#charity (39 links)
- What happened to the microfinance company Kiva? technologyreview.com
One morning in August 2021, as she had nearly every morning for about a decade, Janice Smith opened her computer and went to Kiva.org, the website of the San…
- The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism newyorker.com
- The Edinburgh Clothing Store - The Edinburgh Clothing Store edinburghclothingstore.org
- OpenCollective - A New Form of Association, Transparent by Design opencollective.com
How it works Discover Blog Login A new form of association, transparent by design Open your finances to your community What is an open collective? A group of…
- Backwards Mapping and Connecting Outcomes | Theory of Change Community theoryofchange.org
After the first step of laying out the long-term goals and a simple change framework, comes a more detailed stage of the mapping process. Building upon the…
- Earn Nectar points and help out by donating your used goods to Oxfam shopperpoints.co.uk
Until we moved last year, we had an Oxfam shop at the top of our road (photo below). We often used to drop off second hand items there, especially as our…
- Welcome to Believe.in believe.in
Finding the ad-agency-heavy board of advisers a little off-putting.
Via jamesholloway.
- The Power of Proxy Activism davidbrin.com
Proxy Power is the uniquely convenient -- but seldom discussed -- ability of a modern person to participate in activism... helping to change or improve the world... by the simple expedience of joining some group that is vigorously pursuing that part of your personal agenda. In other words, you add both your membership dues and the political impact of your membership, in order to get behind people who are striving to save the world for you.
A beginning, not an end.
- Giving What We Can givingwhatwecan.org
- Hundreds Climb BT Tower For Cancer Charity | Londonist londonist.com
- 1% for the Planet | Home onepercentfortheplanet.org
- Furniture Re-use Network frn.org.uk
The national body which supports, assists and develops charitable re-use organisations across the UK. We do this to reduce poverty by helping households in need access furniture, white goods and other household items at affordable prices.
When taking part in a challenging event (anything from a marathon to a school scoot-athon), rather than inviting friends, family and work mates to sponsor you by donating money, through JustSaving you will be able to ask for sponsorship in the form of actions.
- Akoha ~ Come Play It Forward akoha.com
The world’s first social reality game where you can earn points by playing real-world missions with your friends. Missions might include giving someone your favorite book, inviting a friend for drinks, or buying a friend some chocolate.
- No Man’s Blog - This Book Will Be Famous (I hope) no-mans-blog.com
Great idea. "It’s a little social experiment that is best described as Pass the Parcel, meets Six Degrees of Separation, meets Message in a Bottle. Every person who receives this book leaves a trace on the next available page [then] they will send the book to the most famous person they know personally. Once we get the book from the last famous person, we’ll auction it on ebay and donate all the money to the NSPCC."
- Orange RockCorps orangerockcorps.co.uk
You give 4 hours of your time to your community, and you Get Given 1 ticket to a gig featuring the best acts around. You can't buy a ticket. You have to earn this ticket.
- Software Company Ditches AdWords for... Kiva? - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Brilliant.
- Law 37 - making Sleeper Cell, an alternate reality game for Cancer Research UK law37.com · Archived on
An alliance of creative folk - game designers, coders, writers - working together to create pro bono, pro-social games.
- Be Good paulgraham.com
Either businesses aren't supposed to be like charities, and we've proven by reductio ad absurdum that one or both of the principles we began with is false. Or we have a new idea.
The list below is designed to help you find new ways to give online and to make sure your money is going to a place that will really help those in need.
- Causes On Facebook Launches techcrunch.com
With Agape, users can create causes, take donations, and recruit members. Whenever someone creates a cause or joins one, it shows up in their news feed for their friends to see.
- The Landmark Trust | Homepage landmarktrust.org.uk
The Landmark Trust is a charity founded in 1965 that rescues and restores historic buildings at risk and gives them a new life by offering them for holidays
Stop reading blogs and Digg posts and take a minute to save the world using these ten sites.
- Change.org change.org
A social network for hundreds of social causes and over 1 million nonprofit organizations.
A scheme that rewards smaller and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that set up Payroll Giving with grants of up to £500.
- IT For Charities: Software, Hardware, Services & IT Directory for UK Charities itforcharities.co.uk
- do-it.org.uk: volunteering opportunities do-it.org.uk
Search through almost 70,000 volunteering opportunities and apply online.
- Sustrans Home sustrans.org.uk
The UK's leading sustainable transport charity
Re~Cycle's mission is to collect and ship second hand bicycles and parts to Africa.
- Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Getting your goat guardian.co.uk
It was the feelgood Christmas gift of choice last year - a goat delivered in the name of a loved one to a poor family in the developing world. But what happened next? Aida Edemariam went in search of the charity goats
- we are what we do wearewhatwedo.org
We’re here to change the world (just a small thing then) and have fun while we’re doing it. We believe that each of us has the power to make a difference, and if enough of us believe this, then together we can change the world.
- Rough Guide to a Better World roughguide-betterworld.com
The essential guide to how the world can be a better place for everyone. Poverty in the developing world is well known, but less publicised are the efforts of those who combat hunger, disease and illiteracy. This guide shows how you can get involved.
- British Red Cross - British Red Cross launches emergency appeal redcross.org.uk
In response to the widespread flooding caused by a massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra.