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Invitation to Cinema Jenin. An evening at the Humboldt Viadrina School of Governance

betterplace.org in cooperation with the German-Arabian Friendship Society (DAFG) has the pleasure to invite to an evening devoted to CINEMA JENIN!.  The topic of the evening, part of the DAFG series „Is Peace in the Middle East Possible?” is How can culture contribute to peace?  The event will take place on Monday, 22nd of June, 7 [...]
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„real people, real needs“ – Tomorrow is World Refugee Day

A refugee is a person, „who owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or [...]
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2.6. Join our Presentation at betterplace.org

Noa Lerner and Holger Schmitz will be presenting their work on the sanitation project for the bottom of pyramid market, which we started a year ago together with the WTO. You are all welcome to join us in our office. Just drop us a note, i.e. write a comment below.
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Server Down – Social Giving Up

Certainly, we do not want to invite webmaster to shut down their server. But in the event that an online platform has to go offline for maintenance, system administrators may now enable their visitors to do good using betterplace.org in the meantime. Simply include the following banner: Of course, the banner can be linked to [...]
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„World Oceans Day“

Today, on June 8th, 2009, we’are celebrating the first official World Oceans Day themed „one ocean, one climate, one future“. Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, several countries celebrate this day annualy, but, however, its official designation by the United Nations took until December 5th, 2008. [...]
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The magic of transparency

Since the beginning of this year, as we started actively approaching aid organizations to present their work on betterplace, I have had many conversations with fundraisers and project managers. In these discussions I am trying to find out how to improve the  interface between betterplace.org and organisations of differend sizes, from small grassroots initiatives to [...]
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