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8 Nonprofits Championing Environmental Sustainability on Earth Day

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The global COVID-19 pandemic didn’t slow the momentum one bit. Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. million metric tons of electronic waste was produced globally in 2019 alone, but only 11.4 Around 37% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food production, while the U.S.

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

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Getting started: The nonprofit tools you need to set up shop and grow your organization TechSoup is a global nonprofit organization that offers discounts and technology solutions as well as IT consulting and courses to nonprofits. Most people you work with, from students to volunteers to Board members, will already know how to use them.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

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Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being. SB] 2 is but part of Majora’s multi-pronged strategy for urban renewal.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last winter, after Harry and I had a conversation about global warming (and quite a conversation it was for a then eight-year old), and we collaborated on a series of green videos. This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease.

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Got Hope? I Do, in Generation Y

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Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a career counseling session for a group of Stanford students who were spending their "alternative spring break" meeting with social entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. Photo: The fabu students who participated in the Social Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area spring break (and me).

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago.

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

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Additionally, there has been a lot of rhetoric on the part of the automakers regarding the greenness of their operations, when in fact what we are seeing is a lot of green-washing. They recognize that green is very vogue right now. They recognize that citizens are extremely concerned about global warming.