from Reuters Alert NetSource: Christian Aid - UKFiona Cowood (fcowood@christian-aid.org)Website: http://www.globalgang.orgReuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone.Christian Aid's children's website, www.globalgang.org, has been revamped and to mark the occasion it has launched 'Gang Up On Poverty!' - a nationwide search for young, aspiring movie-makers to make a short film about what should be done to address global poverty.The competition is open to young people aged between seven and 14 and the winning entry will be shown on www.globalgang.org and displayed at the London International Gallery of Children's Art later this year. Entries need to be no longer than three minutes...
from Christian TodayCampaigners across Europe are to ask their governments to threaten to withhold funds from the World Bank unless specific changes are made to policy and practice.by Anne ThomasCampaigners across Europe will gather near the French Finance Ministry in Paris on Monday 5 March to put pressure on civil servants who are meeting there to discuss donor government’s contributions to the World Bank’s coffers.Protestors are to ask their governments to threaten to withhold funds from the World Bank unless specific changes are made to policy and practice, Christian Aid reports.Sixty NGOs from 15 countries, including Christian Aid, are urging European governments to demand that the World Bank end economic policy conditionality and phase out spending on fossil fuel operations.They...
Pledge-a-picket and mobile phone services – a couple of interesting fundraising approaches from Planned Parenthood (via the freakonomics blog).
As Trócaire go big on gender equality for Lent, here’s a reminder of their wonderful TV ad from last year.
Christian Aid get into climate change.
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from EkklesiaInternational development agency Christian Aid is launching a new campaign and fundraising initiative for March 2007 – designed especially for five to 16 year olds, and concerned to help “flush out” poverty. Almost literally.“Flush”, aimed at schools and youth groups, is about toilets and water. There are around one billion people in the world who do not have access to clean water, according to expert NGO Water Aid – which works with both religious and secular groups.Every year 6,000 children die of diseases like typhoid and cholera and from the diarrhoea such infections cause – all as a result of dirty water and inadequate toilet and washing facilities.The new Christian Aid initiative includes a competition for the ‘best-dressed school loos’ in the land in...
For the last few years, pretty much every charity I’ve spoken to has felt that response rates to direct mail appeals have been declining. People have put it down to over-mailing, emergency-fatigue, greater competition, a more selfish society or a more cynical public.
But I wonder, is it becuase we’ve all been using the wrong typeface?
To explain. I’ve been reading Colin Wheildon’s book, Type and Layout. Are You Communicating or Just Making Pretty Shapes. It’s a fantastic, empirical study of how typography, design and layout effect reader comprehension. Does you layout make it easier to understand your message, or harder?
One of the most striking findings has to do with the choice of typeface for body copy in printed materials. Wheildon’s study showed...
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To date more than 600 groups have become affiliated to ZAW. ZAW now boasts of membership of 5000 registered individuals.ZAW is well known and well regarded in Zambia. Unfortuantely, too many NGO's are 'all talk and no action.' It is tragic to hear that well funded executives of NGO's are driving around in 4x4's and living in plush houses whilst their organisations are neglected. These people tragically are the ones who know how to 'play the game' - they are the ones who effectively access funding. I am aware that ZAW has made a tremendous impact in Zambia but when Mrs Lubinda Tafira, the co-ordinator of ZAW, sort support from UK charities, including Oxfam, Christian Aid and CAFOD (three of my favourite charities incidently) she was turned down!!!Fortuantely, ZAW has had some funding, all...
To date more than 600 groups have become affiliated to ZAW. ZAW now boasts of membership of 5000 registered individuals.ZAW is well known and well regarded in Zambia. Unfortuantely, too many NGO's are 'all talk and no action.' It is tragic to hear that well funded executives of NGO's are driving around in 4x4's and living in plush houses whilst their organisations are neglected. These people tragically are the ones who know how to 'play the game' - they are the ones who effectively access funding. I am aware that ZAW has made a tremendous impact in Zambia but when Mrs Lubinda Tafira, the co-ordinator of ZAW, sort support from UK charities, including Oxfam, Christian Aid and CAFOD (three of my favourite charities incidently) she was turned down!!!Fortuantely, ZAW has had some funding, all...
To date more than 600 groups have become affiliated to ZAW. ZAW now boasts of membership of 5000 registered individuals.ZAW is well known and well regarded in Zambia. Unfortuantely, too many NGO's are 'all talk and no action.' It is tragic to hear that well funded executives of NGO's are driving around in 4x4's and living in plush houses whilst their organisations are neglected. These people tragically are the ones who know how to 'play the game' - they are the ones who effectively access funding. I am aware that ZAW has made a tremendous impact in Zambia but when Mrs Lubinda Tafira, the co-ordinator of ZAW, sort support from UK charities, including Oxfam, Christian Aid and CAFOD (three of my favourite charities incidently) she was turned down!!!Fortuantely, ZAW has had some funding, all...
To date more than 600 groups have become affiliated to ZAW. ZAW now boasts of membership of 5000 registered individuals.ZAW is well known and well regarded in Zambia. Unfortuantely, too many NGO's are 'all talk and no action.' It is tragic to hear that well funded executives of NGO's are driving around in 4x4's and living in plush houses whilst their organisations are neglected. These people tragically are the ones who know how to 'play the game' - they are the ones who effectively access funding. I am aware that ZAW has made a tremendous impact in Zambia but when Mrs Lubinda Tafira, the co-ordinator of ZAW, sort support from UK charities, including Oxfam, Christian Aid and CAFOD (three of my favourite charities incidently) she was turned down!!!Fortuantely, ZAW has had some funding, all...