Join The World - Saturday March 27 @ 8:30 PM (Your Local Time)
Turn Out the Lights - Stand Up For Our Planet http://www.myearthhour.org
Join the United States Capitol, Eiffel Tower, Great Pyramids and capitol buildings around the world in turning out your organization's lights for one hour - a visual show of support for our planet. Send us an email to earthhour@greennonprofits.org and let us know your plans, or just send a tweet to our editor and President Ted Hart @tedhart. Let us know "I'm In For Earth Hour 2010".
YOU ARE INVITED: CANADIAN BOOK RELEASE EVENT - April 22
Following two years of research and planning the definitive, practical guide to going green on a charity budget is set for release in Toronto. You are cordially invited to meet editors and authors of the book Nonprofit Guide To Going Green - The GreenNonprofits.org Handbook.
Join us at the TD Canada Trust Tower, Boardroom in the 54th Floor April 22, 2010, 5:30 pm. RSVP ONLINE.
[If you would like to schedule a launch event email us at launch@greennonprofits.org]
National Book Release Event in Toronto
Timely and clearly written, with contributions from experts around the globe, Nonprofit Guide To Going Green offers practical advice on how non-profits of any size can green their own organization, even on a limited budget. View Book Online: (link) and (link)
Join us online or at one of our national launch events.
TD Canada Trust Tower
TD Tower Boardroom in the 54th Floor
161 Bay Street
Toronto, ON M5J2T2 (map)
This book is printed on acid-free paper made
from 100% post-consumer recycled pulp with soy ink.
YOU ARE INVITED: NATIONAL BOOK RELEASE EVENT - Berkeley CA April 27th
Following two years of research and planning the definitive, practical guide to going green on a charity budget is set for release in San Francisco. You are cordially invited to meet editors and authors of the book Nonprofit Guide To Going Green - The GreenNonprofits.org Handbook.
Join us at the The Hub, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, 4th Floor Berkeley, CA 94704
[If you would like to schedule a launch event email us at launch@greennonprofits.org]
National Book Release Event in Berkeley, CA
Timely and clearly written, with contributions from experts around the globe, Nonprofit Guide To Going Green offers practical advice on how non-profits of any size can green their own organization, even on a limited budget. View Book Online: (link) and (link)
Join us online or at one of our national launch events.
He lectures around the world but now is here for you. From the latest in charity news, technology, fundraising and social networking, Ted Hart and his guests help you maneuver through this economic downturn in the charitable sector to greater levels of efficiency and fundraising success.
The Florida Keys Outreach Coalition for the Homeless (FKOC) has been certified by GreenNonprofits. "The GreenNonprofits organization was impressed by work of the FKOC to advance the environmental sustainability of their operations and applauds their leadership in this burgeoning movement," said Ted Hart, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GreenNonprofits.org.
GreenNonprofits offers a certification program, website, newsletter and handbook, The Nonprofit Guide to Going Green, to steer the charitable sector toward a focus and commitment to the environment.
The coalition has taken steps to recycle, conserve energy, protect the environment and cut costs. The coalition's mission is to help homeless people attain independence and self-sufficiency. It is the first Monroe County non-profit to receive certification from the organization.
Thanks to grants received to improve energy efficiency and conservation, the money the organization's five transitional housing facitilies are saving on utilities is helping offset some funding cuts.
"Saving money is more important than ever in today's economic environment," Braddock says. But saving money is not the only motivation. "We all have to do what we can environmentally to make our island and the world a better place. We have a responsibility to be good stewards, and we need to recognize it and do something about it." To learn more about FKOC's efforts to go green, visit www.FKOC.org.
The centerpiece of the GreenNonprofit movement is for each charity to become certified. This is a process that is both easy to understand and takes time to complete.
The first step is to create your profile and start earning points. You only need 100 points to become certified. You can start earning points right way.
1. See what points you may have already earned with actions you have already taken
2. Review options for earning other points
3. Save your work
4. Engage your organization to make additional changes
5. Come back and add your new points
6. Repeat 2-5 until you have earned 100 points
For now you can download (for digital use on your computer) the certification application. Soon we will launch an online database you can use to store your work.
In an effort to recognize and certify outstanding Green Nonprofits and promote their services, GreenNonprofits has established the certification program. By participating in this program and becoming certified, your charity will publically declare your commitment to these principles while joining this unique global group of superior organisations.
The GreenNonprofits certification process is unique to each nonprofit/NGO’s goals to become greener.To complete the program it could take
