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contact: NextStep Staff: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lorraine Kerwood: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> office: 541-686-2366 website: <http://www.nextsteprecycling.org> postal address: NextStep Recycling 2101 W 10th Ave Eugene, OR 97402-2788 Holy Moly and Heaven's to Betsy! Our [NextStep's, FKA CRRC's] founder and Executive Director, Lorraine Kerwood, was nominated by Lane County community members for the Volvo For Life Awards! And now she is semi-finalist! Zowee! HOW FUN!!!! * If our fearless leader is one of two finalists in the Environment category, she will gift the $25.000 Volvo for Life cash award to to her favorite nonprofit, NextStep Recycling! Right on! * If she is the winner for the Environment Category, she will gift the $100,000 Volvo for Life cash award to her favorite nonprofit-NEXTSTEP RECYCLING! DOUBLE COOL! * If she is the grand award winner, she will gift her Volvo to NextStep too! Fantastically COOL! Click here to vote: < http://www.volvoforlifeawards.com/cgi-bin/iowa/english/vote/environment/index.html > Lorraine is the third person on the left column. Look for her photo: You can vote once a minute! Vote once, vote often! VOTE UNTIL JANUARY 7th, 2008!!! Why? BECAUSE: NextStep doesn't charge much for our services because our community can't pay much for our services. As a result, NextStep Recycling does not receive income to match it's operating costs. However! Lorraine's dream, NextStep Recycling, is kicking the e-waste out of our landfills! NextStep Recycling volunteers and staff have, in three short years, recycled over 1100 TONS of local and national obsolete electronics-keeping it out of our landfill, our water, earth, and air. The NextStep family has also refurbished over 11,500 computers that have been placed in the hands of marginalized community members-addressing the digital divide and empowering people locally, nationally, and internationally. Lorraine's leadership has motivated and inspired hundreds of community members to donate their obsolete electronics hardware, to volunteer their time, to educate our community, and to offer increasingly expanding recycling and educational services to address our waste production and REDUCTION-and encourage our communities to think REUSE FIRST! before the landfill or recycling. Lorraine has dedicated her savings and her life to the development of NextStep Recycling; empowering community members who have barriers that she has experienced in her life-poverty, lack of appropriate education because of her developmentally disabilities, homelessness, and familial abuse. Through access to technology as an older adult, Lorraine learned that being poor, living on the streets, or lack of education did not mean she was a lost cause. Lorraine learned through access to technology, that she was intelligent, capable, and smart, smart, smart! After her mother saw her first computer shop, even her mama said, "I did not know you were so smart." Lorraine has learned she was smart, capable, and powerful by using the computer, tearing it apart, putting it back together, and helping others learn these skills. Help Lorraine build this rockin' nonprofit that impacts thousands of community members! A VOTE FOR LORRAINE IS A VOTE FOR NEXTSTEP RECYCLING! HELP US PLACE TECHNOLOGY WITH OUR COMMUNITIES MOST MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS! Recipients of NextStep computers report: increased connections with their families (via the Internet and email); increased knowledge of their health and disabilities issues (via the Internet and list serves); increased connection with fellow students/disability forums/web based classes; increased employment opportunities; increased access to educational opportunities; and overall sense of connectedness with the wide world! Help us bridge the digital divide and vote for Lorraine! Did you know that reusing ONE computer and CRT monitor saves: * 30 lbs of hazardous waste * 77 lbs of solid waste * 147 lbs (17.5 gallons) of water from being polluted * 32 tons of air from being polluted * 1,333 lbs of CO2 from being emitted * 7,719 kilowatts of energy Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency DID YOU KNOW NEXTSTEP RECYLING HAS KEPT THOUSANDS OF POUNDS OF LEAD OUT OF OUR LANDFILL? (Lead is a highly toxic substance, exposure to which can produce a wide range of adverse health effects. Both adults and children can suffer from the effects of lead poisoning, but childhood lead poisoning is much more frequent). NextStep volunteers and staff responsibly handle the hazardous lead and other wastes contained in monitors, batteries, and other materials brought to NextStep. DID YOU KNOW NEXTSTEP GIFTS TECHNOLOGY DIRECTLY TO THE MOST MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS IN OUR COMMUNITIES? NextStep gifts computers and other technology to: children and adults living in foster care, to persons who experience disabilities, to migrant worker families, to family members leaving domestically violent relationships, to seniors and others living in poverty, to underfunded schools and nonprofits, to rural native communities in Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, The Island of Fiji, the Philippines, Uganda, and hopefully in the future: Ethiopia, China, and Honduras. A VOTE FOR LORRAINE IS A VOTE FOR OUR MOST UNSUPPORTED COMMUNITY MEMBERS! THE MORE FUNDS COMING INTO NEXTSTEP THE MORE COMPUTERS WE CAN PLACE! IT COSTS US $160.00 FOR EACH COMPUTER WE BUILD. SUPPORT OUR BUILDS! VOTE FOR LORRAINE! IF SHE RECEIVES THE $25.000.00 GIFT FROM VOLVO, IT WILL PAY FOR 156 COMPUTER PLACEMENTS. THE $100,000.00 GIFT FROM VOLVO WILL PAY FOR 625 PLACEMENTS! WOOOOO HOOOOO! Voting An online public vote from November 1, 2007, through noon EST on January 7, 2008, will determine the three finalists in the categories of Safety, Environment, Quality of Life, and the Butterfly Award. Members of the public may vote for as many nominees as they wish. Only votes made through the online ballot on this Web site will be counted. Any votes that appear to be submitted from the same computer or IP address more than once per minute will be disqualified. A user who submits more than one vote per minute from the same computer or IP address will not be prompted that his or her votes in excess of one per minute have been disqualified. Additionally, any votes submitted from a Web browser that does not accept cookies will not be counted. An online public vote will determine the three finalists in each category. A panel of independent judges will choose the winner in the categories of Safety, Quality of Life, and Environment. The Grand Award winner will be selected from the category winners in Safety, Quality of Life, and Environment by the panel of independent judges and Volvo Cars of North America, LLC. Awards include: * All semifinalists receive a certificate of merit. * Two finalists in each of three categories "Safety, Quality of Life, and Environment" receive $25,000 each to a designated charity recognized as a tax-exempt charity under the Internal Revenue Code (called a "Qualified Charity"). * A winner in each category (Safety, Quality of Life, and Environment) receives a $100,000 donation to a designated charity recognized as a tax-exempt charity under the Internal Revenue Code (called a "Qualified Charity"), plus a trip to the final awards ceremony and a starring role in a Volvo for life Awards documentary film to be presented at the Gala Awards Ceremony in New York City. * Grand Award winner (selected from the winners in the categories of Safety, Quality of Life, and Environment) also receives a new Volvo every three years for the rest of his or her life. QUESTIONS? You can talk to our Director Lorraine at 541-686-2366 ext 112. Wanna talk to one of our Master Recyclers? Another member of our staff? A member of our Board of Directors? Send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll hook you up with the person you want to talk to! HELP SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS TO BRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE! VOTE FOR LORRAINE AT < http://www.volvoforlifeawards.com/cgi-bin/iowa/english/vote/environment/index.html> !
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