Choose DonorsChoose.org!

if you want the chance to do something GREAT for public school kids, the fab-u organization DonorsChoose.org ,which was "conceived [by Charles Best] in the cafeteria of a Bronx public high school", is for you!

They are trying to win millions for our kids--and here's where you [American Express Card holders] can help:

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Last week, we made the Top 50 of the American Express Members Project. Now we’re in the Top 25, and it’s time to vote once more.
You are critical to winning up to $5 million for public school classrooms, so please vote now for our submission:
"Teachers Ask. You Choose. Students Learn."
If you voted last week, your vote this round will take about 30 seconds. If you’re voting for the first time, registration will take a couple minutes and you can refer to these simple instructions.
This round of voting ends in tomorrow. On behalf of the thousands of schoolchildren whom you could impact, thank you for voting now.

Sincerely,
Charles Best and the DonorsChoose Team

P.S. Please reply to this email with the word "Yes" so that we can thank you for voting. We will not email you again unless we make it to the Top 5 finals.

P.P.S. Please forward this email to all your friends, asking them to vote for us at this critical moment!
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Vote for our children.
Be the "citizen philanthropist" you were born to be.
Pray for peace.

Blessings,
DivaCardista
blessedstarcards.com

Viva la Saved Sisterhood!

Just came back from a wonderfully clarifying, energizing, catylizing and empowering women's conference with my church sisters and all of our good girlfriends from across the country and around the world. Mmm mmm mmm! Just so great to get away and worship Jesus & study His word and challenge ourselves anew to manifest His great goodness all over this here terrestrial ball.

In fact, one of the super duper highlights/manifestations of the weekend journey [as in the best antidote for all talk and no action making for empty worship and a meaningless spiritual walk every so often punctuated/interrupted by ersatz "holy" calisthenics, holla if you feel me] was when your DivaCardista joined with her sisters in the gorgeous ballroom of the Philadelphia Marriott to raise over 60 thousand dollars for the deliverance of our sisters caught up in the absolute horror and shame that is Darfur.

60K+! Now how meaningful & truly awesome is that?

Blessedly, the Co-Pastor of my church is a long time friend and colleague of the Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston (as well as a pediatrician at the South End Community Health Center). Her name is Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D. The organization we were blessed to join our faith and financial resources with is hers and it is called

My Sister's Keeper

http://www.mskeeper.org/site/

Check them out and make a donation. It will do your heart & soul good.

Enjoy this April day and may your Holy Week be blessed.

Blessings,
DivaCardista
www.blessedstarcards.com
ps:
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just stop by the site by 4/4/07,
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