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

Tech Soup

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. Nancy Jo says that CACRC’s next frontier is to get computers and training to seniors.

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Lever for Change: How ‘big bet philanthropy’ is transforming the sector 

Candid

I am an economist by training. For example, when the MacArthur Foundation awarded its first $100 million grant to Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee, it gave the organizations six months to refine their plans for how to use the funds. But when my colleagues at the John D. and Catherine T. Similarly, when the W.K.

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The Foundation’s Approach to Career Development: Our Mentoring Philosophy

WT Grant Foundation

Having developed from a pilot program in 2005, the Foundation’s mentoring grants also emphasize the importance of diversifying the field, most notably in the program’s explicit focus on supporting the career growth of junior researchers of color. Originally available only as a supplemental award for William T.

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