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    Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide
    Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide
    Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide
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    Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide

    By Stacey Edgar

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    Start small, dream big, change lives— how one woman harnessed the power of fair trade to help women in poverty help themselves

    Seven years ago, Stacey Edgar had a $2,000 tax return and a deep desire to help provide economic security for women in need. She knew that of the 1.3 billion people living on less than $1 per day, seventy percent are women. What she didn't have was a business plan. Or a passport. But that didn't stop her from creating a socially conscious business that has helped poor women in five continents feed their families and send their children to school.

    Global Girlfriend has since grown into a multi-million dollar enterprise that specializes in handmade, fairly traded, ecoconscious apparel, accessories, and items made by women all over the world. Global Girlfriends is Stacey's inspiring story of following her convictions, as well as her passionate argument for simple actions we can all take to eliminate extreme poverty. Stacey Edgar refused to be paralyzed by the size of world poverty; she started by taking several small steps, personal responsibility firmly in hand, and never looked back.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 12, 2011
    ISBN9781429960489
    Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide
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    Stacey Edgar

    Stacey Edgar started the business Global Girlfriend in 2003 as a way to provide economic security for women in need by creating a sustainable market for their products. Stacey has been honored by the Microsoft Corporation as a recipient of the company's "Start Something Amazing" awards, and is a sought-after speaker on the topics of women in the global economy, fair trade, sex trafficking, market and enterprise development, cause marketing, entrepreneurship, and parlaying your passion into your career. She lives in Colorado with her family.

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      I didn't actually expect to enjoy this book very much, as I am not generally a fan of "the world is awful, but I'm a do-gooder" genre (that's a genre, right?). They tend to read like either PR pieces or inspirational fluff, and both approaches turn me off. And, frankly, I was embarrassed about the title, as I'm not really the girl-power/girlfriend type. But Edgar actually wrote a compelling case for her business that focuses less on her and her work and more on the women she intends to help and how, exactly, this for-profit organization can assist communities around the globe. I sense that she made a conscious decision to not focus too much on the truly deplorable conditions she must see. While you definitely understand the desperation some of the world's poorest are facing, there are few gruesome descriptions of poverty. I suspect she eased up on that in order to prevent paralyzing people into inaction. This book is all about action: what needs to be done, what she is doing, what the women are doing, what you can do. I recommend this book and I definitely will be shopping Global Girlfriend, horrible name aside.
    • 3/5
      Interesting to hear how one woman chose to make a difference with her $2000 tax refund. Very doable.

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