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Metrics for Virtual Worlds: Can you measure engagement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via the Mind Blizzard Blog I learned of a new Dutch NGO island, called "Goede Doelen eiland" ( good causes island ). The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. " Steve Bridger.

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

Have Fun - Do Good

"Many people imagine international health as this fashionable, sexy, and fun job. Caitlin tells it like it is--the nitty gritty of starting up an NGO, and why she believes it is important to help the people you are serving to create the change they want to see, not to create the change for them. Most of it is administration.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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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 showed so much leadership and promise that we ended up sponsoring him to a university through our FORGE education fund. We would bring students.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

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It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. To that end, we recently held a conference at Columbia University called “Teaching About Conflict, Building Towards Peace: A Comparative Forum.”

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