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Entries Tagged as 'Non profit'
Calling All Single Gloves
October 21st, 2009 by Rachel Pattisson · Comments
Tags: Environment · Non profit · Recycling · Special Occasions · Sustainability
Geoff Mulgan: Investing In A Better World
September 4th, 2009 by David Haywood Smith · Comments
In his talk from TEDGlobal 2009 Geoff Mulgan, a former Policy Director for Tony Blair, suggests we take the opportunity presented by the global economic crisis to consider a shift of focus towards investing in social innovation.
Tags: Economics · Lovely People · Non profit · Venture Philanthropy
Social Media Changing the Non-Profit World
May 24th, 2009 by David Haywood Smith · Comments
There was a great post on Mashable a couple of days ago about how social media is changing the non-profit world by:
Deepening relationships and engagement
Allowing individuals & small groups to self-organise
Facilitating collaboration and crowdsourcing
Being adopted behind the scenes
The optimistic conclusion:
As more and more non-profits adopt social media and their practice improves over time, we will [...]
Tags: Non profit
Translating TED
February 16th, 2009 by David Haywood Smith · Comments
“Five years ago, an amazing teacher or professor with the ability to truly catalyze the lives of his or her students could realistically hope to impact maybe 100 people each year. Today that same teacher can have their words spread on video to millions of eager students.”
- Chris Anderson, TED Curator (source)
The organisers of the [...]
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TED 2009: First Talks Emerge
February 13th, 2009 by David Haywood Smith · Comments
Last week was TED week in Long Beach, California. The conference (which we’ve written about before) gives the stage to some of the most fascinating people from around the world to talk for twenty minutes about any topic close to their heart. The talks are then published online, free for all to watch.
The [...]
Tags: Charities · Happiness · Lovely People · Non profit · Philanthropy
Lovely Dave McClure
October 20th, 2008 by David Haywood Smith · Comments
Behind lovely companies there are lovely people… Dave McClure is a Silicon Valley veteran with a remarkable sense of humour. He’s been in the Valley for over 20 years, in which time he has started his own companies and worked for some big names including a pre-IPO Paypal. He’s now an advisor and [...]
Tags: GSOH · Lovely People · Non profit
Have you heard of TED?
October 13th, 2008 by David Haywood Smith · Comments
One thing that makes a company lovely is sharing knowledge. There are few organisations out there that share knowledge quite as well as TED. TED is an annual conference held in Long Beach, California (and now across the globe). As a conference it is both exclusive and expensive, however the organisers have started [...]
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Microlending at Kiva
October 10th, 2008 by David Haywood Smith · Comments
I first came across Jessica Flannery of Kiva.org when she spoke at Thinking Digital earlier this year. The success of Kiva is a truly inspiring story and the project has had a significant impact on many small businesses in developing countries across the world. Check out this video of Jessica and her co-founder [...]
Tags: Microfinance · Non profit