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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

As just one example, the Green Climate Fund now makes their proactive philanthropic approach explicit, funding “projects with a strong focus on increasing direct access and building resilience in the developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.” That is no longer the case.

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Earth Day 2010: Recycle

Tech Soup

EMPA , the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research hosts a great online resource for news on worldwide electronics recycling. Tags: Green Office GreenTech Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: First in 2010!

NTEN

Thank you for this insight and visualization, Laura, and congratulations to Idealware on reaching their Idealware Research Fund initial fundraising goal! And a green solution! Finally, answers! Thank you, Gavin.

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Corporate Altruism: The Blurring of the Lines Between CSR and Cause Marketing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Kami Watson Huyse , who is also my business partner at Zoetica , and I are currently Fellows at Society of New Communication Research. Our research started several months ago with a literature search, is focused on best practices in incorporating a social media strategy into CSR and Cause Marketing programs.

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Doing Museum Work: Your Thoughts

Museum 2.0

Dan Hicks suggested: Build #PositiveAction training—as defined in the 2010 Equality Act—to make a 'pipeline' to begin to address under-representation. Lindsay Green suggests: I’ll go with make the work the team are focussed on visible - literally a list of projects or challenges you’re currently solving on the wall.

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Case Study: The Neverending Data Story

NTEN

We awarded a total of $17 million in education grants in 2010. After doing some research and testing out some of the data mapping tools, we started with just making basic maps of where grants were made and partners are located, from which initial story threads emerged. The larger the green circle, the greater the grant amount.

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New Tax Law: Understanding the Impacts on Charities and Giving

ASU Lodestar Center

According to the Independent Sector, research shows that the estate tax motivates charitable bequests. The Independent Sector reports that in 2010 the estate tax was repealed, and charitable bequests decreased by 37%, only to increase to 92% in 2011 when the estate tax came back. There is evidence of this occurring in the past.

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