Rady - Innovative Disruptions - Kian Salehizadeh - March 21, 2018

One Spirit - October 3, 2017. Nonprofit, Everybody Solar, Raises Funds to Power the Youth Center.

In traditional Lakota cosmology, Wi is one of the most powerful deities: the sun god. Wi is associated with bravery, endurance, courage and truth, among other attributes.

In a sense, we of One Spirit feel we are suddenly receiving a sort of smile of support from Wi that promises to benefit the Allen Youth Center and the entire Oglala Lakota. It comes in the form of an offer of help from another non-profit, Everybody Solar, which is dedicated to helping other non-profits get solar power installations to both save money and help save the environment.

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Zubin Segal - Clean Power Marketing Group - August 29, 2017

As the renewable energy industry, specifically solar, gains traction among the residential and commercial markets, a frequent topic of conversation is, “How can a nonprofit organization take advantage of solar energy?”

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Who’s doing it well: Everybody Solar

Everybody Solar, based out of California but operating nationally, creates customized fundraising strategies to meet the unique fiscal challenges of its nonprofit partners. In the same way each solar project is different, so are the mission and goals of the nonprofits – and Everybody Solar understands this.

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Disruptor Daily - August 21, 2017.

The US alone uses an exorbitant amount of energy, most of which comes from resources that are not sustainable and are touted to impact climate change. At the same time, the systems that we run require some form of power now that computers run everything from banking to email to utilities and everything between and beyond.

At the same time, access to power is creating a divide between the modern world and more rural areas that do not have access to electricity in the same way, which limits opportunities for employment and education.

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Matt Brown - Argus-Courier - June 22, 2017

Petaluma, CA - The Committee on the Shelterless is getting free solar panels at one of the Petaluma veteran’s homes it operates, a project that is expected to save the nonprofit money while helping reduce carbon emissions.

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Solar Industry Magazine - December 3, 2015 - by Nora Caley - Advocates Hope The COP21 Talks Produce Concrete Results For Solar

Paris, FR – Some renewables advocates are already pleased with the positive results from the United Nations Climate Change Conference under way in Paris. The event, also known as the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21), may be in full swing, but some industry experts say some of the work has been done already – and that bodes well for solar.

...[...]... ‘I hope it will have a large impact in terms of government investment, looking at different ways to reduce barriers and red tape,’ says Youness Scally, executive director of Everybody Solar, based in Santa Cruz, Calif. ‘That's one of the largest things government can do.’

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Foundation Beyond Belief - December 21, 2016 - Special to FBB from Everybody Solar

We, at Everybody Solar, work to provide solar energy to do-gooders – aka other non-profits that help their communities. It’s an honor to have been selected as Foundation Beyond Belief’s Natural World Beneficiary during the 3rd quarter of 2016.  With the support of organizations like Foundation Beyond Belief – and the many inspiring humanists behind it – we are looking forward to increasing our impact in 2017 for great local non-profits. We are dedicated to doing our collective part in addressing what may be the greatest threat humanity faces today.

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Argus-Courier - November 19, 2016 

Petaluma, CA - An expanded solar electricity system at Committee on the Shelterless' Mary Isaak Center in Petaluma will soon supply most of the facilitiy's power needs, freeing funds for the homelessness-focused nonprofit to devote to other areas.

Workers were putting the finishing touches on the new 19.5-kilowatt upgrade to the existing rooftop system earlier this week, work that will roughly double the amounnt of solar power produced at the building.

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