Jenny, Here’s my nomination on The Motley Fool’s Foolanthropy Drive 2006.  The way it works is that the Fool community chimes in to support certain nominations and based on response, their staff committee votes on 5 charities for which to raise money. After they chose the 5 (sometime in November), then the Fool community of readers steps up to donate. The charity that receives the greatest amount of donations gets an extra $10,000; The Motley Fool donates 2 cents for every board post in December to be divided up among the other 4 remaining charities. At any rate, the Half the Sky community can help out in a big way by first echoing the nomination so that the committee takes notice. Last year, the campaign raised over $270,000; this year they are also partnering with the Hilton Corporation to try and make it even more successful.

On a personal note, my husband and I went all through the HTS site last night, looking at pictures of Gaoyou SWI where our daughter Zoe lived, as well as reading about all of the other amazing accomplishments of HTS in such a short time. I had tears rolling down my cheeks; truly, your work is transformative and an enormous gift to the world. Many thanks and my deepest admiration. Warmly, Elizabeth Brokamp