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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. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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13 Women Changing the World

Have Fun - Do Good

One Mango Tree uses a fair trade model to provideincome generating opportunities for women artisans inimpoverished and conflict-ridden areas of the globe. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (December 22, 2008) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 6. Halle Butvin Founder and Director, One Mango Tree.

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