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April 15, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

“It is not about what makes you/me feel good, it is about doing something for the people that at the moment have nothing.” Jayson Bryant, Gianpaolo Grazioli. I recently had the pleasure of meeting Jayson Bryant, one of the great people behind this year’s most delicious outreach for Haiti – Charity Sorbet. The Winevault and Giapo are fundraising […]

“It is not about what makes you/me feel good, it is about doing something for the people that at the moment have nothing.” Jayson Bryant, Gianpaolo Grazioli. I recently had the pleasure of meeting Jayson Bryant, one of the great people behind this year’s most delicious outreach for Haiti – Charity Sorbet. The Winevault and Giapo are fundraising …

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Filed Under: Causes, Community, Creativity, Non-profits Tagged With: charity sorbet, fundraising, Haiti, non-profits

April 8, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

View more presentations from Simon Mainwaring. Here are my slides from Connect Now in Sydney today. The topic is: “How Non-profits think like For Profits”. I’m sharing these here because I want the seminar to be a creative exchange rather than a lecture. To that end I’ve collected a lot of examples of best practices in the social …

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Filed Under: Brands, Causes, Non-profits, Social Tagged With: Brands, non-profits, Social media

April 2, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

This is the final instalment of my chat with Lawrence Chickering and Safeena Husain of EGG. Part 1 focused on what they do and how they are achieving their amazing results. Part 2 addressed community mobilization and the roles of parents, children and teachers. Here we discuss to truly transformational nature of their work, the …

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Filed Under: Causes, Community, Non-profits Tagged With: Causes, Education, non-profits

March 18, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

One of the highlights of my recent trip to Doha was the chance to work with people like Lawrence Chickering and Safeena Husain, the founder and Executive Director (respectively) of Educate Girl Globally (EGG) that is revolutionizing schooling and the opportunities for young women in India. Here Lawrence and Safeena take us through the exciting …

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Filed Under: Causes, Community, Non-profits Tagged With: Education, non-profits

October 29, 2009 by Simon Mainwaring

Jesse Dylan is speaking today at TEDMED discussing his new healthcare non-profit, Lybba. It just received a coveted NIH grant and has enormous potential to transform the healthcare experience for millions of people around the world. Here’s a sneak peak at Lybba.

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Filed Under: Non-profits, Philanthropy, Videos Tagged With: Lybba, Non-profit organization, non-profits, TEDMED

September 23, 2009 by Simon Mainwaring

For the last few weeks I’ve been working on the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s ‘I Participate’ campaign. Having worked with several non-profits, I’ve found they face a similar challenge. While raising awareness for a cause, issue or initiative was vital, getting people to actually do something was the real challenge. It’s been my experience that raising …

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Filed Under: Non-profits, Philanthropy, Social Tagged With: Global Green, non-profits, Social media

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