Women who Launch get help

There's never been a better time for women to get funding for their small businesses.

There's Ladies Who Launch and many others listed in today's Wall Street Journal, The Money Game, Capital Ideas (subscribers only).

There has been a very large amount of progress in a relatively short period of time" for women-owned businesses expanding and obtaining funding, says Susan Sobbott, president of OPEN, American Express Co.'s small-business services division.

Women made up about 40%, or 10.4 million, of all small-business owners in the U.S. this year, according to the Center for Women's Business Research, an advocacy and research group in Washington. But only 3% of all female entrepreneurs owned small companies generating more than $1 million in yearly revenue, compared with 6% of all male entrepreneurs

Hot Library Smut

I confess.  I love Hot Library Smut.

Playpumps

Bringing water to over a million people in South Africa are Playpumps, a water pump that's also a children's merry-go-round. 

At over 700 playpumps, as  children laugh and play,  clean water is being pumped for hundreds of thousands of families.  More please

via Creative Generalist