Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Often tied to breaking news stories or internal developments at your organization, a blog post calling for action is often well received. If you are an environmental nonprofit, write about ways in which supporters can green their homes or garden without pesticides. Post Calls to Action. A first-person voice is best.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 13, 2008

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a 501(c)3 organization that works in the U.S. They did this by creating a Cause and a Fan Page for the org, and by forming a relationship with an ecology oriented game on Facebook, (lil) Green Patch. Me - How did (lil) Green Patch come about? Here's a success story. How does it make money for you?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Often tied to breaking news stories or internal developments at your organization, a blog post calling for action is often well received. If you are an environmental nonprofit, write about ways in which supporters can green their homes or garden without pesticides. Post Calls to Action. A first-person voice is best.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2022

My take, after speaking to a handful of venture investors and founders, is that we’re going to see the return of the lean, green startup. I expect to see founders with cash in the bank take on a leaner mindset, maybe spending more conservatively or thinking about runway again.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2008

Lil) Green Patch is a social gardening game. The plants given by your friends are displayed in a (Lil) Green Patch on your profile. Like a real garden, it requires maintenance and the game includes lots of ways to interact with the larger Green Patch community and your friends. Just read the application FAQ.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2011

This month, David Moschella of Computer Sciences Corporation touched off the latest flap in a recurrent debate on what the most important part of green IT is. Having a strong interest in both electronics recycling and IT energy conservation, I like this debate and am glad David Moschella has thrown down the gauntlet.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

For those of us who haven’t memorized economic frameworks: The Rule of 40 is a metric investors developed to gauge the health and growth potential of SaaS startups. And it was presaged by falling public markets that, we presume, allowed some private companies to conserve cash in anticipation of, say, a more conservative funding market.”

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. Actions that support environmental sustainability include setting new environmental regulations, developing technology through renewable energy, and leaning into eco-friendly living. A $10 billion Great American Outdoors Act passed in July 2020.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

We have dozens of donated and discounted green products on TechSoup and from time to time, we like to have a deeper look at our green product donor companies. Dangermond developed the GIS mapping tools that became the basis of ESRI's software as a researcher at Harvard's computer graphics lab. read more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In fact, he told me that his time with National Geographic made him aware of the need for more data sets in conservation. million in seed funding led by Lupa Systems, with participation from Betaworks Ventures and TitletownTech (a partnership between Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers). Sound like an odd match?

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Whole Whale

APRIL 10, 2023

Encourage the development of small organizations by sharing lessons learned. Increase the awareness of good that is occurring in the world. Provide a platform to showcase awesome nonprofits.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

As just one example, the Green Climate Fund now makes their proactive philanthropic approach explicit, funding “projects with a strong focus on increasing direct access and building resilience in the developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.” That is no longer the case.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion plan, announced last week, to plant trees and restore landscapes across Africa and the US has already raised red flags for some conservation experts and activists. The hope with the new conservation investment is to preserve ecosystems that naturally draw down and store planet-heating carbon dioxide pollution.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

Energy Conservation Is a Requirement in Africa. Grace Ministries International has been doing interesting things to develop their school, the Tanzania Grace Bible Institute. Computers are a centerpiece of the school, but they needed super-energy-efficient technology to conserve the scarce electricity. Image one: Interconnection.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots. Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Finally, as a conservation organization, we’re always looking at ways to reduce our use of paper. It’s won awards from Treehugger.com as the “Best of Green in Food and Health” and is cited regularly in mainstream and new media as a trusted source for sustainable seafood information. What metrics are you using for mobile?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Often tied to breaking news stories or internal developments at your organization, a blog post calling for action is often well received. If you are an environmental nonprofit, write about ways in which supporters can green their homes or garden without pesticides. Post Calls to Action. A first-person voice is best.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Jennifer Morris, CEO of The Nature Conservancy , is a self-described “impatient optimist” who believes in radical collaboration to create tangible results that last. The Cumberland Forest Project protects 253,000 acres of Appalachian forest and is one of The Nature Conservancy’s largest-ever conservation efforts in the eastern United States.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Christine Chang, head of corporate development and ventures, Tribal. Dear Sophie: Questions about green cards and EB-2 priority dates. I’m Indian by birth, so I know I’m going to be waiting a long time to get a green card. Dear Sophie: Questions about green cards and EB-2 priority dates. Idealistic from India.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

such as those seeking to develop greener products or cleaner industrial processes, etc.). The startup’s goal is to be able to provide rich, real-time analytics to local policymakers, conservation groups, NGOs, etc. so they’re armed with actionable intelligence to combat deforestation and biodiversity loss.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

