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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. He ran into Congo.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

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Each January Nonprofit Tech 2.0 selects 31 new “ Favorite Nonprofits ” to be featured in the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofits in previous years were chosen primarily because they excelled at social media. MomsRising is a nonprofit grassroots movement working to build a more family-friendly America.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. Increasingly, rape of women is being used as a tool of war, not just in large scale wars as we saw in the Serbian and Bosnian conflict, but as we saw recently in Kenya and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I am very inspired by that.

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