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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

Most recently, we took a critical step in our climate action plan by including climate as a part of the company public policy platform, joining priorities like equal rights and privacy and security. “We BlocPower is creating green jobs by turning buildings into Teslas: making them smart and getting them off of fossil fuels.”.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

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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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

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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How an Effective Partner Ecosystem Strives for Collaboration Over Competition

Saleforce Nonprofit

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. 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. Don’t Configure Technology, Configure Its Users.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. " Geeks for Good and Green Geekery Ruby Sinreich facilitated a session at BarCampRDU on how geeks can use their powers for the forces of good and has a wiki with resources. See 1,010 Favorite Tools on the TechSoup Blog. Global NpTech.

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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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Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges

Have Fun - Do Good

Michele Jolin , Senior Advisor for Social Innovation for the Domestic Policy Council at The White House was the panel moderator. Using open source innovation platforms (she mentioned something about Kellogg, that I didn't quite catch--maybe the Kellogg Innovation Network ?). Trusting in the importance of new ideas.