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5 Organizations To Support On World Refugee Day

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Asylum Access focuses on refugees from Africa, Asia, and Latin America (the areas with most of the world’s refugees), and works to help refugees assert their rights in the present and transform systems for a safer and more just future. Asylum Access. World Relief.

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Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit 2007

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Schwab Foundation board members Paolo Coehlo (the noted Brazilian author), Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa) and Hilde Schwab, the co-founder of the Schwab Foundation. We've come to recognize the limitations of the nation state, especially around innovation. Roger Martin, dean of the U.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ).

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How 7 Nonprofit Organisations Amplify Their Program Impact

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Self-Help Africa needed a single source of truth to more effectively manage and measure their programs and services and, crucially, demonstrate the value of their programs to donors. Camfed , an international nonprofit organisation supporting girls in Sub-Saharan Africa to go to school, uses Salesforce to collect data more easily.

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Girls' Night Out with a Twist: Dining for Women and the Power of Giving Circles

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It's the only one we have at this point, but we're looking at trying to expand that model a little; well, not a little bit, because we have people that are interested in Dining for Women who live in areas where we don't already have chapters. The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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She utilizes her national platform to bring awareness to the HIV/AIDS crisis. It seemed to be a really good and sustainable model, and we raised around $300,000 doing that kind of work. It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. It really didn't matter to us.