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

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Organization Size: Approximately 70 DC/stateside employees; more than 100 field staff employees in eight countries in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. We currently have nearly 50,000 Facebook fans and posting there helps us reach the most people, though the focus of how we’re using Facebook is changing (more on that below).

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process.

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Arts Activist Naomi Natale and The One Million Bones Project

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." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. Denise of the Denise in Africa blog visited one of the program's facilities in Kigali. And walked. And walked.

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