This photo at right isn’t a picture of us at Breakthrough. It’s Tyra at the Emmy’s. And she looks pretty excited, but she’s not nearly as excited as we are to announce our THREE recent awards: *A Gold Spike at the recently concluded Spikes Asia 2009 – First Asian Advertising Festival held in Singapore. *The [...]

September 30, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: AAJC, American Courage Award, Bell Bajao, Domestic Violence, Gold Spike, O & M, Ogilvy and Mather, Ryan Mendonca, Spikes Asia, Tyra Banks | Comments Off

American Apparel is one of the most controversial mainstream companies with the CEO Dov Charney being slapped with numerous sex suits.  This isn’t much of a surprise when one looks at the stores’ ads – many of AA employees are in all-sorts of revealing/compromising positions. But one thing that can be said about the company [...]

September 30, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: American Apparel, American Apparel's CEO, CEO, Dov Charney, firing, immigrant, immigration, undocumented | 4 Comments »

We’re in mourning that Reading Rainbow, one of the big TV classics that helped many of us learn to read on PBS has unfortunately left us,  but we’re glad that Sesame Street is still going strong. To celebrate the 40th season (starting to feel quite old) the special guest star will be Michelle Obama, who [...]

September 30, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: First lady, gardening, Michelle Obama, Pinball Number Count, Pointer Sisters, Sesame Street | Comments Off

If you haven’t heard of Google Wave, tomorrow (Sept. 30th), an overly excited 100,000 people will be test-driving the desktop overload. We usually right-align our photos, but this deserved full-on-center attention. What is Google Wave you ask? From our Mashable friends: Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, [...]

September 29, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: Google Wave, Mashable, TweetDeck | Comments Off

As an org that works on women’s rights issues, we want to know in the right-hand column of the page what you think about the recent arrest of filmmaker Roman Polanski. If you didn’t know, he was picked up in Switzerland for a allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl 30 years ago in Los Angeles. After [...]

September 29, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: 30 years ago, charged, Martin Scorsese, rape, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen | 4 Comments »

Sometimes immigration can be thought of as something that’s a hot-button issue in the U.S. but that’s just not the case. Europe has it’s own issues with the latest headlines showing French actress Cecile Cassel being shocked that her latest film, is being used as propaganda tool by Italy’s xenophobic Northern League Party. The party [...]

September 29, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: Cecile Cassel, French actress, global immigration, immigration, Northern League Party, Umberto Bossi | Comments Off

Where are you going to be on October 22, 2009? Hopefully, along with many more, you’ll be at the Harvard Club in NYC for the Let’s Breakthrough Together, 2009 event. Buy your tickets and enjoy renowned speakers, authors and more all in support of Breakthrough and human rights.   See full info below: Thursday, October 22, [...]

September 28, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: Andrew Solomon, b-listed, benefit, breakthrough, Carol Jenkins, Elizabeth Gardner Hines, Harvard Club of NYC, human rights, Ishmael Beah, Let's Breakthrough Together 2009, Sarita Choudhury, Suketu Mehta | Comments Off

We’re excited to announce that our Executive Director, Mallika Dutt, is being honored with the American Courage Award by the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), one of the nations leading civil rights organizations. This award goes to an individual who has shown extraordinary courage or commitment to the cause of civil rights. The award ceremony [...]

September 28, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: AAJC, American Courage Award, Asian American Justice Center, award, breakthrough, Breakthrough's Executive Director, Civil Rights, Civil rights leader, Congressman, DC, John Lewis, Mallika Dutt | Comments Off

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan was a featured attendee at at this week’s Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting 2009. You may remember that former President Clinton at the CGI Annual Meeting recognized Breakthrough’s Value Families Campaign in 2006. The Queen recently established an organization called 1Goal, which aims to provide education [...]

September 25, 2009 by nikki | Tags: Letterman, Queen of Jordan, Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, Top 10, Twitter, youtube | Comments Off

Born: September 25, 1930–May 10, 1999 Claim to fame: Shel Silverstein was a beloved children’s author, poet, artist who wrote and illustrated numerous children’s books including best selling A Light in The Attic which was the first children’s book to make the NY Times Bestsellers list and stayed for 182 weeks. Did you know? Shel [...]

September 25, 2009 by crissy spivey | Tags: A Light in the Attic, artist, b-days, Happy Birthday, Poet, Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends | Comments Off