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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. It's the same thing in a development context.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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We make a huge effort to disseminate our news locally via radio partnerships, and other satellite partnerships, so that the people in the communities we serve are benefiting from our news first. But at the same time, I realized a lot of the limitations that the mainstream model of foreign correspondence often provides. CH: Yes, we do.