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Reframe, commit, and expand: How to meaningfully invest in Black leaders

Candid

Since 1987, Echoing Green has identified visionary leaders with bold ideas for transforming the world and invested in their ideas and leadership. Between 2012 and 2020, the Fellowship supported 90 leaders working across 40 U.S. Black voices, Black spaces.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

November 27, 2012 is the first ever #GivingTuesday. Natural Resources Defense Council :: Green Gifts. Holiday gifts that protect the environment, NRDC Green Gifts are guaranteed to bring joy to your loved ones while protecting Mother Earth. Nonviolent Peace Force :: Peace Bonds.

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A Nonprofit Staffer's Guide to Green Investing

Tech Soup

How Can I Do the Right Thing for the Environment? Fortunately, by using a green investing approach, you can find ways to save for retirement and also save the planet. is involved in green or socially responsible investing. trillion at the start of 2014, a 76 percent increase since 2012. Image 1 : 401(K) 2012 / CC BY-SA.

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Office Greening for the Holidays: Closing Up Shop

Tech Soup

In addition to helping the environment, you will also save money on electricity and prolong the life of many of your office electronics. Look for those machines around your office that have a little green light glowing on them. According to Green Home Huddle "Your cell phone charger, iPod charger, laptop charger, etc.

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Green Technology Summit Heads to Europe (and It's Kind Of a Big Deal)

Tech Soup

In 2012, EU countries discarded 10.9 Jim Lynch is TechSoup's director of green technology (here's the part where I embarrass him — he's also pretty much the man as far as electronics refurbishing and recycling goes). There is extraordinary work being done in EU countries in a complicated regulatory environment.

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The American Public Gardens Association and TechSoup's National Accounts Program

Tech Soup

As one might expect they are deeply passionate about the environment. Public gardens very often demonstrate non-toxic fertilizing and pest control, green and living buildings , and green events. Louis was named the state's firest certified green restaurant. Missouri Botanical Garden Café in St.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. There’s a ton of information on all this, but I still like Time Magazine’s now ancient 2012 article, Your Life Is Fully Mobile , which is part of their larger Mobile Tech Special Edition. Telework and the Environment. Telework and the Polar Vortex.

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