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"Charities still have some time here and this isn't a crisis, but I do think in the future nonprofits are going to need to be more proactive in letting their donors know they are moving toward being green," says Ted Hart, president of Hart Philanthropic Services, a consulting group in Columbia, Md., and founder of the ePhilanthropy Foundation, in Washington, which helps nonprofit groups utilize the Internet."Nonprofits will begin to feel the demand from foundations, corporations, and individuals who will be asking questions about their green policies.They are going to be held to new environmental standards."
In an online survey of more than 300 charities that Mr. Hart conducted in May, all but 3 percent of nonprofit officials said they believed charities could have a profound impact on the environment if they took more environment-friendly steps.
Slightly more than 12 percent of survey respondents rated their organization's current green status as "excellent," while 76 percent said it was an issue they were at least beginning to explore.More than a third of the charities surveyed said they set aside time during staff meetings to discuss their organization's environmental efforts.
"For some charities it's an issue of not having a path to follow," Mr. Hart says.
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