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JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. 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.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Our conversation began with Marsha describing how Dining for Women works. It enables us as a group to make a large contribution to a grassroots organization that's doing high-impact work, and we get to have fun in the process. What do you think makes the Dining for Women circles, the successful ones, work? That's so fantastic.

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Chapter Uganda Giving Interview 57

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. Paola Gianturco: My name is Paola Gianturco.

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Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. That’s all of the legal work-up on a treaty and how U.S. Nairobi, Kenya Next I headed to Nairobi, Kenya.

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APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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JUNE 29, 2006

And I work here at Ella Baker Center. It's really an honor to be working here doing some amazing work with a new program, Reclaim the Future. He came and talked about affirmative action, we became friends at that point, and started to learn about the different work that we were each doing.

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