Accelerated Family Learning - Friends of Campaign4 Learning

I've just noticed Bassac has funding for involving volunteers in your organisation.

Community organisations are increasingly agents of the state, and no longer radical champions of social justice. Ruth Townsley, Voice and Impact manager, questions whether community organisations are losing their critical voice. The independent voice of the sector, the voice that challenges the 'one size fits all' policies of government, and which calls to account statutory services, the voice which connects with marginalised groups of many types to ensure they are not bypassed by the generic central government solutions, is being eroded.

If you are drawing down public funding, there has to be some agreement between funder and community organisation - otherwise why would we be given the money? I think we have to be subversive and creative, and tweak funding to fulfil our learners' needs.

Here's another inspiration for my charity chums. This YouTube Channel is for the sector. It covers some of what wie discussed, but these are big figure heads! so they have more clout than little mini-me ;o) Enjoy

Thanks, Will. This is really powerful.... and loads of tips on how to do it/building your org's prescence on YouTube....CWP - we need to register as a non-profit on YouTube. Especially as we now have Flip to help us!

Have a funding pot

Collaboration Benefits recognises the need to support the voluntary and community sector with collaboration skills. By offering training, Collaboration Benefits aims to reach organisations in the community where the awareness and skills in collaboration are most needed.

capture feedback from your community on the web. They deicide what they want, and others vote! - free.

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£1 Million Available to Support Youth Projects (UK) Young people are being given the chance to claim a share of £1 million to help tackle the dangers of drugs, crime and play a positive role in their community. The Royal Bank of Scotland Community Cash Awards will see £1 million of grants being distributed by youth charity "The Prince's Trust" to young people who want to run community projects in some of Britain's poorest areas. The Awards, worth £250 to £5,000, are available to disadvantaged 14 to 25-year-olds who want to transform their area and learn practical skills. Projects could range from improving local youth facilities to tackling teenage pregnancy or drug misuse. Projects must: · be run and managed by people between the ages of 14 and 25 · clearly benefit the local community · benefit the people running the project · be a new or developing project. Previous projects supported include; an amateur boxing project to give young people greater confidence; and a media project to promote community cohesion and greater understanding between the local community and asylum seekers. Applications can be made at any time.

The relationship we should have with those we serve.

The type of relationship to avoid with those we serve.

Discover his theories about ich-Du (I-you) and ich-es (I-it). When we become the target of true empathy, we 'feel felt' - the other person knows how we feel, and so we feel known. It is a sense of communion. This is as opposed to I-it, when we have no emotional empathy for the other person.

I've learned about Ekman's work via Daniel Goleman's 'Social Intelligence'. I want the training!

Learn what others are REALLY feeling via facial microexpressions