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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>100 UK groups close in on Big Green Challenge £1m</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/04/100-uk-groups-close-in-on-big-green-challenge-1m/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time has come to announce the 100-strong shortlist of UK groups competing  to earn a share of the million-pound Big Green Challenge prize fund.
The big green ideas shortlisted range from a ‘Carbon Watchers’ club to  monitor CO2 emissions in Yorkshire and a Sussex prison’s bio-fuels production  scheme, to the creation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handcrafted information from Malvern</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/04/handcrafted-information-from-malvern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I included an item in this week&#8217;s VolResource email newsletter on the government&#8217;s &#8216;Power of Information Task Force&#8217; before I had a chance to read the speech from minister Tom Watson. This amuses me for a number of reasons.
Firstly the effort that has gone in to giving web links to as many items in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty for open source sites</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/02/amnesty-for-open-source-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>volresource</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As pointed out in an email from Dan Macquillan of Internet Artizans, Amnesty International&#8217;s website is now running on the open source platforms of Drupal and CiviCRM.
I&#8217;ll add it to the CharityBlog link page of open source use by voluntary groups, but it&#8217;s getting such a  common occurrence now that a) it would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Green Challenge open for applications</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/01/big-green-challenge-open-for-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/01/big-green-challenge-open-for-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joannatidball</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Big Green Challenge from NESTA is a £1 million prize fund that challenges people to work together to develop and implement new approaches that will lead towards a 60% reduction of carbon emissions in their communities.
The Big Green Challenge is only open to not-for-profit groups.  Examples of eligible groups include community co-operatives or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteering makes top ten for 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/01/volunteering-makes-top-ten-for-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/01/volunteering-makes-top-ten-for-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>volresource</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Volunteering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An American volunteering website made Time Magazine&#8217;s Top 10 list (of websites, that is) for 2007. Link to Volunteer Match.
I saw some turn of year mentions of UK volunteer opportunities, but don&#8217;t think any sites got quite that level of recognition over here. Can anyone prove me wrong?
(Time top 10 courtesy of ephilanthropy.org)]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteers Urgently Required</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/01/volunteers-urgently-required/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/01/volunteers-urgently-required/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbit</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY REQUIRED
FOR A COLLECTION in AID of the MS RESEARCH CHARITY
at THE MALL CRIBBS CAUSEWAY near Bristol
on FRIDAY 18TH and SATURDAY 19TH JANUARY 2008
The collections will take place all day on both of these days, and if you are able to help for a couple of hours, please contact:
BRIAN PAGINGTON
on Tel: Home 01454 320141
Tel: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charity client data joins the lost pile</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/charity-client-data-joins-the-lost-pile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/charity-client-data-joins-the-lost-pile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>volresource</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not just government agencies which manage to lose important data.
Kablenet reports that a laptop containing client information has been stolen from the car of an employee of Citizens Advice in Northern Ireland, with up to 60,000 client records. However, the data is protected by three levels of security, including a high level of encryption.
Please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get your mapping think cap on</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/get-your-mapping-think-cap-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/get-your-mapping-think-cap-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>volresource</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Charities and other voluntary organisations are to get the chance to use Ordnance Survey maps in web applications for non-commercial purposes. Technology Guardian reports:
Ordnance Survey&#8217;s OpenSpace product is a &#8220;slippy map&#8221; interface, a piece of software that allows users to place any kind of information with a geographic reference over a map displayed on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real web use in the rights field</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/real-web-use-in-the-rights-field/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/real-web-use-in-the-rights-field/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>volresource</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[And while we&#8217;re on human rights, a posting on judging Best Use of the Social Web by a Nonprofit comes up with some innovative uses in the field - the use of Twitter by activists to let people know whether they&#8217;ve been arrested or disappeared and &#8220;the courageous use of YouTube by award winning blogger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Amnesty</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/open-source-amnesty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/open-source-amnesty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>volresource</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International has a &#8220;new, completely re-architected, W3C Web Content Accessibility-compliant, data protection law and privacy legislation-compliant, multi-lingual and totally open source Drupal, CiviCRM and Alfresco-based website&#8221;. That&#8217;s according to Important Projects consultancy, who had something to do with it.
Not everyone will like the bright yellow backing to headlines, but then that&#8217;s part of the [...]]]></description>
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