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

Tech Soup

It's been 12 years since our own Jim Lynch teamed up with Willie Cade at PC Refurbishers and Recyclers to start the very first International Computer Refurbishers Summit (ICRS). In 2012, EU countries discarded 10.9 In the United Kingdom alone, the average person will throw away over 3 tons of electronics in his or her lifetime.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

Almost all of this was given to causes within the United States. However, the 5 percent given to international causes reflected a 15.3 remains the highest net donor of aid in absolute dollar amounts, providing more than twice the amount of the next highest donor, the United Kingdom. percent increase over the prior year.

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Webinar: eCampaign 2012 - Killer Tactics to Drive Elections with Online Fundraising And Social Media

Care2

Join us on February 16, 2012 at 2:00 PM ET for "eCampaign 2012 - Killer Tactics to Drive Elections Using Online Fundraising & Social Media" and hear from two experts who are working in the heart of Campaign 2012. In this webinar you will learn: New tactics for acquiring and converting online donor leads.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

12 At the same time—as shown by an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report in 2017—technological advancement, especially as regards the growth of the platform economy, had been chipping away at the share of income for workers, resulting in half of the decline in workers’ share of income across the globe between 1990 and 2015.

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