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How efficient is the Social Capital Market?

This summer I was contacted by David Baumhauer, a student from the Otto Beisheim School of Management in Hamburg, who was researching his Bachelor thesis on the topic “Financing of Social Entrepreneurs” and had a few questions regarding betterplace.org. David, now studying for a Masters in Finance at Erasmus University Rotterdam, was kind enough to agree [...]
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Good Practice Online Fundraising: action medeor e.V. on betterplace.org

Sometimes even larger organisations have to start from scratch. The German medical aid organisation action medeor has cared for the people in the poorest regions of the world for 45 years. Over 10,000 health clinics in 140 countries have been set up by the organisation. In 2008 alone, they distributed 360 tons of medication and [...]
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Money into the bin or to projects?

This week the first chrismas charity mailing hit my mailbox – a thick wad of postcards painted by disabled people with their feet. Also in the envelope was, of course, a bank transfer slip. What an awful waste! Because, as with 95% of all recipients, the mailing landed straight in my bin. On the same [...]
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Twende Pamoja: How one small organisation entrusted its fundraising to betterplace.org

Big gifts come in little packages -  Twende Pamoja is a prime example of this. Without their own powerful fundraising apparatus, Twende Pamoja has relied almost solely on betterplace.org to reap donations quickly and efficiently. As well as abundantly. Twende Pamoja is Kiswahili for “Let us walk together.” That’s exactly what a couple of Germans [...]
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Global Online Giving Marketplaces event, Berlin

“Our purpose is to share knowledge, connect people and drive social justice maximising human potential and care in the world” Global Online Giving Marketplaces, 6 November 2009 U2 rocked the streets of Berlin Thursday 5 November – it seemed the perfect backdrop to this years Online Giving Marketplaces event which for the first time is [...]
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