Thursday's Daily Brief: The RaiseForWomen Challenge, Obama's Approval Rating Now Underwater

Thursday, April 11, 2013 The RaiseForWomen Challenge: Investing in Women Who Change the World Arianna Huffington: The JobRaising Challenge, our effort to raise money, increase awareness and support nonprofits working to create jobs, yielded more than $1.5 million in donations -- most of them under $100. Now, knowing just how much impact we can have, and how many organizations are eager to make a difference, we are again asking how we can raise money and awareness, this time to tap into the potential of women-focused nonprofits. So I'm delighted to announce The RaiseForWomen Challenge, an initiative to help women-focused nonprofits gain resources and recognition, in partnership with The Skoll Foundation, Crowdrise, and Sheryl WuDunn and Nick Kristof's Half the Sky Movement. The initiative coincides with a women's conference I'm co-hosting with Mika Brzezinski on June 6, on the theme of "Redefining Success: The Third Metric." To sign up to participate in the Challenge and invest in women who are changing the world, click here. POLITICS Emotionally Charged Debate Ready To Launch In Senate POLITICS Poll: Obama's Approval Rating Now Underwater MEDIA Meghan McCain Attacks Ann Coulter After Shocking Column TECHNOLOGY Zuckerberg's Big Political Move DIVORCE Miranda Lambert Talks Divorce BLOG POSTS Dr. Peggy Drexler: The Poetry of Women's Work What a better time than this, National Poetry Month, to enter another sort of discussion: the common space poems create for reflection -- on the challenges we face, the choices we make, and the invaluable importance of all women do. Michelangelo Signorile: Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck: Champions of Gay Rights? O'Reilly surely is quite cognizant of keeping his ratings high as he sees support for gay marriage rise rapidly in the polls. But if the debate over marriage equality now needs to move into the Fox News audience, it's certainly not a bad thing to have O'Reilly taking on the anti-equality crowd. Marty Kaplan: An Apple for the Apple There are good reasons to be skeptical of machines grading essays. Their algorithms can't distinguish between arguments supported by factual evidence and cases built on canards. They're reliable enough to dock points for clichés, but they're not subtle enough to reward subtlety. Joan Gage: A Tale of Three Wedding Gowns: 1932-2010 Three generations of wedding gowns, each with its own tale. Glen Canning: Rehtaeh Parsons Was My Daughter I had to write something about this. I don't want her life to defined by a Google search about suicide or death or rape. I want it to be about the giving heart she had. Her smile. Her love of life and the beautiful way in which she lived it. I found out this afternoon my daughter saved the life of a young woman with her heart. How fitting. She also gave someone a new liver, a kidney, a new breath, and a new chance to love. She saved the lives of four people with her final gift of life. She was that wonderful.

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