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

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After she co-founded the Foundation For Friends of Nature in Bolivia, a million acres of natural habitat were put in to public trust. By 2004 she had come back to her hometown of Baton Rouge and was working as a management consultant to a failing nonprofit. “It just works better that way.” ” She says.

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

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Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work. We do it in a number of ways. It's called the Biosand Water Filter.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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Our October 14th conversation began with Jensine explaining how World Pulse works. I wanted to go out and experience the world, so I went at nineteen years old to the Amazon in Ecuador and ended up working with indigenous women who were struggling because there had been a oil contamination (four times Exxon Valdez) on their traditional lands.

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