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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. Anyone can become a facilitator and host a workshop in their community, and we encourage everyone to get involved. First of all, you can make a postcard! We have come a long way!

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is about facilitating discovery, nurturing trust, sharing experiences, and light-weight focused request/responses.”. What ecosystems facilitate serendipitous discovery and collaboration? I think he’s right…and, online and off, I’m beginning to make it a priority to hang out with folks outside our dogooder set. starts around 7:21).

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

Museum 2.0

The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. Rather than simply hoping the exhibits will motivate deep discussion about cultural issues, the museum provided both a venue and a facilitator for that discussion.

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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. He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. It had been bombed. He had no idea where his family went.

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What is Your Favorite Social Action of 2008?

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Women for Women International supports women survivors of war in conflict and post-conflict areas (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan). She signed up to sponsor two women after seeing a 60 Minutes segment on rape in Congo , where Women for Women was featured.

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