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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

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Sudan caused a 0.12% increase in the country’s GDP growth rate, partly. opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. job bringing to our attention some of ways in which mobiles are being. The same report mentions a study by Ericsson. because of an improved flow of information which improved the.

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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. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. It had been bombed.

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Mobilizing Donors and Activists in an Overwhelmed World

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The Genocide Intervention Network has a good list of 10 Ways You Can Take Action Today including writing to elected officials, divesting from Sudan, holding an awareness raising event, and creating a video for 24 Hours for Darfur. But why aren't more people doing these things? Why isn't being anti-genocide as "popular" as being green?

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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A lot of attention on team, it's probably the hardest thing because you have to keep getting out of your own way. They came from Sudan, from Saudi Arabia, from all over, some of the most unheard places of the world. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors.

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