Philantropy or Social Investment? (From the Piooner Post)

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Georgina Symons-Jones at CAF Venturesome considers whether social investment, philanthropy or something in between is the best way to give.

GLOBAL VOLUNTEERING CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY: VOLUNTEERING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

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IAVE, THE International Association for Volunteer Effort, is organizing the 24th IAVE World Volunteer Conference, hosted by Cemefi (Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía). Our theme – Volunteering for Social Change – recognizes that volunteering is a powerful way in which individual and collective actions can bring needed change to our communities, our countries and our rapidly globalizing world.

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Tevel btZedak, Nyayik Sansar-Integrated Development

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Check out this article about a great INGO and their local partner.

When the NBA really cares: Special Olympics joins the All Stars Events

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Special Olympic athletes from all over the world where in Toronto, Canada for the All Stars Game held on Sunday. This is an incredible way to promote and mainstream disability and use sports to bring change

NEPAL: Access to justice for children (CRIN)

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Still a lot of work to be done to support nepali children access to law. Find here the Nepal country report on this pioneer research conducted by Child Right International Network, CRIN

First global ranking on access to justice for children released ( PRESS RELEASE)

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CRIN, with partners, has carried out a collaborative project seeking to establish how children can access the justice system in their countries. By this we mean the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in the national law of each country around the world. European countries are in the highest positions ( https://www.crin.org)

New frontiers in social innovation research

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Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations developing social innovation strategies. Yet theory lags behind practice, and this hampers our ability to understand social innovation and make the most of its potential. T

"ONE TO ONE TUTORING" QUALITY FRAMEWORK

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Nesta in partnership with Teach First Innovation and Brightside Trust have come up with a very interesting quality framework on 1:1 tutoring and mentoring

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN ASIA? FIND RESOURCES ON LINE AT THE " CHANGE AGENCY", AUSTRALIA BASED ORGANIZATION

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The Change Agency is an independent social movement education initiative. We work with community organisers and activists in the Australia Pacific region to help people win social and environmental change.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS A THEORY OF CHANGE? A VERY GOOD SHORT GUIDE FROM NESTA

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NESTA, the premier UK based organization promoting social innovation, has prepared a very useful guide on the so called "theory of change", that is a "clear, concise, and convincing explanation of what you do, what impact you aim to have and how you believe you will have it is a vital foundation of any program". In short a theory of change is the rationale of your work and intended changes.

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