Ooo, look, Christina Fulton has a charity just for us single moms!
Actress and designer Christina Fulton is on the move to help single moms. She has created a charity organization, The Single Mom Foundation, to start tackling some of the issues that stand before us single mothers. At a fashion show on May 9th, a show entitled, “Save America’s Single Moms!”, the intriguing Ms. Fulton will unveil her clothing line and donate a portion of the proceeds to this foundation. I’m wondering, is this for real? How much support, leadership, lobbying, and fundraising can her foundation ultimately do? Their website is just a splash page–there’s not even a word about how to make a donation, let alone how to join, how to support, or how to work with this organization. Seems someone had a bright idea back in 2005 and then faltered. I hope Ms. Fulton can breathe life back into this useful project!
I’m curious. What DOES a Single Mom clothing line look like? I’d guess it needs to be something that can convert from a size eight to a size ten, fully reversible so when the baby spits up on our way out the door we can just turn the shirt inside out and keep on going. Something that can look good at 6AM when we walk out the door, survive breakfast with a cranky toddler, a crazy commute, four conference calls, three play dates, two three hour meetings and a burned dinner. What do you think? Shall we make Pea Soup Green the color du jour?
OO! Look!
Just what we all need to hide our single mom didn’t get a chance to shower today hair: baseball caps. Judging from her other pictures on her website, she does not lead the same kind of single mama life I lead. For one thing, I wouldn’t be able to wear that black lace dress. I don’t have time to do the workout maintenance that that dress requires. And my son likes pantyhose far too much as it is for me to keep any of that other stuff in my drawers, assuming I could afford to buy such frivolous things. Sigh. I work very hard to be taken seriously and have a bit of fun at the same time. Us single moms do need an organization that can help us find decent clothes for job interviews, training to get job interviews, and education to get good jobs and keep moving up the corporate ladder. We need help on subsidized rents, so we aren’t spending at least half our paychecks on the rent check alone every month. We need decent child care so our children are loved when we’re not there to love them and our mothers, fathers, sisters and aunts get a break from helping us make ends meet. We need a grass roots organizer who can shout our wants to the rafters and bring our potential to bear on the people who make the rules in this country.
I’m sorry, Christina, but I need something a little stronger than a baseball cap.
(this entire rant was mostly inspired by poor PR, bad timing, slipshod planning, marketing, and crappy website design… forgive me)
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Amen! We do need a “grass roots organizer who can shout our wants to the rafters and bring our potential to bear on the people who make the rules in this country.” I would love to do this, but I am way too busy working full time to pay the rent, going to school so that someday rent doesn’t consume half of my paycheck, and dealing with child care providers that I wish loved my child more like I do. Maybe someday…
Connie, isn’t that the truth. I wish I could figure out a way to make ends meet and help others. How on earth did you figure out how to make school fit into your schedule? *awe*
i too would be fascinated to see what a single mom wardrobe looks like!
What Christina is doing is great. She has helped out my mother and our family a lot. And honestly, you dont know enough about her to be bashing her when all she is trying to do is root on and help out all single mothers.
Im 16 years old and i love Christina. Give her a frickin break.
Oh, but Shelby, I’m not bashing Ms. Fulton. In fact, I specifically explained that my rant was inspired by poor marketing and web design than anything this woman, who I don’t know well enough to call by her first name. I would love to see information on her charity website that told interested people how to donate, volunteer, or apply for aid. I’m glad to know she has helped you and your mom out. Unfortunately, no one can get that information from the PR assets she has.
I feel you’re passing judgement before taking the time to research. Your link above (Their website) is connecting to the wrong web address. Please view this link:
http://www.singlemomfoundation.net/
Christina Fulton is taking a stand for single moms and dads. She is supporting those in need by raising funds for education, housing and opportunities to make their lives a whole lot better! It’s obvious she’s still at the beginning of developing her Foundation and her clothing line. You shouldn’t jump to conclusions because these things take time!
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ok, carebear and shelby, could you please enlighten the rest of us single moms on how to qualify for asisstance from this organization? i perused fulton’s website, and all i saw were links that showed her modeling pics and an award she got for helping single moms…no info on how to apply. i’m putting myself through grad school (ph.d) and could use some help! i get no child support, never have. i got into a car accident and now i have no transportation. life is near impossible without wheels; thankfully, i live close to my university, but getting my 12 year old daughter to school has been challenging. if i could somehow get my hands on a donated car i would be in seventh heaven.
SDK, do you belong to a church? I know the church my son and I attend occasionally is looking for donations, specifically of cars. They will give them to members of the parish who need them.
A PhD! That’s great. I wish I could get up the guts to go back to school.
hi christina-
yes, i do go to church. how do i get a hold of the organization you’re referring to? thanks much for the info!
sdk
CAN ANY HELP ME? NEED IT REAL BAD,JUST ALITTLE HELP TO GET BACK ON MY FEET.
i went to the website but all i see is pictures of her and others?how do you ask for help?
Barbara, your guess is as good as mine.
some 1 please tell me how to get help from this site? how do you apply?i see only pics.
its like THIS she gets 150k from nick cage, designs a buch of clothes set at the WRONG price point. dosent sell a ting no orders are ever taken and she writes the whole thing off as a business loss. no money actualy GOES to a single mom. shed have more fun burning it.
As for Stien they are alrady married, she got him drunk and used a fake ID to get a marrige certificate and married him at some skank motel in malibu where her AmEx was declined. then she sneakily had her marrige licence ‘redacted’ when he was out of town. its basicly a fraud she wanted to be 40 and not 47. Hello you were born In 1962!
Funny how this is happening right as nick cage has cut her off fiscaly ’cause the kid is 18 now.
Not a nice gal, not a nice person will totaly rip you off and her charity is a FRAUD. She cant even give the clothing away.
It would be great to partner up with someone like this who was REAL. Our Charity has now completed over nine years of delivering a free weeks supply of food including meat to needy Moms and our desire is to grow. Food is packaged and delivered by volunteers at no cost. The Charity sells NO Food and pays No Staff. Two things would really help. 1. to expand and deliver to more Moms. We need partners like you that would send, buy, donate canned goods, staples and/or chicken whole and pre-wrapped. 2. we are hoping to partner up with a Celeb. like the origional intention of this one was and any other Co. or Person that might have a HEART for single mons. We are all volunteer with no food for sale and no paid staff.