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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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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. You started very young.

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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

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Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Interviews (written, audio, video). Next week, Beth Kanter will be continuing this BlogHer series about getting started using social media for your nonprofit, or do-good project with posts about social networking, connecting offline and online action, and raising money on social networks.

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Gen Y Nonprofits and Social Change Bloggers: Meet Miss Jones

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference, facilitated by the fabulous Zandria. The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. " I left room inspired to compile a living list.

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. Epic change raises money to provide micro-loans in developing countries. " I had the pleasure of interviewing him about his he formed his organization. Why did I go? Millenials???

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

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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. Below is an edited transcript of an interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. This is just a sampling.