Salt Lake Valley Cottage: A Steady Beacon with Powerful Impact
The Salt Lake Valley cottage is tried and true, steady and strong. Forged in the early days of Big Ocean by Dana Robb, this cottage shines like a beacon. As…
A Mother Heart: Voices From CSW – Ingvild Segersam, Women of Sweden and Haro, Part 2
Ingvild Segersam is the president of Haro in Sweden, a group formed to support parents. Haro’s purpose is to promote the family as a natural, cultural, social, and financial entity.…
A Mother Heart: Voices From CSW – Caroline Hoglund, Women of Sweden and Haro, Part 1
When everyone around you is telling you that your children will be better off with someone else, when your community and your culture and your government encourage and even incentivize…
Certain Women Exhibit
A few other members of Big Ocean’s media team and I had the opportunity to go to the Certain Women Art Show in Salt Lake City this past fall. This…
Cottage Industry Series: Sister Cottages – Houston and Nigeria Pair Up for Powerful Impact
What happens when two cottages that are a world apart geographically adopt each other as sisters? A Model of Powerful Impact. Bam! The Houston cottage in the United States had…
Change – One Drop at a Time: Voices from CSW – Raindrop Foundation
“I have crossed so many rivers I no longer get wet” One evening this summer, just as the light was beginning to fade and the intense summer heat began to…
Houston, We Have a Problem: UN CSC Presentation by Erica Komisar
Erica Komisar shared her research on the first thousand days of a child’s life at the U.N. Civil Societies Conference in Salt Lake City. She said, “Mothers are not just…
A Mighty Wave: Susan Roylance
Susan Roylance, first and foremost a wife and mother of seven children, as well as a strong advocate for families, founded United Families International in 1978. Since then she has…
One Woman’s Fight: Gracey Van Der Mark
Each of us has within ourselves an internal compass that can help us as we navigate life. Sometimes we will feel called to do something that may be frightening or…
A Thousand Points of Light: Voices from CSW – Noorani Barkhat
Nestled at the foot of a string of majestic mountains, so tall their tops are wreathed in clouds and mist, lies a long, green valley that used to be a…
Some insights from the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit
Recently we got to talk to Melyssa Webb and Dana Robb, two Big Ocean members who attended the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit held in Washington, D.C. in June. …