Every Mother Counts 2012 CD

Every Mother Counts partnered with Starbucks on a second-annual compilation CD, which began selling the week before Mother’s Day.

It also charted on the Billboard Top 200 Albums, where it rose to #45 as one of the fastest rising CDs! In addition to being…

No Mothers Day Campaign

Maternal mortality is an issue people tend not to recognize even though 360,000 women die each year around the world due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth. Their deaths create a ripple effect that devastates children, families, and communities. What’s worse? Almost all of…

Making Motherhood Less Deadly, One Song at a Time

Note from the bloggers: As fellow music lovers and advocates for improving maternal health, we’re joining our voices to let you know about a new CD that will help make a difference in women’s lives around the world.
“Daddy, Daddy,” a little…

No Mothers Day Press

As an alternative to the traditional Mother’s Day celebration, our No Mothers Day campaign garnered significant press across a variety of different outlets including national broadcast, fashion publications, business/tech, lifestyle, mom bloggers and so on. 
The idea behind No Mothers Day…

Let Me Count the Ways to Thank You

Thank you all for your help and support to make our No Mothers Day a great success! We set ourselves a goal this year to break through the noise of Mother’s Day and use this one day when people think about mothers the most to raise awareness about global maternal…

Saving Girls from Senseless Deaths

While in rural Tanzania filming my documentary, “No Woman, No Cry,” about mothers around the world, I met Lightness, a frightened, pregnant 16-year-old.

Lightness never received reproductive health education, had become pregnant, and then was…