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How to Go Green and Mean It: Advanced Strategies for Making Your Business Green in 2019
Updated on May 7th, 2019 You’ve already replaced your light bulbs, turned off your computer, and have even offered public transportation incentives to your employees. Your company is no stranger to going green, but you’re ready to take sustainability to the next level with more long-term, bigger investments. The upfront work to kick-off a larger sustainability strategy may be more substantial, but so is the payoff for both your business and the environment.... -
10 Years of Giving Back: A Look at BetterWorld’s Charity Work
BetterWorld Telecom (BWT) has been dedicated to being America’s leading B2B, full-service, sustainable communications provider since 2003. In fact, as a B Corporation, improving the environment and our communities is one of our top priorities. ... -
Elf Volunteering � Thank you!
Volunteering BetterWorld’s Salem Kimble was out dressed as an elf volunteer recently, face painting students at a holiday fundraising event for St. Leo the Great School in Oakland, CA. “It’s such a great experience to give back to the local community,” Salem said, “it’s wonderful to work at a company that values giving back too.” To our BetterWorld Family With holidays coming up, we’re lucky here at BetterWorld Telecom to have much to be thankful for, from our partners and affiliates to all of our wonderful customers. We wanted to take a moment to give a shout out to a few folks we’re thankful for this year. ... -
Making a Better World
** Giving Back** BetterWorld Telecom was founded with a vision of giving back and engaging with the communities we serve. We believe in the value of giving both our time and 3 percent of our top of the line revenue back to the areas that are key to our collective future, such as children, our environment, education and insuring fair trade.... -
Giving Back – Ashoka Youth Venture, Berkeley Food � Housing Project
Part of what makes us passionate about our work here at BetterWorld Telecom is our company commitment to use business as a lever for good and to give back to our communities through volunteering and donations. One of our donation recipients is Ashoka Youth Venture, an inspiring program that enables young people to learn early in life that they can lead social change.... -
Earth Day with BetterWorld Telecom
BetterWorld’s Ali Gunertem was out for Earth Day at Ben Brenman Park in Alexandria along with thousands of others and the Mayor William D. Euille! Among the highlights: exhibitions, environmental display, food, jazz music, poetry, free parking, and a tree sale. BetterWorld’s Salem Kimble was out for Earth Day at Civic Center Park in Berkeley CA and test drove the new electric Chevy Volt.... -
William James Foundation Biz Plan Winners Announced!
How do we create social change and speed up innovation and at the same time, provide access and mentoring for young business minds with great ideas? William James Foundation tackles both of these challenges with an annual business competition for the world’s young sustainable entrepreneurs. BetterWorld Telecom is proud to support this project and serve as a reading judge this year for the William James Foundation Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition.... -
BetterWorld Volunteers: Hope Montessori School
BetterWorld Telecom believes in giving back to the community, and that translates directly into volunteering hours for everything from house-building to helping out in schools. BetterWorld’s Ali Gunertem volunteered this past week at Hope Montessori School.”It was fun to help the youth at Hope Montessori School and interact with them and their parents, while helping the faculty of the school,” he said.... -
BetterWorld Celebrates Earth Day Building Green Houses with Habitat for Humanity in Oakland
As part of Habitat for Humanity’s 2011 Earth Day Build-a-Thon, some of BetterWorld’s team was on hand for executive build day. We were joined by executives from many of the Bay area’s leading companies including Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Coldwell Banker, Chevron and Cisco. Habitat for Humanity is an extraordinary non-profit organization building simple, decent, affordable housing and organizing myriad events and opportunities for volunteers to have a hand in the process alongside Habitat families.... -
Leading the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs: Ashoka’s Youth Venture
The BetterWorld team is so excited to be on the ground floor of Ashoka’s U.S. Youth Venture pilot in the SF Bay Area. The program, led by ED Amy Wilson, has already invested in a number of East Bay entrepreneurs and is now shifting into high gear, having just added an amazing and diverse group of changemakers to its steering committee and setting firm goals of becoming the example for other Ashoka Youth Ventures to launch in the U.... -
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Case Study: Oregon 211info H1N1 Hotline
This week we had the pleasure of presenting our case study with Oregon 211_info_ – how 211_info_ and the Oregon Department of Health quickly and efficiently created a call center in response to the H1N1 influenza epidemic, creating a model for other quick-response, temporary hotlines. In the fall of 2009, 211info and the Oregon Department of Human Services, working with BetterWorld Telecom, created a comprehensive hotline with a supervisor, a staff of 20 temporary information and referral agents, continually updated information, partners in nurse triage and clinic support offices, and administrative help from 211info.... -
