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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

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. He was actually on a business trip, on his bike, to Uganda. He did his degree in NGO Management, and will be graduating this coming June.

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

Have Fun - Do Good

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. To us, it's really about collaboration.