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Microsoft’s operations will be zero waste by 2030 

The Verge

It also pledged to stop using single-use plastics in its packaging by 2025. The company also pledged to eliminate waste from its own manufacturing process, although its suppliers won’t be expected to stick to the same zero waste goal as Microsoft. People tossed out a record 53.6 million metric tons of e-waste globally in 2019.

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Facebook will study whether its algorithms are racially biased

The Verge

Last month, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri pledged to overhaul how the company tries to solve problems that Black and other underrepresented groups face on the platform. “It The company was found to have been allowing advertisers to exclude certain minority groups when advertising within federally regulated markets like housing and jobs.

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Four Social Media Fundraising Tools

NTEN

There are many companies and nonprofits out there trying to solve this problem. They also do a solid job leveraging the Pavlovian points / badges / stars / stickers that are, like, so hot right now. For example, you can choose to pledge 10 cents a tweet, or $0.25 per Facebook update. takes care of the rest. Why is this better?

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Attention Nonprofit #DataNerds: A Few Recent Research Studies on Data, Technology, Funding, and Trends

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can find data on philanthropists who have signed the Giving Pledge and data shared by 54 foundations on a set of “transparency indicators.” The actions include improving jobs, the quality of education, children’s health and other innovations. Collaborative Technologies: Helping Funders Work Together Better.

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How to Raise Funds for a New Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Your job is to convince donors what you already know that the work your organization does is urgently needed to change the community and the world for the better. Let them know there is a serious problem in their community or elsewhere in the world, and they can be part of the solution by making a gift. How you ask is important.

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Got Silos in Your Nonprofit? It’s Time to Build Some Bridges!

sgEngage

The problem, as she told the story, was Alan. Every month, Barbara’s team had to do hours of detective work to find a missing pledge payment, or correct coding errors, or ask Alan’s team multiple times for reports on event sponsorship purchases. It’s like he doesn’t even care about helping my team do our job. Barbara asked me.

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Toyota’s new Lexus factory could be larger than Tesla’s Giga Shanghai: report

TechNode

It pledged to create 1,000 new jobs in the initial phase. The Japanese automaker added that it aims to make the project an industry benchmark for carbon neutrality in a partnership with the Shanghai municipal government, according to a Chinese statement (our translation).

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