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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” The article described fascinating new uses of sensors and other smart telecommunications devices in energy conservation, transportation, health care, and food distribution. Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River teamed up with Alaska Wilderness League to deliver 1 million signatures to President Obama opposing drilling in the Arctic in 2012. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5 Challenges.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River teamed up with Alaska Wilderness League to deliver 1 million signatures to President Obama opposing drilling in the Arctic in 2012. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5 Challenges.

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Radical Collaboration is Our Best Chance to Fight Climate Change

Saleforce Nonprofit

Jennifer Morris, CEO of The Nature Conservancy , is a self-described “impatient optimist” who believes in radical collaboration to create tangible results that last. The Cumberland Forest Project protects 253,000 acres of Appalachian forest and is one of The Nature Conservancy’s largest-ever conservation efforts in the eastern United States.

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SocialCoding4Good: Mobilizing Technology and Volunteerism for Transformative Impact

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What if there were a website software that industry professionals could visit to discover open source organizations like Amara , FrontlineSMS , or The Guardian Project , and learn about their technical volunteer opportunities?

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Opposing Salesforce.com attempt to TM "Social Enterprise"

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Finally, I was a founding board member and a former chair of the Social Enterprise Alliance, a North American industry association made up of more than 500 social enterprises, and the owner of related trademarks in the social enterprise sector. Social enterprise is wide use in classes covering computer software and services.

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An Unconventional 3-Step Plan To Save the Oceans

Saleforce Nonprofit

event held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, we presented the first adidas x Parley prototype: a shoe made with plastic waste collected in the Maldives, and illegal fishing nets recovered from the Southern Ocean by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society during their record-breaking campaign to thwart notorious toothfish poachers.