PublicACTA The Wellington Declaration

I have just signed the petition endorsing the Wellington Declaration – a result of the PublicACTA conference in Wellington on Saturday.
From the PublicACTA site:
“ACTA is a controversial international treaty that impacts digital rights and is being negotiated in secret meetings. PublicACTA has been organised by InternetNZ so that the public can critique the known [...]

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Shine the spotlight on your volunteers

Celebrate, reward and recognise your fantastic volunteers by nominating them in the Intrepid Travel National Volunteer Awards.  One lucky volunteer will be off an adventure of a lifetime with Intrepid Travel.
Last year Good Magazine launched a National Volunteer Award with lead partner Intrepid Travel and in 2010 we’re stoked to be involved.
So what’s it all [...]

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Sharing our birthday presents

I’ve been baking a cake, chilling the bubbles and trying to sneak a bouncy castle into the office (that didn’t go so well).
But – the great news is that I’m going to be matching donations from today!  So…if you make a donation and share it on the Givealittle Elf Facebook page, Tweet it to me [...]

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One year on…

Givealittle.co.nz launched to the public one year ago today (cue: canned applause, green balloons, party poppers and cheap bubbly now).
The only thing that seems appropriate to reflect on today (apart from all the various ailments now present in the Givealittle office as a result of too much time in front of computers) is the growing [...]

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Otis Frizzell Ltd Edition Prints now available

Image by Givealittle via Flickr

They’ve arrived! We’re delighted with our limited edition prints of “God Bless Samoa”, in fact, it will be hard to part with them. After an action-packed painting week at Te Papa last month for Otis Frizzell, we’ve been working with our friends at Image Lab in Wellington to get prints produced. [...]

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The completed art work

What a whirlwind the last week was for Otis Frizzell. After a delivery malfunction Otis completed the 8 x 2m work at Te Papa in a speedy four days. In fact he finished just in time to have a well earned beer before catching a flight back to Auckland.
It is amazing what [...]

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Super cool people doing good things

Spring has arrived and September is already a cracking month at Givealittle HQ with lots of great stuff happening on and off the site. The team is amped and racing forward with new and exciting plans and version 2 is proving a great hit with loads of interesting new cause pages being created.
I don’t [...]

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It’s time to freeze New Zealand….

Many of you may have seen this fantastic improv stunt where 207 people froze mid action in Grand Central Station.

Now it is New Zealand’s turn. Across the country volunteers in various locations will freeze at 1pm on Friday 5 June 2009 to bring attention to World Environment Day. Organised by volunteers around the country [...]

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Mother’s Day

I have been doing a little online research about the history of Mother’s Day, as you do.
I confess to being a bit of a cynic around key dates on the calendar and I blame that on the rampant commercialisation of days like Mother’s Day.
I have been pleasantly surprised to learn of the true origins of [...]

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Givealittle set to change giving in New Zealand

Earlier today we released the following media statement:
Givealittle set to change giving in New Zealand
Givealittle.co.nz has launched with plans to change behaviour and attitudes to giving in New Zealand by offering a new way for everyday donors and business givers to engage with charity and the non-profit community online.
Givealittle.co.nz is an online marketplace where those [...]

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