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Do Your GIVING While You
Are LIVING
Edie Fraser is the co-author
of Do Your Giving While
You Are Living. She is a
long-term supporter of
LATINA Style. She
is a consummate
entrepreneur, passionate
visionary, mentor and
philanthropist. She has
won more than 35 major
diversity, women and
philanthropy awards and
she served on numerous
boards and advisory
boards.
The release of Do
Your Giving While You
are Living, co-authored
with Robyn Spizman,
award-winning author,
has achieved best-seller
list of Business Week.
What do American
President Emerita,
National Council of
Negro Women Dr. Dorothy
I. Height, Carlson
Industries Chair Marilyn
Carlson Nelson, Red
Cross Chairman Bonnie
McElveen-Hunter, AARP
President Jennie Chin
Hansen, Office Depot
Foundation CEO Mary Wong,
CARE President and CEO
Dr. Helene Gayle, Free
the Children Chair Eva
Haller, Musician Dionne
Warwick, American Cancer
Society National Board
of Directors Chair Dr.
Marion Morra, all have
in common?
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They are leading
luminaries, change
agents, celebrities and
servant leaders—among
those givers featured in
our inspiring new book
entitled Do Your
Giving While You Are
Living: Inspirational
Lessons on What You Can
Do Today to Make A
Difference Tomorrow
(Morgan James
Publishing, January
2009). The book provides
examples of actions
people can take today to
make a difference
tomorrow. Our mission is
to convince Americans
and all those across the
world of their
opportunity—and
obligation—to support
those who are less
fortunate. Join our
movement of giving and
share your own glow of
giving with these
glowing Women who are
exemplary of those
leading the way.
While researching this
topic, we interviewed
the leading
philanthropists,
executives in
corporations, non-profit
organizations, and
philanthropy and asked
for their examples and
insights on how to make
everyone’s life better
by making someone else’s
life brighter. Here are
a few stories of some of
these remarkable women.
They lead by example;
whether it is giving
time, talents or
treasures, they are
dedicated to giving and
brightening the lives of
others.
Edie serves as Managing
Director and Chair of
the Diversity Executive
Search Practice at
Diversified Search Ray &
Berndtson, the largest
woman-founded and owned
executive search firm in
the United States. She
heads the Washington
Practice and the
National Diversity
Practice.
When President John
Kennedy gave his
Inaugural address, he
offered the memorable
challenge: “Ask not what
your country can do for
you—ask what you can do
for your country.” When
Martin Luther King and
Bobby Kennedy were shot,
Edie determined to work
for the nation’s poverty
programs and traveled to
inner cities, migrant
camps, Indian
reservations and
Appalachia.
A founder of the Public
Affairs Group with
Diversity Best Practices,
the Business Women’s
Network (BWN) and Best
Practices in Corporate
Communications, which
she sold in 2001, has
supported more than 250
corporations and
organizations and has
worked with more than
100 CEOs in support of
Women and Diversity
leadership. Edie is a
keynote speaker for
numerous organizations,
a founding member of the
Committee of 200. She is
in The Enterprising
Women Hall of Fame and
received the eWomen
Network International
Femtor Award for
Lifetime Achievement,
received the SCORE 2008
Award for Small Business
leadership advocate, the
Lou Campanelli Award.
She received the
AmeriGroupWomen of Color
Award, serves on the
Women’s Advisory Board
of Office Depot and
helped build this and
formed the Women’s
Advisory Board for Inter-Continental
Hotels. She is on the
Advisory Board of
Enterprising Women
Magazine. She was the
first woman to be the
Honorary Board Member of
the International
Alliance. She also
received the Asian
American Advocate Award
by the National Council
for Asian American
Business and the
Minority Business
Special Advocate award
by the Director of the
Minority Business
Development Agency, U.S.
Department of Commerce.
In 2007, she was named
as one of the Top 50
Pioneers in Diversity by
Profiles in Diversity
Journal and named in the
top 46 of America’s Top
Diversity Advocates by
DiversityBusiness.com—along
with Oprah Winfrey,
Presidents Jimmy Carter
and Bill Clinton and
senior diversity leaders.
She is on the Leadership
Circle of The Sewall-Belmont
House and Women’s
Campaign Forum; Co-chair
of the Women’s Senate
Network; Edie serves on
the Leadership Board for
NFTE and Advisory Board
of LATINA Style. She
also serves on the Anna
Maria Arias Foundation
Board and on the Asian
Division Friends Society
(ADFS) Board of
Directors of the Library
of Congress.
By Edie Fraser
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