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Meet Zonia Saloj, Sponsored in Guatemala by IWantHerJob.com

Yesterday we got a first glimpse of one of two girls sponsored in Guatemala, from last December’s successful “Likes for Learning” fundraising campaign, hosted by career blog IWantHerJob.com. The founder and editor of this inspiring, aspirational blog, Brianne Burrowes, secured funding from her personal network and matched every “Like” of the blog’s Facebook page and every new Twitter follower of @IWantHerJob with a dollar donation — the result was $1,700 to sponsor two girls for our Guatemala partner, Starfish One by One!

Meet Zonia on IWantHerJob.com here, and see her on video below. Let us know what you think about fundraising on social media — and if it’s something that you might try out this year if you have a Facebook fan page or Twitter account that is aligned with She’s the First’s mission. Here’s how Brianne did it.

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"Likes for Learning" Campaign by IWantHerJob.com Sponsors Two Girls in Guatemala!

This one-week campaign matching Facebook likes for IWantHerJob.com with dollars for girls' sponsorship in Guatemala raised $1,700!

Just in case you didn’t catch the good news on our Facebook page or IWantHerJob.com‘s blog, the December campaign called “Likes for Learning” successfully sponsored two girls in Guatemala at the Starfish One by One program — which She’s the First 360 travelers Christen, Kate, and Maisy are now visiting! See below for a recap from IWantHerJob.com editor-in-chief Brianne Burrowes…and read her full post here. Congrats!

A few weeks ago I Want Her Job challenged its community — including you —  to come together in support of educating two girls in Guatemala through our ‘Likes’ for Learningcampaign, in partnership with She’s the First and Starfish One-by-One.

The idea was small. I Want Her Job asked you to “like” the site on Facebook and follow the community’s Twitter feed to raise money, awareness and support of women’s education. And “like” you did! On Facebook, more than 800 people supported the campaign, and on Twitter we reached nearly 300 followers. But that’s nothing compared to all of the community members who retweeted, posted the campaign to their Facebook walls, sent out e-mails, invited their friends, wrote blog posts, and generally got the word out in every way possible.

Without you this never would have happened.

On Christmas Eve I received an e-mail from Travis Ning, executive director at Starfish One-by-One. He wanted to introduce us to the two girls we’re sponsoring.

I’m thrilled to share that in 2011 you will get to know Andrea Sosof Sisay, a girl living in Santiago, Atitlan, and Zonia Saloj, who is from a rural village across the lake near the city of Sololá.

I don’t have a lot of information on Andrea yet, but I can tell you that Zonia is the oldest of eight siblings and works making beaded necklaces. Her dream is to graduate and later pursue a degree at a university. She hopes to also see her community become more developed and have more employment opportunities. Those are pretty grown-up aspirations for a 13-year-old girl.

These are two girls who are set on making a difference in their communities, and I want to ask you to help me welcome them.

Starfish asked us to send a letter to Andrea and Zonia telling them about some of our favorite holiday traditions. So, if you like lighting candles for a Christmas Eve service or have a day-after-Christmas annual tag football game with your family in the snow, please share your favorite holiday tradition below. I will compile your responses and they will be sent to Starfish for translation and will reach the girls early this year.

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IWantHerJob.com Ups the Ante! $1 for Every Facebook 'Like'

Bridget & shesthefirst.org are part of IWantHerJob.com's creative campaign to fundraise for a girl's sponsorship in Guatemala!

We’re thrilled to report that IWantHerJob.com raised $280 to date for sponsorship of a girl in Guatemala — just through Facebook ‘likes.’ There are five day to go in the campaign…so if you haven’t already ‘liked’ this empowering career blog for women, we encourage you to do so. Today, IWantHerJob.com editor-in-chief Brianne Burrowes announced that for every ‘like’ this blog receives on Facebook, one dollar will now be donated toward the sponsorship of a girl educated by our partner Starfish One by One! Here’s the good news she emailed us:

“I’ve been blown away by the amount of support the ‘Likes for Learning’ campaign has received so far! Because we have so many generous sponsors backing this effort, I wanted to step up I Want Her Job’s contribution to the campaign. So now, instead of donating $0.50 for every click, we’re doubling it and pledging $1. I Want Her Job is committed to female empowerment, and believes the best place to start is through education. Every single woman featured on the site was blessed with the gift of education, and the profiles are indicative of where it’s gotten them. We want to help in our small way to make a difference in the lives of a few girls in Guatemala who don’t already have this opportunity.”

We’d also like to point out that one of the young women on the founding team of She’s the First, our Midwest Ambassador Bridget Nelson Monroe, was profiled on IWantHerJob.com today for her rewarding job in digital PR. So proud!

We encourage you to visit IWantHerJob.com’s Facebook page for the latest inspiring interviews with women who love their jobs, and ‘Suggest to Friends’ to pay it forward for a girl in Guatemala.

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"Likes for Learning": Could This Be Our First Girl Sponsored on FB?

The campaign begins midnight, December 13th, and lasts for one week!

Help us send a girl to school in Guatemala — one click from you contributes 50 cents to a sponsorship (without costing you a cent). It’s a small amount, yes, but it makes a difference. Haven’t you seen how fast things go viral among hundreds and thousands of people online? This will all add up!

All you have to do is ‘Like” the I Want Her Job Facebook page. I WantHerJob.com is a blog that profiles women who have fun, fulfilling jobs and how they got them. Here is the announcement about the campaign.

At She’s the First, we remind you that fundraisers for a girl’s sponsorship come in all sizes and styles, depending on where your talents and passions lie. For Brianne Burrowes, a leader of our She’s the First Los Angeles branch, that fundraiser was naturally via Facebook. She is a digital strategist by day at WONGDOODY in LA (profile here) and editor-in-chief of IWantHerJob.com blog by night. Of course, She’s the First wouldn’t have advocated a ‘Like’ campaign for just any brand…but IWantHerJob.com is directly aligned with the mission of She’s the First. Many “firsts” that we celebrate are those who attained dream jobs, and that’s exactly what IWantHerJob.com guides women to do.

Brianne’s idea for a Facebook “Like” fundraiser for She’s the First developed a few weeks before GAP announced their own holiday campaign to donate to a charity for every “Like” it received on a video…so we want to recognize Brianne for being so forward-thinking, congratulate her on launching her blog’s first non-profit campaign, and thank all the sponsors who made it possible.

The campaign runs from Dec. 13th to Dec. 17th — we encourage you to Share the page on your Facebook Wall too, encouraging others to join in — if we succeed and sponsor a girl in Guatemala, through partner Starfish One by One, you’ll all get to meet her on the blogs and Facebook. :)

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