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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. 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. You started very young.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. The program is called Tech2Empower and you can learn more about it here. I coached this participant, with the help of the translator on getting her brand page set up!

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast. Melinda: Well, it might be helpful to explain the origin of Women's Global Green Action Network, because it helps to describe how we are structured. And we have been operating on those goals. regions and sub-regions.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

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I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. You need IT folks who understand how data is structured, what queries are possible, how data modeling works.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

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You can hear the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or read the transcript below. Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. retail market. Priya Haji: My name is Priya Haji.

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[VIDEO] You’ve Been Let Go From Your Nonprofit Job – Now What?

Bloomerang

How do I deal with going through the interview process all over again? ” I’ve lined up a couple of interviews. How do you prepare for interviews? So if you go into the interview and you look to say, “Hey. How do you prepare for interviews? What should I be doing to find the next big thing for me?

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Solutionary Women: Nancy Gruver

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I was thrilled when Catherine Conover, the Assistant Managing Editor & Communications Coordinator for New Moon magazine, contacted me and suggested that Nancy Gruver, the founder of New Moon, would be a great Solutionary Woman to interview. In the case of DADs a non-profit structure seemed to fit the mission best.