Measuring goodness by what we embrace, by what we create, and whom we include

.@CasinaPioIV @Empower_Women The young Catholic priest’s sermon on Easter morning in the movie Chocolat: I don’t want to talk about divinity, but about [Jesus’] humanity, how he lived his life here on earth, his kindness, his tolerance. We can’t go around measuring our goodness by what we don’t do, by what we deny ourselves, by…

Participate in the Empower Women Challenge

.@Empower_Women  Please help me make everyone aware of the  Empower Women challenge 11 January – 22 January, 2016. All you have to do is: 1. Describe in ONE word what ‘Women’s Economic Empowerment’ means to you. (e.g. stability, independence, peace, joy, self-confidence, etc.) 2. Print out an 8.5 x 11″ copy of this image. 3.…

Salesforce Transformation to Keep Amrita University on the Cutting Edge

@Amrita_Univ @Salesforce @Benioff  #EmbracingtheWorld. @ICPCNews @GracelleGerber In an effort to study the contact management and Cloud needs at Amrita University, a team of 10 Salesforce employees spent four intense days studying the data requirements of our international collaborations, an exhaustive palette  of research projects, our admissions processes and alumni follow through, our computer help desk,…

Empowering Women for A Sustainable Future: How One Woman’s Innovation Could Transform Her Entire Village

Embracing the World @Empowering_Women  Dunda, India It is estimated that only 8 to 12% of women in India use sanitary napkins. When women are able to gain access to such materials, they are expensive and not sustainable. Without sanitary napkins, girls are forced to miss school for several days each month, often leaving them academically…

Amma on the number zero

.@Empower_Women @AmritaUniv One of India’s contributions is the invention of the number zero. We need to add a few things to that zero.  Zero-poverty, zero-illiteracy, zero-waste, zero-crime, and zero-violence against women.

Salesforce Team to Amrita University

.@Benioff @Salesforce @Amrita_Univ   Amrita University is excited to host a team of 10 Salesforce employees from throughout India and Singapore at the Amritapuri Campus to explore how the two organizations can work together to further Amma’s work.  We are looking closely at  everything from student internships, hiring, and expanding the Univerity’s use of Salesforces’ cloud-based…

Be Joyful, Alert, Smiling and Compassionate

January 1, 2016 — Amritapuri (An excerpt from Amma’s 2016 New Year’s Message) @Empower_Women @Amrita_Unversity When each new year is born, our heart becomes​filled with hope that the future has good times in store for us and that things will change for the better. However, things may not always happen as we expect. We may have…

Ending violence against women: 3 ways to innovate

by Benjamin Kumpf, Policy Specialist, Innovation at UNDP @Empower_Women. The status quo is unacceptable. Globally, one out of three women experiences violence in her lifetime. Both the Sustainable Development Goals and the World Humanitarian Summit Report call for innovation to end this global pandemic. Given the complexity of gender-based violence (GBV) and its main underlying…