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Putting Tools In More Girls’ Hands: NYC Nonprofit That Teaches Girls Construction Skills Launches Boston Chapter

wyskJune 1, 2022

Tradeswoman-Founded Tools & Tiaras Inc. Meets Growing Demand For Programming, Expands To Show Girls (Ages 6-17) In The Greater New England Area That "Jobs ...

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SMART Decision: International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Helps Fund Pioneering Nonprofit’s Construction Camp For Girls

wyskJuly 29, 2021

Union’s Peer-To-Peer Fundraiser Benefit Tools & Tiaras Inc., A Tradeswoman-Founded Nonprofit On A Mission To Show Girls That "Jobs Don't Have Genders"I...

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Food’s Bright Future: Leah Garcés And The Long Struggle To Replace Factory Farming

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 9, 2019

Vegans and meat consumers do not typically enter into common cause. To the meat eater, vegans are bleeding heart, elitist scolds, and to the vegan, meat consu...

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Unbound Project Introduces Us To Fearless Crusader Lek Chailert, Founder Of Elephant Nature Park

wyskAugust 12, 2019

In this beautiful, short film shot by Kelly Guerin for the Unbound Project, we meet Sangdeaun Lek Chailert, founder of Elephant Nature Park in Thailan...

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Lace Up For Change: New Campaign Celebrates EmPOWERed Women Who Step Forward To Advocate For Others

wyskMay 15, 2019

Judaline Cassidy. Elizabeth Leifer. Pamela Delgado. Joey Hartmann-Dow. Nicole Rios. Caiti Ward. These six women everyone should know have all stepped forward o...

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‘Save Our Moms’ Campaign Brings Awareness To Maternal Mortality In U.S.

wyskMay 13, 2019

“In the past 30 years, deaths from pregnancy-related complications have doubled in the United States, making it the most dangerous place in the developed world...

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Period. End Of Sentence. The Menstruation Taboo-Busting Documentary Short That Just Won The Oscar

wyskFebruary 25, 2019

"When a girl gets her period in the United States, she may miss a class. When a girl gets her period in a developing country, she may never go to school again....

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From Book Character To Plush Toy, Sheila Duncan’s “Trouble the Dog” Comforts Kids In Crisis

wyskFebruary 21, 2019

After retiring from a long, successful career as the owner of Maddie’s, a Marblehead, Massachusetts institution, and world-renowned sailing bar and restaurant,...

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WYSK Ignited Our Campaign To Get A Woman On The US 20, Time To Rally For Them

Guest ContributorFebruary 13, 2019

By Susan Ades Stone and Barbara Ortiz Howard - Everybody thought it was a great idea whose time certainly had come. Why hadn’t anyone thought of it before...

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