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

Tech Soup

After she co-founded the Foundation For Friends of Nature in Bolivia, a million acres of natural habitat were put in to public trust. They persuaded her to run the place long enough to get it back on its feet. When she ran the Nature Conservancy in Louisiana, 200,000 acres were set aside. Coming Back Home and a Challenge of a Lifetime.

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5 Ways to Gain The Upper Hand in Facebook’s Newsfeed

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Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. The goal of this test is to understand if people prefer to have separate places for personal and public content. So the Newsfeed algorithm tries to predict what each user wants to see in their Newsfeed. But no algorithm is perfect.

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See3 Celebrates Blog Action Day

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Bloggers, activists and friends gathered at our office to watch The New Silver , a film about a woman in Bolivia who is fighting to build a better life for her family with the help of microcredit. This year’s topic was poverty so See3 decided to host a screening of the Dollar A Day film series released by GlobalDevelopmentMatters.

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

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One of their programs is the Reality Tours, where they bring groups of individuals to regions to look at the social justice issues and other pressing issues, that really color the experience and the culture of a place. So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia."

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How to Get Long Life Out of Laptop and Cell Phone Batteries

Tech Soup

to find the closest place to properly recycle it. It is mined mainly in Chile and there are also large deposits in Bolivia. When it's time to recycle it, just go to Earth 911. Lithium-ion batteries are actually pretty benign environmentally.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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I think some of the folks who are listening may have had a vision for something, an idea that they thought would make the world a better place. After that I decided to move back to Portland, because I felt Portland, Oregon was an amazing place to start a vision. How did you know to trust your idea and explore it? How can they do that?

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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That was happening as a result of a pernicious rumor, which is floated, essentially, by the traditional healers there, and in other places. It is very different to interview sex workers who have been trafficked in Phnom Penh, than to interview women who are doing knitting in Bolivia.