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Elizabeth Borg

Community Foundation Network | Welcome to Community Foundation Network - 0 views

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    This is the Community Foundation Network. Find your local one - they hold and distribute funds and awards eg Comic Relief and High Sheriff awards
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    The Hertfordshire one is run by David Fitzpatrick the sargeant major!!!
william doust

LEAP: A manual for learning evaluation and planning in community development - 0 views

  • LEAP: A manual for learning evaluation and planning in community development
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    community development foundation@ can you ask for the pdf? this is a guide to developing communities and empoering them into partnserships and action. I gather from skimming blurb. could be wrong
william doust

Work - Human Centered Design Toolkit - IDEO - 1 views

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    "Human Centered Design Toolkit Close For years, companies and other organizations have used Human-Centered Design to arrive at innovative business solutions. Funded by IDE as part of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and in collaboration with non-profit groups ICRW and Heifer International, IDEO relied on this approach to improve the lives of communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The resulting HCD Toolkit helps NGO staff and volunteers understand people's needs in new ways, find innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind. The free kit is divided into four sections that bolster listening skills, running workshops, and implementing ideas. The HCD Toolkit contains the elements to Human-Centered Design, a process used for decades to create new solutions for multi-national corporations. This process has created ideas such as the HeartStart defibrillator, Cleanwell natural antibacterial products, and the Blood Donor System for the Red Cross--innovations that have enhanced the lives of millions of people. This process has been specially-adapted for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and compiled into a Toolkit available for download here or for order at cost at www.blurb.com."
william doust

The Chronicle, 11/9/2006: Social Change and the Connected Age - 0 views

  • Social Change and the Connected Age
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      Social Media phenomenon harnessed for social change & charities... Please read this - as it has plenty of examples of the tide shifting to connected individuals who want active participation! - not passive purse and pocket trawling! - forward thinking charities are harnessing people's existing behavioursa and passions with social media.
  • Connectedness does not come from technology but is facilitated and strengthened by it. The greatest challenge for nonprofit organizations and their leaders in the connected age is recognizing that using social-media tools is easy compared with adopting a new mindset for social change. Today, nonprofit groups are part of a larger network or ecosystem of people, organizations, resources, and information. Relying on old-fashioned, top-down management approaches for setting activist agendas and designing fund-raising and volunteering efforts will lead inevitably to disappointing results. Power is shifting from institutions to individuals throughout society. We have seen what happens when people can barter and sell goods without a middleperson on eBay, and when we can watch what we want, when we want, through YouTube. The same sorts of shifts are happening quietly in the nonprofit world. Anyone can create and post a video of what they think their Congressional representatives do all day as part of the "Congress in :30 Secs" campaign organized by the Sunlight Foundation. Volunteers can document the connections between campaign contributions and legislation as part of the Genocide Intervention Network. Donors can pick a school and a specific project to support as part of the DonorsChoose Web site. Successful connected-age organizations are those that facilitate broadly representative networks of social activists — not necessarily organizations with the biggest membership lists or the most money in their coffers. These days, young people, in particular, are not likely to join behemoth membership organizations. Instead, they go online to express their views and instantly connect with individuals and communities interested in their issues and concerns. They also self-organize for social action as so many did in joining the immigration marches last spring.
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    INSPIRATIONAL - ABOUT THE SHIFT OF POWER TO THE NETWORK: not passive participants. It's like the "coming of the angels" CLP - from the real world to the virtual world. B-INSPIRED ;0) My lovely charity chums
Elizabeth Borg

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation - Grants made in 2008 - Main fund - 0 views

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    Esmee Fairbairn funding
Elizabeth Borg

Welcome - cdf.org.uk - 0 views

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    Just came across this - haven't heard of them previously. Will, they are administering the hardship fund and I'm having a little dig to see if you have to hit all four areas or just one of them. I'll keep you posted.
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    thanks for this eliz ;-)
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