Paradigm Shift

Nominate Paradigm Shift as Top-Rated Women’s Empowerment Nonprofits!  How has Paradigm Shift impacted you?  Click here to nominate and support our efforts.  Deadline May 31, 2010 (we need at least 10 nominations- let’s hear from you!).

This month, Women’s Media Center is excited to be counted as a partner with the Women’s Empowerment Campaign! Run byGreatNonProfits.org, the Campaign also includes Kiva, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Women’s News Network, andWomen’s Philanthropy – Women’s Issues. Throughout May, the campaign aims to identify top-rated nonprofits focusing on women’s issues, working like the Yelp or Tripadvisor of nonprofits. Any group getting ten positive reviews will be recognized on our Top-Rated Women’s Empowerment Nonprofits List published at the end of the campaign.

So what can you do? Visit the campaign and tell us about YOUR experience — how are these organizations having an impact? Your participation in this campaign helps identify the nonprofits that are making a difference for women. Nonprofits and community members will be able to interact and engage directly, helping organizations learn more about becoming more effective and useful resources.

Make sure you take a quick moment to rate the Women’s Media Center and write a review.  Share your experiences and let us know why you support the WMC!

This month, tell your story, and help bring out the best in women’s nonprofits!

Wings & Dreams:4 Elements of a New Feminism publisher, Maria-Anna Foohs, of Bavaria, Germany, will be at Bluestockings bookstore, at 7 pm on May 23, 2010, to discuss, read, and open the conversation on a New Feminism. This book, reviewed by Paradigm Shift’s Shawnta Smith, is in German and English, and invites women and men to harmonize to solve some major women’s rights issues.

For more information on “Wings and Dreams: 4 Elements of a New Feminism”

Virtual Phone Bank for the Reproductive Health Act!
Thursday, May 6th 6:30-8:30
Tuesday, May 11th 6:30-8:30
Thursday, May 20th 6:30-8:30
Thursday, May 27th 6:30-8:30

NARAL offices: 470 Park Avenue South, 7th Floor South, New York, NY 10016

Join us in our offices or from home to mobilize NARAL Pro-Choice New York members to take action in support of the Reproductive Health Act, a vital bill that will protect the fundamental right of a woman and her doctor to make private medical decisions.  We will transfer members directly to their State Representatives to make their pro-choice voices heard.  Training and dinner will be provided.

To RSVP, please contact Lalena Howard at lhoward@prochoiceny.org or 646-520-3506

**To join our phone banks remotely, all you need is a computer with hi-speed internet access and a phone.  If you are interested in phone banking from home contact, please indicate that when you RSVP to our Community Organizer atlhoward@prochoiceny.org or 646-520-3506**

Pro-Choice Film Screening and Discussion

Wednesday, April 28th
7 – 9pm
Hofstra University – Plaza Room East of the Student Center

Please join Hofstra University’s NAACP Student Chapter, Hofstra University’s Women of Action, NARAL Pro-Choice New York and Planned Parenthood of Nassau County for a screening of Obvious Child, a short romantic comedy about a Brooklyn gal who has an unplanned pregnancy, an abortion, and a great first date in an unlikely location.

After the short-film, the filmmakers will join organizers from NARAL Pro-Choice New York and Planned Parenthood of Nassau County to answer questions and share ideas for how you can get involved in New York’s pro-choice movement!

To RSVP, please contact Lalena Howard at lhoward@prochoiceny.org or 646-520-3506.

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