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Measuring Conservation Effectiveness

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The people attending all believe that we have to focus much more on conservation outcomes: are there more tigers? It was exciting for me to participate in this meeting , which was roughly balanced between funders and conservation groups. At a two-day event at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation on changing an entire movement.

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How you can help save declining butterflies

Fast Company Tech

Geological Surveys Powell Center Status of Butterflies of the United States Working Group , which I am involved in. This gives me a bit of hope when it comes to butterfly conservation. Because they have such short generation times, even small conservation steps can make a big difference and we can see populations bounce back.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Nature Conservancy

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization: The Nature Conservancy. Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. Organization Size: +1 million members, +3800 staff. Name: Amy Ganderson. Title: Associate Director, Digital Marketing. Website: www.nature.org. Mobile: m.nature.org. Blog: blog.nature.org.

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Is the Humane Society the First Nonprofit to Link to a Mobile Website in a Group Text Alert?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They were also one of the first nonprofits to utilize Myspace back in 2005 and Facebook Groups in 2006. For example, and as much as I love Sea Shepherd and appreciate their effort to be an early adopter in group text messaging, so far all of their text alerts have linked to their desktop site. I’d love to know of others?

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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Facebook reportedly removed strikes from conservative pages after executive intervened

The Verge

Facebook reportedly cleared misinformation “strikes” against several posts by conservatives in an apparent attempt to prevent them from being banned, BuzzFeed News reported. He also was reportedly involved in removing a “partly false” fact-check label from an article on the conservative site Daily Wire.

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7 Unique Fundraising Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Face the Planet enables users to hypothetically purchase real estate ($3-4 per landmark) and 85% of the proceeds are donated to environmental and wildlife conservation organizations. And if your nonprofit is working to conserve the planet and its wild inhabitants, contact the founder directly to see about having your nonprofit listed.

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