Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I had a chance this week to preside over TechSoup’s booth at the latest Social Capital Markets conference (SOCAP) in San Francisco. It was a great chance to meet real live social entrepreneurs and further my quest to figure out how nonprofits fit in to this emerging field. It’s one of the premier social enterprise.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. Open Data San Francisco. The lineup began with an overview of San Francisco's OpenData Program.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. " RE-Volv.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay. Carpocalypse. Workplace Evolution.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Currently, there are more than 450 certified Benefit Corporations in 60 different industries nationwide, with a quarter of those residing in the San Francisco Bay area. Governments and nonprofits are necessary but insufficient to solve today’s most pressing problems. B Labs and B Corps. B Corps in California.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2015

Rory Green is a guest blogger for Nonprofit Hub. It’s a short, two hour flight from San Francisco and the Silicon Valley. There needs to be a Return On Investment (ROI) – which you can only offer as a nonprofit if you understand the company and their business needs: • Who are their customers? Engage the Whole Team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. An easy example is green technology.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

TechSoup and Interconnection , one of our Refurbished Computer Initiative partners, teamed up to supply a group of nonprofits and libraries with everything they would need to set up a MultiPoint Server lab in their environment during the fall of 2012. Reliatech hires Strides Center A+-certified graduates to do their IT tech support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Danielle Brigida, NWF Social Media Outreach Coordinator ( @starfocus on Twitter) Note from Beth: In the coming weeks, we're peeking over the shoulder of nonprofit social media practitioners to learn about their work flow and techniques. For nonprofits, that means moving from the transactional to the constant relationships.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 7, 2007

In Sugar Coated, San Francisco Chronicle reporter, Kim Severson, writes about the unexpected presence of high fructose corn syrup in our food: "Because high fructose corn syrup mixes easily, extends shelf-life and is as much as 20 percent cheaper than other sources of sugar, large-scale food manufacturers love it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Green Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion. i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). The New York Women’s Foundation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Green Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion. i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). The New York Women’s Foundation.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This is our earth month edition of nonprofit technology news. There’s lots of intriguing green NPTech news this month. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website. Recycling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

She is also co-host of the radio show, The Queens of Green on Green 960 , which you can also be downloaded as a podcast. Above and beyond that, women are just all-around amazing, working at nonprofits, heading up over 60% of employees, and directing over 85% of household spending. We also have one in San Francisco.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2007

Ten years ago I used to take the bus every day from downtown San Francisco to South San Francisco where there was an Odwalla office. Before being green was cool, Hawken was writing about the environmental impact of business and the importance of balancing profit and planet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

For folks who are interested in how you can use blogs and podcasts and other social media things for social change, basically the way I started was, I have always worked for nonprofits and socially responsible businesses, and was not technical at all. I moved to San Francisco. Because you're just sending links.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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