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Sustainable Jobs Training Fund: Supporting training projects to help workers upgrade or gain new skills

Charity Village

The Fund aims to support a series of training projects to help workers upgrade or develop new skills for jobs in the low-carbon economy.

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Getting Insight from Facebook Insight Requires Sense Making Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others. Robin Good curated this article about research on future workplace skills. The skills are: Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed. The green represents people talking about. How do you do it?

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Ask Sophie: How many employment green cards are available each year?

TechCrunch

More posts by this contributor Ask Sophie: How do we transfer H-1Bs and green cards to our startup? Dear Sophie, I’m trying to figure out how long I have to wait for a green card. I have two questions for you: How many employment green cards in each category are available every year? How do I make sense of the Visa Bulletin?

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UK’s greenworkx takes aim at the domestic retrofit skills challenge

TechCrunch

So we really need lots and lots more skilled tradespeople — fast. Aka, the kind of multifaceted, hands-on skills that technologists haven’t figured out how to automate yet. Lots and lots of people to come in, eager and willing to learn new stuff, and take up green retrofitting jobs.

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Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Hire a Social Media Manager

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A good social media manager has an advanced communications and online fundraising skill set. If she or he writes or posts boring content, lacks necessary tech skills such as HTML and photo editing, or doesn’t have an intuitive sense and passion for their online communities, then your social media ROI will be minimal at best.

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5 Essential Free Online Courses for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alec Green , Chief Marketing Evangelist at NonprofitReady.org , an online hub of 400+ free online courses in topics ranging from fundraising to grant writing, leadership to program management. At NonprofitReady.org , our mission is to give nonprofit professionals at all levels the opportunity to build skills and advance their careers.

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