Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to increase 14 percent to $163 billion in 2019. Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Craig is a summer associate exploring new applications for Miradi, Benetech’s user-friendly conservation project planning and monitoring software. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. He followed up by launching another company helping startups find funding, write business plans, etc.

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Candid

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Bezos Earth Fund awards $443 million for climate justice, conservation. The Bezos Earth Fund has announced grants totaling $443 million in support of nonprofits working to advance climate justice, nature conservation and restoration, and the tracking of critical climate goals. Grants totaling $23.5 December 8, 2021. December 8, 2021.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While this represents around 150 million more users than this time last year, these numbers may still be conservative. Twitter is sometimes used by small nations to increase their global visibility and tweet on a level playing field with other nations. billion global internet users today – roughly 35% of the world’s population.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2010

The Nature Conservancy – The ecommerce offerings of the organization highlights a ton of “gifts” including adopting reefs, trees, habitats for hummingbirds and jaguars – things similar to the organizations above.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For example, check out this video for Village Enterprise , a nonprofit devoted to ending extreme poverty in rural Africa: The video shows the story of Margaret, a small business owner, told through the perspective of Margaret’s grandchild. If your nonprofit has an environmental focus, nature photos can also be captivating.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

Sure, there are the outliers: people living “off the grid”, whole villages in Africa using solar cookers, but largely, we all sigh and agree that while progress is made toward other forms of energy, coal and oil are in our lives. To reinforce the two points above, "conservation" alone is not the solution.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

So yes, awareness around Fair Trade is growing, but it's growing slowly basically because the resources are still insufficient to tackle the job in a major national way. We're bombarded by messages in this country and so for a small, non-profit organization like ours. our budget this year is $10 million.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

By Region: Africa – 12%. Environment and conservation – 7%. 14) 96% regularly vote in local and national elections and 37% donate to political campaigns. The median gift size was $50. Asia – 26%. Australia and New Zealand – 7%. Canada and the United States – 26%. Europe – 6%.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This year Benin, Bolivia, Denmark, Panama, and Sri Lanka launched national GivingTuesday movements, and GivingTuesday launched its Europe Hub, which joins the Africa, India, Latin America & the Caribbean, and U.S. & DonorsChoose might have been proactively — correctly — conservative in its goal. While the $5.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. Amazing job by the conservancy.???

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention. Seeing a problem—like the February earthquake in Turkey and Syria —many will act to mitigate it.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa. askformore. Rachel Carson. Fund their work!

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

This week is National Volunteer Week ! Tobias Eigen, Executive Director, Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Lauren Hasey Maher, Program Manager, National Center for Family Philanthropy. Chris Bernard, Editorial and Communications Director, Idealware.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Eric serves on the board of directors of two national nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining Care2 Eric designed and executed integrated advocacy campaigns for environmental nonprofits including the National Environmental Trust, the Alaska Oceans Network, and the Marine Fish Conservation Network.

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Care2

JULY 23, 2012

Eric serves on the board of directors of two national nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining Care2 Eric designed and executed integrated advocacy campaigns for environmental nonprofits including the National Environmental Trust, the Alaska Oceans Network, and the Marine Fish Conservation Network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A compelling example good social media fundraising practice comes from WildlifeDirect, a nonprofit based in Nairobi, Kenya founded by Dr. Richard Leakey. According to Paula Kahumbu, Executive Director, their approach to fundraising was to build a worldwide online conservancy community. We treat our donors as partners in our programs.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In 2007, WildlifeDirect had 7 blogs in the Democratic Republic of Congo written written about a specific animal by a conservation professional. Says Paula, “Two years later, we have over 70 blogs, donations have risen 4 fold, as has website visitation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

Denise of the Denise in Africa blog visited one of the program's facilities in Kigali. Ellee Seymour of the ProActive blog signed up to be a sponsor after meeting Women for Women International's founder, Zainab Salbi, at a Conservative Women’s Organization conference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

We are going to use some of that money to train some of the young people in energy conservation, in renewable fuels. And the Democrats want to be the fiscal conservatives in 2008 who want to run against Bush's mega deficit. Oakland, among other places, sued, got a four-point-something million dollar settlement. And that costs money.

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