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 …
VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR A COLLECTION in AID of the MS RESEARCH CHARITY at THE MALL CRIBBS CAUSEWAY near Bristol on FRIDAY 18TH and SATURDAY 19TH JANUARY 2008 The collections will take place all day on both of these days, and if you are able to help for a couple …
It’s not just government agencies which manage to lose important data. Kablenet reports that a laptop containing client information has been stolen from the car of an employee of Citizens Advice in Northern Ireland, with up to 60,000 client records. However, the data is protected by three levels of security, …
Charities and other voluntary organisations are to get the chance to use Ordnance Survey maps in web applications for non-commercial purposes. Technology Guardian reports: Ordnance Survey’s OpenSpace product is a “slippy map” interface, a piece of software that allows users to place any kind of information with a geographic reference …
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