"Giving Up the Ghost: Communicating Value to New Audiences Using Virtual Media"

We all have choices: Do you Tweet, Can you Digg it, Have you Reddit, or are you a part of the Technocrati? This month we explore how successful non profit organizations reach new audiences even in a tight economy with our feature "Giving up the Ghost: Communicating Value to New Audiences Using Virtual Media" Norman Reiss of Non-Profit Bridge nhr@usa.net helps us to look squarely at the use of social media to communicate the non-profit message and fundraise. Norman Reiss shares with ZWCR host Roxanne Neilson some helpful advice non-profits large and small can use to improve their effectiveness right now.

Click Here for Women as Peacemakers & Storytellers

This month is all about methods women use to foster peace in their homes and writ large -the context of peace as social action.

ZWCR features storyteller Koketso Ferriera, gazelletales@yahoo.com , who shares a folktale about how one woman sets about making peace within her home with a retelling of a Ghanian tale"The Lion's Whiskers", Don't miss it!

Zonta Club of New Rochelle's Lisa Louis-Burton and Area 1 Director Leslie Wright team up to help make New Rochelle Public Library a stop on the September Global Peace Tour-bringing "Pray The Devil Back to Hell" a film by Abigail Disney and Directed by Gini Reticker to the Ossie Davis Theater in New Rochelle. The film tells the triumphant story of Muslim and Christian women in Liberia employing satyāgraha to confront the repressive Taylor regime and to put a stop to the decades long civil conflict by agitating for peace.

See a clip from the film

CLICK HERE Zonta Women's Community Radio features Pioneering Women: Rosa Kittrell Barksdale and Norelle Edwards

Pictured: Norelle Edwards at left, Julie Agee and one little recipient of the free literature!

This episode starts with a Zonta Wire news roundup: Zonta Club service projects from Australia to Porterville, Santa Clarita to Michigan- (we apologize to the Zonta Club of Milford in Michigan, we inadvertantly landed them in Missouri !), and out to Arkansas. Hear what other clubs are doing in their community service projects, and read all about it on our Zonta Newswire to your left!

First in our oral history series, Zonta Women's Community Radio Project interviews Zonta Club of New Rochelle member and CEO Rosa Kittrell Barksdale . Barksdale shares her entreprenuerial experience founding her eponymous woman-owned company, Barksdale Home Care Services. She speaks to us candidly about the people who influenced her, flying without a safety net, becoming a single parent, and looks back on the work she's done to became the largest single employer of women in the county. In March 2009, Rosa Barksdale was inducted into the Spirit of Women Archive. The archive, developed by the non-profit group, American Women of African Heritage, will be housed at the Harold Drimmer Library at Westchester Community College.

ZWCR speaks to New Rochelle high school senior and 2009 Alexander Hamilton citizen awardee Norelle Edwards. Norelle Edwards along with her schoolmate Julia Agee created, "Literature for the Little", a community service project to donate gently used books to low-income kids. Norelle explains how their community service project to collect and donate books grew to include neighbors, the local library, the high school, an elementary school and the National Honor Society. These girls demonstrate the importance of creating social capital through horizontal integration and social networking- applying well-known business strategies to improve the common good.