If I can do anything with this blog, it’s my hope that I can help others. I don’t do this so I can land a spot on a Top 50 Bloggers list, or earn tons of money in ad revenue, but so I can reach moms wherever they are and have them feel like they have a place to belong. Period.

So when Jeannette Pai-Espinosa, president of the National Crittenton Foundation, asked me to mention two initiatives they are working to promote, I said, “Sign me up!”

Both of them are through Change.org, and if the ideas get enough votes, then they will be presented to appropriate members of the Obama Administration to become reality. Let’s make it happen!

The first is a program proposing that young single mothers who graduate from high school with a certain GPA be eligible for college grants and scholarships. Who can’t get behind that? If we help young moms continue their education, we can help break the cycle of poverty that so many get entrenched in. Click here to vote for this initiative. It needs 72 more votes to make it to the final round!

The second initiative is beyond brilliant. They are proposing that we create family networks for young single mothers, who too often end up parenting alone and don’t have the support they need to become happy, fulfilled moms. This network would allow them to reach out to young moms in their area so they would have a local support system to lean on when times get rough. (And we’ve ALL been there.) Click here to vote for this initiative. It needs 13 more votes to make it to the final round!

So what say you? Can you take a moment or two to vote for these initiatives? I did my part - will you?