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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. What we do is essentially support social entrepreneurship within refugee communities. Completely random.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World is an international nonprofit organization and citizen journalism initiative. But at the same time, I realized a lot of the limitations that the mainstream model of foreign correspondence often provides. We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well.