuffling paper, and provide customers with superior service. For brokers, Real Estate Dashboard® dramatically reduces costs and liability and increases sales force productivity.
Read more about the Real Estate Dashboard.
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
6:51 PM - Oct. 22, 2006 - {0} -
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SPI Data Solutions offers zip code leads for a year ($150 value each) for realty professionals.
Every Future Home Seller and Future Home Buyer Report begins with a massive, home-by-home survey of nearly every household in America - including all the towns in your area. Only those who respond to the survey and say they are planning to buy or sell a home within the next 1 to 12 months are included in the reports, according to SPI.
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
Carolina Task Master is a leading virtual assistance provider.
A happy client shares her experience:
"Carolina Task Master can be a real aid for any busy person. It took Raye a few short hours to reorganize both my home and my business offices. Now I can find things quickly, and it’s easy to maintain. Raye can do anything, so you should let her take some of your more not-fun, time consuming jobs. I heartily recommend her."-- Linda C., REALTOR, Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston.
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
Visual Persuasions Canada offers a full range of virtual assistant services.
Here's what Michael Russer (a.k.a. Mr. Internet®), one of today's leading real estate educators, speakers and coaches), said about the power of working with a virtual assistant:
"...you no longer have to feel "stopped" in growing your business because of lack of resources, talent, or time. Even more importantly however, is that you can change your business focus from so much "doing" into "being" (i.e. from worker bee to visionary) —a place where business and life is much less exhausting and infinitely more rewarding!"
Allen F. Hainge, Real Estate Internet Guru has this to say:
"Once you reach a certain production in real estate, usually 25+ transactions per year, a Personal Assistant becomes a necessity: you either don’t have time to do more volume, or you’ll kill yourself doing so all by yourself."
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
Avocado Consulting offers memberships to Marketing Salad with access to teleseminars, business worksheets, marketing information and group business coaching at members-only forum.
"You cannot build a highly profitable business without these three ingredients - passive income streams, online promotion and cooperative marketing opportunities," they declare.
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
5:30 PM - Oct. 22, 2006 - {0} -
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realAdvantage VA offers numerous of virtual assistant services.
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
First American Residential Group has joined the ranks of proud sponsors of the Web Women Giving Circle.
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
4:53 PM - Oct. 22, 2006 - {0} -
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Reliable Cyber Solutions provides virtual assistance for real estate and other professionals:
"We are independent contractors. Our Virtual Office can handle any type of work. Our services include database management, web design, word processing, desktop publishing, internet research, spreadsheet management just to name a few.
"We provide and are responsible for our own tools, education, workspace, and insurance. You pay for the services as you receive them and are billed for the time spent on a task; no more, no less. Unlike employees of a company, you are not responsible for providing insurance and other benefits."
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
Real estate tech celeb Jim Casey presents Agent/Office software (not applicable in CA, AZ, MT, WA, IN, HI), Jim Casey's A to Z Training DVDs, and Jim Casey's Marketing Flyers ($727 combined value).
"Jim Casey knows how to make 'Technology' fun AND profitable. He's simply the best." -- Howard Brinton, Howard Brinton STAR POWER® Systems, Inc.
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
3:24 PM - Oct. 22, 2006 - {0} -
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Executive Realty Solutions offers the following services: listing and transaction management and coordination, development of marketing collateral such as brochures and flyers, Just Listed and Just Sold postcard design, develop marketing plans, prospecting and follow-up campaigns, MLS updates, website updates and maintenance, maintenance of client database, virtual tours, preparation of buyer and seller books, CMAs and relocation package, and purchase and delivery of closing gifts.
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
 Time management leader Day-Timer offers a complete line of products from Day-Timers, organizers, complete planning solutions, planner pages and calendars, planner accessories, bags, briefcases, travel gear, car organizers, and more.
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
2:32 PM - Oct. 22, 2006 - {0} -
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© 2002 CARE/ A John Watston
About half of the world's population — nearly 3 billion people — lives in poverty, on the equivalent of less than $2 a day. These people do not simply lack financial resources. They struggle each day to keep hunger and disease at bay. Basic opportunities to improve their lives are frequently beyond reach.
The factors that keep people living in poverty are complex and interwoven. That's why CARE does much more than feed the hungry. We work alongside families and communities to understand the greatest threats to their survival and to help them find lasting solutions to their problems.
Through its Victories Over Poverty campaign, CARE is supporting integrated programs that include emergency relief, post-emergency rehabilitation and recovery, and long-term poverty-fighting projects. Whether it's teaching new farming techniques, training teachers or helping improve access to health care, CARE works with communities to create solutions that last.
Reducing Poverty: Proof is in the Numbers
Last year, CARE's programs directly improved the lives of more than 31 million people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Tens of millions more benefited indirectly from CARE projects that confronted poverty in their communities.
- Poverty is not having access to clean drinking water or adequate sanitation systems. Last year, CARE helped 3 million people in 34 countries gain access to clean water and sanitation, reducing time spent gathering water and illness caused by poor hygiene.
- Poverty is a lack of accessible, affordable health care information and services. In 2002, almost 10 million children in 26 countries benefited from CARE's child health projects, reducing their vulnerability to disease.
- Poverty is not being able to produce enough food to feed your family. Last year, CARE's programs helped train more than 1.5 million farmers in 43 countries in activities relating to agriculture and natural resource management, increasing crop yields while conserving the environment. --CARE
Help CARE score more victories over poverty! Donate here.
2:03 PM - Oct. 22, 2006 - {0} -
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Constant Contact offers e-mailing newsletters ($900) with an easy-to-use wizard, more than 100 eye-catching email templates, list management features, email tracking and reporting, and high deliverability, Constant Contact makes it easy for real estate agents and other businesses to communicate with customers and visitors - and keep them coming back!
"This is an excellent program, easy to use even for beginners. Create professional looking e-mail newsletters with templates that take out the guesswork and let you get the job done quickly. The finished product is extraordinary." -- Frances Flynn Thorsen
The Web Women Giving Circle is raising money to benefit CARE. Real estate pros can buy a premium package for $20 and receive items valued at $299.95. Not interested in premiums or gift giving? You can still help CARE. Donate here.
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