Make Social Change A Reality

On this day two years ago, Make Social Change A Reality was born . Yay , Happy Birthday to us! Last year, we celebrated our first birthday by declaring October 8 th as a day of recognition for all who make a difference . This year we'd like to invite you to share your story in creating a better world. What have you done to make a difference in 2009? What are your goals for change in 2010? Why do you do what you do? How are you going to enlist the support of others to make social change a reality in your lifetime? We look forward to hearing from all change agents regardless of issue area. Please share your stories in the comments! This post was written by Chanelle Carver, creator of this blog and founder of the Literacy 'n' Poverty Project.

In the strategic planning process, the management team and leaders of any business and/or social venture must ask themselves three important questions: 1) Where are we now? 2) Where do we want to be? 3) How will we get there? I think the same applies to blogging, which is why we at the Literacy ‘n’ Poverty Project have taken some time to come up with our own blog strategy for Making Social Change A Reality . In creating this blog strategy, we’ ve come up with a set of goals and objectives to accomplish over the next year that will not only create greater awareness for our organization and this blog but also to ensure we are expanding to new markets and advocating on behalf of the very people we believe will benefit from our programs and services. Here’s a list of some of things we’ll be doing throughout the year: 1) Expanding our base of discussion topics to include various social issues that are of concern to the GLOBAL community 2) NETWORKING with writers and bloggers already e...

Rounding out the last of the Millennium Development Goals are goals seven and eight, Environmental Stability and Global Partnership . Both of these goals are so much more specific than the previous six, Goal 7 including four targets and Goal 8 including five, that it would be impossible to examine them exhaustively in such a short space. Therefore, let’s examine one target per goal. For a more detailed look at these aims, please visit the website for the United Nations, www.un.org. To ensure environment sustainability, target three aims to, “halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. “ One Step Forward: Thirst Relief International is an international nonprofit organization that works with local groups to implement safe, potable water facilities in communities all over the globe. With projects in the Congo, Amazon, Kenya, and many more countries, Thirst Relief provides funding and serves as project mana...