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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. The organization's project on The Last Polar Bear reached more than 20 million people. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5 Large-Format Photography.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. The organization's project on The Last Polar Bear reached more than 20 million people. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5 Large-Format Photography.

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Sustainable Agriculture Scholarships and Photo Competition

Have Fun - Do Good

Sustainable Table , a project of the nonprofit, GRACE, defines sustainable as: "A product can be considered sustainable if its production enables the resources from which it was made to continue to be available for future generations." They fund projects and conduct outreach designed to improve agricultural systems.

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

Museum 2.0

The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. What does the word "participatory" mean to you?

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

NTEN

The Bandwagon Effect In 2008, we launched a "single-sign on" method using Facebook Connect that allows our visitors to use their Facebook credentials to log in. Zeph joined VolunteerMatch in March 2008 with 7 years of experience in web application design. His outside interests include writing, photography, biking and traveling.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2014 - The Green Issue

Tech Soup

This is a fresh change because ever since the economic downturn of 2008-09, Americans have invariably chosen economic growth over the environment, except for immediately after the BP oil spill in May 2010. drone maker, Titan Aerospace for their Internet.org project to provide low-cost Internet to much of the developing world.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 1: Overview and Statistics

Museum 2.0

Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. In a couple of cases, I opened this up broadly to my Facebook or Twitter network, for example, when I was looking for a generic shot of visitors checking out a photography exhibition.