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The International Ecotourism Society’s African Safari Auction

Lucille Chi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:20:58 +0000

The International Ecotourism Society is offering a Surperb Safari Experience as an auction to raise funds for global environmental awareness. The Safari location is at Ol Seki Mara Camp.

Safari Details: Located in the heart of Eastern Koiyaki, Kenya, Ol Seki Mara Camp offers luxury “Nina” tents with 270 degree panoramic views of the famous Maasai Mara.

Magnificent Wildlife: Eastern Koiyaki, provides an opportunity to enjoy wildlife viewing in a pristine oasis nestled amongst Cordia and Acacia trees attracting an abundance of wildlife and birds.

Your Dream Vacation: Elegant candle lit dinners, romantic dining for honeymooners, a resident masseuse – a delight for all senses!

What are Ol Seki Mara Camp’s specific sustainability Practices?

DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards Calling for Entries

Adam Williams — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:31:05 +0000

It’s that time of year again for all do-gooding nonprofit organizations who’ve made videos “to inspire and ignite social change” to step forward. The third annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards are collecting your submissions. This year’s theme: “Everyone’s Doing It.”

Round one of judging will be completed on or around Mar. 26, 2009. As DoGooderTV says, “No membership, purchase or payment of any kind is necessary.”

Prizes will be awarded April 26-28 at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco on.

To see rules, categories and more information, check out dogooder.tv.

Sources: Ode Magazine and DoGooderTv

In Tough Times Cobranding May Be Best Bet For Non-Profits

John Simonetta — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:42:04 +0000

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

Well, I am certainly not a doomsayer. However it does look like the economy is going to slow down over the next few months if not longer.

Often it is marketing and giving that get hit first as companies focus on their core costs.

This especially hits those types of organization hardest that really need the support of their local communities and businesses, folks like the North Texas Food Bank, The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald Tennessee or other civil and charitable institutions.

So Proforma Green is offering a challenge to other Ecopreneurists that read our column.

Starting now Proforma Green is offering a 20%-30% discount from End Quantity Pricing (EQP) on promotional items to 501(c)3, NGOs, charities, schools and other civic organizations, if they allow us to co-brand the products with our web address www.proformagreen.com in some small way. Not all items in our catalog are available with this discount, but most are, likely 85%.

HolidayLEDs.com to donate $1000 to environmental charity chosen by it’s users

Philip C. Curtis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:20:31 +0000

In further celebration of Earth Day, Holidayleds.com will be donating $1000 to a qualifying environmental non-profit organization chosen by popular vote. Any U.S. 501(c)(3) organization with a mission related to sustainability, environmentalism, the fight against global warming or any other environmental cause is eligible.

Right now, HolidayLEDs.com is seeking suggestions for qualified charities. The site will be accepting suggestions for the next 14 days. All suggested charities who meet the minimum requirements will be placed on a ballot. Upon closing of the suggestion period, HolidayLEDs.com will conduct an online vote to determine which charity will receive the donation. The date for the official vote will be announced at a later date and will also be posted on this blog.

Please visit the site and suggest a worthy charitable organization.