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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. Dr. Dietmar Kress puts his PhD in Sociology to work as Director of Actions and Volunteering at Greenpeace Germany. 7000 kilometres away in India, Haiyya is training the next generation of community organisers.

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

I hope you'll pardon me if I start with a green tech thing. A woman named Gail Work stopped by to chat about her new non-toxic green battery company in Silicon Valley called SeaWave Battery. I chatted with Rebekah Truemper who is their development and marketing director. SeaWave Battery.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

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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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, just last month, I took it to India. We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter. Kira Marchense is the Online communications director at Environmental Defense Fund. .

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). The great news is how much attention social entrepreneurship is getting.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An easy example is green technology. Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. Stephanie McAuliffe is the Director of Human Resources at the Packard Foundation. . In the spirit of demystification here is a definition and a couple of resources about the social capital market.

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Have Fun - Do Good

In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. He created a whole genre we now know as World Music.

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