Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2010

The environmental nonprofit, Greenpeace International , made a big splash in the green IT world this week by launching a new policy campaign to measure the energy efficiency of the data centers that power cloud computing differently than in the past. Their new campaign coincides with the launch of the new cloud device, the Apple iPad.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2008, with support from the California Emerging Technology Fund , we established a formal digital divide program and, with the help of our community partners, connected more than 10,000 previously disconnected homes to broadband Internet. We had distributed more than 25,000 computers to 1,000+ nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

I've spent my whole adult career working for nonprofits that I believe do pretty darn good jobs of serving the needs of their communities, providing valuable services, advocating and educating on behalf of important policy decisions, and do all around good work for the world. TechSoup is high on that list from my vantage point.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 1, 2023

Clients engage with staff on a daily basis to run the organization, make decisions, set policy, and influence programming. Race and Ethnicity in the United States, US Census Bureau, August 12, 2021 Author Bio: Ellen Gugel, GPC , is an independent grants consultant in Massachusetts since 2008 when she started Grants & More.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Case in point: Obama for America, the 2008 Obama election campaign effort. ' And the answer they came up with was: Let's see if we can rally them around these policies that are part of the planks of our platform and let's see if they can go to their local representatives," said Flower, director at the Monitor Institute.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2016

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. And we need advocacy for new levels of excellence and for policies that support our work. Others might focus on policy-oriented efforts.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. "Closing the digital divide will take more than one year and more than one policy change. If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket. This past year, U.S. This is about as certain a prediction as you'll find in this post.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. The great fortune of getting a great job offer when there were very, very few available made it difficult to consider whether it was what I wanted. This was also the beginning of the Great Recession.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

Have an opt-in policy. Do you have an opt-in policy? Want more advice on creating a mobile fundraising opt-in policy? For instance, Alicia Keys, a co-founder of the Keep A Child Alive foundation, leveraged her celebrity status in 2008 to help families and orphans affected by the AIDS crisis.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JULY 17, 2023

And the 2008 financial collapse saw the devastation of stable middle class jobs in favor of part-time, low wage work ( McCallum , 2020). Navigating policies in any workplace can be challenging. We need better structures in place to prepare and to advocate for meaningful workplace policies and support.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She is the 2010 NTEN Award Winner and was named to the NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector in 2008. Marnie Webb is CEO of TechSoup’s new app development project, Caravan Studios. She’s one of our great forward-thinking people at TechSoup Global. John Merritt. Lucy Bernholz.

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Candid

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A reactive start: How the recession sparked the Ford Foundation’s DEI commitment The economic downturn of 2008 forced the foundation to downsize, reducing our global headcount. An in-depth look at our policies and practices through a DEI lens highlighted opportunities for improvement and confirmed the need for a dedicated DEI program.

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Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Policies shift, tax laws change, and rhetoric gets loud. This further proves that reliance on policy-driven benefits is risky. The Data Speaks for Itself During the 2008 financial crisis, bequests and other forms of planned giving remained relatively stable compared to annual donations. But lets get one thing straight: Its not.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JANUARY 29, 2025

This should not be a surpriseas President Obama famously stated in 2008: elections have consequences. Since January 20, the nascent Trump Administration has been doing something fairly remarkable in American politics: fulfilling campaign promises by issuing hundreds of Executive Orders (EOs).

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 14, 2018

President Trump has made all decisions related to the foundation, according to the suit, with no approval of policies or grants by the board of directors. A 2016 report by CNN revealed that, per tax records, then-candidate Trump had not made a personal donation to the foundation since 2008.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 14, 2018

President Trump has made all decisions related to the foundation, according to the suit, with no approval of policies or grants by the board of directors. A 2016 report by CNN revealed that, per tax records, then-candidate Trump had not made a personal donation to the foundation since 2008.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 14, 2018

President Trump has made all decisions related to the foundation, according to the suit, with no approval of policies or grants by the board of directors. A 2016 report by CNN revealed that, per tax records, then-candidate Trump had not made a personal donation to the foundation since 2008.

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