Join skirt!'s lending team. Kiva connects a diverse group of budding entrepreneurs (mostly women!) with lenders from 196 countries.

Start or join a chapter of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. INCITE! is a grassroots movement to end violence against women of color and our communities, and move closer to global peace, justice and liberation.

Apply for next summer’s Sadie Nash Leadership Project Institute. Their summer program is designed to strengthen, empower and equip young women as agents for change in their lives and in the world.

the International Museum of Women, a new online social change museum. Explore economics, art and power across borders.

Your story on Lifelines—a global community of women sharing the facts of their lives. Read others and share your own at worldlifelines.org.


your local Take Back the Night event or start your own at takebackthenight.org. Take Back the Night is a campaign to address and combat the fear and anxiety that women face while walking alone at night.

The Yoga Odyssey

No more excuses! Whether you are a yoga novice or expert, you can reap the many benefits of this ancient technique right in the comfort of your own home. I just discovered The Yoga Odyssey - a 28-day online yoga program designed to help you create a daily yoga practice. Don't think for a second you can sleep on this job. The locally-based creators make it easy but expect you to show up! The next session begins on Jan. 10 and runs through Feb. 6. For $40, you receive daily inspirational emails to keep you energized and committed to your practice and every Sunday of the Yoga Odyseey you receive a PDF sequences of pictures of a 30-40 minute practice along with an audio track. Plus, you can chat with other participants of the Yoga Odyssey and receive superb recommendations for books and DVDs.
 
www.fivepointsyoga.com

- Heather
Online Editor, skirt! boston
 

a difference in the lives of women and youth. Donate to FAIR Fund, which works to prevent sexual violence and exploitation.


your journal. Louder Than Words, a series of teen-authored memoirs, is taking submissions on a rolling basis from girls ages 13-19 who are interested in writing a memoir.

African girls and invest in their economic independence. Camfed (The Campaign for Female Education) works in rural African communities to support girls from primary education into young adulthood.

kids drink clean water simply by playing. PlayPumps are water-pumping systems that double as merry-go-rounds. Over 1,000 have been installed and the group is hoping to have 4,000 by 2010.

out the “Women Say No to War Coalition” and make a donation to support Iraqi women’s organizations working for Peace in the Middle East. Visit womensmediacenter.com and click on “Join a Campaign” to find out more.

our servicewomen. One in three women in the armed forces will fall victim to sexual assault while serving our country and domestic abuse in the military is two to five times higher than civilian rates. Contact your representative and urge her/his sponsorship of the Military Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Response Act (H.R. 840).

for the best up-and-coming design student at a series of fashion design displays at the Natick Collection through the summer. For info on each month’s school, see natickcollection.com.