Call for Nominations: Celebrating Mothers in Action

Celebrating Mothers: Global Portraits to Inform and Inspire is a forthcoming illustrated book featuring mothers who are making the world a better place for women and children through social activism. It will spotlight 20 mothers internationally who are rising up to address important issues in their community and mobilizing other mothers to get involved in advocacy for women and children. The book is a project of Mothers Acting Up and a collaborative effort between international organizations including the National Council for Research on Women, the Global Education Fund and many others, and will benefit nonprofit coalitions working to support women and children worldwide.

Please submit your nomination(s) for exemplary women who are:
* mothers (birth or adoptive) to children under age 18,
* involved in advocacy for women’s or children’s issues at a local or national level, and are
* initiating positive change in their communities and inspiring other mothers to do the same

Mothers selected for profile in the book will come from diverse countries and continents, various socioeconomic backgrounds, and from rural and urban environments. They could be volunteers working for small local organizations that are addressing regional family issues like access to healthcare, gender equity or affordable childcare, or they might be policy-makers initiating change for women on a larger scale, like removing barriers to education or employment. The common theme will be their ability to blend their roles as mothers within a larger concept of social responsibility, inspiring other mothers and children to identify issues that are important to them and take action.

Celebrating Mothers will highlight global women’s initiatives, so please forward this to individuals or organizations you work with overseas who will submit nominations and concurrently raise more awareness of their efforts. The emphasis on cultural diversity will serve as a window to the array of social issues affecting mothers worldwide, different approaches to balancing work/volunteerism and family, and the common threads that bind all caregivers, regardless of home or heritage.

Please submit nominations (limit 5 per organization) to celebratingmothers@gmail.com. Submissions should include:
1) Name of individual
2) Description of social activism- work or volunteer affiliations
3) Country of origin and residence
4) Number of children and ages
5) Contact information (email, telephone, address, website)

Deadline for submissions is August 15, 2007. Please direct all questions to Amie Brooke Nelson at (970)376-7608 or amie@celebratingmothers.org