TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Enter FarmSense, a Riverside, California-based agtech startup attempting to solve the insect pest problem. Had you known about it in real time, you could have localized the intervention to just one location and had a much better outcome, saving pesticide, saving labor and saving the crop from being damaged.”. Image Credits: FarmSense.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

“To me it’s just kind of obvious,” said Ries, a project manager for an environmental company and self-described conservative-leaning independent. To Ries, 29, an Ohio native now in Tampa, the extreme weatherincluding the bitter coldbore all the hallmarks of climate change. I do think humans are speeding up that process.”

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

It is a sub-Saharan country on the East coast of Africa that is about twice the size of California. Energy Conservation Is a Requirement in Africa. Computers are a centerpiece of the school, but they needed super-energy-efficient technology to conserve the scarce electricity. I think of Tanzania as the ultimate African country.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Water woes are localized. What works in Arizona, however, might not be successful elsewhere since water woes are localized problems. Microsoft can also follow the lead of places like Orange County, California that have figured out how to replenish aquifers by cleaning up the water it uses and pumping it back into the ground.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The California State Parks Foundation launched a “Friend Get a Friend” campaign via two updates to their 517 fans. Foursquare is becoming a great way for nonprofits to spread their mission around a local area. For example, the Charleston Parks Conservancy uses tips to direct Foursquare users to nearby parks.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. Their arts and culture funding goes towards artists, curators, conservators, scholars, and organizations to ensure equitable access to excellent arts and cultural experiences. Areas served: Worldwide.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Not every company’s founders find themselves on a first-name basis with the local bomb squad, but then again not every company is Noya Labs , which wants to turn the roughly 2 million cooling towers at industrial sites and buildings across the U.S. into CO2-sucking weapons in the fight against global climate change.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Anthony's cancer was one of the 35,000 new cases identified each year in Southern California. After being misdiagnosed at a local hospital, he sought out help from the experts at LACC. Inputs: Organization: Yellowstone Valley Conservation Corps (YVCC) What would you like to get their input on?: We are all in this fight.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Corps Network National Conference is an annual gathering of national, state, and local leaders in the fields of workforce development, community service, and conservation. Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / Redwood City, CA / $350. State/Local / #DCNP2019 / @DMANF. State/Local.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Amazon happens to be the biggest private employer in the region , so CCAEJ and other local groups have pushed the company to guarantee stronger worker protections and to switch to zero-emissions electric trucks. These are popular with companies who want to offset their pollution by investing in things like forest conservation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

While startup interest in venture debt is up a lot, lenders are getting more conservative. It’s a localized solution that foreign investors might be unfamiliar with. So QED Investors’ first Africa involvement, right off the bat, in TeamApt comes as a big win for the agency banking space and the local tech scene in general.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / San Francisco, CA / $350. As policy changes unfold at the federal, state and local levels, the communities and issues we care about as corporate social responsibility professionals inevitably face uncertainty. State/Local / #DCNP2018 / @DMANF. Feb 27 - 28.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

San Francisco, California: Mobile Apps for Change Demo Day. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Los Angeles, California: WordPress for Nonprofits — Learn from an Expert! San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Friday, February 3, 2017. Monday, February 6, 2017.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has a mission to help customers succeed financially while strengthening the communities it serves. Through the Walmart Foundation, the company provides grants, event sponsorships, and in-kind donations to nonprofits that support local communities.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Give because you deeply care about water conservation). By highlighting a combined focus on improving the aesthetic beauty of their local S-Line while also fighting against food insecurity, this campaign created a sophisticated connection between donors and the cause itself. Give because it’s GivingTuesday!) Resist that temptation!

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Tableau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Samuel Parsons : I am supporting The Nature Conservancy because it is a global organization working to protect habitats across many continents. Lisa Trescott : I live in Carlsbad, California. She visually represents all the everyday items used on a typical day, big, bold background, with fun cartoon icons – simple and very effective.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Samuel Parsons : I am supporting The Nature Conservancy because it is a global organization working to protect habitats across many continents. Lisa Trescott : I live in Carlsbad, California. She visually represents all the everyday items used on a typical day, big, bold background, with fun cartoon icons – simple and very effective.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 3, 2025

