Category: Updates

  • Free Guide for Members: How to Use Your Voice to Advocate for Change

    Free Guide for Members: How to Use Your Voice to Advocate for Change

    Influence for Good: How to Use Your Voice to Advocate for Change shares practical strategies for using social media to raise awareness, build meaningful connections, and advocate for causes that truly matter, especially for women, families, and communities often left out of the conversation.

  • What Do We Need to Leave in 2025?

    What Do We Need to Leave in 2025?

    2025 has been intense! What do you hope is left behind?

  • Announcing #MaternalHealthChat Starting November 8 With Jacaranda Health

    Announcing #MaternalHealthChat Starting November 8 With Jacaranda Health

    We are very pleased and excited to announce our new weekly chats all about maternal health with some of the leading maternal health experts, researchers, practitioners, and organizations in the world under the #maternalhealthchat hashtag. Starting on Tuesday, November 8 at 1 PM EST with Jacaranda Health we will host 30-minute chats each week all about maternal and reproductive health…

  • Featured Member: Desiree Miller

    Featured Member: Desiree Miller

    I believe in using my blog for social good because I consider it my responsibility to improve the lives of others if given the opportunity.  If even one reader sees my message and takes action, it’s worth my time and effort on the blog.  Plus, it feels good to do good. Desiree Miller stressfreebaby.com

  • Featured Video: Social Good Moms Gets Mention in TED Talk

    Alison Fine, the author of Matterness: What Fearless Leaders Know About the Power and Promise of Social Media, recently gave a TED Talk and mentioned Social Good Moms and our community of moms. See the mention at 9:56. Thank you, Alison!

  • Featured Infographic: Our Social Media Impact For the Week

    We always maintain that having a community of socially-minded mom bloggers is the key to informing everyday people about critical global issues that they may otherwise not know about. That is important to us. Our members do this primarily through their social engagement with their followers and readers as well as through blogging. See our…

  • Video Member Feature: Samantha Sophia

    Video Member Feature: Samantha Sophia

    For the next few weeks we will feature videos of Social Good Moms and members of our Global Team of 200 sharing why they love being a part of our community of moms. The first mom that we’re featuring is Samantha Sophia. Follow her at @raisingself. “I’m a mother, I’m a wife, I’m a corporate…

  • Social Good Moms Impact Report: March 30 – April 5

    Social Good Moms Impact Report: March 30 – April 5

    The idea behind Social Good Moms from day one has been to rally a community ofconscious bloggers who believe in using social media and blogging to spread awareness about the most pressing global issues, especially those that affect women, children, and families in a sustainable way. And beyond that it has always been important to scale our…

  • News: Social Good Moms is Now 3000 Members Strong

    The Mom Bloggers for Social Good community recently surpassed 3000 members! We have always said that the greater our numbers the greater our impact! As the Social Good Moms community continues to grow the more good we can do collectively to spread the word about important issues like world and domestic hunger, maternal health and mortality,…

  • Join Us for the #WaterAidNica Chat on March 21

    This Sunday, Social Good Mom and Global Team of 200 member, Jennifer Barbour, will join WaterAid America on a trip to Nicaragua to see WaterAid’s WASH programs on the ground. Their itinerary is packed from Monday – Friday. While in Nicaragua Jennifer Barbour will be detailing all that she observes and how WASH programs benefit…

  • The Impact of Our #WomensDayChat

    The Impact of Our #WomensDayChat

    Last Friday we hosted a Twitter chat about women and girls with Global Impact, World Vision, Plan International, ICRW and CARE. It was a robust discussion about women and girls for an entire hour that trended nationwide for 55  minutes with nearly 400 participants ahead of International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 8. We want…

  • The Top 11 Greatest Social Good Moms’ Moments of 2013

    The Top 11 Greatest Social Good Moms’ Moments of 2013

    2013 flew by. It flew by so fast that it’s a little difficult to remember the greatest moments of 2013. There really were a lot of them. That said, here are some of the top Social Good Moms’ moments of 2013. We are excited about the new year and everything we will accomplish together for…

  • Our Newest Partnerships: Oxfam America and Kangu

    Our Newest Partnerships: Oxfam America and Kangu

    We are always thrilled to work with some of the best NGOs and nonprofits in the world. Today, we are announcing our newest partnerships with Oxfam America and Kangu. We look forward to working with Kangu to spread the word about maternal health and healthy pregnancies in developing countries in both Africa and Asia. And…

  • Our Newest Partner: Marie Stopes

    Our Newest Partner: Marie Stopes

    We are happy to announce that we have partnered with Marie Stopes, one of the leading global organizations that works for reproductive healthcare for all. Marie Stopes International (MSI) is an international non-profit organization that provides quality family planning and reproductive healthcare to the poorest and most vulnerable individuals across 42 countries. Their mission is…

  • [Photo Gallery] Visual Storytelling in Zambia

    [Photo Gallery] Visual Storytelling in Zambia

    From mid July through the end of the month I traveled throughout Zambia covering stories about HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria with the International Reporting Project as an IRP Zambia Fellow. I joined nine other new media journalists who put a new spin on traditional reporting of these infectious diseases. You can read my published pieces…

  • Social Good Moms and the Global Team: Our Weekend at Blogher

    The largest women’s blogging conference, Blogher, just wrapped last weekend and we were there to join our friends at Save the Children for an intimate dinner at Phil Stefani’s in Chicago to discuss the lifesaving and uplifting work they do around the world for women, children, and families. I also spoke at the dinner and…

  • Announcing New Partner: PSI

    Announcing New Partner: PSI

    We are really thrilled to announce our newest partner: PSI! PSI is a global health organization dedicated to improving the health of people in the developing world by focusing on serious challenges like a lack of family planning, HIV and AIDS, barriers to maternal health, and the greatest threats to children under five, including malaria, diarrhea,…

  • News: 2000 Social Good Moms Strong!

    News: 2000 Social Good Moms Strong!

    Today is a great day! The Mom Bloggers for Social Good community just surpassed 2000 members! I have always said that the greater our numbers the greater our impact! As the Social Good Moms community continues to grows the more good we can do collectively to spread the word about important issues like world and…

  • Social Good Moms Meet Carolyn Miles, CEO of Save the Children, at We Can Be Heroes Event

    Last Thursday New York City-based Social Good Moms got a chance to meet Carolyn Miles, President and CEO of Save the Children at the We Can Be Heroes campaign event during the Manhattan screening of Man of Steel. We Can Be Heroes is a DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, global hunger initiative that…

  • Announcing: New Insight Trip for Summer 2013

    Announcing: New Insight Trip for Summer 2013

    I am pleased to announce Mom Bloggers for Social Good’s second insight trip! It is slated for this summer with Elizabeth Atalay (documama.org), blogger, Social Good Mom, and member of the Global Team of 200. Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks. Our first insight trip to Delhi, India just wrapped with Nicole…