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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. What do you think are the most important skills necessary in a social media practitioner? Organization: Women for Women International. Title: Multimedia/Online Coordinator.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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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 ). They're walking away with skills. He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. Hopefully the project continues.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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When women have access to specific skills, training, and education, all of a sudden their survival and livelihood statistics shoot way up, not only their own, but entire communities. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.

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Live The Questions Now

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While maintaining the books for the company’s shipments to central Africa, Morel noticed something strange: Tons of ivory and rubber were arriving on Europe’s docks each day, but little except guns and ammunition were being sent south in exchange. Asking good questions is hard, but like many skills it gets easier with practice.

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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. In small groups, the women learned basic business and marketing skills.

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