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Here's blurb's book ideas as "flip books" check it out and the other stuff on blurb.

Blurb makes it easy to publish your own books with their downloadable software. The site has tons of tips and video tutorial too. And if you want you can add your own ISBN (by getting it elsewhere). The downside is that curently there is no marketing prog. to put your books on lists for other bookshops to buy your creation.- although entry level book sofware design lowers the barrier to wood be publishers - so they can join in.

"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."

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

don't give the tax from your hard earned donations to the tax man! - learn how to keep it with gift aid. This site gives you all the info and blurb. In every £ 1.00 you can get an additional £0.25.

impact of design and images in social change, politics, marketing...bit of interesting blurb

Adventure Capital Fund: Business Development Grants - 11 days (1st round) left to apply in this round! - next round in May! The Adventure Capital Fund (ACF) offers a range of investments and support to develop stable and sustainable community based enterprises.

Get some dough for your charity - check out blurb and website ;o)

Arts interventions In terms of prevention, arts programmes range from projects in Learning Support Units and Pupil Referral Units, which address the problems of non-attendance and exclusion through the arts, to participation in, for example, Youth Inclusion Programmes or Positive Activities for Young People (PAYP), aimed at reducing anti-social behaviour