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It’s about approaching work from a place of sharing and abundance rather than self-absorption and scarcity. I consider myself a teacher: I take a few days off a year to teach at American University, and I do a lot of public speaking and training. There is no better way to make work fun than to be learning all the time.

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MARCH 7, 2011

While interviewing the organizers for a magazine, I heard how they worked with young women who had rarely or never felt good about their bodies and were in detention on charges related to prostitution and drug sales. By the time the story ran, I was so in awe of the Art of Yoga Project's work that I enrolled in a yoga teacher training.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

s loans to start small businesses and support their families, working together so that all may succeed in their individual businesses.  The members will meet each week to make their repayments, discuss issues relevant to their businesses and personal lives, and receive business training and mentoring.

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AUGUST 9, 2006

At Blogher, I met JD Lasica and in a jet-lagged state couldn't remember his name as I loaded his photo into my flickr account. I was excited about this because prior to NCDD Conference and the trainings I did, I put together some quick and dirty " cheat sheets " on Web2.0 I came out of my busy work trip with a list of ideas.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. The project will also include training these rural women to create podcasts, videos, and blog posts. You can support the effort here ) Cross posted at BlogHer.

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JANUARY 25, 2006

students, the young women will be trained in personal citizen journalism to be published on a weblog (a WWW publishing tool, available for public consumption.) Through introducing ourselves to other mentors in the this project virtually, Britt and I discovered that we had a lot more in common than nonprofit technology and blogher interests.

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JUNE 1, 2006

I'd seen Tara wow the audience when we were on a Blogging for Business panel together, but I'd never seen Elisa (or Lisa) from Blogher speak before, and I was super impressed. Now I'm really excited to go to the Blogher Conference ! There needs to be more tech training for women, and I would add, for girls.

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JANUARY 20, 2007

I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions. Drawing from my " Information Coping Skills for Humans " workshop circa 1999. I also do everything on this list as well.

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JANUARY 26, 2006

(What a nice tool to use in a training session.). If you want to take a visual trip around the world and see some breath taking photos of the work done in far flung places, spend some time browsing this collection. While browsing, happened to notice blogher Kalabird, who is doing NGO work in Cambodia has contributed a few.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Almost two years ago at the first Blogher Conference I was lucky enough to interview and get to know Lisa Canter (we aren't related but I learned a few things about the kanter/canter name from her husband, Marc ). We both were trained as professional musicians and play woodwind instruments. I enjoy reading Lisa's blog. Ricardo Carreon.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2006

s These uniforms are made by girls in our vocational program where we teach these young women sewing skills and pay them to work for our sewing shop or train them for higher paying jobs in the garment industry. Tharum, who I had the pleasure of meeting via my work with Global s, has linked to the Campaign. Ricardo Carreon.

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AUGUST 5, 2008

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. My college granted me a fellowship after college to live and work in Philadelphia to learn more about the non profit sector. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. Tell me about your blog.

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JUNE 23, 2006

I didn't go (too expensive for my budget), but I had the pleasure of having dinner in Boston's North End with Nancy White (who was attending and leading a workshop on virtual meetings ) and a few other conference participants, including two fascinating women who work in the areas of collaborative technologies, online learning, and NGOS.

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DECEMBER 13, 2005

First, there was a lot of energy in the room, similar to the blogher , because a lot of people had been reading each other's blogs or posts on GV, but had never met face-to-face. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. I vlogged it here: Download cultureshock.wmv. Technorati Tags: globals

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

I mentioned the work of the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation. The Fund supports organizations that are using "inner work" to inform their activism. Kellogg Foundation, was kind enough to tell me more about the Fund's work in the following e-interview.

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OCTOBER 31, 2006

Marsha Wallace, the founder of Dining for Women , contacted me after reading some of the posts I had written about Dining for Women here and on BlogHer , and invited my husband and I to be Dining for Women's guest at the event. She started the evening by saying, "When I started this work, I wasn't starting a movement."

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MAY 10, 2006

The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We place ourselves in the social justice work here in the Bay Area as a training center.

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JUNE 19, 2009

If you're inspired after listening to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or reading the edited transcript below, take a browse through FORGE's gallery of projects created by refugee social entrepreneurs. ** Kjerstin Erickson: FORGE is an international nonprofit organization that works with refugee communities in Africa.

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OCTOBER 18, 2006

I met Laura at Boston Podcamp very briefly and grabbed her card so I could catch up with her for an interview for Blogher. For the first time in a long time, I was concerned about finding work. I like to work with organizations who help people get the training they need that they might not be able to get elsewhere.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Like many of us out there, you work as an independent consultant - so you are paid for your expertise and knowledge. At this point in my life, I'm not worrying about getting business so much - I'm thinking a lot more about a bigger picture of things, and assuming that it will all work out in the end. Tell me about your work with NOSI?

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APRIL 13, 2008

This week, as BlogHer , launched a special campaign with GlobalGiving to raise money for lifesaving programs for women around the world, here is an interview with Donna Callejon who is the Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving. Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy? What is your job at Global Giving?

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AUGUST 20, 2012

” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia , focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia. Here’s a video and blog post I wrote for Blogher back then. She remembered fondly, the netsquared t-shirt that she had selected from the donated t-shirts.

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APRIL 24, 2007

So, our role at TransFair is to work with the companies to certify their supply chain, to audit their books and to give consumers that guarantee that when you see the Fair Trade Certified label on a product, you know the farmers got a fair deal. BB: What are the challenges of your work? BB: What brought you to this work?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. A team of us said, "We would study what works in citizen engagement."

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JULY 6, 2006

As Katya herself explains in a May interview with fellow Blogher Nonprofit Contributing Editor Britt Bravo "It lays out ten sound principles (I call them "Robin Hood Rules") behind some of the most successful marketing campaigns in history, and shows how anyone can use them to advance their cause by leaps and bounds.

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JUNE 7, 2006

Last month I wrote a short post for Blogher, Roadies for a Cause , about a nonprofit called Lokahi Outreach , that partners with organizations like the ONE campaign and Oxfam to help them do grassroots campaigning on the road. Describe the work you do with Lokahi Outreach and what inspired you to start it. Getting to DO something!

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MAY 26, 2008

She has been passionate about the issue of immigrant rights since 2002, when she worked at Casa del Migrantes in Tijuana, Mexico, a shelter for immigrants and deportees. While there she lived and worked with immigrants from throughout the US and Central America, and they shared their experiences. Tell me about FIRM.

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MARCH 8, 2007

CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities. We knew instantly that it would work well to travel together. What is the biggest challenge of your work?

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JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. In April I organized a panel for the Stanford Women's Leadership Conference called "Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Change?"

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JULY 18, 2007

With just nine days until the BlogHer Conference in Chicago, where I'll be moderating the panel, "Getting It On(line) for a Cause: Raising Money," I thought I'd search around for nonprofit and activist women bloggers in the Chicago area. According to the article, " The fastest-growing population in adult corrections is the female population."

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