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. RE-volv's Solar Policy & Finance 101 slide show is well worth looking at. We had many excellent submissions to the contest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

However, there’s always room for improvement and creating a consistent brand across all chapters and encouraging an organization-wide adoption of best practices benefits all parties involved. Step 6: Create an enforcement policy.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

Blurred Policy Lines and the Downsides of Sharing. Nonprofits that work in policy and advocacy can help craft legislation and work with local, state, and national policymakers to adopt laws that balance the explosion of sharing-economy startups and protect the marginalized from exploitation. Images: Twitter pics, me.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The discipline and constraint imposed by an office is useful up to a point, but as Jim's post on telework policy makes clear, we can replicate the positive elements of peer pressure and self-discipline in the context of teleworking. My second reaction was, telework makes even more sense for nonprofits than other organizations.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

AND, it's the green thing to do. Disruptive Technology #3: Energy & Green IT. The upside is that they will be more eager and capable adopters of the technology you give them. Outside of the actual tech, you will also need to pay closer attention to policies. Make Al Gore proud! The US may not be far behind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2022

By having a strong reputation, your emails are given the green light to land into inboxes. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is a stamp of approval your ESP can send on your domain’s behalf. If an email address has been inactive (i.e., Work with your ESP to confirm that your DKIM and SPF are set up correctly.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. Tablet adoption is very brisk. There is a ton of info on how telework helps the environment and is considered part of green technology. TechSoup: Telework Policies. That's around 1.3 billion of us doing it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

An easy example is green technology. Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. She’s launched a policy project you can read about here. In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

TechSoup itself has adopted a tiered user policy. Perhaps the most controversial thing about such policies are the amount of ownership that an organization takes over personal devices. In terms of limiting users, IT departments seem to be thinking of their employees in terms of segments or tiers. How BYOD Affects Workers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

The discussion focused less on what the Fund will do, and more on best practices it should adopt, and challenges it will face once it is up and running. Michele Jolin , Senior Advisor for Social Innovation for the Domestic Policy Council at The White House was the panel moderator. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Beth Kanter, Red Cross Social Media Strategy/Policy Handbook. The top ranked content was on strategy including metrics, adoption, and overall strategy. I looked at the number of RSS subscribers from before the program started and afterwards - and there was a net gain 300 subscribers (see the green line).

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

VietNet-ICT also actively participates in policy discussions to formulate laws and policies relating to information, technology, and communication towards sustainable development and equity. The organization has a particular mission to help charities (particularly those who work to aid women) and to promote gender equality.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

We'd be happy to discuss the results of our survey so far and provide tips on how you can adopt efficient server technologies. We hope to get some solid statistics on the server efficiency potential in small business markets, and use that information to inform state policies and utility efficiency programs.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Donations via third-party platforms like Facebook, online donation tools like QGiv or Little Green Light, and employer matching platforms like Benevity, aren’t always straightforward. Here’s where a Gift Acceptance Policy can help (more on that in a moment). You do so with a Gift Acceptance Policy! Now you’re off the hook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

They were going to go out to those cities and try to form partnerships with the cities, to get the Mayors or the council members of those cities, at a policy level, to endorse the Plug-In Partner campaign, and then subsequently to get them to place a soft fleet order. They recognize that green is very vogue right now.

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

From facilitating green commuting, to employee gift matching, to paid time off for volunteering, Google inspects nearly every part of their business with a social impact lens. s Blue Jeans Go Green to collect used clothing, and also sells pre-owned or restored vintage clothing items to reduce their carbon footprint. .

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Try a green energy supplier. It’s easy to switch to 100% green energy. You can use a provider that uses 100% green and renewable energy like these listed on MoneySupermarket or, even better, install solar panels on your home. This isn’t the only study that supports the adoption of a largely plant-based diet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

In other words, we can think about investing in agricultural development, agricultural knowledge, and agricultural education where we are working with community based groups in developing countries to help support those groups' teaching farmers how to adopt some of the most sophisticated organic methods, and agri-ecological methods.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Try a green energy supplier. It’s easy to switch to 100% green energy. You can use a provider that uses 100% green and renewable energy like these listed on MoneySupermarket or, even better, install solar panels on your home. This isn’t the only study that supports the adoption of a largely plant-based diet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The audience consisted mostly of social media early adopters who shared terrific insights that come from having a sense of context. In a post on Foreign Policy and the term "slacktivism" triggered a flurry of e-mail on Progressive Exchange. The format was ten minutes of speaking (no Powerpoint allowed!),

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things It has had 30 percent growth in mobile adoption over the last 10 years. Latin America is no different than the developing countries of Asia and Africa in its adoption of mobile phones and PCs. or Latin America. Latin America.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She cites the City of Oakland California’s Open Data Platform that make over 50 datasets viewable and understandable to the public including ones on crime, city infrastructure, parks and recreation facilities, and green businesses. It is also one of Lucy Bernholz’ promising emerging technologies that failed to take off in 2013.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2011

We commissioned a nine-month study with Bainbridge Graduate Institute on the environmental and business impacts of adopting a virtual work environment, the result of that study was a framework called BetterWork TM.

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