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. She has been named a Haas Public Service Fellow at Stanford, a Top 10 College Woman by Glamour Magazine , and a Person You Should Know by CNN.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 2, 2018

All of the year’s art, events and goings-on are being sorted into “best of” lists on various blogs. MeToo was meant to be a movement that provides “empowerment through empathy” to survivors of sexual abuse, assault, exploitation and harassment, especially those in underprivileged communities. It’s happening again.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

STGM's site is already Turkey's most popular website amongst CSOs, receiving approximately 2,000 different visitors daily! In addition to their relatively traditional offerings of training, legal advice, and grant management, STGM and TechSoup Turkey will focus on supporting digital empowerment. Image 4 : hugovk / CC BY-NC-SA.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. "The art in getting the details is to allow audiences to explore the evidence for themselves to find the stories that mean something to them." Put in your zip code and get a map. Flesh Out Your Visual Campaign.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. "The art in getting the details is to allow audiences to explore the evidence for themselves to find the stories that mean something to them." Put in your zip code and get a map. Flesh Out Your Visual Campaign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Many of them had almost nothing by way of material resources, but they had imagination, and if you have imagination, you can, it turns out, light the dark with all kinds of creative arts. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Not only are the kids getting educated, but they're also being introduced into their cultural arts again. We brought in our own skills, but we also participated in the different classes that CCF offers like social studies, Khmer, English, storytelling--typical classes that you'd find in any public school system. It was so fun.

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