Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being. SB] 2 is but part of Majora’s multi-pronged strategy for urban renewal.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Regardless of what work you are doing – campaigning for political change, providing services to your local community, educating others, or anything else – would it look different, would it feel different, would it operate differently if love was the central message? I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Every November, we celebrate our NTEN Members with free webinar programs, local events, Member-generated content, and lots of prizes! Dwayne Rice , Green Dot Public Schools , landed an NTEN swag bag. The NTEN Renewal Award goes to a lucky individual who renewed their Membership before Nov. Drum roll please. And the winner is.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2012

education, manufacturing, health care, and green energy. They were developed for a local Mozilla Ignite Idea Jam hosted by TechSoup. Even if you haven’t participated in a local idea jam, you’re welcome to submit your idea to the challenge. Up to $15,000 in awards is available for the brainstorming round.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

Have you ever thought about starting a green cafe? When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes. Create a business plan. Secure financing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. There are the ongoing efforts to fight Swine Flu, or new successes like LiveStrong.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The fact is, if you are a budding entrepreneur, future business owner, or relatively “green” business owner, you need to read, The Facts of Business Life , by Bill McBean. During that period, the manufacturers he represented continually awarded him and his company honors for sales, service, customer retention, and financial excellence.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

He has developed award-winning strategies for more than 70 nonprofit organizations such as amfAR, African Wildlife Foundation, Covenant House, PetSmart Charities, and the Smithsonian Institution. Over the last 10 years, Sarah has worked on issues related to food sovereignty, genetic engineering, and local food security.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 16, 2014

The fact is, if you are a budding entrepreneur, future business owner, or relatively “green” business owner, you need to read, The Facts of Business Life , by Bill McBean. During that period, the manufacturers he represented continually awarded him and his company honors for sales, service, customer retention, and financial excellence.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 29, 2013

The fact is, if you are a budding entrepreneur, future business owner, or relatively “green” business owner, you need to read, The Facts of Business Life , by Bill McBean. During that period, the manufacturers he represented continually awarded him and his company honors for sales, service, customer retention, and financial excellence.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

That's why we do an annual survey of our members — because our local volunteers are always striving to figure out how they can help your nonprofit use technology to do more good. Seattle, Washington: Executive Service Corps Appreciation and Awards Luncheon. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Some that volunteered asked a local restaurant to host and give them a portion of the cover charge or bar sales that night to donate back to CC. The traditional event held in previous years was at a restaurant, and a pre-dinner awards ceremony with major donors and board leadership was followed by a cocktail party open to all ticket buyers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

I was awarded one of the 2006 MacArthur Fellowships. These awards are based not so much on past achievements, as an expectation that you will do something exciting in the future. My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago).

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

I was busy starting my green communications consulting company, Aequus Green Communications , and working with clients to pay the bills and increase the portfolio. Six months later, and despite being delayed again by work, a new template for GBK, and eventually several additional green sites, is almost done.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

Is it because their gift translates to 10 meals provided for a hungry child in your local community? Or, it could be the impact you’ve had already, such as a food bank that has fed thousands of local citizens— and counting! You’ll want accent colors (such as red, green, or blue) and neutrals (such as black, grey, or brown).

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Brand it green. Many companies are trying to leverage environmentally aware consumers by ‘green washing’ their products and presenting them as more environmentally conscious than they really are. Look for green business grants and awards. To address this, Loof Co. If you don’t ask…. Be paperless.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Brand it green. Many companies are trying to leverage environmentally aware consumers by ‘green washing’ their products and presenting them as more environmentally conscious than they really are. Look for green business grants and awards. To address this, Loof Co. If you don’t ask…. Be paperless.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them. Google Drive.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2015

Rory Green is a guest blogger for Nonprofit Hub. White, middle-aged men in suits holding a big check submitted to the local newspaper is not what they want. Rory is also the founder and editor of Fundraiser Grrl , the fundraising community’s go-to source for comic relief. These are companies that place little value in tradition.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. It was very simple, nutrient-dense, leafy greens, root vegetables, and fresh fruit from the trees in their front yards, and nuts from the trees in their yard and the neighbors' yards.

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

This philosophy has led to programs like the Classy Awards , now the largest impact awards program in the country, and ClassyGives , an innovative volunteering program for our team and clients. . Perhaps the simplest way to take a philanthropic step is to sponsor a local nonprofit organization. Ben & Jerry’s. Levi Strauss.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Using descriptive imagery like “sip award-winning wines in the lush hillsides of Napa Valley” will help your guests better envision the experiences you’re offering. Hometown Flavors – A local flavor gift basket is a great way to highlight local businesses. In your videos, remember to describe your items in detail.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Green Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion. Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. The New York Women’s Foundation. Kentucky Foundation for Women. The Iowa Women’s Foundation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Green Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion. Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. The New York Women’s Foundation. Kentucky Foundation for Women. The Iowa Women’s Foundation.

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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. Are you hiring locally? We love it.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

And, instead of limiting your events just to those in the local area or to those who have the means to travel, you can actually open them to anyone on the internet! You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you can work with your supporters and local businesses who’d love to help, you can abate some of the expenses and build lasting relationships in the community, too.[/vc_column_text][mk_icon_box Keep holidays in mind as well as national or local events, from award shows to sports games. Print ads in local newspapers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Did you hit the green button? I would periodically create professional development trainings for my award-winning team at the University of Pennsylvania. You could look at their past giving, their philanthropic interests and tendencies like whether they support local agencies or only give to organizations with a national profile.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

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. So remember I talked about them creating that process of keeping track of it quarterly and knowing that they’re going to get awarded with a dinner at an exclusive restaurant at the end.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2016

One of the changes in the new guidance was to increase the threshold for who is required to get a Single Audit, which directly affected smaller nonprofits, local governments, and institutions of higher education. Audit Threshold Changes. So internal controls are not just for auditors and finance people anymore.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Following successful Millennium Awards programmes around the UK, the SSE is now expanding outside its base in Bethnal Green, London, and supporting the establishment of local schools across the country. Most recently Nick did a roundup of awards for entrepreneurs and linked to a fun looking website called CareerShifters.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And then another program is Reclaim the Future, which is one our newest projects, that is addressing green-color jobs and building opportunities for low-income people, formerly convicted people, and communities of color in this new green economy. I also produce several podcasts, one of which is called the Big Vision Podcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

They created the award-winning film, The Meatrix , about factory farming, and the hilarious film, Store Wars , about the importance of organic farming. But at the beginning to get going, we definitely picked and chose some small, local business and stuff like that to keep ourselves sustained. Britt: How did you get started?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

When I went to see Van Jones speak for the first time at the Green Festival in November 2002 about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails," people in the States were just starting to lift their heads up from a year of fear and despair after September 11th. Our question is, will this green wave lift all boats? How do we make sure?

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