Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Regulation of such projects falls to a patchwork of small, rural agencies called groundwater conservation districts, which might not be fully equipped or empowered to manage plans for competing regional water needs that can affect entire cities for generations to come. Theres no cheap water left in Texas. It stops it. You cant just say no.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By actively bringing together different departments and leading discussions around revenue diversification, you can set measurable goals, evaluate the ROI of each funding source, and make informed decisions about where to invest time and resources. How to Measure: Evaluate cost per dollar raised, donor acquisition costs, and conversion rates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

It lets donors determine for themselves that their donation, involvement, and passion moved the needle and made a measurable contribution to the world. A donor will be pleased to learn that, for example, their $100 donation helped kickstart a conservation project or deliver a week worth of food to a family in need. 4) Give outcomes.

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Wired

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Monitoring the noises within ecosystems reveals their healthallowing researchers to monitor changes in biodiversity, detect threats, and measure the effectiveness of conservation strategies.

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Costa Rica Conservancy Measure Research 140

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What are the key results of this campaign ?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

So we’re especially proud to announce the launch of Miradi version 3, the enhanced version of our user-friendly environmental conservation software. Miradi gives conservation planners cutting edge tools to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2013

Note from Beth: A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed two books about measurement from two different fields – start ups and nonprofit performance assessment. We call these fellow conservation comrades our “ distributed network.” We measure the impact of our campaigns by counting social mentions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2008

I'm excited because it's another example of top-quality software created by our technical team in partnership with the conservation movement. We developed it in what's called an agile way, where we do frequent releases and actively engage users in shaping the software. Miradi 2.0 Miradi 2.0 public release. Read the Miradi 2.0

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Today, maximizing and measuring data team ROI is near the top of every data leader’s agenda. Time to build and maintain  — The time it takes to build and maintain your key data assets, including data products and machine learning capabilities, is a key lever that measures your data team’s productivity. Image by author.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 11, 2007

Our core beta testers are drawn from the Conservation Measures Partnership , coalition of the leading biodiversity groups (such as The Nature Conservancy, WWF and WCS). Our new environmental project management software, Miradi , just went into its beta testing.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Our Approach: Practical, Scalable, Sustainable At Forum One, sustainability isn’t a marketing buzzword. It’s woven into the very fabric of how we design and build digital products.

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The Verge

JUNE 21, 2021

The measures focus on the anticompetitive behaviors of these four companies, and it’s not as clear how they would affect other large companies like Microsoft. is out to get conservatives,” Jordan said in his Monday letter. “It Democrat impeachment managers don’t care about conservative censorship. Their next big mission?

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

How Do You Measure Up? In this webinar you''ll learn: How you can use the benchmark report findings to measure your success and identify your areas of improvement. Join Care2, Blackbaud and Feeding America for this free Expert Webinar, and discover the essential tips that can help you stay ahead of the curve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first. Conservators.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Kedar to learn about a new project to help users measure and manage their consumption, in effect encouraging them to control their environmental impact. It is meant to work it’s way from the conscious measurement of people’s behavior. What’s your goal for the new tool?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2014

This week, we’re talking with Ryan Chung , Bo Bell , Sol Salgar, and Carla Perez of Central Park Conservancy (CPC) in New York City. Carla: We measured our website, especially before and after the launch, comparing the metrics with different traffic tools. HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT THE NEW DESIGN OF THE WEBSITE WAS SUCCESSFUL? .

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2021

These measures are the House Judiciary Committee’s historic, 16-month long investigation into the business tactics of companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. The package unveiled Friday includes five measures targeting the different ways in which tech companies maintain market dominance. and News Corp.,

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

The painting itself is famous for a few reasons, including its large size, measuring at 11.91 The release of the high-resolution image is part of a research and conservation initiative to conserve Rembrandt’s piece. feet, and its use of light and shadow to emphasize specific characters in the painting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. The mission of Upwell is to condition the climate for change in marine conservation, and ready people to take action.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Tech that serves to conserve the oceans while using it to replace older, more harmful means of generating energy and food seems to be one such opportunity. It is now ‘warming’ up to ocean conservation,” Daniela Fernandez, managing partner of Seabird Ventures, told TechCrunch. It is now “warming” up to ocean conservation.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Additionally, donors, particularly younger generations, are demanding greater transparency, accountability, and measurable impact. But we need to be clear eyed about the fact that this is a conservative reading of civil society and subject to a wide variety of pressures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

