.@EinsteinBros #TwistNDip Twofer- A definite ESO on every level!!

HolaHolaHola Beautifuls!

Now you KNOW Babushka’s all about Social Good and Eating good . The new #TwistNDip campaign is exactly what BB loves. So glad they asked Babushka to share with you, porque a better twofer hay que fabricarlo! Now that school is out, esto es Perfecto for the summer breaks and time with The Grands, “Breakfast is fun again this summer with Einstein Bros. Bagels’ fun twist on the classic bagel, the Twist ‘N Dip. “ Not only is it yummy Beautifuls, but you get to win in many ways too!!

· “Between now and July 31, bagel lovers everywhere have permission to play (with their food) to show off their best Twist ‘N Dip moves. Fans are invited to post a photo or video that captures how they Twist N’ Dip on Feibu, Tweety or Instagram using the hashtag #TwistNDip. Einstein Bros. will select weekly winners to receive cool prizes such as Six Flags prize packs, summer swag and even FREE bagels for a year.
·
Beginning May 5, the all new Twist N’ Dip bagel gives fans a reason to look forward to morning office meetings, an afternoon escape or even the simple joy of a shmear mustache on their kid’s face. The Twist N’ Dip bagel doesn’t just offer a new way to enjoy a bagel, it offers a FUN new way to play with your food!

· Revolutionary perforated plain bagel easy to twist and tear into bite size pieces for dipping into two of Einstein’s 16 flavors of signature schmear.

· For every Twist N’ Dip sold Einstein Bros. Bagels will donate a bagel to someone in need.”

Not only will you be giving someone a bagel everytime you buy uno, but go to http://www.einsteinbros.com/twistndip for a BOGO coupon! 

 Giving AND getting, ese Karma esta en candela!!

Ahora, you know food isn’t the only thing BB gets The Grands. Quee?? JU SO FONII!!! Ok si, it’s the MAIN thing we do, pero they do like parks and rides too. Felizmente Einstein Bros. have us covered there too!

So, the reaction of El Dr. y La Princesa??

jehe  No creo que the gift cards we got to try it out will make it through the summer.

; )

Go to your local Einstein Bros. today Beautifuls.  

Enter the photo contests, feed someone in need, cool off at Six Flags. 

 To BB, you can't ask for a better Summer than that.

BB2U

#HISPZ16 Time for Doing Good and Getting Better.

HolaHolaHola Beautifuls!

La Potencia que es Hispanicize is upon us once again, and thanks to the S Sisters Babushka will be attending once again. Didn't think BB was going to go this year, but fairy Godmothers/fathers DO exist. Gracias to Miriam, Manny, Heather y Maria, this will be the fifth time Blessed. Why does Babushka call this a blessing?  JU SO FONII !!! Hispanicize is THE event to attend if you are in the hispanic social media, or want to be.

#Hispz16 is the iconic, largest annual event for Latino trendsetters and newsmakers in digital content creation, journalism, marketing, entertainment and tech entrepreneurship. The event will take place in downtown Miami’s InterContinental hotel, April 4-8, 2016. The Hispanicize event is a launch pad for creative endeavors, new products, technologies, marketing campaigns, films, books and more targeting Latinos in the U.S. and/or Puerto Rico.

Vieron why BB calls it La Potencia? Pero realmente, it's so much more than that and it truly is one of those things you have to experience in person to see/feel the power and potential.  It's gathering of like minded individuals who believe in the power of Latinos, our talents, contributions, and aspirations. A place where we can exchange ideas, knowledge, concerns to better each other and in turn our world. After 5 years Beautifuls, this is like a family reunion for BB. A family reunion where as a collective we can change things we care about. Es mas, there will be a panel "Multicultural Influence for Commerce,Justice, and Social Good" presented by The Colvert Foundation. Y'all KNOW how much Babushka believes in doing things for Social Good and am especially feliz that she can do another BB Twofer,  This year mi querida amiga Laurita Tellado is launching her Non-profit The Laurita Spina Bifida Project.  Laurita and her Bella familia have been very special to BB for many years now and being able to help in such a worthwhile cause is a wonderful thing. 

"Spina bifida is a neural tube defect that leaves an opening in the underdeveloped spine at birth. It is more common than muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, and cystic fibrosis combined. 70 percent of cases, there are as many as 166,000 people living with spina bifida in the country. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Latinos have the highest incidence of spina bifida of all ethnicities." Laurita was born with Spina Bifida and is now the Maravillosa Ms. we all love, but it hasn't been, and isn't without its' trials and frustrations. 

“Many organizations that cater to the spina bifida community are almost exclusively focusing on preventing spina bifida, and are founded and run by parents and health professionals,” Tellado said. “The Laurita Spina Bifida Project seeks to educate the community about the issues affecting those of us currently living with spina bifida. We are the first organization of our kind— conceptualized and founded by an individual  who is living with Spina Bifida." 

