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5 Reasons Your Board Should Switch to Google Drive

Nonprofit Tech for Good

More importantly, moving to the cloud is a great way to demonstrate transparency, strengthen institutional memory, conserve resources, collaborate, and display tech-savvy. 4) Collaborate Outside of Scheduled Meetings. Other stakeholders also want to know what an organization is doing to “go green.” FULL BIO ].

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. They have no infrastructure beyond that, which is why cloud computing is regarded as green IT.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. They have no infrastructure beyond that, which is why cloud computing is regarded as green IT.

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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis

Saleforce Nonprofit

Historically, environmental and conservation organisations have led the charge through their advocacy and campaign work. Collaboration is key to solving the climate crisis, and cross-sector partnerships are unlocking innovation and systems change. As we know, world leaders didn’t quite get to 1.5 Protect the Worst-Affected Communities.

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Doing Museum Work: Your Thoughts

Museum 2.0

A few offered solid concrete suggestions that take the big idea of "advocacy" and make it concrete, like list wages on hiring requests and refusing to use unpaid interns. Much of leadership is advocacy for your team, and it's hard to do that without understanding their work. So many wonderful ideas, and I shared a few below.

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Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

" Based on research from collaborative economy guru Jeremiah Owyang, we have some evidence that people are engaging in the sharing economy first-and-foremost due to convenience and price savings , not altruism. Nonprofits can also enable bottom-up collaboration with helping to establish sharing organizations or T-Corps.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. The purpose of the Design Lab was to answer two key questions to gather input for its strategy: How can the Brainerd Foundation and its philanthropic partners accelerate the transition to 21st Century advocacy for grantees?

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