We’ve put off updating the web program running CharityBlog for about as long as we can. The next version has some significant changes in how categories are managed, which could be fun, and means that the design templates need updating too. Apologies for any weirdness you encounter in the next …
The time has come to announce the 100-strong shortlist of UK groups competing to earn a share of the million-pound Big Green Challenge prize fund. The big green ideas shortlisted range from a ‘Carbon Watchers’ club to monitor CO2 emissions in Yorkshire and a Sussex prison’s bio-fuels production scheme, to …
I included an item in this week’s VolResource email newsletter on the government’s ‘Power of Information Task Force’ before I had a chance to read the speech from minister Tom Watson. This amuses me for a number of reasons. Firstly the effort that has gone in to giving web links …
As pointed out in an email from Dan Macquillan of Internet Artizans, Amnesty International’s website is now running on the open source platforms of Drupal and CiviCRM. I’ll add it to the CharityBlog link page of open source use by voluntary groups, but it’s getting such a common occurrence now …
The Big Green Challenge from NESTA is a £1 million prize fund that challenges people to work together to develop and implement new approaches that will lead towards a 60% reduction of carbon emissions in their communities. The Big Green Challenge is only open to not-for-profit groups. Examples of eligible …
An American volunteering website made Time Magazine’s Top 10 list (of websites, that is) for 2007. Link to Volunteer Match. I saw some turn of year mentions of UK volunteer opportunities, but don’t think any sites got quite that level of recognition over here. Can anyone prove me wrong? (Time …
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