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. An interesting development is that after establishing a conversation behind the "windshield", the face-to-face encounters are easier. . Read his full bio.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

When the company first started developing prototypes of its devices that attach to water coolers, the company’s founders, Josh Santos and Daniel Cavero, did what all good founders do, they started building in their backyard. “ If we were to go all-in on a carbon capture, that would require a lot of time for us to develop.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2011

This piece is part of an occasional series we do at GreenTech to profile leaders in the green IT field. She is the director of business development and partner strategy on the environmental sustainability team at Microsoft Corporation. Kathryn Willson is certainly one of them. Hopefully we'll see even more to come.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Try a green energy supplier. Energy conservation is seen as one of the most important things we can do to fight climate change, and it is – if you use fossil-fuel energy. It’s easy to switch to 100% green energy. Conserve your water. For more tips take a look at the Going Zero Waste blog.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

During her summer internship, she has been developing the business plan for Bookshare International, which will bring the benefits of reading to people with print disabilities outside of the United States. Right now he gets his green fix by tending to an aquarium and houseplants.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

Taking It Global: Millennium Development Goals match game. DISNEY PROJECT GREEN: Play games, donate points and help a charity win $100,000. Purpose: Education. In this game, you match two tiles and then have to answer a trivia question correctly to progress. Purpose: Fundraising, awareness-building.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Offering users customer support or consulting services are common revenue streams, according to product development consultant Victoria Melnikova, who also says devs should form partnerships and use platforms like Reddit and Hacker News to reach potential paying customers. “To within a year or two?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2015

MWC generally also has a strong showing of green technology, and this year's show was no exception. Internet.org has teamed up with mobile hardware and software companies to cut the cost of Internet services on mobile phones in the developing world. Andersson outlined the accessibility features in Android Ice Cream 5.0

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Care2

MAY 17, 2013

Ryan got his start as an organizer with Green Corps back in 2008 and has been working to build large movements on behalf of the environment ever since. He has worked on a multitude of issues from climate and energy policy to food issues to conservation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

Our deep dive examines Tonal’s origins, product development timeline, its go-to-market strategy and other aspects that combined to spark investor interest and customer delight. Is it suffering from cultural dissonance between its high-growth model and more conservative European investors? Let’s peek at the numbers and find out.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

He has developed award-winning strategies for more than 70 nonprofit organizations such as amfAR, African Wildlife Foundation, Covenant House, PetSmart Charities, and the Smithsonian Institution. Paul has more than fifteen years of multi-channel fundraising, direct mail, online advertising, web design, and email marketing experience.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2021

During the COP26 meetings, the Malala Fund presented its Gender-Equal Green Learning Agenda , which recommends leaders use education as a powerful tool to address the climate crisis by adding climate issues to all school curriculums and vocational training. NOAA-produced climate science into U.S. World Wildlife Fund.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As a founding sponsor of UpLink , Salesforce is helping connect more than 50,000 ecopreneurs around the world as they develop the next generation of climate solutions and accelerate progress on the UN SDGs. Often, we don’t invest in nature restoration or conservation because we don’t know what large-scale restoration would look like.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

MBYC was established May 18, 1999 as a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization to develop our youth by providing a meaningful education, employment skills, low-income housing, and training opportunities through projects that conserve natural resources, increase awareness of recycling, thus benefiting San Bernardino county.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. I got some of the back story form Julio Vasconcellos , VP for Business Development, for the Experience Project which operates TwitCause. "I

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

Is that weed you’re smoking green enough? These have been championed by nonprofits like The Nature Conservancy and American Forests. Having previously worked inside Bay Area startups, she has a deep understanding of the pressing issues facing the businesses of tomorrow. More posts by this contributor.

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