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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

Museum 2.0

In 2006, the Aquarium sponsored a letter-writing campaign in the museum, giving visitors an opportunity to send postcards to the governor expressing support for the establishment of marine protected areas on California's central coast. People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

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. It had been bombed.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

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. How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that?

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