From Seattle, Washington, to Cape Town, South Africa and everywhere around and between AI is helping conserve the wild plants and animals that make up the intricate web of life on Earth. Four of these partners Rouxcel Technology, OroraTech, Wildlife Protection Services and Conservation X Labs are highlighted below.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses. That's what we're trying to do now.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Except one: The California Condor. The California Condor is the sole surviving member of the Gymnogyps genus, a castaway from the Pleistocene epoch. The California Condor Recovery Program continues today, over 25 years since its inception. It’s the largest flying bird in North America. A puppet feeds a condor chick.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Jennifer Anderson is the executive director of Trellis for Tomorrow, a nonprofit that works to build resilience and compassion in local communities through food justice and environmental sustainability efforts. Policy Associate, The Nature Conservancy. Chief Program Officer, California Volunteers, Office of the Governor.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

For organizations with other funding priorities, check out these specific areas: Education , Arts & Culture , Environmental Conservation , and Youth Programs. California Healthcare Foundation. California Healthcare Foundation. Areas served: California. Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation. Daniel’s Fund.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

For organizations with other funding priorities, check out these specific areas: Education , Arts & Culture , Environmental Conservation , and Youth Programs. California Healthcare Foundation. California Healthcare Foundation. Areas served: California. Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation. Daniel’s Fund.

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The Verge

JUNE 21, 2020

GSD even says it’s been involved with COVID-19 relief efforts, setting up drive-thru testing centers in California and provided supplies to eight US states. They can arrive in complex situations with little understanding of the local context. About half of the people working for GSD have military backgrounds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

So, we have been working very hard with the City Council, and with community colleges and local labor unions and others to come up with a proposal that will start in September as an actual program called "The Green Jobs Corps." The big energy companies ripped off California a few years ago. It is a great idea. And that costs money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

In an article about his surfing in the local newspaper , he said, “I like the thrill of riding a large waves – it’s like climbing Mount Everest.” To honor my Dad’s memory and his love of the ocean, I am raising money for Surfrider Foundation in his memory to support their ocean conservation efforts.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Perez Tomas , left, at his local seed bank. Tomas local branch of the seed bank, run by a committee of local farmers of which he is a member, has seen his community through crop-destroying frosts, floods, heat waves, and a severe seed shortage in 2018. Increasingly, farmers like Tomas are turning to seed banks.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The collaboration required at mass scale between governments at the national and local levels, private entities, healthcare institutions, philanthropic donors, nonprofits, and individuals is immense. Jessica is a volunteer with Girl Scouts of Northern California as a STEM and Camp CEO mentor.

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

Consumers in California are not charged the $30 fee, while locations in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan charge the fee but offer a $30 gift card as reimbursement. The boxes are shipped to you and then back to Staples at no extra cost; just drop off the sealed packages at your local UPS drop-off point or call for a pickup.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 22, 2025

He sought feedback from a Stanford professor, who reviewed his calculations and encouraged him to aim for more speed and more profit, saying the estimates in his spreadsheet were conservative. In 2023, XB-1 was shipped to California, first flying in 2024. Temperature and wind gradients affect the local speed of sound.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Given the scale at which we build products and the fact we do it locally for our users, we are deeply committed to having that representation in our workforce. It’s that criticism from the conservative side of the aisle is something you’re more responsive to with these initiatives, with how you’re running the company. Is that true?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And the company is leveraging the power of its growing customer network for even bigger rewards: after acquiring the distributed energy management unit of Sunverge Energy, Budderfly has begun gathering its business customers into virtual power plants, or VPPs, allowing it to better orchestrate and optimize localized energy use.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Organizers have found the most success on Parler, a social network designed for conservatives put off by moderation practices of the major platforms. Many of these posts also mentioned — without evidence — the silencing of conservatives on Facebook and Twitter.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

These efforts show how working locally to grapple with the complexity of land-based reparations is a necessary and feasible part of the nations healing process. Each mayor is advised by committees made up of representatives from local Black-led organizations. cities, states, and regions. Notably, over half of them center land return.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

Unlike the National Park Service, whose primary mission is the preservation of natural and cultural resources, the Forest Service balances conservation with other purposes like timber production and resource extraction. Now he warns that the private contractors who could replace him will do far more damage to the forest.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Reuters reported that one email said Texans “‘are put at risk’ by the company, ‘whose executives clearly display anti-conservative and anti-Republican bias, subtly controlling what Americans see when they search for information about national political issues.’”. Reported cases in California: 81,959. Virus tracker. Industry. ?

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

And local governments are planning for much longer periods of lockdown. Reported cases in California: 71,171. Total test results (positive and negative) in California: 1,033,370. Just yesterday, Los Angeles county said stay-at-home orders would likely continue through August , albeit with some restrictions lifted. (EJ

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