Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The briefing was called "Turning E-Waste into Green." We're also not doing a great job capturing truly used up IT discards that can be used to harvest parts and raw materials like plastics, metals, and glass. The Illinois Electronic Waste Recycling Act has successfully created and proven this recycling model.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

It is also developing a scalable model and toolkit for other communities to do the same work. They also carry on the work of visionary founder and board member, Van Jones, especially in the area of developing green jobs training programs for low-income youth. They specialize in providing both hard and soft job skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

It is being beta tested as part of a new model of high quality education in schools called: Sujaya : India’s 1st K-12 Hybrid CBSE Schools www.sujayaschools.com. The teacher invited the students to quiz me on what I had eaten over the last couple of days and got feedback about whether I was eating from the right food groups!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Brainstorm a list of the content areas and tasks in your current job. What is it that you need to know or be able to do as part of your job. Model Network Weaving: Network weaving encourages rhizomatic behavior – so what better way then to model the techniques for others. Think about your current work.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Building a donor-friendly website is a complex job – part marketing and part technical. If you have a site in your head you want to create or a site you admire that you want to model yours after, these platforms may not give you the flexibility you want. That’s a lot of pressure on you to have a good website! You just drag-and-drop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model. The five ways of thinking addressed by the model include different views on what the authors say, "why and how people or things change" (p. Green-print thinking.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2006

They were brought together by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' Reclaim the Future program to talk about how to make Oakland a model city that uses the growing green economy to lift its low-income residents out of poverty. are going to make Oakland the new Silicon Valley for green capital."

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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. Otherwise, there are co-ownership models that are interesting today where you can have people from the city that are buying into your farm, and then they have part ownership. Back to the models.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

The Clean Energy Service Corps will create new service opportunities to fight global warming, find new sources of clean energy, create energy independence and create green jobs. The Academy would be modeled on a military academy. The Health Corps will help Americans to stay and become healthy.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Computer Technologies Program has an employment placement rate of 80% and has served as the model for technical training programs. Its IT job training model has been replicated at more than 50 locations internationally. They also offer low-cost computer repair to the public. TechSoup and Interconnection.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

It refurbishes IT equipment to very high standards with a largely volunteer workforce, and it is a model program for responsible export of refurbished IT equipment in to developing countries. InterConnection is a nonprofit refurbisher that has figured out how to do two things very, very well. Global Impact of InterConnection's Programs.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

The reality is that shifting to a more flexible telecommuting model with your organization is likely to be a bit like a new exercise routine. Obviously not all jobs can be done effectively in a remote work framework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Listening may happen at the personal, staff level as a best practice for doing their job whether or not it is embedded in the organization's culture. That happens when leaders model and encourage it. For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

They were normal kids, except they lived in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago, where the role models and life experiences were anything but what normal kids in most parts of America grow up with. I started mentoring a fourth grade boy living in Cabrini-Green in 1973 and became leader of a volunteer-based program in 1975.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. As he’s entering the last day of this major event, it’s their biggest thing they do every year, he’s in the green room before anybody shows up, curled up in a ball. Brian: Yeah, totally.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2. During those two years, not only has the used computer market been in question, but also there has been major buzz in the IT press about whether or not we're entering a “post PC” era.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Aqubanc will give away two replica models courtesy of Diecasm (www.diecasm.com). Stop by Booth #75 to visit Little Green Light (online donor management) and drop your business card off to get a chance to win a Flip HD video camera. We will be raffling off an iPod Touch at the booth. Aqubanc in booth 58. Partners for Change in booth 55.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Aqubanc will give away two replica models courtesy of Diecasm (www.diecasm.com). Stop by Booth #75 to visit Little Green Light (online donor management) and drop your business card off to get a chance to win a Flip HD video camera. We will be raffling off an iPod Touch at the booth. Aqubanc in booth 58. Partners for Change in booth 55.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- 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. I'm going to be green. We look at companies that are doing good.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Plan Monthly Job Learning Days Having your employees learn more about what their fellow employees do is invaluable. When everyone knows how each job/position on your team fits together, your team can accomplish so much more. Its best when they meet in their respective offices/cubicles.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

JVH: The primary argument coming out of the automakers at this time is I believe a bit of a cover-up for a larger problem, which is simply the inertia on the part of companies to change their model of business; to change their way of doing things. They recognize that green is very vogue right now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Fair Trade is this exciting new model for addressing poverty around the world. So yes, awareness around Fair Trade is growing, but it's growing slowly basically because the resources are still insufficient to tackle the job in a major national way. You can read a transcript of the podcast below. our budget this year is $10 million.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

emphasis mine] I think it is incumbent upon knowledgeable leaders to provide models for how to do things differently – provide tools that foster social change in ways that foster social change, not in ways that help to sustain the status quo. Is there a business model that will make this work? Others aren’t at all.

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MARCH 5, 2021

Green Foundation. This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. Green Foundation. The New York Women’s Foundation. Kentucky Foundation for Women.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Green Foundation. This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. Green Foundation. The New York Women’s Foundation. Kentucky Foundation for Women.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair). Gateway Green is a project in Portland to turn a stretch of unused land into a multi-use bike park. The Gateway Green team ran a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo , seeking $100,000 to begin work on the park. Ashley Meyers, Code For America (Development and Engagement Manager).

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

They have full-time jobs, they’re dealing with diseases, they’re getting COVID shots. Each board member had a give of 500, a give of 5,000 and if it was in the green for that quarter, that meant they were on track. I add a stage five where I like to follow the model that had stage five, and that’s the process.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

A new episode of Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact is up for your listening pleasure. Lara Galinsky, the Senior Vice President of Echoing Green offers advice for 4 listeners' questions. You can listen to the show online on Echoing Green , or subscribe via iTunes. I'm the show's host). Episode 7 1.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Worse yet, without positive feedback, employees feel no sense that they are appreciated as individual talents with specific desires to learn and grow on the job and in their careers, reports Nicholas Nigro, author of, The Everything Coaching and Mentoring Book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010 Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty A 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management shows that job security is what matters most to employees. And, having that job security helps to keep employees loyal. Okay, thats really not too surprising during these times of high unemployment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2011

A survey recently completed by the job-placement firm Manpower that found 84 percent of employees intend to look around for a new job this year, and that is up from 60 percent last year. What resources do you need to get the job done? Tuesday, January 4, 2011 Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

inspired by Julia Butterfly Hill's tree-sit, Off the Mat Into the World , founded by yoga teacher Seane Corn, and Green for All , founded by Van Jones. We do that through a model of living room circles, circles in cafes, and circles in yoga studios It's a place for people to actually plug in and get trained to be leaders.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 5 Questions To Ask At Your Next Employee Performance Review Here are five important questions you, as a manager and leader, should ask during employee performance reviews: What have I done to help - or hinder - your job performance? What do you want most from your job?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Sunday, December 12, 2010 The Five Points Of Professionalism Heres more good advice from The Everything Coaching And Mentoring Book : Professional behavior on the job means that work habits are strong and consistent. What resources do you need to get the job done? How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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