Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2007

So many people did a great job making this the event for social enterprisers in North America. I'm hoping we can expand our reach globally in future years! Back in our "normal" environments, we're trying to break the mold. Green Building Council, an organization which has rapidly grown into a major player in that field.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. The green, yellow, and red colors allow consumers to immediately view a product's level of concern in each of the categories. Kyle Ferrar, a Ph.D.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

In February of 2011, TechSoup Global board member and founder of the nonprofit Samasource , Leila Chirayath Janah published a piece in TechCrunch that explores an unusual aspect of telework. In GreenTech we've explored how telework, or working remotely via the Internet, is good for the environment and will likely change the modern office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

An easy example is green technology. pdf and a wiki with definitions of the lingo [link] Last week I gave a colleague a hard time about aspiring to “create an enabling environment” so I deserved to be surrounded by smart people who are making strides to create the infrastructure needed to drive capital to social change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

If you know some great folks (especially techies) who want a job that embodies their values as well as paying a competitive wage, please send them my way! My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). I was awarded one of the 2006 MacArthur Fellowships.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

She is also co-host of the radio show, The Queens of Green on Green 960 , which you can also be downloaded as a podcast. They all represent either a farmer, educator, activist, or chef, but they still share the connection that they're aware of global issues. They're also providing a lot of jobs locally. They traveled.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

By the time I saw them, they had met with staff at MicroPlace , Lenders for Community Development , IDEO , the Kaiser Family Foundation , the Draper Richards Foundation , Upwardly Global , 826 Valencia , MAPLight , Taoit , People's Grocery , Whole Foods and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. They made 3 lists: a. I don't feel worried.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2. Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Refurbishment and the Environment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

Environment aside, from a consumers standpoint it makes a tremendous amount of sense. Additionally, there has been a lot of rhetoric on the part of the automakers regarding the greenness of their operations, when in fact what we are seeing is a lot of green-washing. They recognize that green is very vogue right now.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Green Foundation. This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. Global Fund For Women. Boulware Foundation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Global Fund for Women. Wallace Global Fund. Green Foundation. This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. Global Fund For Women. Boulware Foundation.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook. Recycling.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Right now he gets his green fix by tending to an aquarium and houseplants. For the past five years he worked customizing and integrating a single set of software systems that Benetech could use globally. Tags: Benetech internships human rights Miradi fellowships MBA environment Bookshare. His specialty: user testing.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The other thing that I think is happening globally is that there’s greater economic inequality. So Fraser Green, great fundraiser in Canada who was working for an organization, left it. I know most of us don’t have that much time because we’re often moving on to another job beforehand. It takes time. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. Climate change is on people's minds. our budget this year is $10 million.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Some, that have a home in the extra time that some academics can spend on such things in their jobs, are almost sustainable. About 70% of traditional, non-gold, peer-reviewed journals are green. For example, all of Elsevier’s journals went green in 2004. Going green helps readers, of course. 4 Sonia Lyris 04.09.07

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

If you need a ride to the airport, wish to order a pizza, plan a vacation, or search for a job, there is a good chance that you will use an app to get it. This contractor status makes it easy for companies to exploit platform workers by forcing them to pay high premiums for affiliation with the platform or even refusing to pay them for jobs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

all the green is WhatsApp. ” But if I’m working with communities that have a more hands, you know, a job that they’re like on their feet every day, they’re not going to have the email, they’re not going to be communicating through email. So this is. So we have Canada. We have all of Latin America.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

Frida, I think, a lot of her work, even though people constantly try to de-politicize it, a lot of it deals with this Mexican identity, it deals with globalization and so, of course, she was one of my inspirations. Even stuff around "green." I think that is really important. We said, "OK. Then we decided, "You know what?

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2011

BetterWorld Telecom provides services that enable and support a virtual work environment, as a donation partner with TechSoup Global. One of the benefits of working virtually is that a results-only work environment (ROWE), naturally arises, making efficiency and clarity of focus the working norm. of Organizational Democracy).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." How can we uplift people out of poverty with this new green boom and not leave some people out. It's best to pick a topic that's sort of a niche topic, or.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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