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American Philanthropy Review has launched Boards, its 16th CharityChannel discussion forum for the nonprofit sector.

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Third Sector magazine is seeking nominations for this year's awards for Britain's Most Admired Charities.

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Sporting first aid retail website firstaid4sport.co.uk is donating huge tubs of petroleum jelly to the long distance walking teams in Oxfam's 100km 2005 trailwalker event. The teams will rub the jelly on sensitive parts of their bodies, which are known to suffer during gruelling, long distance walks.

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Six months on from the tsunami disaster and 92% of young people are crying out to do more for charity, according to national youth initiative Giving Nation.

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The Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG), set up in the 1960s to address poverty and help redress the problem of the rich world off loading inappropriate technology onto the poor world, has today been renamed Practical Action.


The charity believes that its new name will help it communicate to a wider audience because it better reflects its mission.
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From today social enterprise organisations can choose a different method of corporate registration, the "Community Interest Company".

Governed by the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 and the Community Interest Company Regulations, the Community Interest Company (CIC), is a new form of company for nonprofit organisations.
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Battersea Dogs Home has today changed its name to Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. The change officially marks the work that the Home does for the lost and abandoned cats in its care.

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National voluntary sector umbrella bodies throughout the UK are calling on European Union (EU) leaders to ensure that when the EU budget for the next seven years is agreed, it will not dramatically cut the levels of funding to the UK voluntary and community sector.

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Writing in the US Council of Foundations' newsletter, Kathleen P. Enright calls on grantmaking foundations to break out of their silos and actively seek feedback from the organisations whom they fund.

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