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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. We do it in a number of ways.

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

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Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. 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. success stories.

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What's Your Moment of Obligation?

Have Fun - Do Good

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. Echoing Green Fellows' descriptions of their moments of obligation.

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9 Socially Responsible Companies to Applaud

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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. By 2022, the LEGO Group is also aiming to reach eight million children around the world annually with learning through play. Ben & Jerry’s.

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

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This decade also saw the Black Power Movement, American Indian Movement, a further push for women’s rights , rights of farmworkers, and the Green Power Movement. These laws have protected millions of men, women and children from disease and death and have protected hundreds of species from extinction.”

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. So, now is the fun part. Can you find more?

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond.