70 Years of American Style Icons

Glamour Magazine recently put together a truly wonderful spread of seven decades of female risk takers, rule breakers, and style makers with one message backed behind it–You can do anything! The spread includes these iconic women portrayed by some of the entertainment industry’s best up-and-coming, as well as established and note-worthy female talent.

Check out the portrayals of the women that have made up women’s history inside.

March 8th was International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day was yesterday. International Women’s Day has been observed since the 1900′s, which was a time of great expansion and turbulence in the world that saw booming growth as well as the rise of radical ideologies. It has grown to become a global day of recognition and celebration across developed and also developing countries alike. Women’s organizations and governments around the world have observed International Women’s Day annually on March 8th by holding events and women have observed this day in their own way, by knowing and celebrating the power they have by being female. International Women’s Day reminds us women of the continued vigilance and action required to ensure that women’s equality is gained and maintained in all aspects of life.

If you didn’t know about International Women’s Day before …

Send Something Sweet to Help End Hunger

The Ferrero Company and Share Our Strength have teamed up together and in the spirit of Valentine’s Day are asking for your help in supporting the fight to end childhood hunger. We have featured Share Our Strength before, outlining the dramatic affects of childhood hunger, a multi-layered epidemic that affects approximately 13.4 million (roughly 1 in every 6) children in America today.

It is great to see such a prominent company like Ferrero working to help end childhood hunger and they have certainly put together a unique, interactive and fun way for you to help the effort. The Ferrero Company and Share Our Strength is inviting you to share something sweet by sending a loved one a Valentine’s Day e-card.

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Help End Childhood Hunger with Share Our Strength

Childhood hunger is a multi-layered epidemic that affects approximately 13.4 million children in America, representing roughly 1 in 6 children. Childhood hunger impairs children’s health in significant and long-lasting ways. It results in poorer mental health, impedes growth and development, causes more illnesses including stomachaches, headaches, colds, ear infections, fatigue, weaker immune systems, behavioral issues and countless other lifelong consequences. Hunger also makes children unable to learn and perform academically, impairing cognitive functioning and causing children to experience school absences, tardiness, school suspensions and failing entire school years.

Hunger is not only an epidemic in America, but it is also a pandemic throughout the entire world. There is strength in numbers and together, we have the ability to not only fight but end childhood hunger….

Make Every Serving Count with V8

While the financial crisis in the US is causing people to lose or be laid off from their jobs, stay at home more frequently due to gas prices, cut back on splurging and shopping more frugally and also causing people to cut back a bit on the upcoming holiday expenses, some people have been feeling a slight cut back to their financial futures and others have been far less fortunate, slipping into poverty and the already poverty-stricken continuing to be worse off than before. For more than 35 million Americans, the possibility of being without food and not knowing where their next meal is coming from is an unfortunate and constant reality. It is for that reason that V8 has recently partnered with Feeding America to donate over 30 million servings of fresh vegetables to local food banks throughout …

The Sisterhood is Traveling to New Orleans

As part of a marketing campaign for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, the cast is helping out Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans.

If you’re thinking, what on Earth does a movie about four friends and a magic pair of jeans have to do with Habitat for Humanity you will surely be surprised. Alexis Bledel stated in an interview, “They are recycling jeans and making these tubes for insulation that will help insulate the houses they are building down there.” See, get it? Magic jeans, using jeans for insulation. Yeah!

The sisterhood aren’t the only ones helping out with this amazing project; Cotton Inc., GUESS, and Warner Bros. Pictures are spreading the word about the Habitat project to people who are …