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How Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions Going?

Have Fun - Do Good

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being. Brainstorming what these jobs might look like was one of the highlights of our conversation.

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Blogger Uses Petition Site to Create Better Transportation for NY - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

I was busy starting my green communications consulting company, Aequus Green Communications , and working with clients to pay the bills and increase the portfolio. Six months later, and despite being delayed again by work, a new template for GBK, and eventually several additional green sites, is almost done.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

Yet, for many purposes, refurbished equipment presents nonprofits, libraries, and lower-income families with a more affordable alternative to new equipment; one that will do nearly everything that new computers do. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I suspect that the good folks at SeaChange are busy updated the 2008 the Procrastinators Guide To Year-End Fundraising. Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Alternative Approaches. More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here.

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Advice for the College Senior Who Wants to Make a Difference

Have Fun - Do Good

For the first time, I didn't feel like a crazy person for wanting to have an alternative vision for my career. A Few Book Suggestions: Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , a publication of Echoing Green. Pick three more actions. Pick a date to meet. Repeat until you create your big vision! Still wondering where to start?

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. Gone Green(er).