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ChipIn Over the Holidays

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My fellow BlogHer co-editor, Beth Kanter , has launched a fundraising campaign using ChipIn. Between now and December 31st, Beth is working to raise $750 for the Sharing Foundation , an NGO that works with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to improve children's lives. She sits on their board.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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He did his degree in NGO Management, and will be graduating this coming June. I was in high school, I was 17 and my first trip to Africa was to Kenya with my family, just on a picture safari. Cross-posted from BlogHer. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. Mainly it was luck.

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Solutionary Women: Brande Jackson

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Last month I wrote a short post for Blogher, Roadies for a Cause , about a nonprofit called Lokahi Outreach , that partners with organizations like the ONE campaign and Oxfam to help them do grassroots campaigning on the road. The organization's founder, Brande Jackson, took the time to answer my Solutionary Women e-interview questions.

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