I just wanted to mention a link I received in an email from a Friends of the Earth staffer. It leads you to a very simple and clear page setting out the different ways individuals can support FOE. Great example of the under rated problem of how to convert all those fresh and exciting new online relationships into active support.
Have a look:
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"It takes courage to change…" Social Cohesion in Dudley and Youtube
What does is take to build and nourish social cohesion? I’ve often thought the term itself has been twisted over the past year, from an expression of a neighbourhood at ease with itself to a poor short hand for tackling extremism, including home grown terror of a variety of political, religious and philosophical hues.
Tomorrow four Whitehall advisers will be in Dudley to get a better picture of how the community tackles extremism in the borough. One thing they will see is this short video we’ve produced to try and capture some of the essence of the Dudley approach.
Beth Kanter on online fundraising plus widgets and a simple pdf guide – a new podcast on the Grassroots Channel
Beth Kanter of the Sharing Foundation explains how they used the internet to raise $100,000 for children in Cambodia. I’ve known Beth through blogging for a few months now, but finally met her in Birmingham earlier this month.
She is an expert on the internet and non-profit organisations and in this podcast she talks about how you combine online tools such as widgets with the power of your networks, whether real or virtual, to encourage people to give money to support to your cause. She also writes about how they raised the money here on her blog and an earlier experiment with ChipIn here. Read more
Altruism & the Brain: Why Charities Should Excel at the Social Web
The BBC The Guardian and others (here, here, here) have written about research at Duke Medical Centre which suggests researchers have found the part of the brain responsible for altruism. I just want to digest this with two things in mind: other ways to understand the research and why these things might mean charities and non profit groups are brilliantly equipped to make best use of the social web….