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What Are Your 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions?

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Write to the Nigerian woman I sponsored through Women for Women International each month. Increase the number of people of color I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast. Participate in the 2009 Indie Resolution Challenge sponsored by my local paper, The East Bay Express. It stayed about the same. Donate 5% of my income.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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If you're inspired after listening to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or reading the edited transcript below, take a browse through FORGE's gallery of projects created by refugee social entrepreneurs. ** Kjerstin Erickson: FORGE is an international nonprofit organization that works with refugee communities in Africa.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

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" The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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Below is an edited transcript of our conversation on the Big Vision Podcast. Some of the programs that we have currently running are the Sudan Divestment Task Force , which is leading up the campaign to divest state pensions from companies doing business in Sudan on a recently passed Federal legislation to ban future state contracts.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

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I was thrilled when Zainab Salbi, Women for Women International's Founder and CEO, agreed to an interview with me for the Big Vision Podcast. The way we do that is by asking every single woman around the world to sponsor one woman at a time by sending her $27 a month, along with a letter to start a communication link between the two women.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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About three years ago, I watched a fabulous documentary series sponsored by the Skoll Foundation called The New Heroes. You can also listen to it on the Big Vision Podcast. KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. The show ended, and I immediately signed up to be a Women for Women International sponsor. women war nonprofit survivor

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