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Credit where credit is due

  What is the Women's Carbon Standard ? by WOCAN Our latest brief from WOCAN (Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management) was to create a video that explains simply and clearly the newly established Women’... More

May 02, 2013 by Lucy Ellwood-Russell

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Brand Influence

When Aung San Suu Kyi visited Bangkok last week, the first time out of Myanmar in 24 years, a full schedule awaited her.  In addition to her much anticipated address at the World Economic Forum on East Asia, the newly elected opposition leader m... More

June 11, 2012 by David Robinson

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New ADB website to promote the Environment Operations Center

The Greater Mekong Subregion Environment Operations Center (GMS EOC), a multi-donor conservation program launched by the Asian Development Bank, came to QUO in need of a stronger online brand presence. They required a website that would help raise th... More

June 07, 2012 by David Robinson

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What social media can and cannot do for non-profits

An interesting article in THE ECONOMIST looks at the opportunities for fundraising through social media. Rather than looking at social media as a direct fundraising tool in itself, charities would be better to think of Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, ... More

January 09, 2012 by David Robinson

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GetUp!

GetUp! is an Australian non-government organization that campaigns online to give Australians a greater voice in political decision-making. It regularly emails supporters, now more than half a million, to sign petitions, turn up at rallies, write to ... More

November 30, 2011 by David Robinson

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Hungry for video

Sir Ken Robinson, in the opening lines of his follow-up TED Talk in 2010, joked with his audience that people all over the world had "a hunger of videos of me." And right he was. Sir Ken's first talk, "Schools Kill Creativity", has been viewed a sta... More

November 10, 2011 by David Robinson

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A propensity to give

"Giving time or money voluntarily to help others is seen by sociologists as a marker of cohesiveness in a society."... The opening lines in The World Giving Index 2010 report, and interesting reading it makes too. The annual report prepared by the C... More

October 20, 2011 by David Robinson

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Urban acupuncture: skateboarding in Kabul

Cameron Sinclair describes Architecture for Humanity, an NGO he started with $700 and a website back in 2001, not as a charity but as a social enterprise. His team of architects are paid professional rates by donors, and work with communities as thei... More

October 13, 2011 by David Robinson

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