Here’s a new easy way to raise money for your favorite cause. Just start using GoodSearch.com as your search engine and online shopping mall. Every time you search the Internet or make an online purchase at one of their partner merchants, GoodSearch makes a donation to your favorite nonprofit or school and it’s powered by Yahoo! so you get great search results! It is free to use, easy to set up and a way for you to support United Divas while doing what you normally do online. Set it up today by visiting GoodSearch.com!

We have opened a CafePress.com online store so that we can offer many more products for everyone in the family as well as great gift ideas for the holidays. Give the gift that makes a statement by supporting your favorite cause!

cafepress.com/uniteddivas

Don’t forget to check out Element International Inc, for more ways to shop and support the United Divas mission! Element is a women-owned business offering the best in conscious style, featuring charitable, socially conscious, sustainable, cruelty free, fair trade, natural, recycled & organic goods already supporting a dozen different charities. Now you can go online to ShopElement.com and enter the code “UNITED” as you shop to credit United Divas with your sale! Spread the word! Element will deliver to all states in the continental US, so United Divas will benefit from orders placed from across the country! Make a difference!

Tiffa Novoa, also known as Tiffany Ann Novoa or Tiffany Ann Snead, our Diva of the Month from November/December 2005 passed away October 16th, 2007 in Bali, Indonesia. We at United Divas mourn the loss of her life and our condolences go out to all of her family and friends. May her visions survive well beyond the future they were inspired by. Please visit Jenka’s blog to learn more about how Tiffa has impacted the lives of many people, including several of our own artists at United Divas Inc, who have had the privilege of working with someone as talented as Tiffa. http://www.social-creature.com/this-changed-everything

For friends and family who wish to pay their respects in person or send their condolences to the family, here is information for the memorial service that will be held this week:
Friday October 26, 2007, @ 2pm.
Memphis Botanic Garden, Japanese Garden of Tranquilty, (seijaku-en)
750 cherry rd, memphis tn

tiffany will be taken to her final resting place in jenner-by-the-sea ca.

Donations for tiffa’s memorial can be made via paypal to: piratesbooty@juno.com

Congratulations to our September/October 2007 diva of the month, Jenka Gurfinkel . She is a writer, who also works as a consultant, specializing in consumer insight and marketing strategies. Check out the interview where she talks about how she ran away with the circus and eventually joined forces with an artist collective to help market a festival run on solar power that encourages its attendees to participate in creating the experience just as much as the artists who are billed on the line-up. Her latest project, the The Do LaB Artist Network is a quarterly online publication showcasing emerging artists in different media every season. The latest issue, Fall, featuring Fashion & Photography is up now.

We are in the midst of updating our entire site. The basic look is up now, and we are going through each section and improving functionality over the next few months. Check back often for updates!

United Divas presents Shouted Whisper, a literary publication dedicated to and inspired by women. Issue #1 of Shouted Whisper is set for release this fall! Shouted Whisper is currently accepting submissions for future issues.

Shouted Whisper accepts submissions of short fiction (1500 words or less) and poetry (no more than three poems at a time) that have a focus on the feminine. Authors are asked to submit a short bio with there work as well as contact information. Shouted Whisper also accepts submission of visual art. All images must be of a high-res quality. Submissions must be in the body of the email, Attachments will be deleted immediately.