Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

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 bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. What brought you here? Mainly it was luck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Peer Assists/Shares: A peer assist when you put people into small groups and participants help each other by problem solving.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Images of Empowerment. To address this need, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Getty Images, created Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018. Grand Challenges Awards Repository.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. We have a woman in Africa who is helping to convene women for the World Social Forum. We have a woman who is designing educational programs for young women in Brooklyn.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

So the problem that happened was that a lot of organizations were saying, "Well we don't have a standard way of pricing. We don't know how to think about the pricing so that you could actually compare a basket in Cambodia to a basket in Africa and make sure both artisans had been paid fairly." We are not thinking about this alone.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Strategies that advance equity and justice seek to address the full reality of communities rather than narrow solutions to solve social problems. Furthermore, CRUS’ inclusive range of grantees reflects the organization’s intentional focus on racial and gender equity, youth development, and economic empowerment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

The Engage Network and Julia Butterfly Hill and Marianne Manilov and Alissa Hauser, they came to me with the solution to my problem. We'll be working in a series of orphanages with HIV/AIDS street children, as well working with YouthAIDS to learn more about the HIV/AIDS crisis in Uganda, and in Africa in general. It is the same thing.

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