Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

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. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. The third kind of face to face opportunity we provide is in partnership with an organization called Global Exchange.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 at the Aspen Institute. It planted a seed for me to step into the nonprofit sector. It felt familiar yet different.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

So as you may be aware, New Orleans was a very early epicenter of the pandemic here in the United States. And part of it depends also on your financial situation and, you know, in the United States, your healthcare situation with walking away from a job. It’s yes and no because I was let go in phases.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. What they're coming up with, what they're saying, and how they're organizing. I'm totally addicted.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

And the workforce is steadily growing: in the United States, the number of platform workers increased by 34 percent in 2021, one out of three workers has become defined as a temporary or freelance worker, and so-called “independent contractors” are expected to be the majority of the workforce in the near future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

The combined forces of smartphones, mobile broadband, and location-aware applications will connect us in more meaningful ways to the people, organizations, events, information, and companies that matter most to us—namely, those within a physical proximity of where we live and where we are. No more paper and a much better experience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

As a feminist, and as a feminine feminist, I truly believe that we don't do a very good job in the United States of believing that you can lead by serving, and I think the United States needs to think deeply about being in service of the rest of the world." Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Welcome to the Big Vision Podcast where we talk with individuals and organizations that are creating positive change. So, last spring Ella Baker Center, to launch its new program Reclaim the Future, took a big role in the United Nations World Environment Day Conference that was happening here in San Francisco.

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