And that is the heart of Hispanicize Beautifuls, helping each other.  Pero there's also the soul of our hispanidad- La Musica.  It's another track and major plus of going to HIspanicize. Babushka was introduced to so many up and coming artists who are now major players en la musica!  And you know how much BB loves her dance!  So, come join us in Miami for #Hispz16 ; Babushka will be covering it on social media, just follow the hashtag y  A BAILAR SE HA DICHO!!!

BB2U

P.S.  On Wednesday, April 6 will be the Official Launch & Tweety Fiesta for #TheLSBProject

Crowdfunding page for this worthwhile  non profit is-
https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/let-s-do-launch-for-spina-bifida-thelsbproject

Nos vemos there Beautifuls!!

Warriors in Pink- Pa' lante con La Pelea ! A Giveaway and Gracias.

HolaHolaHola Beautifuls!!

Como saben, BB is part of Una Familia Pa' Ford, but what you may not know is how many ways Ford helps the familia of (wo)man too.  For over 20 years Ford has donated 100% of the net proceeds of their Warriors in Pink program to help against the Breast Cancer Battle. 

"From raising funds through our Warriors in Pink apparel, to raising awareness through unique media content, to giving breast cancer patients and survivors more good days – we are always looking for ways to help people go further. - See more at: http://www.warriorsinpink.ford.com/?fmccmp=150428-bca-wipmoregooddays#sthash.wVjGuamc.dpuf "

This is a personal twofer post for Babushka.  When I approached the Ford PR company and asked for items for a giveaway, they knew of my mother's passing from cancer (the first one she had was breast cancer) and graciously gave me these items, to share them and the message with my Beautifuls.

Mi madre would have loved these items. The colors, the fashion, vibrancy and life asserting hues are exactly the message behind Warriors In Pink. And now you can help share in the celebration of life and the lucha of surviving.  There will be 3 winners of the following:

TShirt

Tie

Bandana

Pashmina style scarf/wrap

Ford Tote

BB modeling el  Pashmina style scarf y el Bello Fern Senra of Moore Communications 

who facilitated the wonderful giveaway. 

Entry-Form

Life affirming, message carrying, these items make statements on all types of levels.

Buena Suerte Beautifuls!

BB2U

And if you think this is the only way place Warriors in Pink estan, JU SO FONII!!!

Twitter  YouTube  Instagram

P.S.  Ford has pensa'o en todo.  

A link of ideas to "Simple acts to give breast cancer patients more good days." - 

See more at: http://www.warriorsinpink.ford.com/more-good-days#sthash.ggUQyBMF.dpuf

TWEETY FIESTA!! #ShareYourCare Twitter Party

Bloggin' Mamas Social Good Campaign

HolaHolaHola Beautifuls!!

The ositos Care Bear, Osos Amorosos- how they bring back such great memorias and smiles!  Babushka remembers many happy hours watching them and the Care Bear Cousins with The Trio, and now we get to compartir their great adventures and messages with another generation!!! BB has the pleasure and honor of cohosting TREMENDO TWEETY FIESTA con the Care Bears Friend, Bloggin' Mamas and some other Bellas for a very special occasion.



#ShareYourCare Twit­ter Party

Join Blog­gin Mamas & the Care Bears™ as we host the #ShareYourCare Twit­ter Party on Wednesday, 9/9/15 at 9p EST! Join us as we celebrate the Share Your Care National Holiday and chat about how we are sharing our care in our communities. There will be some fun prizes as well!

Date: Wed, Sept 9, 2015

Time: 9:00–10:00pm EST / 6:00–7:00pm PST

Hash­tag: #ShareYourCare

Pre­sented by: @BlogginMamas and @CareBearsFriend

Mod­er­a­tors: Eng­lish– @HeLoEnterprises Span­ish– @BBabushka

Co-hosts: @EnzasBargains, @MamasMission, @DarciBean, @MommyPowers, and @DoveBlog

Syn­op­sis:

September 9th is National Care Bears™ #ShareYourCare Day!

With your help on that day, the Care Bears™ are encouraging fans to spread caring, sharing, love, friendship, acceptance, fun and happiness to those around them that day, and each and every day of the year! That day, Care Bears is participating in an event helping 10 year old Zach Kaplan of #ZachKapCares and his mission to gift children in need with a soft bear to hug at night by donating 400 Care Bears plush to Leake & Watts, a head start program serving 8,000 in New York City and Westchester County!

But We Need YOU!

