At the annual meeting of the Carbon Disclosure Project--a non-profit investor organization devoted to greater transparency in greenhouse gas emission statistics--Sun released a set of open-source software tools that companies can use to track carbon emissions.
Opened in 2007, the project is one of several projects -- including the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training program -- the non-profit organization has promoted.
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization focusing on free-market ideas for health reform.
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Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization specializing in market-based health policy. www.galen.org.
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The SFI has since broken off and currently operates as a fully-independent non-profit organization.
One year later, Jones joined a number of state and private efforts to rebuild Liberia by setting up FACE Africa, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that's working to provide access to clean drinking water in Liberia's rural communities, where running water and sewage infrastructure is often a rare luxury.
These adversaries include people hurt by his behavior and subsequent lies about his behavior, people whom Armstrong attacked and bullied for calling him out on his illegal and reprehensible activities, people who love competitive sports, and individuals with cancer who relied on Livestrong, the anti-cancer non-profit organization which he founded.
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Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization that focuses on market-based health policy solutions.
He is also the founder of Instituto-E, a non-profit organization in Rio de Janeiro promoting sustainable human development through its e-brigaders, groups of young people working for sustainable development, environmental protection and social inclusion.
But what makes it more compelling is that XP has recently partnered with American Youth Football, the fifteen-year old non-profit organization that has become the largest youth football program in the United States.
Staying connected to the internet can be a challenge at times, especially for Kenya-based Ushahidi, a non-profit tech organization that battles with power outages and flaky ISPs in Africa.
But in addition, the non-profit receives direct operational expense off-setting services that strengthen the organization and enable that non-profit to then serve a greater number of clients in need.
The Center for Security Policy is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization specializing in U.S. foreign and defense policy matters.
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"There are actually... close to 17 or 18 initiatives working their way to the ballots, " according to Sue Rusche, president and CEO of the non-profit anti-drug organization, National Families in Action.
As a result of building strong relationships with these clients, the majority of our for-profit clientele has actually come to us thanks to a referral from a non-profit organization.
He made the move from Oregon to Georgia to join Teach for America, a non-profit organization that recruits non-traditional teachers to improve education for children in low-income communities.
Engineered by 20-year-old whiz kid Blake Ross , and shepherded by non-profit organization Mozilla, Firefox quickly carved out around fifteen percent of the browser market, nearly all of it at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Engineered by 20-year-old whiz kid Blake Ross , and shepherded by non-profit organization Mozilla, Firefox quickly carved out around fifteen percent of the browser market, nearly all of it at the expense of Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Internet Explorer.
Originally launched as a non-profit organization over a decade ago, the organization has ballooned in scale and size since adopting the for-profit model.
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization focusing on health reform.
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She is now CEO of her own company and the co-Founder and Executive Director of Us Foundation, a global non-profit organization devoted to youth issues, education, environmental issues and conditions for peace.
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The Center for Security Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan national security organization that specializes in identifying policies, actions, and resource needs that are vital to American security and then ensures that such issues are the subject of both focused, principled examination and effective action by recognized policy experts, appropriate officials, opinion leaders, and the general public.
To receive B Corp Certification from B Lab, an independent, non-profit organization (I am a co-founder of B Lab), method had to submit to a comprehensive, comparable, and transparent examination of all of its products, its practices, and its impact on all of its stakeholders, including workers, community, and the environment.
You can get lots of information on keeping kids safe, secure and productive online from my site SafeKids.com and at ConnectSafely.org, a non-profit Internet safety organization where I serve as co-director.
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization that produces Sesame Street, is a completely separate company from the non-profit Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
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The work you've done here is quite impressive, and the evolution of your work to include green building, something that we're talking more and more about as a nation, energy-saving practices, and environmental awareness, it demonstrates how YouthBuild has endured as a leading non-profit organization, keeping up with the times, making sure that the training and education that you get is current.
Disclosure: Larry Magid is co-director of ConnectSafely.org, a non-profit Internet safety organization that receives financial support from Facebook.
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