High5

More than 2600 Projects and over 2,5 Million Euros in donations- but most importantly over 30 000 active supporters! We all deserve a great High-five! Hier you can see how to do it – but also what you should be aware of: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMRY2N6s2I] Please leave us a comment and let us know why you think [...]
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From zero to 10,000 in 30 years

Wolfgang Buchner doesn’t talk much; he acts. When he was 24 years old, the trained water technician travelled to Bolivia in 1980 to develop a simple-technology for drilling wells. It was a success. The method became established and already 10,000 of the affordable and easily-attained wells have been built throughout Latin America. The wide reach [...]
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You can’t outrun a mosquito – but you CAN hide.

Online volunteers of Nabuur.com combat malaria through social networks A thousand-mile journey starts with a single step, they say. In this case, a journey spanning the globe starts with a click as Emmanuel, an agricultural Engineer from Uganda, logs onto Nabuur.com. Soon after posting his message – a request for help outlining his mission to [...]
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The betterplace.org and FLIP video contest

So, you always wanted to show your supporters how you are changing the world with your betterplace project? Now’s the chance, with the betterplace.org and FLIP video contest. Not only do we provide a FLIP camera to get the job done, but we will also premiere the best film and provide professional consultation to help [...]
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the story of bottled water

Distilled facts on bottled water: An estimated 200 billion water bottles are consumed globally each year. Only 1 in 5 bottles are recycled. (The other 4 contribute to the 300 billion pounds of waste from plastic water bottles). 40% of bottled water is bottled tap water, sold at up to 10,000 times the price of [...]
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Ratz, Chad and the Elbe

Last summer Heinz Ratz re-imagined the triathlon. His triune discipline: swim, music and inform. The 42-year-old German musician is currently hard at work swimming 15 to 20 kilometres through German rivers before going ashore to give a concert and raise awareness for the protection of the water ways. The rivers are plagued by dredging, canalisation [...]
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The System Theory of Merry-Go-Rounds

I just finished reading a book about system theory. People, businesses, thermostats: everything is a system. Even if one was to take apart a system component by component and see how they’re all connected, it wouldn’t be possible to exactly predict the future. But it is possible to predict the unexpected, to ask the question: [...]
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Detour! How the money for a project ended up with the neighbouring village

Sometimes social projects do not develop according to plan because fluctuations in prices, politics or simply the weather are unpredictable. Just the same applies to projects on betterplace: One always has to expect that donations may need to be used differently than originally planned. The great thing about betterplace.org is, however, that thanks to the [...]
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Talking Pictures

The betterplace LAB has now placed another Hamburg Media School production online. It is a Slidecast, a Power Point presentation that anyone can post online with an overlaying audio text. This Slidecast presentation deals with the potential of using social media for online fundraising. Which platforms offer which services to raise awareness for an organisation? [...]
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