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. 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 ).

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Forum One

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. A starting point for change.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

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." That may seem very intuitive to many of us, but it is actually, for the person who is the producer group or for the buyer, it can be a fairly game-changing interaction.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. This past March, two different groups went to Africa. I took my 14-year-old with me to Kenya this past March, and it was a life-changing experience. You've also added a travel program. The travel program was a natural extension of those three things.

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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. 10×10 :: @ 10x10Act.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

The COVID-19 health emergency and the ensuing global crises only continue to exacerbate these inequities and drive colossal disruptions in the provision of education across the world — highlighting massive challenges that serve as wake-up calls for the social sector and catalysts for transformational change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

We were starting to build small circles within the local communities that are all doing really magnificent work in order to create change. 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We travel because we think it’s the most effective way to spread social change. We travel because it‘s the best use of our time in finding the partnerships, insights, and the money our teams need to create more social change. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal).

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