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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 In the United Kingdom alone, the average person will throw away over 3 tons of electronics in his or her lifetime. The European Union (EU) is the largest economy in the world and home to over 500 million people who discard vast numbers of electronic devices each year.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

Sources: OECD; Hudson Institute's remittances calculations from DAC donors to DAC recipients based on data from the World Bank's Migration and Remittance Team's Bilateral Remittance Matrix , 2010; Hudson Institute, 2012. OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE (U.S. Official Development Assistance in 2010 was $30.4 billion, a 4.2

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2013

Tech Soup

Here's a bit of the fine print and official rules on this one: Nonprofits or charities or individuals from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia only are eligible to enter the contest. They're looking for newer videos created no earlier than January 1, 2012.

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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

Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012. In 2021, the United Kingdom launched an “accelerator initiative” for platform co-ops under the direction of Programme Manager Ludovica Rogers. 11 According to a 2017 report, 57.3 A Capital Conundrum.

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