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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Green@Home home energy audit and stewardship programs for my kids
Ways to make it better...
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Improve their marketing for broader community awareness and participation.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Hundreds of homes that have undergone the free energy audit with immediate energy (and $) savings. In a dozen schools that have participated in the online community tools to reduce carbon footprints with tremendous results. In the multiple open space preserves and watersheds that have benefited from Acterra's innovative volunteer-based restoration.
Ways to make it better...
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Aggressively expand its fundraising and awareness efforts to get the word out and the funding in.
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What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
The constant sense of empowerment, that each of us is part of the solution. That each of us can make a real difference. That community matters. And "if it ain't fun, it don't get done!"
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
Professional, caring, fun. They often have real technical and/or scientific skills that they bring to the restoration, education, or carbon reduction activities.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
Scale its current efforts to directly enable 10,000 people to reduce their carbon footprint by 10% to 100,000 people. This, in turn, would be a dramatic, region-wide success model that could be adapted and exported to other regions quickly and cheaply.
Ways to make it better...
Acterra had more funding and volunteers to scale its carbon reduction programs more aggressively. They're proven, and they're cost-effective.
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
Inadequate funding to scale the carbon reduction programs as quickly as our civilization needs them.
One thing I'd also say is that...
The leadership is outstanding and the financial management is incredibly tight (88% of all funds go to shovel-ready operating programs).
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2009