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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

C future,” said Suzanne DiBianca, Chief Impact Officer and EVP of Corporate Relations at Salesforce. As Salesforce has deepened our commitment to the environment, we’ve also been inspired by our customers who have made sustainability fundamental to their missions with innovative approaches. From nonprofits like 350.org Bentley Motors.

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Why Ongoing Professional Development Is Essential For The Nonprofit Community

Bloomerang

Even in a virtual environment, professional education sessions allow us to hear from our colleagues and to learn from them every bit as much as from the official speakers.”. organization that fights for the rights of the world’s children, sent staff members to a recent International Fundraising Congress in the Netherlands.

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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He’s a geek (former Microsoft Research guy) who is making the case that technology doesn’t make the kind of social impact it claims to deliver. For example, I extracted many insights about the international development field reading books like Easterly’s Tyranny of Experts or Maren’s Road to Hell.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet.

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Working Towards a Common Global Goal: How Your Nonprofit Can Align with the SDGs

Media Cause

This was the first world conference that centered around the environment. On the 20th anniversary of this conference in 1992, the UN hosted the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro focused on the impact of human socioeconomic activities on the environment. How do the UN’s sustainable development goals impact nonprofits?

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We know that the carbon impact of all that travel is bad for the planet, and the personal impact of all that travel is bad on our bodies. Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. I recently hit three million lifetime miles on American Airlines.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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