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. What we do is essentially support social entrepreneurship within refugee communities. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Make it social (leverage the impact of the group). Make it tangible (participants should feel like they have made a direct impact). Keeping campaigns simple, social, personal, creative and tangible might transform feeling overwhelmed into empowerment. Make it simple. Make it personal (create a human-to-human connection).

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It's a very creative town, very community oriented, and the energy there is very supportive. I worked on the side with my massage to be able to get the income to support myself while I did something very, very entrepreneurial and very risky. The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally.

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