The Justice for Niger Delta Women Action Campaign targets five areas of strategic action. The goal of the campaign is to create market pressures, demand corporate responsibility and promote action.

1. Media Awareness Campaign - Interaction
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   One component of the campaign will involve three Niger Delta women leaders on a nine-city American tour: New York, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
   
   We will hold press conferences (i.e The National Press Club), roundtables and the women will address such groups as the Foreign Policy Association and the World Affairs Council. In addition the Niger Delta women will testify before relevant Congressional Committees.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Corporate Responsibility Campaign - Investment Action
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   Socially Responsible Investment – dedicated to working with people through socially responsible investment strategies.
   
   
   
   
   Corporate Responsibility Campaign - Investment Action
   Make the world a better place through socially
   responsible investment strategies.
   
   
   * Invest in a greener future. Add to the $2.3 trillion already invested in socially responsible businesses - money that helps the green marketplace grow.
   
   
   * Rake it in. Between 2000-2005, the value of the Global 100 (http://www.global100.org/) most sustainable companies outperformed a common benchmark (the MSCI World Index) by 80%.
   
   
   * Community Investing Center (http://www.communityinvest.org/) - put money into a low-risk bank account (insured at $100,000 per depositor like traditional banks) that provides loans to underserved borrowers. Measure your potential impact here.
   
   
   * Blue Marble (http://www.bluemarble.com)- socially responsible investment firm helps you green your portfolio; low account minimums (starting at $100 plus $100 per month).
   
   
   * MicroPlace (https://www.microplace.com) - makes it easy for you to give small loans (even just $100) to entrepreneurs in developing countries; you make a low-risk return of 2%-3%.
   
   
   * Calvert Online (http://www.calvert.com/sri_knowWhatYouOwn.html) and Social Investment Forum (http://www.socialinvest.org/resources/mfpc/screening.cfm) - tools that help you pick funds and stocks based on the eco and social criteria that matter to you.
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Environmental Justice Campaign – Sustainable Action
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   Micro-credit – Set up women’s co-op’s in the Niger Delta to provide sustainable solutions for women to help themselves such as fish farms, solar ovens, fertilizers for farming, portable water filters. Also researching a sustainable education plan.
   
   Micro-credit –Mini-Loans to help people sustain themselves and make a difference in their lives. AND… you will most likely get your money back!!
   
   The Benefits
   
   * Helping people help themselves. More than one billion people live on less than $1 per day, so even tiny loans can help someone buy farm equipment or pay for a new restaurant license so that eventually they can support themselves without dependence on foreign aid.
   
   * Getting good news. All of these organizations update you on the achievements of the borrowers (many programs let you select the individual project you wanna support).
   
   * Lending with confidence. Some orgs get your money back to you (alternatively, you can just donate), and you can even make a small profit. The default rate is as low as 0.2%, meaning 98.8% of borrowers pay back their loans.
   
   * Eco-commitments. FINCA and GlobalGiving give support to entrepreneurs (such as sustainable farming training) trying to make an eco-difference.
   
   
   How to do this:
   
   * MicroPlace - eBay's lending site, where you can make a return of up to 3% off your microloan investment.
   
   * FINCA - http://www.villagebanking.org/site/c.erKPI2PCIoE/b.2394109/k.BEA3/Home.htm sets up community banks in small villages in developing countries.
   
   * GlobalGiving - http://www.globalgiving.com/ offers a money-back guarantee if you don't like the results, and heads up American projects like helping people affected by Hurricane Katrina.
   
   * Grameen Foundation - http://www.grameenfoundation.org/ the original microlender, it's credited with reducing rural poverty in Bangladesh by 40%.
   
   Prosper – Let’s bank on each other! http://www.prosper.com/
   
   * Kiva - http://kiva.org/ lets you choose a project; loan $25 or more, and you'll receive updates on how the money's being spent - and the idea is that you'll be repaid.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Web Action
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   a. Letter writing campaigns to companies
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   b. Blog with Emem and ND women: video letters, web and pod casts
   
   c. Connect to green indexes (Greenopia)
   
   d. Coalition members: connect to their action plans, educational resources, study guides
   
   e. Contacts for Justice for Niger Delta Women Campaign (coalition members)
   
   f. Contacts for Corporate Responsibility Campaign (coalition members)
   
   g. Contacts for Environmental Justice Campaign (coalition members)
   
   
   
   
   
5. Youth Leadership Action
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   The Cupcake Campaign: Bake and Make a difference
   Bake Your Way to Leadership
   
   
   
   Join our summer campaign to bring Justice to
   the Niger Delta Women
   
   The Justice for Niger Delta Women Project is a non-profit undertaking to empower the courageous women of Nigeria’s oil producing region by documenting their important human rights stories for distribution to worldwide media, the American press, the socially responsible investment community and the American consumer.
   
   The Cupcake Campaign is a grassroots program fostering leadership, resourcefulness, entrepreneurship and activism.
   
   Designed to provide a focus for young people interested in making the world a better place, this Youth Leadership Action educates partic-ipants about violence against women, human rights, environmental rights, social justice and corporate responsibility.
   
   The Niger Delta region is an example of the confluence of all these important issues and provides fertile ground for understanding their relationship o a local level and to our global community.
   
   The goals of The Cupcake Campaign are to bring young people (12-17) together to learn about the importance of the Niger Delta and the actions women there are taking to save their communities, and how young people in Santa Barbara can participate in a vision for a cleaner global environment and to work in solidarity with Niger Delta women for peace and justice.
   
   Proceeds from the Cupcake Campaign go towards completion funds for the film, The Naked Option: A Last Resort, due out in October, 2008; and to the Justice for Niger Delta Women Action Campaign.
   
   
   
   
   
   Teenagers, baking and decorating organic cupcakes for sale at local farmers markets, provides leadership and educational opportunities as they interact with the community.
   
   
   
   Proceeds go towards the JUSTICE FOR NIGER DELTA WOMEN PROJECT; educating the community about the importance of the Niger Delta to their future, educating future women leaders in activism.