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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. We are focused on preparing individuals to eventually return to their home countries and to help rebuild, and that's human capacity building. What's one of your favorite FORGE success stories?

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What Are Your 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions?

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Waiting a few weeks until your "real life" is in full swing can help you craft more realistic goals. Increase the number of people of color I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast. When you make them on January 1st, you're feeling rested and relaxed after time off, and may have unrealistic expectations of what you can acheive.

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President's Update

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For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. By announcing this in many press interviews, I've managed to create lots of external pressure on myself to get this done! we need help.

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Mobilizing Donors and Activists in an Overwhelmed World

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The photo and story of the entrepreneur help the donor to visualize how their loan will make a difference, and the updates written by the person receiving the loan make the lenders feel like they are having a direct impact. I'll be posting the interview with Marsha later this month). Create a username and password.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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As you can tell, the interview is pretty long. The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. And now to the interview. Were they mostly volunteers?

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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As you can tell, the interview is pretty long. The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. And now to the interview. Were they mostly volunteers?

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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As part of the anti-genocide moment, we raise both money and political will for civilian protection initiatives around the world. For example, since 2005, the US has allocated over $4 billion in humanitarian and peacekeeping and development assistance to the people of Sudan and Eastern Chad. His campaign was successful.

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