Morning Briefing

In this post in the Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog, Robin Smalley, co-founder and international director of mothers2mothers, discusses how partnerships and access to a supportive network of individuals has helped mothers2mothers expand their efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS. She notes that an invitation in 2008 to the Skoll World Forum (SWF) on social entrepreneurship, held in Oxford, provided the organization "entree to a new family, one made up of extraordinary individuals running organizations impacting issues ranging from global health to social justice to the environment." The conference, underway this week, "is a world dedicated to possibilities, where everyone unites to brainstorm ways we can make our planet a little bit better," she writes.