Global Giving

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Rob Holmes Founder + Chief Strategist, Green Living Project Who He Is: Rob Holmes leads a multimedia production company that makes short-films about important issues and shares them with the world. Green Living Project has produced more than 100 films across 25 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and North America.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

There is not much information on these low-cost computers but the company has indicated that it will probably be a wireless capable Windows 7 netbook with Norton Security Suite. This new program alone is expected to have major impact on low-income people who have previously been unable to afford broadband Internet.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

"A recent Reuter’s article: Top Ten Trends in Sustainable Business, focuses on the best trends in “green business,&# I’m struck by how many of the points are applicable to sustainable social media. This is a massive blow to smaller companies (or individuals) looking to build their presence through Facebook Pages."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Seems like generosity comes in shades of green too. Two different green campaigns were launched this week with different objectives and strategies. There's a sweepstakes (Grand prize is an electric car - a Tazzari Zero) and other green goodies. Seems like generosity comes in shades of green too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I hope you'll pardon me if I start with a green tech thing. A woman named Gail Work stopped by to chat about her new non-toxic green battery company in Silicon Valley called SeaWave Battery. This company has developed a battery that will run cars among other things. SeaWave Battery. Registration is free for charities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 5, 2010

Over the holiday break I watched the documentary, America the Beautiful: Is America Obsessed with Beauty? I'm also going to do some searching for ideas on Big Green Purse , green LA girl , and Treehugger , and Gorgeously Green by Sophie Uliano looks like it might have some good resources too.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Historically, businesses in America were given a charter for a specific public purpose that allowed them to operate and expired upon the completion of the chartered project. In modern-day America, businesses are held legally accountable to maximize profits for shareholders, frequently at the exclusion of all else.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

we auctioned off these frequencies to mobile companies who then used them to create 4G LTE (fourth generation long-term evolution) wireless networks. Verizon Wireless launched the first large-scale LTE network in North America in 2010. Digital Divide GreenTech Green IT refurbishment digital inclusion' In the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2012

in schools, libraries, local governments, and nonprofits, it was tough to choose just one to profile this week, but I chose YouthBuild Boston because of my fondness for green tech. This is an after school program that is all about green jobs training and making old things new again. The Mission of After School Programs.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2019

The ad appeared as a subversive response to a growing conservative swing in America: “Many Americans, particularly working class and middle-class whites, responded to the turbulence of the late 1960s by embracing a new kind of conservative populism.”. The History Channel. Also in 1971, organizations like Greenpeace rose up. Now, like then.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

My point is that real currency, the silver and green stuff we lug around, is about to get an upgrade. Visa is testing it right now with Bank of America and Device Fidelity , which created a new iPhone case to house the chip. Tags: cell phone dan macsai fast company Mobile NPTech NTEN payments Fundraising. But I digress.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2010

There are just a few industrial electronics recycling companies in all of South America, Africa, and most of Asia. Tags: Green Office GreenTech Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2009

Fellow NTEN members Green America (formerly Coop America) helped guide Peter to a wind-powered provider. SxSWNP Flickr Cred: wharman Peter Campbell changed web hosts and has some good advice about the process.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

B Corps are private sector companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. Their president and founder Matt Bauer also co-edited the excellent Nonprofit Guide to Going Green. Our First B Corp Donor Partner. BetterWorld is our first B Corp.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 6, 2008

Coal companies in Appalachia are increasingly using this method because it allows for almost complete recovery of coal seams while reducing the number of workers required to a fraction of what conventional methods require." buys coal from companies engaged in mountaintop removal."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

But hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these difficult times. Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog , (part of its innovative giving series which included a profile of me !) Innovative Giving: The Open Architecture Network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

I've been hearing a lot about the Social Innovation Fund lately, an element of the Serve America Act. The Social Innovation Fund & Philanthropy Performance by Sean Stannard-Stockton on Tactical Philanthropy Full disclosure: I host Echoing Green's Be Bold podcast and have done social media consulting with them.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Creating company policy that effectively utilizes telecommuting and harnesses communication technology is a matter of resiliency and adaptation, not a radical leap or indulgent management style. The successful companies and organizations of tomorrow will be the ones that implement resilient, flexible work structures today.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company Braided River has used a TechSoup donation of Adobe software to astounding effect. million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." This story was written by Jim Lynch, director of green technology at TechSoup.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

This quote, taken from the TIME article “ Behind the Anti-War Protests that Swept America in 1968 ”, is a good example of that. . “ On the other side of business influence in the Vietnam War was the production of Agent Orange, a chemical weapon used by the United States Military and produced by several US based c hemical companies.

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser. Jacqueline Novogratz has worked as a consultant for UNICEF and started the Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that invests in ideas and companies leading the way in the struggle against poverty. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t. By Jim Collins.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

This was an initiative that began in the city of Austin, Texas with the municipally owned utility company, Austin Energy. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Companies participate and get to use the Fair Trade Certified label when they open their books and demonstrate that they bought direct from the farmers and paid a fair price. PR: Right now TransFair is working with over 500 companies around the country just here in the US on a whole variety of Fair Trade products. I mean, really small.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. He also listed the following Green Economy Trends that are also available here : 1. There is a growing movement focusing on building the local, green economy as an alternative to the transnational corporation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I’m going to start sipping my green tea, like you said. And in 2001, I joined a training company and worked for them for five years and then set out on my own in 2007. So my longest time group of people that I’ve worked with is called Volunteers of America North Louisiana. So I’m going to pipe down. ” .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In 2011, Eric Ries published The Lean Startup , which challenges startup and business founders to build and run their companies in a new way – maximizing customer value and revenue while minimizing wasted effort. Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair). Ashley Meyers, Code For America (Development and Engagement Manager).

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And, you know, builders used to be able to lock in pricing for six months and now nobody will guarantee regardless of the size of your company the value of a two-by-four for more than seven days. . We just recently we’ve got a project in Kenya with our partner Valley Light and their funding partner in America, Just One Africa.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Guest Post Written By: Victoria Greene. Before and after shots aren’t just for weight loss companies and hairdressers. Make-A-Wish America. Their aim is to expose the lies told by big tobacco companies in order to get fewer people smoking. Guest Post: Victoria Greene is a branding consultant and freelance writer.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2010

He recently shared his findings from his latest book, " Re-Engage: How Americas Best Places To Work Inspire Extra Effort In Extraordinary Times." The three things one should do may see like common sense and may appear easy to do, but its surprising how few companies have leaders who follow-through with all three.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

They are developing an industrial capacity, for instance, with companies like Trishyiraya Recycling in Southern India. North America. or Latin America. Latin America. Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Infographic courtesy of Fonebank.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Its from William Arthur Ward , one of Americas most quoted writers of inspirational maxims: Do more than belong: participate. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Jimmie Alford, one of the great fundraisers in America, told me a story a few years ago, which was about this volunteer who had to raise money for mental health in a community. So Fraser Green, great fundraiser in Canada who was working for an organization, left it. Harvey: You got a gun problem in America, I think. .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. all the green is WhatsApp. We have all of Latin America. or in Latin America, if someone texts you at 9:00 p.m., So this is me. .

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