Entries for August 14 2006
Things Are Going To Change
(WORLD) At the end of next month Phatgnat will be 2 years old. The Phatgnat Youth Report 2005 has currently been downloaded 3,000+ times—wow. The Phatgnat (web)log gets 1,000+ unique visitors a day—hello! The Phatgnat Fortnightly Bulletin mailing list has 700+ subscribers—nice. Things are about to change… This year,…
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Philanthro-tainment
(WORLD) Philanthro-what? Phatgnat friend and fellow blogger Joe over on Selfish Giving is attempting to coin and develop the term Philanthro-tainment as an explanation of how he works. Here's what he means: It's not straight philanthropy because giving isn't the only goal. But it's also not just entertainment because…
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Lego Builds
(US) Another Phatgnat friend, Christian over at think:lab comes across this story—Lego partnering with a university to encourage science and maths take-up. Robin Shoop, director of the Robotics Academy at Carnegie Mellon: The goal here is using the motivational effects of robots to excite more children to pursue careers…
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Youth Enterprise
(UK) Young Enterprise is hosting a summer school pilot project for 'enterprising teenagers'—(which I blogged about back in June 2005?). Michael Savory, chief executive of Young Enterprise, says: We hope we can persuade the government to give, but we can't rely only on [that] - I hope business will…
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The Same Old Question
(WORLD) Mallen Baker takes on the age-old question of 'what is the business case for CSR'?…
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