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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

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Each year the International Computer Refurbishers Summit awards a lifetime achievement award. This year the award went to Nancy Jo Craig who runs the nonprofit Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council (CACRC) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Thousands of people were pouring into Baton Rouge. It was not an easy road for Nancy.

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

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The most important way for people to collaborate is face to face, so we have a number of ways that we convene women who are doing this work on various different levels. So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." We do it in a number of ways. It was really tremendous.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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It took a long time actually, it took about five more years of holding it inside, and I bet a lot of people in the audience might have experienced that feeling - of just holding onto something that you think could be very transformational, but you are too afraid to take that step. It had hit India. Or, you have to grow to a demand.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago.

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