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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

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What the best piece of advice you could offer nonprofits about social media, and online communications in general? What do you think are the most important skills necessary in a social media practitioner? Never underestimate how much time you will put into social media!

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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It's really designed to make sure that all solutions are both emerging from the local community and tailored to the community's needs, and are developing the leadership skills of the most promising and emerging leaders at the same time. They're walking away with skills. We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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What advice do you have for people to navigate those growing pains? That means building in more structure and more discipline, and for myself, it was a lot of letting go of doing everything and knowing how to do it, you know, figuring everything out and really bringing in people who bring that different set of skills.

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

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In Tanzania, only something like 3.5%; in Sudan, it's only about 1.5%, and even in India, which we think of as being more developed, it's only about 10% of the people who actually have a job in the formal private sector. And you have your number one skill, being a farmer. BB: What advice do you have for aspiring social entrepreneurs?

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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She also goes through a vocational skills and business skills training track, where it ends up giving her tangible skills, so she can get a job. I just came from a meeting where I was told that the women we are servicing in Southern Sudan are earning double the per capita income in that country. It's a one-year program.