While there is much talk of cutting spending, conserving capital, trimming staff and hunkering down, there’s also quite a lot of good news out there. Much like PMI , 50 is a “neutral” outlook measurement on the Battery scale. The latest data dump from Battery Ventures ( which raised $3.8

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Software Conservancy Newsletter News 94

NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The 2013 Communities of Impact (CoI) pilot program consists of two groups, both focusing on the ways that nonprofits measure, learn from, and share their data. The idea is to create clear, measurable organizational change to participating nonprofits while sharing the learnings and findings with the whole community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Track your open rates and conversions (do they open the email and then do they actually make a gift) – open rates are important to measure, not just conversions and gifts. As examples, check out Conservation International. Engage your Millennials as guest bloggers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The social enterprise movement is a global one, so we hope that the measured approach of the USPTO to this application is echoed by peer trademark authorities in other countries. Unfortunately, there are literally hundreds of nonprofit social enterprises operating in all of these areas.

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Candid

DECEMBER 18, 2024

population, but from every measurement in philanthropy including grants to Latinx-focused nonprofit organizations to representation among board members and staff, you wouldnt know there were 62 million of us. The Latinx community is often missing from philanthropic discussionsboth about donors and about nonprofit organizations.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

The costs placed on society and future generations of the food system could be properly measured and either paid for or not allowed to occur in the first place. Every country could have a proper land use framework to achieve the right balance between agricultural productivity, conservation, and regeneration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Donations will be a consequence of meaningful engagement, not a measurement of it.”. Through blogs written about a specific animal by a conservation professional, WildlifeDirect enables individual donors around the world to communicate directly with the people that they are funding.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

Set goals for your monthly giving program that are SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-sensitive. For instance, if your organization focuses on local plant conservation, you might explain that your monthly giving program funds your community volunteering efforts. Conservation Champions (The Nature Conservancy).

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Under the new measures, which are due to come into effect in September, Huawei and its suppliers like chip manufacturer TSMC cannot use American tech to design or produce Huawei’s products. These new measures could have a big impact on the products Huawei is able to produce, which critics argue could make its equipment less safe to use.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Measure and track your success. How to measure the success of your nonprofit branding strategy There are several ways to measure the success of your nonprofit branding strategy. ” World Wildlife Fund (WWF ) is a leading international conservation organization. Be open to making changes to your branding as needed.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 14, 2025

Or your revenue targets might need recalibrating whether theyre too ambitious or too conservative. Debbie is known for her ability to balance high-level strategy with hands-on implementation ensuring every plan is actionable, measurable, and rooted in reality. The goal is to ensure your budget aligns strategically and financially.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Try to attach a number or percentage to your mission goals to help you measure your progress. David And Lucile Packard Foundation : Improving the lives of children, enabling the creative pursuit of science, advancing reproductive health, conserving and restoring the earth’s natural systems. Whole Whale’s Vision and Mission.

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2021

Apple’s partners in the Restore Fund include the nonprofit Conservation International and the Goldman Sachs group which will manage the fund. The company says it will directly eliminate 75 percent of emissions from its supply chain and products by 2030, and the Restore Fund will help address the other 25 percent of its emissions.

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2021

Amazon’s Alexa has a voice familiar to millions: calm, warm, and measured. I was conservative about it for a long time [.] Journalist Brad Stone says Nina Rolle is the original voice of Alexa. Image: Nina Rolle. But like most synthetic speech, its tones have a human origin. then this Verge video came out [.]

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2020

YouTube has started instituting new measures to try to prevent creator-on-creator harassment over the last year. The company came under fire after former Vox host Carlos Maza tweeted out multiple instances where conservative pundit Steven Crowder used homophobic and other derogatory language to talk about him.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2007

And importantly, the return on investment in these technologies can be measured in terms of donations, page views, and names who receive your updates. For example, the ASAE (American Society of Association Executives) just ran an article called Expand your Audience through Social Media.

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