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Social Sustainability: Why You Need to Tell Your Story (and how to do it).

Greater Giving

Social sustainability is one of the three interconnected dimensions of sustainability recognized by the United Nations, which they describe as being “ about identifying and managing business impacts, both positive and negative, on people. This, often unspoken, acceptance is referred to as an organization’s social license to operate (SLO).

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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

And the current estimated national value of each volunteer hour is $29.95 (Independent Sector). And a more extensive background check may be required if a volunteer works with children. Volunteers are a lifeline for many nonprofits. More than 10.4 million volunteers are currently needed to support nonprofits (VolunteerMatch).

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

Mattel company spokesman Alan Hilowitz told HealthPop that the company will produce a friend of Barbie that will have wigs, hats, scarves and other accessories to give children "a traditional fashion play experience." " The kids will have the option to remove the wigs and head coverings.

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Nonprofits and transparency: Who’s walking the walk?

NTEN

In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.” The nonprofit Splash has developed an entire site called Proving.It Now it’s your turn.

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How a small nonprofit organization survived the Great Recession

ASU Lodestar Center

Defenders of Children. Nonprofits, the fifth largest industry in Arizona, historically the recipient of a most generous donor base, now wear the burden of the downturn in the national economy. Defenders of Children headquartered in Phoenix has served statewide some 6,000 at-risk children and kinship during that time.

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Microsoft's Ecohero: How Sean Nicholson Is Saving the Earth

Tech Soup

This was mainly because refurbishers couldn't afford to put legal Windows licenses on used equipment. Refurbishers could either pay full price for licenses (and thereby price their equipment out of the market), or use pirated versions of Windows. The PC refurbishment industry was but a small, shadowy thing.

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