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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. It's the same thing in a development context.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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The third goal would be, on an international level, to take this news, that is really created from the inside out, as opposed to the traditional model of foreign correspondence, which is an outsider coming in, out into the world. We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well.