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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

org’s Climate Justice Action map , which connects people with local groups and other activists. The 350 Africa team uses Salesforce to track many things, like the application process of organizations that want to be part of the coalition, relationships, volunteers, training status, and community campaigns like Ghana-Reducing Our Carbon.

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Apping Out Illegal Waste: Free Download to Target Illegal Dumps

Tech Soup

The above is the analysis of Jozef Vodicka, a Slovakian geek and entrepreneur, whose team has developed a multi-mobile-platform (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) application for documenting illegal dumping and, not incidentally, for mobilizing environmental consciousness and fostering citizen engagement. The application is free!

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Your Board members should not be family members, but people who are interested in your cause and have an applicable skill, such as accounting, marketing, social work, or social media, that they are willing to bring to the table. Map out as much as you can with as many details as possible. How will you find participants?

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Bay Localize & Green Roofs: An Interview with Ingrid Severson

Have Fun - Do Good

The second one is the Localization Mapping Project that shows on a GIS map all the different localization projects happening in the nine county region of the Bay Area as a tool that other people can plug into. Also, it connects the dots with similar projects happening, so people can see where they are on the map.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

Thousands of people - with the aid of their computers, mobile phones, and online applications - were able to do important work to save lives and bring resources where they were badly needed, without needing to travel. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters. One of the main ones that anchors this work is Ushahidi.

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Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

Tech Soup

When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job. Both children and older patrons avidly use the library’s public access computers with current Microsoft applications.

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