Remember, #ShareYourCare could be small, simple things like sharing a toy with your sibling, taking out the trash for your mom, or helping an older neighbor across the street. Or bigger things like planting a tree, or spending a day volunteering for a charity. Through this important movement, the Care Bears will inspire everyone to be kind, think of others and #ShareYourCare every day.

First and foremost, we would love it if you would share one of your own #ShareYourCare stories

Also, please sign up as part of the official #ShareYourCare Crew via www.CareBearsShare.com where all of the amazing #ShareYourCare testimonials will be collected and later shared!

To celebrate the culmination of the day, we will be hosting a Twitter Party at 9pm EST/ 6pm PST to discuss how we shared our care that day and we will be giving out some fun Care Bears prizes too!

Dis­clo­sure: Blog­gin’ Mamas is man­ag­ing this Twit­ter Party as part of a social good campaign. Individual co-hosts, such as myself, may be provided with Care Bears items for assisting with this campaign. All prize ful­fill­ment is the respon­si­bil­ity of the sponsor.

Nos Vemos alli Beautiuls- See you there!!

BB2U

#ImBornTo Follow My Dreams & help March of Dimes y eBay raise $25,000

This is a sponsored post for the #ImBornTo campaign between March of Dimes and EBay. 

 BB is thankful to SocialMoms for letting me share my views on such a fun and worthy event.

HolaHolaHola My Beautifuls!!!

Hoy BB has the pleasure of bringing you the chance to have fun, do a social good, and maybe even win a $5,000 eBay shopping spree.  Ok si, JU SO FONII!!!  I'll tell you the how to's right now! Pero primero- the whys.

March of Dimes, always working towards stronger, healthier babies will be the recipient of up to $25,000 from eBay- but they need your help.  Believe me when Babushka tells you, you're gonna love this one.  All you have to do My Beautifuls is to dream and window shop- and let the world know about it!  

Create an eBay collection using #ImBornTo in the name of the collection for a chance to WIN a $5,000 eBay shopping spree! For every collection you make, eBay will donate $1 to March of Dimes. A Collection consists of six (6) or more eBay products and the title must start with with the hashtag #ImBornTo.

Babushka did-

#ImBornToBeAnAbuelaGrandma 

#ImBornToBeOnBroadway 

#ImBornToDrinkCoffee 

Here's the link-  http://eshopping.promotw.com/curateforacause/

Sweepstakes ends March 31, 2014.

Go My Beautifuls, have fun while helping a worthy cause.  

Now that's a twofer that deserves a BIG

ESO!!!

BB2U

Again, Gracias to

for enlightening on the social good 

for

and for letting 

tell it in her own way.

Enough Talk the Talk- Let's all Walk the Walk!! #StopTheStigma

  RAISE $100 AND GET A SPECIAL NAMIWALKS TSHIRT- FREE!!

 The Easy, Peasy Way to Raise $100

• $10 - Your Personal Donation              $10
• $15 - From Spouse or Parent               $15
•  $10   - From a Work Colleague           $10
• $10 - From 2 Friends at Church           $20
• $5 - From 4 Neighbors                           $20
• $10 - From 2 Family Members              $20
• $5 - From Teacher or School Friends  $5

                                        TOTAL                        $100

7 POINTS

EXPLAINING WHY NAMIWALKS IS AN EVENT 

YOUR COMPANY SHOULD SUPPORT 

1. The Issue & Stigma. This Walk is for an issue – Mental Illness – that many think is the 

“last thing to come out of the closet.” The Fear of Stigma is so great and the Walks are 

giving people the opportunity to come together and make public discourse about mental 

illness and admission of mental illness okay. 

2. Inclusivity. The Walk is “inclusive.” We invite other mental health constituencies to 

join us at the Walk with materials about their programs. (Note: We are not sharing 

revenue. This is a NAMI fundraiser.) 

3. Validation and Good Will. The Walk and its participants are part of a movement much 

bigger than themselves. People will be walking in NAMIWalks in cities across the 

country. People are hungry for this validation. Business sponsors of the Walk will be 

in a very visible and positive position with great goodwill to be gained from the 

community. 

4. Benefit to Employers. NAMI programs are grassroots, volunteer driven programs that 

provide education and support to family members and individuals living with mental 

illness. These programs are not provided anywhere else in the mental health system 

and help employees without any cost to employers. Twenty to twenty-five percent of 

employees are touched by mental illness in some meaningful way and can benefit 

from NAMI programs without charge. 

5. Evaluation. NAMI affiliates evaluate the efficacy of their programs and strive to 

maximize measurable results. NAMI Greater Orlando will use our Walk funding to train 

additional teachers so we can expand our Family-to-Family, Basics and Peer-to-Peer 

programs in response to heavy public demand. 

6. Gratitude. We receive emails and phone calls every single day from people who say 

“Thank you so much for doing this!” and then they proceed to tell their stories – often 

for the first time. 

