‘Give a village’ challenge to rich donors - Times Online

‘Give a village’ challenge to rich donors - Times Online: "LAST year the fashion in philanthropy was to give a goat - now the preferred gift is a village. Rich donors are being encouraged to spend thousands of pounds funding specific projects in the Third World. In return they gain the satisfaction of knowing they have benefited a named community"

Charity Hopes To Net Benefit (from Oxford Mail)

Charity Hopes To Net Benefit (from Oxford Mail): "The online operation, launched on Friday, will run alongside traditional sales in the high street - and stores in Wallingford and Thame are the first two in the county to take part."

A web of volunteers - The Boston Globe

A web of volunteers - The Boston Globe: "At the Concord-based Jericho Road Project, which connects the expertise of white-collar suburban professionals with the needs of community-based groups in Lawrence and Lowell, e-volunteers are vital, according to executive director Dan Holin. 'There's this trend of volunteering remotely,' says Holin. 'Maybe 15 to 20 percent of our work is done that way.'"

Global laptop project raises its price again, almost double original $100 goal - International Herald Tribune

Global laptop project raises its price again, almost double original $100 goal - International Herald Tribune: "he vaunted '$100 laptop' that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers dreamed up for international schoolchildren is becoming a slightly more distant concept. Leaders of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child that was spun out of MIT acknowledged Friday that the devices would cost $188 (€136) if mass production, expected to begin this fall, were to start now. The last price the nonprofit had announced was $176 (€127); it described $100 (€72) as a long-term goal."

Nonprofits benefit from business workshop -- dailypress.com

Nonprofits benefit from business workshop -- dailypress.com: "Nonprofits benefit from business workshop The workshop encouraged nonprofit agencies not to fear ventures that would make money. BY KIM O'BRIEN ROOT | 928-6473 September 15, 2007 A

! NEWPORT NEWS - Ann Quinn wasn't sure if she would get much out of a workshop on social enterprise - a growing field that encourages nonprofits to use business concepts to help their agencies become stronger. But the acting director of the Gloucester-Mathews Free Clinic knew the workshop would be full of people exchanging ideas and knew she wanted to be a part of it. She wasn't disappointed after attending Friday's event."