Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. Ingrid: Bay Localize is a non-profit project that started back in December of 2005. And also by raising awareness about the concept of re-localizing to bring other people into the movement as well.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the luxury chocolate brand, Green & Black’s, Jo Fairley is an inspirational businesswoman who paved the way for others to follow her sustainable business model. Lorenzo has over ten years of experience in public policy, government, talent pipeline development, diversity, and inclusion.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Ecopreneurs, or startups focused on solving climate challenges, are launching innovative ideas to protect the planet and drive climate impact locally and at scale. Of course, private finance will need to be involved; for example, through green bonds. We can build the public side of a multi-million-dollar investment in nature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Says Giller, “Our theory of change is engaging users around content that shows how being green can reshape our world can empower personal behavior change and ultimately impact society at large. Societal Change: Impact on society, policy discussions, and conversations that advance sustainable practices. Source: grist.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

Have you ever thought about starting a green cafe? When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes. That's what we are doing here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2018

The Tax Policy Center projects that individual charitable giving will decrease by between 4 and 6.5 State and local income and property taxes are now limited to a $10,000 deduction. Limited deductions of state and local income and property taxes. A policy that was introduced but not passed was the universal tax credit, H.R.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

A new employee at a local foundation educates herself on the agencies they are funding by visiting their social network sites. A few days later you get a call: they created a social network page about the day. In their excitement to share what they did, they posted pictures. On one site, she clicks on an employee.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Either way, large nonprofits with multiple chapters have much to gain by empowering their chapters to create mobile and social media communities tailored for their local area provided that it is done well and with much preparation. Step 6: Create an enforcement policy.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For health data to impact health outcomes and related policies, the data must be made accessible to policymakers, health advocates, and other interested parties. Making key health data easy to understand can change how people think, how policies are made, and, quite literally, save lives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

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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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

The session, "Turning E-Waste into Green," focused on how policy decisions handling e-waste can improve the economy. 3D printing at your local library? 2013 winner, Missing Treatment , is a tool through which individuals can report when vital, and government-promised medicines do not arrive in their local pharmacies.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

Blurred Policy Lines and the Downsides of Sharing. Nonprofits that work in policy and advocacy can help craft legislation and work with local, state, and national policymakers to adopt laws that balance the explosion of sharing-economy startups and protect the marginalized from exploitation. Images: Twitter pics, me.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. RE-volv's Solar Policy & Finance 101 slide show is well worth looking at. We had many excellent submissions to the contest.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. Local NGOs choose what is most needed in their area and apply online for funding. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. Echoing Green Fellows' descriptions of their moments of obligation.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance. Los Angeles, California: Using Technology in Local Activism. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Seattle, Washington.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

I was busy starting my green communications consulting company, Aequus Green Communications , and working with clients to pay the bills and increase the portfolio. Six months later, and despite being delayed again by work, a new template for GBK, and eventually several additional green sites, is almost done.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

The resultant traffic and chaos from commuters attempting alternate methods of transportation including ferries, buses, and carpooling likely resulted in something of a local holiday – as highways turned into parking lots. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset. Remote Work. But maybe you're not convinced.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news." Example: Green for All posted about how Green for All Supports Local Green Jobs Corps in Tennessee.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K. When I think about what my grandparents ate, and what their parents ate, they ate food that was as fresh as being harvested that day, as local as their backyard garden, and as seasonal as whatever was in season.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. They're also providing a lot of jobs locally. It stops at a certain point.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 17, 2006

The Organic Consumers Association , nonprofit public interest organization, has called for a boycott of Horizon and Aurora organic dairy products and the Cornucopia Institute , a farm policy research group based in Wisconsin, filed a legal complaint last Thursday with the USDA against Horizon Milk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Last winter, after Harry and I had a conversation about global warming (and quite a conversation it was for a then eight-year old), and we collaborated on a series of green videos. I also want to them to discover and follow their own sense of social activism. My kids have become more and more interested in playing video games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. With such a clear policy for response, it is obvious that the blog generates valuable information to shape and improve a marketing strategy. This drove traffic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. I'm going to be green. Are you hiring locally? We love it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

Here are what some people wrote in the comments of the original post on Have Fun * Do Good and BlogHer that they were going to do : Green LA Girl said she would pack her own chopsticks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. He also listed the following Green Economy Trends that are also available here : 1. City governments are increasingly passing laws to strengthen the local, green economy.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Green Technology. If you’re like me and particularly like services that offer a Dropbox style local folder on your device which is mirrored in the cloud, those include: MediaFire , Copy.com , Google Drive , and Microsoft SkyDrive. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them. Google Drive.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

In addition, the study found that Executive Directors of color mostly lead local or regional organizations, not national organizations. Last year, I moderated a panel at Women in Green in Pasadena, CA. Specifically, while people of color comprise 49% of the population in the region, they make up only 22% of nonprofit leaders.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Donations via third-party platforms like Facebook, online donation tools like QGiv or Little Green Light, and employer matching platforms like Benevity, aren’t always straightforward. I know of a faith-based rescue mission who wrestled with accepting a donation from the local strip club for its domestic violence program.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

Why should people care about cultural entrepreneurship, when, in the "do-good" world, they could spend their time on social entrepreneurship, or being "green?" So, in that case, they're overwhelming local markets with American product. That's the difference between the two. Why is cultural entrepreneurship important?

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

From facilitating green commuting, to employee gift matching, to paid time off for volunteering, Google inspects nearly every part of their business with a social impact lens. s Blue Jeans Go Green to collect used clothing, and also sells pre-owned or restored vintage clothing items to reduce their carbon footprint. . Levi Strauss.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Green Foundation. Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities. The New York Women’s Foundation. Kentucky Foundation for Women.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

They were going to go out to those cities and try to form partnerships with the cities, to get the Mayors or the council members of those cities, at a policy level, to endorse the Plug-In Partner campaign, and then subsequently to get them to place a soft fleet order. They recognize that green is very vogue right now.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Green Foundation. Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities. The New York Women’s Foundation. Kentucky Foundation for Women.

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