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Exciting Social Enterprise Group I met at the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Raja is a seasoned business executive with senior level experience in multinationals (Coca-Cola, B&W/BAT, BOC Group, Societe Generale) in Europe, Asia and in multiple Middle East/North African countries (MENA), as an entrepreneur and as Managing Director of one of the oldest retail groups in the MENA region.

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Great reads from around the web on October 25th

Amy Sample Ward

" Local Philanthropy Playground | Local Philanthropy Playground – "The Local Philanthropy Workshop (LPW), developed by the Odorheiu Secuiesc Community Foundation and TechSoup Global with the support of the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe, first took place between August 31 and September 4, 2010.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

While mobile fundraising has been widely used in the UK and Europe, it has struggled to take off in North America. The Haiti earthquake, the economy, increasing technology adoption rates, and other factors will heavily influence online giving in 2010 and beyond.

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Online Giving Trends from 2009 and the Haiti Earthquake

NTEN

While mobile fundraising has been widely used in the UK and Europe, it has struggled to take off in North America. The Haiti earthquake, the economy, increasing technology adoption rates, and other factors will heavily influence online giving in 2010 and beyond.

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The Living Library: Using Our Institutions as New Models for Civic Dialogue

Museum 2.0

Feminists, Disabled People, Muslims, Police, Goths, Gays) Readers, who check out the Books for 45-minute to 2-hour discussions Librarians, who facilitate the whole process Since 2000, Living Libraries have been produced primarily in Europe at festivals and libraries with support from the Council of Europe youth sector. well, you know.

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Have Fun - Do Good

The people of the space really do have a lot of influence and can add a lot of benefit. There are coworking spaces being started up in Europe and even I think in -- I'm not sure if it has hit Africa yet, but I know that, especially all across U.S. We had a little board room and we had desks to work out of, and it was really productive.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

My TechSoup Global colleague in Warsaw, Anka Kuliberda, reports that the biggest nonprofit tech story in Europe this past year were the anti-ACTA riots in several countries and also the Open Knowledge Festival. I hope she's right.

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