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Samin Nosrat: Cook, Teacher, Writer, Accidental Activist

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Her newest project is organizing Chez Panisse Foundation's Eating for Education , a grassroots effort to create national awareness about school kitchen/garden programs. August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and co-presenting The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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Meet Michaela Hackner: BlogHer and Nonprofit Techie

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So, she graciously agreed to participate in our panel and do a quick interview for me so I could "pro blog it" for BlogHer. What did you do while your in Cambodia (and Kenya)? You are working in technology for a nonprofit, what did you did study in school?

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Wangari Maathai, Dining for Women & LA

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Marsha Wallace, the founder of Dining for Women , contacted me after reading some of the posts I had written about Dining for Women here and on BlogHer , and invited my husband and I to be Dining for Women's guest at the event. They are donating the proceeds from next month's dinners to Maathai's project, Women for Change.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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If you're inspired after listening to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or reading the edited transcript below, take a browse through FORGE's gallery of projects created by refugee social entrepreneurs. ** Kjerstin Erickson: FORGE is an international nonprofit organization that works with refugee communities in Africa.

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Arts Activist Naomi Natale and The One Million Bones Project

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Both an installation artist and photographer, Naomi was the founder and director of The Cradle Project , a large scale installation calling attention and raising funds for the 48 million children orphaned in Sub-Saharan Africa. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group. Tweet Share.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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And then another program is Reclaim the Future, which is one our newest projects, that is addressing green-color jobs and building opportunities for low-income people, formerly convicted people, and communities of color in this new green economy. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. Did you guys go to that?

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