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I have to say I love it when I write a blog entry on something (yesterday) and the next day it appears in one of my favorite papers as an OPED. Love it. Today in the Financial Times the editors wrote a piece called "Women at the Top: Make Boards More Diverse and Stop the Patronizing." The article makes the same basic points I did taking to...

Link to Pursepundit

http://pursepundit.blogspot.com/2010/05/washington-visit.html

This was one of the coolest weeks ever with respect to the intersection of so many of the things I am passionate about! Women, money, influence, finance, social change, philanthropy, networking, human capital management and more. The only thing missing was the faith component but that is coming June 3rd. A quick plug. Auburn Theological Seminary is having their annual Women’s Lives of Commitment Breakfast at 7:30 am at...

I know I just blogged on Learnvest a few days ago, but I have to again. I am an investor in this fantastic company, and it is a great news story in terms of what is going to help drive us out of the economic wasteland. It is all about creating jobs, jobs, jobs and in order to do that you need capital flowing to start-ups and further up the private...

It is an evening like tonight that are the reason I created this blog. I am so incredibly blessed to have the opportunity to attend amazing gatherings, often in support in great causes, like the one this evening. I was invited by my dear friend Helen LaKelly Hunt, and the most spectacular Jennifer Buffet, to hear about TheWomen 2.0 Media Project. (soon to have a web-site and YOUT UBE clip so...

I believe that at the root of this current financial and economic crisis is a lack of basic financial literacy. It is appalling that our children are not taught it in school, and I believe it is every parents responsibility therefore to teach it at home. I also believe the churches and other community organizations should make it a priority as well.




I also believe that at the root of this...

Last week I hosted a lunch for two amazing women from Iceland that I met at the Deauville Global Women's Forum. They were in the US to talk about their business, Audur Capital, a money management firm they founded based on feminine values. I was going to write all about it...

Last Sunday I co-wrote a piece for the Daily Beast called "Can Goldman Find God?" asking Goldman to put their resources to work to fund job creation. This week they announced their "10,0000 Small Business Initiative." Given this news, the apology by CEO Blankfein, and more... we decided to write another...

Well I would love to say that Goldman Sachs, after reading the CALL TO ACTION we sent out on Sunday on the Daily Beast, responded with this $500 million initiative, but this is clearly something they have been working on for some time. The“10,000 Small Business Imitative” was announced...

Much has been written over the past week about Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, making the comment that GS is doing "God's Work." My dear friend Rev. Katharine Henderson, President of Auburn Seminary, Rev. JC Austin and I decided to jump on board. Check it out on the Daily Beast.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-14/can-goldman-find-god/?cid=bsa:featureline

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I just got off the red-eye from San Francisco, returning from the best ever Women’s Funding Network Board Meeting. WFN is a network of over 140 Women’s Funds around the world. What is a women’s fund you might ask? Think of it as an investment model for philanthropy. Think about...