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Help 5 Charities Win $2m in the Chase American Giving Awards: VOTING Closes TODAY!

Chase Community Giving is a space where we collectively decide what matters! This year's American Giving Awards will be broadcast on NBC Saturday December 8th at 8pm ET/7pm CT...

Violence Shouldn’t Be Every Day Life, But There’s Hopeful Action

In the United States, we've just had a day to focus on the beautiful things of life--food, family and gratitude. It's hard to make the transition to difficult topics. But as we've written recently, the tragic story of Malala Yousafzai, a 14 year-old girl from Pakistan, has been a sobering reminder of the extreme violence facing many women and girls around the world...

Million Moms Challenge Community Wins Coveted Forrester Award

The Million Moms Challenge community campaign (initiated in 2011 by ABC News and the United Nations Foundation and powered by BlogFrog) has won a Forrester Groundswell Award for Excellence in Social Media...

Support India’s Women, and Women Everywhere, Against Violence

A 23 year old Delhi student was gang-raped, beaten and thrown out of a bus in late December. She later died of her injuries at a Singapore hospital, where she'd been transported for additional care...

Red Carpets and Bright Lights for Good!

I’m thrilled to be representing the Million Moms Challenge as a guest of Chase Community Giving, to attend the American Giving Awards. You can catch all the stars and fashions and fun on Saturday night, December 8th 8/7c on NBC.

$620 to Vaccinate Kids Using Only Your Time and Your Keyboard

For every comment $20 is donated to vaccinate a child in a developing country. EASY - you comment, and it's matched!

Congress doesn’t act unless we tell them to renew the Trafficking Victims Protection Act

We are running out of time. Politicians in the USA are coming back from Summer Recess to Washington DC and there's a lot of get done. Today is the deadline before a critical roll call takes place, to let our Senators hear what we feel about modern slavery and our role in ending it...

You See A Girl. We See the Future!

You see a girl. We see the future. Over the years, as the movement for adolescent girls has grown, these words have become a mantra here at Girl Up. In light of the tragic news we heard yesterday, we feel that they’ve never held truer than in the case of Malala Yousafzai.