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• TRAID to Fight Global Poverty

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 559
  There’s a lot to learn from the cool UK example of raising funds to share the wealth. Take Oxfam , for instance, and their ethical and secondhand shops whose funds raise money for relief efforts around the globe. They do great work and offer us one-of-a-kind clothes and jewelry to die for. Another group, most ...
  16 hours ago

• Recruiting the home guard: Copenhagen activists needed in London!

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  It is a sad but true fact that not all the people who want to influence the Copenhagen climate talks happening in December get to go to that distant land.  Work, study and tight budgets mean that many people will have to stay at home throughout those all important days. However, home may well be the best place ...
  17 hours ago

• Climate change: not an either/or situation

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Copenhagen is approaching fast and it won’t be long before the Copenhagen 3 are boarding the train along with hundreds of activists from across the country. Everything’s starting to come together and I’m getting really excited both about the trip itself and all of the help and support the Copenhagen 3 have been ...
  18 hours ago

• Guitar Hero?

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Play the guitar or wish you could? Find yourself playing air guitar to your favourite tunes? Care about climate change? Then you should come along to our Guitar Wave this Saturday, 28th November in St Phillips Square (aka Pigeon Park behind House of Fraser) in Birmingham city centre at noon. We’re going to be ...
  19 hours ago

• Join the Wave in Leicester

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Leicester’s Make Poverty History group are organising a Wave in Leicester on Saturday, 28th November in order to build up momentum for the Wave in London on 5th December. People, including local MP Sir Peter Soulsby, are meeting at the clock tower/Christmas tree at 1.45pm. Wear blue or carry something blue and ...
  21 hours ago

• Arts, Briefly: Oxfam and Booksellers Agree to Plan

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  According to The Guardian, representatives from Oxfam, the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association and the Antiquarian Booksellers Association met to create a plan to help redirect business back to local secondhand booksellers.
  1 day ago

• Building Online Communities for Non Profit Organizations

  
  SGEntrepreneurs — Authority: 433
  Barcamp Singapore 4 was just over. During the event, I made a presentation on “Building Online Communities for Non-Profit Organizations”, which focus on how non-profit organizations can either leveraging on existing large social networks (for e.g. Facebook Pages for Oxfam GB/US or Causes ) or built their own to ...
  1 day ago

• Rahul Bose slams developed nations for climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Bollywood actor-activist Rahul Bose has slammed developed countries for preaching to developing nations to reduce “the use of energy sources” in order to cut down on “greenhouse gases (GHG) and carbon emissions” without practising the same.“Developed nations have enjoyed unbridled ...
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• OxFam & Wants vs. Needs

  
  3Ps in a Pod — Authority: 432
  I am really struggling with the upcoming Christmas Season.  Struggling with the needs vs. wants thing this year but not for myself, for my kids.  We have a nice roof over our heads, plenty of clothes to even be able choose what to wear on any given day, food, well, certainly not an issue and plenty of things to fill ...
  2 days ago

• OxFam & Wants vs. Needs

  
  3Ps in a Pod — Authority: 432
  I am really struggling with the upcoming Christmas Season.  Struggling with the needs vs. wants thing this year but not for myself, for my kids.  We have a nice roof over our heads, plenty of clothes to even be able choose what to wear on any given day, food, well, certainly not an issue and plenty of things to fill ...
  2 days ago

• The Climate Challenge

  
  Cultural Geography Blog — Authority: 110
  OXFAM have launched a new website called "THE CLIMATE CHALLENGE" ahead of the Copenhagen climate conference. It has a range of games and quizzes featuring celebrities (some of whom you may have heard of) and, usefully, a series of downloads which include the following things below to clutter up your blog ...
  3 days ago

• Oxfam America Unwrapped - Give a Gift with Purpose

  
  Loving Heart Mommy — Authority: 133
  Oxfam America UnWrapped - Donate for a Good CauseAbout the program:With the holidays right around the corner, thoughts inevitably turn toward the challenging task of buying gifts for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 days ago

• Gazan farmers unable to work their land in ‘buffer zone’

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 725
  Oxfam GB - UK Gazans dont want to rely on aid. They want to work on their land.
  3 days ago

• Volunteering in Prisons and Hot Baby Roy

  
  Party Down and Go Fuck Yourself — Authority: 123
  I was walking over the Ormeau Bridge last night when I bumped into Hot Baby Roy, he was telling me that he thought his idea for a pub quiz would never get off the ground and that he thought people thought he was a joke. Hed show them, Hot Baby Roy was going to rule this city one day. Hed become something important, ...
  3 days ago

• Meet your representatives online

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  Have you noticed recently that more and more politicians are using live webchats as a means to talk directly to voters? Just yesterday, Greg Clark, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, was answering questions on the Guardian Environment blog at almost the exact time that David Cameron was on ...
  3 days ago

• Your voice counts- make sure you get to the Wave!

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 435
  President Obama’s announcement this week that a binding global deal isn’t realistic at December’s Copenhagen climate change talks felt like a real blow. I was on my way to South Shields, Foreign Secretary David Miliband MP’s constituency, when I read the story. The Age of Stupid movie was being screened at the ...
  4 days ago

• Oxfams survey of Afghans: their wishes are no mystery

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 467
  An Oxfam poll of 704 randomly selected Afghans reveals untold suffering-- 1 in 5 say theyve been tortured, three quarters have been forced to leave their homes at some point in the endless civil war, 43% have had property destroyed. The survey also has what would seem to be some moderately encouraging findings ...
  4 days ago

• Artic Monkeys Vinyl Album To Benefit Oxfam

  
  The Vibe - The World According to SocialVibe — Authority: 510
  The UK band The Arctic Monkeys are the latest to contribute album sales of their new single to charity. All proceeds of the Monkeys 10-inch vinyl single of Cornerstone, the second single from their recent album Humbug, will help the fight against poverty through Oxfam. The vinyl album will also feature ...
  4 days ago

• Chinese NGOs Publish Stance On Climate Change

  
  ChinaCSR.com — Authority: 432
  Seven NGOs from China have jointly published a document in Beijing setting out their views and stance on climate change as well as their expectations for the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held Copenhagen.The document, "Chinese Civil Society on Climate Change (2009)", has been published by seven NGOs ...
  4 days ago

• Climate change photo exhibition shows peoples’ resilience

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) It was a photo exhibition on climate change, but instead of the negative impact of the phenomenon, it showcased how people in rural India are coping with changes in climate and evolving new ways to cope with it.Organised by international NGO Oxfam India, the exhibition was inaugurated Thursday ...
  4 days ago

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