Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Staycations are not only affordable, they're also a great way to support your local businesses. It started with a trip to Crown and Crumpet in San Francisco, a tea salon in Ghiradelli Square. Our two weekends of tea tasting adventures were fun, and got me excited to find other local tea houses locally, and when we travel.

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AUGUST 6, 2008

Here are a few ideas for your husband's new business venture: • Be green. Natural Resource Defense Council has an article, Greening Your Business , which lists tips for making your business green like recycling, using copier and printer paper that is post-consumer and recycled, using Energy Star office equipment, and getting an energy audit.

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AUGUST 15, 2008

I'm speaking tomorrow at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco about "Changeblogging: How to Create Positive Change With Your Blog." My list is rather heavy on "green" topics. The conference is for nonfiction writers who want to write books that will create positive change, "from the personal to the planetary."

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

If you have suggestions for people to interview for the Big Vision Podcast, email me at britt@brittbravo.com podcast social entrepreneur nonprofit activist green women activism visionary

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OCTOBER 9, 2005

Yesterday I went to the San Francisco session of the second annual Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp. The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. He also listed the following Green Economy Trends that are also available here : 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Listen Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

That's why we do an annual survey of our members — because our local volunteers are always striving to figure out how they can help your nonprofit use technology to do more good. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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JUNE 19, 2007

Ten years ago I used to take the bus every day from downtown San Francisco to South San Francisco where there was an Odwalla office. Before being green was cool, Hawken was writing about the environmental impact of business and the importance of balancing profit and planet.

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JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay. Carpocalypse.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. Fundraising Events. Adrienne holds a B.S.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

San Francisco, California: Mobile Apps for Change Demo Day. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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JUNE 1, 2017

NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. In the US, the Chicago and Portland groups visited their local Microsoft stores to learn how to leverage the Office 365 donation. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. A lot of things have changed since 2002.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. Focusing in on Local Issues. Open Data San Francisco. Concrn for San Francisco's Tenderloin Residents.

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JULY 7, 2007

In Sugar Coated, San Francisco Chronicle reporter, Kim Severson, writes about the unexpected presence of high fructose corn syrup in our food: "Because high fructose corn syrup mixes easily, extends shelf-life and is as much as 20 percent cheaper than other sources of sugar, large-scale food manufacturers love it. I think so.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Alli is now the Business Partners & Events Manager at Green For All and Art in Action Youth Leadership Program). If you're not a listener, you can listen to the show on the Big Vision Podcast site, or subscribe via iTunes or another podcatcher.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Example: When Kjerstin Erickson, Founder of FORGE, blogged about her organization's struggles on Social Edge , she received an outpouring of support, plus stories in the San Francisco Chronicle and Wall Street Journal. Example: Green for All posted about how Green for All Supports Local Green Jobs Corps in Tennessee.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder of Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 15, 2016

It's not so much that I've been a writer on green technology at TechSoup over the years. In our own office in San Francisco, we now collect and recycle all glass, metals, plastics (yes, every kind of plastic), paper, and anything compostable (mostly food scraps). That's getting pretty far out there. Keep the Faith.

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OCTOBER 16, 2007

Last week, at NetSquared's San Francisco Net Tuesday Meetup, Steve Miller, Product Manager, Google Earth Outreach spoke to a room of 50+ social changemakers and web innovators about how nonprofits can use Google Earth Outreach for their work. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. The first one was started in 1991 by a San Francisco educator, Dan Sudran, in his garage. The Mission location is still a useful hub for San Francisco school programs.

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MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Sunstone Montessori School is a certified green nonprofit school in Portland, Oregon that serves toddlers through sixth graders.

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MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. They recognize that green is very vogue right now. What's going on?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

With his bright green hair, crystal blue skin and environmentally-focused attitude, Captain Planet was the ultimate do-gooder. It helps to consult with an attorney to make sure the transaction is in compliance with all your local state laws. In the early ‘90s, a new superhero burst onto the scene. Come Together.

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MAY 4, 2010

While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. The work I did from that point on was really about looking at the grassroots, and how can we, around the world, support local leadership and grassroots-led movements for change. From that point, my path shifted.

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JULY 16, 2007

I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below. We opened up Citizen Space in San Francisco in November of last year, of 2006.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

There arealso two Lean Impact Summits taking place, one in December in NYC and one in January in San Francisco (I’m a judge for the San Francisco event). Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair). Gateway Green is a project in Portland to turn a stretch of unused land into a multi-use bike park.

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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. It was shocking and deplorable, really terrible, to learn that and know that it's not at the forefront of a lot of people's thinking when they think about local food or regional food.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. I'm going to be green. Are you hiring locally? We love it.

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JULY 5, 2011

Here in TechSoup's San Francisco office, we use audio conferencing every day to talk with people working remotely, in the Bay Area, plus staff based in New York or Seattle, and often London or Poland. Audio conferencing is a green technology-it helps reduce the amount of travel people need to do to attend meetings in person.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

I found out that the kindergartner I'll be working with likes pizza, the color green, pirates, sports and dinosaurs. In 2002, Eggers co-founded a writing center for young people, 826 Valencia, in San Francisco. If you're a parent, the local PTA may have ways for you to get involved as well. 826national.org.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Wellington, New Zealand: Going green with social media - #net2welly Social Media Sept (1 of 3). Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Get nonprofit tech highlights from San Francisco from their monthly newsletter. Wednesday, September 25.

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MARCH 25, 2015

Rory Green is a guest blogger for Nonprofit Hub. It’s a short, two hour flight from San Francisco and the Silicon Valley. White, middle-aged men in suits holding a big check submitted to the local newspaper is not what they want. She will be speaking at Cause Camp this April! I live and work in Vancouver BC.

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MARCH 5, 2021

Green Foundation. i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). The mission of this foundation is to encourage women’s involvement in philanthropy and make a significant difference in the Southern San Francisco community.

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Green Foundation. i, New York City, Northeastern Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Israel (plus surrounding rural communities of listed cities). The mission of this foundation is to encourage women’s involvement in philanthropy and make a significant difference in the Southern San Francisco community.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. In addition to the Networked Nonprofit , I brought copies of books from colleagues that might be of interest to local NGOs. Ethan Zuckerman, fellow board members, shares his impressions here. All in all, I loved my time in Kenya.

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