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. Their stories also highlight how important having the right technology is to accomplishing this important work.

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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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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. All April long, we’ll provide your organization with training and resources to tell its story digitally. Get started on telling your story with tools from the TechSoup catalog.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

Blurred Policy Lines and the Downsides of Sharing. While stories of worker protests and city council debates are popping up in cities all over the world, we also know the drop-in flexibility and ease of becoming an Uber driver or Airbnb host have created new income for hosts and lowered prices for others. Images: Twitter pics, me.

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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." Take it a step further and share their news story links on your blog. post office line, doctor's appt.)

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

TechSoup itself has adopted a tiered user policy. Perhaps the most controversial thing about such policies are the amount of ownership that an organization takes over personal devices. The most dramatic example of this that I’ve found is a news story by National Public Radio entitled Wipeout: When Your Company Kills Your iPhone.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Kids around the country received an early and much-needed gift this December in the form of — you guessed it — broccoli and green beans. The site highlights and shares successes of the movement and uncovers areas of need on the road to their goals of grassroots network building and policy change. Check out Pick Chow!

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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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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. Virginia DeBolt pointed me to this very inspiring story about a third grader in Albuquerque who raised $6000 to build a library in Ethiopia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Ted Kennedy: How Will Your Story of Service Be Told? NEWS I've got 3 new posts up on WE Volunteer : Honoring Sen.

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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. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Thursday, February 9, 2017.

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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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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. It really begged to be written, all these great stories, and there are hundreds more all over the country.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

In our recent stories on how TechSoup employees are using apps , we found an incredible array of work-related things people are doing on their phones. There is a ton of info on how telework helps the environment and is considered part of green technology. TechSoup: Telework Policies. Telework and the Environment.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

It is looking for people in nonprofits and libraries that have servers and who would be willing to do a short interview with Drew Bennett of NRDC sometime in May to tell your story. If you consider yourself a virtualization success story, we'd be interested in highlighting your organization in our extensive advocacy efforts.

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Care2

MAY 17, 2007

All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. We are glad people enjoyed the training. I think it went really well!! May 29, 2007 | Yvonne Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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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. It was very simple, nutrient-dense, leafy greens, root vegetables, and fresh fruit from the trees in their front yards, and nuts from the trees in their yard and the neighbors' yards. Kellogg Foundation. Grub Project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I'd worked at a DC nonprofit the summer after my junior year that focused on policy work, but that wasn't a fit for me either. A Few Book Suggestions: Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , a publication of Echoing Green. I was a sociology major, but wasn't attracted to social work. Pick three more actions. Pick a date to meet.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Green Technology. Another cloud story that has caught my attention this year are the welcome escalations of free cloud storage. The Alliance For Affordable Internet aims to reduce the cost of Internet in poor regions of the world to less than 5 percent of income through policy and regulatory changes. Free Cloud Storage.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. We are glad people enjoyed the training. I think it went really well!! May 29, 2007 | Yvonne Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I'm going to be green. They capture the negative stories of the inner city. Why not tell stories about the great things that are happening there like the great companies that are creating a lot of jobs and thriving, and doing great things not only locally, but around the world. That's a very long story.

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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. Here’s where a Gift Acceptance Policy can help (more on that in a moment). Donations Aren’t Always Simple Sometimes donations come with complications.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

Can you give an example, or tell a story so that if someone saw it, they'd say, "Oh! Why should people care about cultural entrepreneurship, when, in the "do-good" world, they could spend their time on social entrepreneurship, or being "green?" It's all a resource that can be converted into an enterprise for a community.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

if you have a give policy in place and they have not given, does not mean that they don’t consider themselves family. Each board member had a give of 500, a give of 5,000 and if it was in the green for that quarter, that meant they were on track. Then around being an advocate, share their personal stories. not a jet.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

And the best way to do that is to connect them your organization by telling them a story. This session will explore how to write compelling, memorable stories that get people to take action and keep them engaged. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. You make them think, feel and care. All rights reserved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

It's only been recently that people have started asking the question, "What's the story of our food? Fresh is also a fabulous documentary, but the filmmaker was really trying to showcase the people who are bringing to life a more positive story of food; a more positive way of relating to food. Where did it come from?

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Green Foundation. The Vermont Women’s Fund focuses their grantmaking on supporting women and girls on pathways to economic well-being, including career development, an area highlighted by the research of their initiative, Change The Story. Green Foundation. The New York Women’s Foundation. Kentucky Foundation for Women.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Green Foundation. The Vermont Women’s Fund focuses their grantmaking on supporting women and girls on pathways to economic well-being, including career development, an area highlighted by the research of their initiative, Change The Story. Green Foundation. The New York Women’s Foundation. Kentucky Foundation for Women.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Perhaps I can do some justice to the future in the way that most parties unfold: by telling a few stories. The Dartmouth Green. One was seeing two coeds standing on either side of the road at the Dartmouth Green talking on a cell phone to each other as I walked by. "I don't own one," she confessed. That took guts.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Jimmie Alford, one of the great fundraisers in America, told me a story a few years ago, which was about this volunteer who had to raise money for mental health in a community. So Fraser Green, great fundraiser in Canada who was working for an organization, left it. The only thing that makes you different is your stories. .

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

I’m sure those policies make sense to manufacturers of electronics. But repair-unfriendly policies certainly don’t make sense to me: those policies hurt customers and they hurt the environment. Although we’ve been told otherwise, there is no such thing as a “green” cell phone or computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

First, some back story: Ashoka was founded on the belief that social entrepreneurs are the most powerful force changing the world. Timely means sharing our news rapidly, as it came in, rather than simply crafting careful news stories for our website at a rate of no more than one a week.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

We send out action alerts, blog passionately, share petitions on Facebook and upload videos highlighting the stakes involved in our various policy fights, all intended to spark people to take action. Advocacy organizations can and should help when they can, but don’t try to cover genuine shoots of green with a carpet of astroturf.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

However, story after story pointed to pressures from donors for nonprofits to invest as little money as possible in administration and fundraising. In their quick-takes on "making smart donations," media stories frequently tell donors to pick the charity that spends the least on administration and fundraising.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Steven: because of the pandemic, true story. Robin: True story. It’s a donor management software policies and procedures template that Bloomerang and I kind of co-created and worked on together. This is a true story. I don’t remember seeing if it includes a section on policies and procedures.

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