Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Our “job&# is to facilitate that action and make it easier for them to participate. Inspire, empower and facilitate to take action. From @pelleaardema: A very small, local initiative: 3 community projects in Uganda, trying to conquer malaria [link]. Social media makes that much easier.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

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. It had been bombed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Dining for Women is a seven-year-old organization that facilitates a network of 130 giving circles across the country. Longtime Have Fun, Do Good Readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners may remember my interview with Dining for Women's Founder, Marsha Wallace, in September 2007. Tags: women philanthropy interview podcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Solame was just an absolute, silent and powerful woman leader who, as it turned out, had been involved in fighting for freedom in her home country, Uganda, and was one of two women that was present for the rewriting of the Ugandan constitution. Her name is Solame. What's the path that brought each of you to this work?

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