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100 days into the Volunteering Lab project, I never expected to find myself facilitating a bi-lingual workshop in Spanish and Portuguese given my inability to order a cerveza or cerveja in either. As the first big project of the Vol Lab, the Latin American regional skillshare started as an idea to bring together the volunteer-coordinators [...]
If you’re an activist in Toronto, you probably know Tools for Change. There to “help you develop skills to champion social change,” they are a fabulous example of local collaboration between organizations. And it is leading to both greater efficiency and higher impact for Greenpeace and for the broader movement. One look at their testimonials [...]
This story was contributed by Chuck Baclagon – senior digital strategist Greenpeace Southeast Asia. Every once in a while Greenpeace ends up as target of environmental activists, pushing us to take a stand on issues that do not fall into Greenpeace’s neat campaign priorities. This is one such story, of how GPSEA staff found themselves [...]
Over the last few years, a whole load of people inside Greenpeace, some new, some old, have been acquiring job titles with the words mobilisation added in. There’s a wind of change in the organisation, at least when it comes to role descriptions, but it hasn’t always been like this. None of us studied ‘mobilisation’ [...]
At the same time 20-year-old Josh Chamberland is attending Greenpeace’s Digital Mobilisation Skillshare (GPDMS), he’s receiving text messages about the latest progress made by his fellow Bowling Green State University students towards their 100 per cent renewable energy campaign. “It’s inspiring to work with all of these students,” says Josh, who’s built a core volunteer [...]
As part Greenpeace’s Digital Mobilisation Skillshare (GPDMS), three volunteers from the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States joined the four-day event to share their volunteer perspective on how to build innovative people-powered campaigns. Our story with Julian Gretsch is the first in a series with these volunteers, whose work is demonstrating the diversity and creativity [...]
SANT HILARI SACALM, Spain - When organizers first started using the Internet for organizing there was a clear line between online and offline actions. We’ve come a long way since then, understanding the need to fuse online and offline interaction into a seamless web of engagement and change. On the second day of Greenpeace’s Digital [...]
When Greenpeace’s new International Volunteering Lab team started thinking about our identity and logo, we decided that, in keeping with our mission, it was only right to ask a volunteer to design it, as an example of how awesome and full-of-talent our volunteering community is! So we reached out and found Thoas, after a quick search for [...]
Meet Greenpeace’s new Volunteering Lab team! The Vol Lab is Greenpeace’s first international team dedicated to supporting and building up our global network of 133 volunteer-coordinators and an estimated 18,000 fabulous volunteers. And when we say ‘build up’, we mean building the community not only in numbers, but also in leadership, relationships, skills and impact! [...]
Nabuur.com is a volunteer platform created in 2001 with a belief that in order to bring human ingenuity to bear one needs community. Founded by Siegfried Woldhek, a former director of the Dutch branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the site was designed to link neighbors (online volunteers) with villages (local communities) in Africa, [...]
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Campaign Spotting: Ending Homelessness & Global Love for the Arctic Examples of how/why advocating around your values can drive other side further away: http://t.co/fKOInHhZso
12 hours ago.@SchoolOfData runs a data expedition to map garment factories, supply chains, find patterns. http://t.co/16MA2p9zNH
14 hours agoOpen source, testing, a few key datasets heart of Obama campaign data strategy says @rayidghani: http://t.co/XzjWLA00vY
YesterdayBe persistent, smart. How digital changes comms in world of radical connectivity via @DrNickMorgan: http://t.co/3drAfyPEjX
YesterdaySeen Dumb Ways to Die video? @dbarefoot shared it in this grt post: http://t.co/ur4wf9JkzO - Now it's a video game: http://t.co/SoiDfzJ1P7
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