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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. We are focused on preparing individuals to eventually return to their home countries and to help rebuild, and that's human capacity building. It had been bombed.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

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Read More ยป Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media.

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

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Some of the programs that we have currently running are the Sudan Divestment Task Force , which is leading up the campaign to divest state pensions from companies doing business in Sudan on a recently passed Federal legislation to ban future state contracts. His campaign was successful. This was in 2006.

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Building the World You Want: 6 Nonprofit Campaigns to Consider on International Day of Charity

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Held on September 5th in commemoration of the passing of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, International Day of Charity encourages citizens, NGOs, and stakeholders around the world to help others through volunteer and philanthropic activities. Get Involved. Twitter | Facebook. Lead Like A Girl Scout. Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader).

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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About three years ago, I watched a fabulous documentary series sponsored by the Skoll Foundation called The New Heroes. KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. All of the other people are involved in what we call the informal sector.