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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Alli is now the Business Partners & Events Manager at Green For All and Art in Action Youth Leadership Program). If you're not a listener, you can listen to the show on the Big Vision Podcast site, or subscribe via iTunes or another podcatcher. Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Pie Ranch is a Bay Area nonprofit that teaches urban youth about food and farming: "We have planted wheat for pie crusts and berries for filling, and are raising bees for honey, goats for milk and chickens for eggs on a 14-acre parcel above the historic Steele Ranch at Green Oaks Creek.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

If you have suggestions for people for me to interview for future shows, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com, or leave a comment below. Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder of Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Thad Cochran (R-MS), and Sen.Christopher Dodd (D-CT)) that she is a part of who will be pushing the Serve America Act of 2008. "We The Clean Energy Service Corps will create new service opportunities to fight global warming, find new sources of clean energy, create energy independence and create green jobs. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Sen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. An easy example is green technology. Some are calling it impact investing.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. In 2008, the event netted about $18,000. Fundraising Events.

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AUGUST 22, 2007

Like "green", it is used so much these days it is starting to lose its oomph. They fund projects and conduct outreach designed to improve agricultural systems. What the heck does "sustainable" mean anyway? To celebrate their 20th anniversary, they are sponsoring their first national photo competition. Photo Credit: Tomatoes by Me.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

When all was said and done, we received a 2005 seed-funding grant from Full Circle Fund and launched the Refurbished Computer Initiative program. How Green Is RCI? It became a commercial company in 2008. With a catalog. All of our RCI-refurbished PCs come with the Windows 7 operating system, and all come with Office 2007.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6% Start a Giving Circle to fund local organizations. Here are a few related posts: Four Big Thinkers' Ideas on Going Green, Ending Poverty from Treehugger. of Oakland residents are living in poverty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2007

A Few Book Suggestions: Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , a publication of Echoing Green. They were all Echoing Green Fellows who received up to $90,000 in seed funding and technical support to turn their ideas into sustainable organizations. Pick three more actions. Pick a date to meet. Still wondering where to start?

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Twelve organizations focused on peace and human security are appealing to their constituents to vote early and often, in a bid to win the grand prize of a $100,000 grant from Ploughshares Fund. Every dollar “voted” is a tax-deductible donation to the group voted for, with nothing taken off the top by Ploughshares Fund.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook. Recycling.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Maybe the answer is for a single donor to step forward and fund the next half dozen issues. In the jargon of OA advocacy, journals charging subscriptions but permitting this kind of author-initiated self-archiving are called “green&# , while journals giving up subscriptions and providing OA themselves are called “gold&#.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I don't mean some wear-a-red-outfit-with-a-green-hat, only-go-outside-to-buy-milk bullshit either. Shaving your head to supercharge a fundraising campaign has continued to be popular into 2008. She launched the month-long campaign with a goal of $40,000, again to support DonorsChoose.org. Bunting raised $75,000! . Gary Vaynerchuk.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

“The year-end fund-raising results last month confirm what we already suspected: for most people giving is not a luxury but a natural extension of who they are,” said Mark Rovner, Founder of Sea Change Strategies. Be ready with “evergreen” fund-raising tactics – emergencies, donor match drives, etc.

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MAY 4, 2010

There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. One of the women that stands out is actually someone who participated in our 2008 training, which took place in Kenya. When we look at environmental challenges, we can't avoid the question of women's role within designing the solutions. There are solutions.

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JANUARY 16, 2009

" --Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. Even stuff around "green." I feel like, as artists, it's our responsibility to make a commentary on our contemporary society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. The Free Rice Game has generated enough rice to feed millions of people since it started in October 2007 or a total of 70,991,387,110 grains of rice as of October 2009.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She is the 2010 NTEN Award Winner and was named to the NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector in 2008. And now very for Lucy’s most mysterious prediction: we will have a major scandal in the crowd funding marketplace. She’s one of our great forward-thinking people at TechSoup Global.

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APRIL 25, 2007

When I went to see Van Jones speak for the first time at the Green Festival in November 2002 about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails," people in the States were just starting to lift their heads up from a year of fear and despair after September 11th. Our question is, will this green wave lift all boats? How do we make sure?

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