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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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Innovating for Dramatically More Scale and Social Impact

Top Nonprofits

Steve co-authored a feature article for the Stanford Social Innovation Review on Lean Experimentation in the social sector (Summer 2015) and served as the Senior Advisor to Revolution English, an innovative nonprofit startup that now teaches English to more than one million people in a low-cost, financially self-sustaining way.

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Nonprofit Mission Statements vs. Vision Statements

Whole Whale

Teach for America’s vision statement is that one day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education. . David And Lucile Packard Foundation : Improving the lives of children, enabling the creative pursuit of science, advancing reproductive health, conserving and restoring the earth’s natural systems.

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How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Bezos Earth Fund awards $443 million for climate justice, conservation. The Bezos Earth Fund has announced grants totaling $443 million in support of nonprofits working to advance climate justice, nature conservation and restoration, and the tracking of critical climate goals. Grants totaling $23.5 December 8, 2021. December 8, 2021.

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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He is also one of the creators of the environmental protection movement in Paraguay, having co-founded the Moisés Bertoni Conservation Foundation and the Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, two of the country’s prominent nature conservation institutions. and Africa.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

One volunteer manager at an Arizona zoo described finding new ways to teach their volunteers about wildlife: “Over Zoom, we would give presentations about the different animals in our collection… So, for example, I did a presentation on bird conservation, which was not something that we ever had before.