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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Following Through on Climate Commitments After COP26

Saleforce Nonprofit

During the COP26 meetings, the Malala Fund presented its Gender-Equal Green Learning Agenda , which recommends leaders use education as a powerful tool to address the climate crisis by adding climate issues to all school curriculums and vocational training. The 10 instructions are simple, as befits LEGO’s typical style, but incisive.

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Mattering: The Growing Volunteer Motivator

VQ Strategies

Now, at some point every day, I catch sight of this little green square of paper that shares such a profound message. Understanding their internal drivers and the skills they bring to a project may inspire additional ways that they can serve. Training : Engage volunteers in training other volunteers.

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Start 2017 by Building Your Tech Skills and Community

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Europe and the UK.

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Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Hire a Social Media Manager

Nonprofit Tech for Good

My last full-time, Monday-through-Friday job was as an outreach director for a small international development organization in San Francisco. A good social media manager has an advanced communications and online fundraising skill set. A good social media manager has experience with online communications and fundraising.

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Michelle’s RiseUP Fellowship Experience: RiseUP Fellow to Full Time Employee

Media Cause

Without proper “education,” landing an interview let alone a job working in digital marketing was a pipedream—I found myself stuck, making minimum wage, wearing a well-known green apron simply for the health benefits. I was able to jump into projects as a fellow and learned from exposure to accounts.

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Doing Museum Work: Your Thoughts

Museum 2.0

A few offered solid concrete suggestions that take the big idea of "advocacy" and make it concrete, like list wages on hiring requests and refusing to use unpaid interns. But, being a manager is a learned skill. A few suggestions were about outside training to improve your skills. Everyone can learn from others.

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