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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.

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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." Now, this year actually, it is moving forward to a process through IFAT to hopefully become adopted as an international standard around fair trade pricing.

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DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Marsha Wallace: Dining for Women is an international giving circle, and our mission is to support and empower self-sufficiency for women and girls who live in extreme poverty in developing countries. The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. This past March, two different groups went to Africa.

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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. ECPAT International :: @ ECPAT.

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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. Disrupt Power Imbalances.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. We were starting to build small circles within the local communities that are all doing really magnificent work in order to create change. It really didn't matter to us. We didn't want to micromanage someone's passion.

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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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