Today, I was most fascinated to come across a blog post at The Chronicle of Philanthropy titled, "Why Women are Held Back in the Nonprofit World."

I was even more fascinated to see that it was based on actual research, and not just the anecdotal tidbits and random theories I’ve long used with my friends to try to explain this phenomenon.

What does a person that generally has an opinion about something say when she has the opportunity to say anything?

While the nonprofit and funding communities have intensely discussed reporting on inputs and outputs for years, the evaluation community has been squabbling over outcomes, objectives, goals, results and impact.

As a self-professed excellent student (I had my first Franklin Planner at 17 and used to like nothing better than getting a new Trapper Keeper ready for a new school year), I expected Philanthropy 101 to be a cakewalk.

I mean, isn’t that what 101 means?

Well, last week I raged, somewhat, about the lack of educational awareness among public schools on women’s history during National Women’s History Month. 

So, I did a little something about it.  Not much, but hey, it’s a start.

When Jihane Achi from Piola restaurant in Arlington got in touch with us about hosting an International Women’s Day fundraiser on our behalf, explaining that she and her husband (who owns the restaurant) wanted to contribute 50 percent of the proceeds of all dessert sales on International Women’s Day (and the week leading up to it) to The Women’s Foundation as a means of giving back to the community, I knew that this could mean only one thing.

While catching up on a little television this week, I saw some promos for a new documentary series about to start airing on the Oxygen network, wherein correspondent Lisa Ling will be asking, Who cares about girls?

As I conducted some research for National Women’s History Month, I read a sentence that reminded me about the lack of awareness and recognition of NWHM in our schools, and quite frankly, I got irritated.

Very irritated.  

The theme for yesterday’s International Women’s Day celebration as established by the UN is, “Ending impunity for violence against women and girls.”

I am not sure what impunity means when it comes to the daily realities of women and girls living with violence.

Ending impunity seems even more abstract.