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Cinema Jenin

For the past few days we had Marcus Vetter, an award-winning documentary film director, staying with us and visiting betterplace. It’s been a great time, with little sleep and much talk, many meetings resulting in a number of creative ideas. What is a film director doing on betterplace? Well, Marcus latest film, Heart of Jenin, [...]
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Trends in giving

Today I once again visited Philanthropy UK, “the leading resource for free and impartial advice to aspiring philanthropists who want to give effectively.” Here are their 10 trends in (British) philanthropy: 1. Private wealth is increasing There has been a dramatic increase in the number of wealthy individuals as well as a shift in source [...]
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Bingo Night!

Playing online bingo is like stepping into the world of Narnia – a cyber world of chance and unusual acquaintances. Users go by names such as “Cherry” and “Brightstar”, they speak in code and simultaneously by tickets, play bingo, chat and “share the love” each time they donate their winnings to charity! bingos.co.uk have a [...]
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CSR at betterplace.org – electronical greenwashing or useful strengthening of social engagements?

A discussion which arises in our  team from time to time again, is about which corporations we should be working together with at betterplace. User also join in the discussion: this a few weeks ago we had one woman, responsible for a project on betterplace asking us to remove it, as she refused to share the same [...]
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betterplace designers in Monocle

Part of my summer reading is the summer edition of Monocle, Tyler Brulés latest magazine. It wasn’t exactly that I had expected to come across anything betterplace, but there it was: In an article featuring Berlin (sorry, for subscription only) as the global cultural capital, I saw a photo of Noa Lerner, „an Israeli student at [...]
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