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5 Essential Free Online Courses for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alec Green , Chief Marketing Evangelist at NonprofitReady.org , an online hub of 400+ free online courses in topics ranging from fundraising to grant writing, leadership to program management. 3) Strategies for a Successful Nonprofit Job Search. Too often, nonprofit professionals don’t receive the training they need.

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Comcast Internet Essentials - A Green Program to Bridge the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

this summer is the Comcast Internet Essentials Program. This new program is rolling out this month in 39 states offering $10 per month broadband Internet program to low-income families with children who are eligible to receive free school meals. Anyone interested in finding out more on this program can call 1-855-8-INTERNET.

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Why TechSoup Product Donations and Donors Are Green

Tech Soup

This isn't a comprehensive list of all our donor partners' environmental activities, but this time I'd like to talk about Cisco and Symantec and also about our Green Technology Product Donations. The company is also greening its supply chain. Symantec has formed 18 different Green Teams. Now a bit about us.

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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

From creating more green campuses to encouraging research and dissemination of sustainability knowledge, education institutions around the world have an important role to play in creating a more sustainable future for all. They also use Salesforce to plan and chart a future path to growth. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Veterans Organic Garden: An Off-the-Grid Jobs Program

Tech Soup

When we found out about Lovay Wallace-Singleton's new project to build a solar-powered organic garden in North Carolina, one that also brings rehabilitation and jobs to veterans, we had to talk to her. Solar-Powered Technology and Job Skills Training. Job Placement and Support. for disabled veterans. spanhidden.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being. Brainstorming what these jobs might look like was one of the highlights of our conversation.

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2011 NTC Preview: Can Social Networks Create Social Capital?

NTEN

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy.