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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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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. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. It had been bombed.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

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have changed. Sudan caused a 0.12% increase in the country’s GDP growth rate, partly. opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. Can you remember when a huge mobile. phone was a brand new and exciting phenomenon and something that only a. privileged few were within reach of.

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Mobilizing Donors and Activists in an Overwhelmed World

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Many people feel like they can't change issues like the genocide in Darfur, they feel too big. The Genocide Intervention Network has a good list of 10 Ways You Can Take Action Today including writing to elected officials, divesting from Sudan, holding an awareness raising event, and creating a video for 24 Hours for Darfur.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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They broadcast and unite women's voices from around the world into a powerful force for change. We unite those voices to accelerate change. All our media channels work together in a design to lift women's voices from the ground to drive change. I've posted an edited transcript below. Yes, and they're very synergistic.

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