BALLE 2010 National Conference
If you have been following the BetterBlog over time, you know of our total commitment to helping build local living economies, especially through the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). As a number of the BetterWorld contingent were in attendance at the BALLE national conference last week in Charleston, SC, and our unified opinion is that BALLE is truly a force to be reckoned with in North America and the world – the conference was truly amazing and all the local and national staff, volunteers and .... -
BetterWork in DC w FCC � The Wilderness Society
Yesterday we had great meetings with both the Federal Communications Commission and The Wilderness Society, discussing BetterWork concepts and benefits for both the greater good and for individual organizations. We have been invited to participate in the FCC’s ongoing Workshop Series , which is bringing forward information and specific areas of focus, culminating in the National Broadband Plan.... -
Harvin Clarendon County Library
BetterWorld’s own Gloria Costa was out giving back to the community this week. Reading “Arthur Writes a Story” to children and parents at the local library in South Carolina. Joe Londaree was also in attendance to help out and support the event. The Story Time program takes place on Wednesdays and lasts for 5 weeks every summer.... -
Education AND Fun at the Library
BetterWorld gives back to the community at The Harvin Clarendon County Library, in Manning, South Carolina. The library provides both education and recreational activities for kids of all ages. During the summer school break, youth can attend “Story Time” sessions, take art lessons, and make use of the many free library services offered (including DVD’s, Videos, Internet training, and others).... -
Craiglist Foundation Bootcamp
“Imagine 1500 passionate people gathering together to change the world. That’s Boot Camp – a fun, intensive one day gathering where people learn how to bring their ideas for stronger communities into reality.” Salem and I had the great pleasure to serve as volunteers at Craigslist Foundation’s Boot Camp last Saturday.... -
Back into the Woods With The Nature Conservancy
Late last week, many of us from the Washington, D.C. area BetterWorld team gathered in Scott’s Run Nature Preserve just outside of D.C. to continue our work ridding the area of non native species in the general George Washington Parkway National Park area. We have been working in this area with TNC for almost four years and, over the period have cleared considerable acreage.... -
1Sky and Climate Leadership NOW
On Tuesday November 11th members of the Betterworld team joined with 1Sky to help prepare for the November 18th Climate Leadership NOW rally that will take place in Washington DC. Volunteers, members and socially minded people from across the 50 states will gather on November 18th to welcome the president elect and the new congress by calling on them to make climate an immediate priority in 2009.... -
Building our Third Habitat House
The Christmas season is almost upon us, but for one family in Manning, SC, their holiday gift should be delivered a week early. Drenita and her 4 year old daughter Aniya are anxiously awaiting moving day in December when they finally get to move into their brand new home. For months, Drenita has been working right along side area volunteers, friends and family to achieve her dream.... -
Back to the Heart of America
Yesterday, most of the BetterWorld team spent part of the day helping out at the Heart of America Foundation – packing up and readying boxes of books to be delivered to kids around the country. We continue to support the Heart of America Foundation as they cross two of our three main support pillars: children and education.... -
Food � Friends Needs Your Help
As part of our regular quarterly meeting team day – most of the BetterWorld staff could be found earlier this week delivering meals all over the Northeast section of Washington, DC. As part of our regular volunteer work with Food & Friends, driving meals to those in need, struck down by chronic illnesses is both eye opening and rewarding.... -
The BetterWorld Forest
Over the past couple of years, we have adopted a section of the George Washington Memorial Parkway (www.nps.gov/gwmp) just outside of Washington, D.C. & have been clearing invasive species on a regular basis to keep the forest along the Parkway healthy. In partnership with The Nature Conservancy (www.nature.org), what began as an insurmountable task, turning around non-native growth over acres and acres of beautiful, urban old growth forestland is now showing great signs of progress.... -
Clearing Non-Native Species with the Nature Conservancy
Late last week, most of the BetterWorld DC-area team was out in the George Washington National Parway again helping the Nature Conservancy to cut back the invasive Amur bush honeysuckle, which is Asiatic (Lonicera maackii). This shrub causes numerous problems for the native plants and wildlife in Northern Virginia. It leafs out early in the spring and holds it’s leaves into winter, shading out plants underneath for a long period of time....
