Stacy Vandenput MARA CPM LM

02/18/2026

02/18/2026

Good morning Everyone,

I will be sharing about Wise Women Gathering Place every day as we approach the Give Big Green Bay event of the year on February 25-26.

I hope that you'll donate what you're able this year, whether financially or by sharing the fundraiser with your network.

Here are additional ways that you can help:

WWGP currently has nine peer fundraisers and are working toward a goal of 36 across staff, Board, and supporters. (I am one of the nine). Would you commit to becoming a peer fundraiser with us? WWGP and GBGB supply the platform, and you can simply join and share with your network over the next week leading up to the event.

Another GBGB participant has an ambitious goal to reach 10,000 donors collectively. Last year WWGP received 187 individual donations and are hoping to double it's reach this year.

You can participate in any number of ways:

1. Share mine or any other WWGP peer fundraiser's page among your network.

https://www.givebiggreenbay.org/p2p/627696/stacy-vandenput-4d39f750-00a0-456a-b4e6-d6c17e949eac

2. Host a wise gathering if you’re available on Feb 25-26. Gather you friends together for a tea party or lunch and share with them how important WWGP is to our community and to you. This could be at your home or place of business.

Your engagement makes a powerful statement and will help expand our reach during this community-wide 24-hour event. Please confirm with Beverly or Brenda if you plan to host a gathering. Invite your friends and family during the 24 hours to at some point make a donation to your GBGB link or at WWGP's page.
https://www.givebiggreenbay.org/organizations/wise-women-gathering-place-inc

3. Create your own Personal Fundraising Page: To create a fundraising page, please visit:

bit.ly/WWGP-GBGB and click FUNDRAISE.

4. Join WWGP at their open house on Feb 25 and work with other volunteer fund raisers to encourage donations that day.

Please be aware on the 25th that I will be reaching out directly to my network to encourage support. I don't want it to come as a surprise!

Thank you for your support no matter what way you participate.

🧡💛🧡💛🧡💛🧡

02/17/2026

I’ve joined the Resource Committee for Wise Women Gathering Place , and this year we have ambitious goals as part of Give Big Green Bay.

Wise Women is a place of local practical support, advocacy, and community. I’ve seen what that kind of presence can mean—both personally and professionally—and I’m proud to be part of the effort.

Give Big Green Bay runs from noon on February 25th to noon on February 26th. It’s a focused 24-hour window where your support can truly make an impact through matching funds.

Please keep us in mind, and if you’re willing, be ready to show up for Wise Women during that 24-hour timeline. I’ll post reminders as we get closer.

Thank you for being part of a community that shows up. 💛

Link in comments

Help GBGB For WWGP's fundraiser efforts for Give Big Green Bay 2026

02/13/2026

I've been so upset by what is happening to immigrants, our friends and neighbors and to legal observers that I wrote this post with an overview, facts, and suggestions for action. Please read and share. There is no paywall. Thank you. https://open.substack.com/pub/peggyomara/p/stop-illegal-seizures-of-immigrants?r=cxksy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

02/07/2026

Could a data breach put your life at risk? This is the story of how a cybersecurity breach led to catastrophic, life-threatening consequences. Link to full story in comments.

02/02/2026

A colleague of mine is in critical care weeks after a catastrophic medical event that was likely triggered by a serious cyber .

Seeing how quickly a digital attack turned into a real threat to their life has deeply affected how I think about cyber in solo practice.

This essay recognizes the real, embodied risks of and the importance of protecting information as a form of self-care.

I share this in the hope that it helps us talk more honestly about what it takes to protect our clients, our work, and ourselves, especially as independent providers.

Link in the comments.

http://stacyvandenput.com/2026/02/01/not-the-cyber-risk-story-i-expected-to-tell/

01/29/2026

Learn more at the link in the comments.

01/27/2026

Again, I’m asking home health workers of all kinds—midwives, doulas, home health nurses, and anyone providing care in clients’ homes: please disable Google voice activation (and similar services) on your own devices, and inform clients about the risks of voice-activated searches in homes and offices.

This is especially critical for healthcare workers who must remain HIPAA-compliant. If your phone—or a client’s device (Alexa included)—records an antenatal or healthcare encounter, that may constitute a HIPAA violation.

The risk compounds if you take a call from one client while in another client’s home and a voice-activated device is recording. At best, a client might be said to consent to recording their own encounter by installing the device. That argument does not apply if it’s your device recording, or if a client’s device captures another client’s protected health information.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17vEcpDzJW/

01/24/2026

Link to full article in comments.

Speaking specifically to midwives and other independent birth workers, this article touches on a lot of overlapping points in my studies on information security within our profession.

Our use cases of cellphones and digital data is unique because we're healthcare entities but without infrastructure to inform and govern our technology uses within micro-business settings.

In order to keep our protected client data within our cell phones secure, we have to use more protective settings than average users.

What Nicole Bennett's article outlines about safer phone use during encounters with the police or immigration enforcement, is good advice for midwives, etc. in general, whether just living your life with your phone full of client info, or actively recording birth photos, videos, chart notes, etc. it's important to increase privacy settings, scrub metadata before sharing elsewhere and uploading to client portals, and keeping your device locked with strong pass codes rather than facial or fingerprint recognition.

"Civil liberties groups...consistently recommend disabling the face and fingerprint unlocking features and using a strong passcode. Law enforcement officials can compel you to use biometrics more easily in some contexts than reveal memorized secrets." ~Bennette, 2026.