Raise the Nation honors these special sponsors for their recognition, financial contribution and support to single parent women who everyday make their own contributions to their communities.

Guy McDowell (12/13/31 – 6/6/02) was a strong advocate of Raise the Nation and education. A memorial fund is available in his name to friends and family who would like to donate in his memory. Send donations to: Raise The Nation, C/O Guy McDowell Memorial, P.O. Box 8058, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87198

Dr. Joan Baijnath is a licensed physician specializing in internal medicine and the founder and creator of Avanya Mineral Cosmetics. Benevolence led Dr. Baijnath to medicine and now to the cosmetic industry. She envisioned creating a line of mineral cosmetics that would improve the lives of women by utilizing natural ingredients that prevent and protect against pre-mature aging and common skin conditions. Avanya Mineral Cosmetics is one hundred percent committed to Dr. Baijnath’s vision and ensures that the Avanya brand will always protect and nourish the outer beauty to let the inner beauty shine through.

Currently Dr. Joan Baijnath resides in Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband where they spend their time volunteering in various different charitable foundations and organizations. She is the acting CEO and continues to drive the research and development team to provide the highest quality and most innovative products for the Avanya Mineral Cosmetic customer.

Mothering celebrates the experience of parenthood as worthy of one's best efforts and fosters awareness of the immense importance and value of parenthood and family life in the development of the full human potential. As a readers' magazine, we recognize parents as the experts and wish to provide truly helpful information upon which parents can base informed choices.

Mothering is like no other publication. We are an original. Born 22 years ago out of the need for the natural family community to learn about raising healthy children, Mothering was the birthplace of the natural family lifestyle.

Read in more than 65 countries, Mothering is the only independently owned, family living magazine in the world. We address contemporary health, personal, environmental, medical, and lifestyle issues in an upbeat, intelligent, compassionate, and courageous way.

Each issue contains philosophical inspiration and practical advice about family living. Topics are as diverse as circumcision, vaccinations, organic foods, childhood illnesses, home birth, ear infections, parenting teens, web site information, midwifery, and homeopathy.

Mothering is a family. We have an independent editorial spirit unmatched in the industry and a readership that is unmatched in responsiveness. Readers who read Mothering share many of the same values. Nowhere else will you find such proactive, passionate, and highly educated readers. In the pages of Mothering you will find an environment of credibility, trust, and authority.

Co-abode offers a unique "matchmaking" service to provide single moms with one or more children the opportunity to share housing, while pooling resources and finances with another single mom of their choosing. Whether you're a single parent woman in need of a more comfortable living situation for yourself and your children or have a home to share co-abode can help! Contact Carmel Sullivan, carmel@co-abode.com

The CD can be ordered through Raise the Nation by sending a check for $15 to us at P.O. Box 8058, Albuquerque, NM 87198. "Raise The Nation raises the awareness of people about Single Mom's working to help themselves become better prepared to succeed. As the son of a Single Mom, They've got my support! "- Jon Michaels, country artist

Wall Flower No More is the highly anticipated, soon to be released, Autobiography by author Jayne Freeman. This "How To" book takes you into the author's private struggles of poverty and abuse and shows how an oppressed child can grow up to become a successful business woman. Jayne Freeman was born in Southern California. By the tender age of 26 she was responsible for six children. Battling with recurring memories of an abusive childhood, depression, and low self-esteem. She learned how to overcome life's adversities through self-education, determination and a never quit attitude. Now, Jayne runs her own business, enjoying personal success and a great desire to use her own story to help others. You can contact Jayne at JayneFreeman@sbcglobal.net

The National Child Support Network is a private child support collection agency. They are licensed, bonded and insured. All they do is collect child support for people just like you. They have been in business since 1991. 1-800-PAY-KIDS.

Child Support Network (CSN) is a specialized service company that locates missing parents and collects court ordered family support payments. Family support includes child support, spousal support, medical support, and educational support. We are the alternative to overburdened state child support agencies.

CSN is licensed and bonded, and are a member of the Single Parents Association and the American Collectors Association.

Suite 101 for single moms provides information and resource links. Readership is growing and it is quite exciting to know single moms are coming together in a positive atmosphere. Kerry Hook maintains the site and can be contacted at kerry.hook@vanderbilt.edu

Insanity House is raising the collective voice of the Single Parent Community for Social, Economic, and Political change. Single parent households represent more than one third of the family systems in this country, and are raising 20 million children. We are the largest and fastest growing family system in this country, yet we remain the most under-represented within social, economic, political, and legal systems.

Our vision is to empower our strong, creative population, and to unite the voice of single parent families in the United States. Through a unified voice and an empowered community, we will effectively challenge current legislation and change political policy that directly affects our family system.

At Insanity House we also offer opportunities for our community in the areas of information and education so that our families are better able to work within the challenges that come with being a single parent family. We are raising the children of this nation and are doing so with less time and fewer resources than most two parent households.

In our vision, the day will come when honor and recognition will be given to the 12 million single parent families, along with the millions of their supporters, for their strengths, their courage, and their contributions. When social and judicial systems recognize the validity of all family structures, without bias of outdated social norms from an era that is quickly moving into the past. A time where Politicians respect our vote, and hold the position that single parent families are a legitimate family system whose contributions have value to the community, and to this country.

Individually we are strong. United we are unstoppable.

President, Tere McDowell can be contacted at tere@insanityhouse.com