7. Competence and Commitment. We have a very committed and capable Walk 

Steering Committee. They will make sure the entire Walk effort is exemplary. 

Broward County Sponsor Brochure

Greater Orlando Sponsorship Brochure

Lake Sumter Sponsorship Brochure

Miami Sponsorship Brochure

Palm Beach County Sponsorship Brochure

HolaHolaHola My Beautifuls!!  Que?? You thought Babushka was just going to post the NAMI information and that's all??  JU SO FONII!!!  BB said enough talk the talk, never said no more talk! Cubana al fin...

Right now the NUNCA ALONE team has 2 registered walkers.  Sonia Guerra (aka as Babushka on Valium) and my dear childhood friend Howard Cohen- who happens to be a registered and licensed counselor.  Those S Sisters are slick verdad??  Continuing.

AUXILIO!! SOS!! HELP!!

Let's share this, Tweety,Feibu, Instagram, Pinterest, and even good old fashioned phone calls y emails!!  We CAN do this and help #StopTheStigma - if anyone can do this it is you My Beautifuls.  Please register for the team,donate,share- whatever your heart calls you to do.  And from BB's corazon and in the name of my daughter and myself.  1000x Gracias.

Babushka Besos a todos.  Cuidensen.

P.S. Babushka's plea is in gratitude for NAMI's help during my daughter's hospitalization. 

 The complete story can be found on the top of this post - click on #StopTheStigma for the campaign information.

P.P.S. For those not familiar w/Babushka's style, most of the colored words are links. 

 What can I say?  I find color makes the world (and my blog) purtier.

; )  

#SMCSFBlog

@GoodwillIntl Not just a name, but a Mission. #DonateStuffCreateJobs

HolaHolaHola My Beautifuls!!

Today Babushka gave you a Twofer!! 2 posts in one day. Quee?? JU SO FONII!!! True, it's Halloween and BB's been dipping into the candy bags, but that's not the reason for this post.  As part of the BlogginMamas network, we were asked to help with a social good project, and when BB saw it was for Goodwill??  ESO!! The number of times I've shopped and donated! Matter of fact, the trio learned how to budget, appreciate, and be creative with things found at our local Goodwill stores. Halloween was our all time favorite reason to visit. I'll never forget finding the perfect dress for My Eldest and her Miss America costume, it was bella! Only for her to later add wilted flowers, zombie face, and dress up as "Dead Miss America".  And y'all think I kid when I say I'm still shellshocked from their ::shudder:: Puberty.  Continuing.

Goodwill's been around forever, and since there's no reason to reinvent the rueda, here is some information from them.

A simple item donated to Goodwill® can help provide job training programs, employment placement services and other community-based programs for people who have disabilities, lack education or job experience, or face other challenges to finding employment. In fact, Goodwill is the leading nonprofit provider of job training programs and career services in the United States and Canada.

Did you know that donating one bag of clothing and one bag of books can equal up to 2.3 hours of on-the-job training for someone in your community? Add to that a used lamp, a dusty computer and perhaps a box of DVDs and CDs, and that number nearly doubles to 5.2 hours! Click Goodwill’s Donation page and see the “Donation Impact Calculator” - it’ll tell you how many service hours will be generated thanks to your tax deductible donation.



Once you see how vital you can be to your community but giving items you no longer use or need, I’m sure you’ll be happy to donate. Here’s the Goodwill Locator tool that not only specifies drop off locations, but it can help you find Goodwill stores, headquarters, and job training facilities nearby.




About Goodwill Industries International

Goodwill Industries International is a network of 165 community-based agencies in the United States and Canada with affiliates in 13 other countries. Goodwill is one of America’s top 25 most inspiring companies (Forbes). Goodwill agencies are innovative and sustainable social enterprises that fund job training programs, employment placement services and other community-based programs by selling donated clothing and household items in more than 2,700 stores and online at shopgoodwill.com®. Local Goodwill agencies also build revenue and create jobs by contracting with businesses and government to provide a wide range of commercial services, including packaging and assembly, food service preparation, and document imaging and shredding. In 2012, more than 6.7 million people in the United States and Canada benefited from Goodwill’s career services. Goodwill channels 82 percent of its revenues directly into its programs and services.

To find a Goodwill near you, use the online locator at www.goodwill.org, or call (800) GOODWILL. 

You can follow them on Tweety:  @GoodwillIntl, and on Feibu: GoodwillIntl.

Como BB mentioned, this was a Social Good post in conjunction with BlogginMamas.

 As a single mom of 3, and even now, I enjoy shopping at my local Goodwill store. 

They've even made Babushka look forward to Mondays. 

All clothing is marked 50% off.   

; )

BB2U