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The Mother-Led Movement to Save Our Kids’ Climate

Saleforce Nonprofit

Learn about the problem, the effects, and the solutions. It embodies the universal instinct to protect and care for children. FBE: I’d say three things: Motivation — As a parent who has been involved with climate change since 2008, I know what’s at stake for our children. Read up on the topic. The science is frightening.

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Rockstar Nairobi Social Entrepreneur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. They recruited their staff from Nairobi slums as well as students from poor rural backgrounds who had made it to Nairobi universities. No problem! We go way back with her firm. Carol Wanjiku Daproim went on to great success.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. She grew up in Hunts Point, a South Bronx neighborhood that for decades was plagued by poverty, violence and ecological degradation.

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Vendorspeak

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s the standard “if I have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.&# I wanted to figure out how to make my product solve every problem that my clients had – or, if I couldn’t, I wanted to figure out how to build/install/integrate something that could. A universal service for the masses.

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10 Things Fundraisers Can Do to Adapt During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Connection Cafe

We have the answer, not just a problem. We shouldn’t just go to our donors with a problem and expect them to fix it with money. We are the organization that has the answer to the problem, and we need their help to make that solution a reality. Strategize with this economic downturn in mind, not the 2008 recession.

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Interview with Lindsay Gruber: Building Corporate Resilience through Pro Bono Volunteerism

Saleforce Nonprofit

When that happened, it became clear that the same skills were universally applicable, and the value in offering those skills became clear. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. That’s been a really big shift in volunteering over the last few years.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. Without getting into Google’s plan for world domination, what would help there is to see more universal adoption of OpenID[2]. [0] 0] [link] [1] Three offices, no sys-admin.