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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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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. We had over 2500 donors all together who participated in raising this $500,000. You won't see a rat in this environment, but God knows you do see and experience flies. It really didn't matter to us. Imagine living in it.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We travel because we need to raise money, and we won’t get it unless we get in front of the donors. New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City. Even in the tough fiscal environment in Washington, we get good hearings from both Republicans and Democrats.

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