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DeDe Esque Receives TRIBUTE! Award
Nokomis Foundation is pleased to announce that DeDe Esque, president and CEO, was honored on November 7, 2007 as a recipient of the annual YWCA TRIBUTE! Award. The award recognizes DeDe�s twenty-plus year commitment to strengthening the voice of women and girls through advocacy and community leadership.
�You help a woman, and you help the world. They are the ones who have the children, who take care of families,� DeDe was quoted as saying in The Grand Rapids Press. �Globally, if we take care of the women and the children, we help the world. It might not always be this huge wave of change that you see. But we can do it, one by one.�
Since 1977, the YWCA's annual TRIBUTE! Awards have honored over 150 women leading the Grand Rapids community in categories including advocacy, arts; business, management, industry and labor; community service; professions; sports, fitness and wellness; and student.
Posted November 7, 2007