Tag Archives: cause business accelerator

The Gold Standard

Adbongo is going gold. That’s right, we’re ditching paper for the shiny, sparkly stuff. Why? The answer is simple: the value of gold is increasing while the purchasing value of fiat currency is decreasing. Plus, gold can’t be counterfeited, it’s not so easy to burn, and it can be molded into a sculpture of a [...]

Greg Vaughn, Charitable Foundations

Greg Vaughn is the president of Greg Vaughn & Associates (GVA), an organization development practice with key competencies in organization management, communications, and fundraising. GVA is affiliated with a network of seasoned business executives with the ability to drive revenue growth and enhance key business relationships.  Current and former clients include the Texas Green Chamber [...]

There is little time to WASTE

The zero waste mission is the light that will illuminate the nationwide transition to a more sustainable way to interact with the earth’s resources. What do we mean when we say “zero waste”? To put it simply, zero waste refers to processes cities put in place- recycling, reusing materials, composting, creating new products from “mined” [...]

Rainmaker

Peter Strople, Rainmaker

We are pleased to announce the most recent addition to our board of advisors:  Peter Strople. Peter is regarded by many as one of the most connected people in North American business circles and is considered one of the world’s great “Rainmakers.” He calls on a dream list of Global business, organizational, and political leaders [...]

Green Tenants Wanted

Adbongo, Inc’s cause business accelerator is open for business.  Our facility located in Farmers Branch has begun the conversion to space ship, adding recycling, L.E.D lighting and water catchment in addition to soon-to-be-installed solar panels.  Our march towards sustainability has been a gradual one as it must be for most of us. Now, we’re happy [...]

Organic Business Development

You can apply permaculture to a garden, your life, or your business. Adbongo applies permaculture principles to the development of cause driven ventures that adhere to a triple bottom line:  people, planet, profit.  We call this process:  ”Organic Business Development”. Permaculture Prime directive: The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own and [...]

Sustainable Investing

Investment portfolios in a functional economy

{EAV_BLOG_VER:83a7aef17dcdc492} We at Adbongo are excited by the latest report regarding socially responsible investing (SRI), and we thought we’d spread the news.  Lately, reading the papers hasn’t exactly been a joyful experience, so we’re happy to share a study that paints an optimistic picture of the state of human consciousness. The Social Investment Forum Foundation’s [...]

Resource Efficiency Consulting

Steve Mangum, On Demand CLO

Our Communications Coach and Chief Listening officer, Steve Mangum, transforms communication and creates teams for our clients’ projects. Creating context for organizations and their causes, Steve helps each develop a clear vision to help them achieve their goals. “With clarity comes velocity!” says Steve.  As a coach and consultant for the development of Adbongo’s “clean [...]

Bill Ford, Business Navigator

Bill is a Visiting Assistant professor in Communication Design at the University of North Texas where he teaches classes in graphic design and advertising strategy. He has served as Executive-in-Residence at the Temerlin Advertising Institute at Southern Methodist University, and also teaches graduate classes in the MFA program at Texas A&M University-Commerce at the downtown Dallas campus.

Prior to joining Adbongo, Ford was a Creative Director for Luminant Worldwide, an Internet solutions company, where he served as Creative Director for clients such as aa.com (American Airlines), hilton.com (Hilton Hotels), and containerstore.com (The Container Store) to name a few. At Luminant, he was directly responsible for