Hi everyone and Happy Friday!

Copy. Paste. Change the world for women. That's the path we're on at BlogHer.

In honor of the time and attention that so many of you have invested blogging about BlogHers Act, I'm devoting this week's newsletter entirely to the new poll that just went live today. (Wonder how I voted? I'll tell you! Read on...)

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Voting ends at midnight on August 25th.

BlogHers Act editors Emily McKhann and Cooper Munroe introduced the poll with this post. They write:

"BlogHers Act will take a two-pronged approach to improving Global Health:

"The members of BlogHer and our extended communities will work together to select a single global health issue on which we want to effect a measurable improvement in the coming year. By measurable, we seek to demonstrate progress on Global Health via key metrics to be determined (e.g., signatures, votes, donations, letters, live births, etc.). We will use an array of online and offline resources, actions and initiatives to deliver and report on this impact.

"BlogHers Act also will encourage members who want to create their own, separate campaigns on issues of their choice to do so, and to report back to the BlogHers Act initiative. Wherever possible and notified, the BlogHers Act team will work to include these efforts in the final report of BlogHers Act project results.

"[This] is a quick poll on the one global health issue we want to focus on. You can put it on your blog, or send it in an email. We hope you do both. It is important to get as many votes as possible."

I'm really excited about the changes we can make in this world, working together as BlogHers Act. And while I voted for maternal health -- Wonder why? More here -- I'll support you all in just about any cause you all support for global health.

That is to say, let's go! Please copy the poll onto your blog. Let's get as many people as we can to vote. Then, the week after Labor Day, we can go blog, vlog, poll, and podcast the problem smaller. For women.

Very best,

Lisa

for Elisa, Jory and Lisa