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What Apple is doing with 25,000 acres of former cattle pastures in Brazil

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The environmental group Conservation International is working on the project with an unlikely set of partners: a forestry company and the tech giant Apple. Some critics argue that eucalyptus overuses groundwater, but Conservation International says that’s often caused by poor management. It’s also quickly disappearing.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Now in it’s third year (View the 2009 Edition and 2010 Edition ), the 11 holiday gift programs listed below benefit nonprofits and thus help make the world a better place: 1.

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The Top 3 Charity Rating & Badge Programs for Nonprofits

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For example, SmileTrain has earned a rare 100% score from Charity Navigator , thus a ★ ★ ★ ★ rating, and placed their badge near the “Donate” button on their donation page(s). To begin, sign up to update your nonprofit’s Candid profile.

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In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

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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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Unlocking the power of data for wildlife conservation: An alliance between EarthRanger and Tableau Foundation

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In Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park, rangers study the map on their screen to see if there are any places they haven’t checked. It took one presentation of that map from Tableau with EarthRanger data and everyone knew where to look,” said Ed Sayer, the program manager at Frankfurt Zoological Society’s North Luangwa Conservation Programme.

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22 Nonprofit Mobile Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Neither does linking to desktop sites inside smartphone apps, in group text alerts, or on location-based communities like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places. Nature Conservancy :: m.nature.org. A QR code that launches a desktop-designed web page in a mobile browser just doesn’t make a whole of sense. Oceana :: m.oceana.org.

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3 Emerging Fundraising Trends for Nonprofits

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Drop in the Ocean: A Social VR Experience by Conservation International. million that other streamers raised during a global #HopeFromHome streaming event that took place on April 7th, 2020. 2) Donations via the Gaming Industry. In the last few decades, telethons were a valuable tool for raising money for nonprofit organizations.

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