Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine the origins, development, and accomplishments of philanthropic foundations in key cities and regions of the United States. Each contributor assesses foundation efforts to address social and economic inequ...

If we hope to fight and eventually heal from misogyny, we must first be able to identify and understand it.Despite the undeniable progress for women and girls in the 20th and 21st centuries, misogyny is still alive and well in today's culture—often in ways that are more subtle and more insidious than the outright sexism of the past, and in spaces that we overlook or excuse as normative.Misogyny has shape-shifted through the generations while maintaining a c...

Mail Order Bride: Sheriff Jon & Bessie, Who Falls Asleep A Lot – A Welsh woman with narcolepsy decides to make the hazardous journey out west to her mail order husband, a sheriff in Kansas. Her father has pinned a note to her dress so folks along the way help her as she falls asleep in various locations. Life will not be easy with her new husband, but she is willing to try. There are many crises that happen rapidly and she doesn't know if she will survive them all.Mail Order Bride:...

If we hope to fight and eventually heal from misogyny, we must first be able to identify and understand it.Despite the undeniable progress for women and girls in the 20th and 21st centuries, misogyny is still alive and well in today's culture—often in ways that are more subtle and more insidious than the outright sexism of the past, and in spaces that we overlook or excuse as normative.Misogyny has shape-shifted through the generations while maintaining a c...

Mail Order Bride: Accident Prone & Headed For Her Tall Cowboy - An overweight and accident-prone woman from Boston decides to make her way to Oklahoma, and to a tall cowboy with a checkered past. She doesn't know that, and when she finds out, has almost decided to return to Boston when a few odd incidents drive any thought of returning home right out of her mind.Mail Order Bride: Jennifer Plain And Tall, And Her Widower - A plain and tall young woman with a gentle soul travels back...

When my mother/best friend was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, we thought our lives were over. My mother always insisted that she would NEVER endure the torture her Grandmother who had been diagnosed back in the 1970's had experienced. Through gentle persuasion, we convinced her that treatment had changed drastically since then and she decided to fight.Fight it she did and was cancer free . . . until she was diagnosed with a second primary cancer - pancreatic which had alread...

Four Generations of WomenHaunted. Hunted.Claimed. Broken. Imprisoned.Forced to survive in a world where visions can drive one to madness and Gods demand everything while giving nothing in return.Until one woman dares to run.Before there was Alena, there were mothers, daughters, and sisters who carried a destiny they could never escape. Their suffering would shape the woman destined to stand b...

Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott is a heartwarming and enduring tale of family, love, and personal growth. Following the lives of the four March sisters, Alcott paints a vivid portrait of ambition, kindness, and resilience in the face of life’s challenges during the Civil War era.Through charming storytelling and memorable characters, Alcott explores sisterhood, individuality, and the pursuit of dreams. Each sister embo...