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Our congratulations go to Julie Cross, PhD, our Coaching Director, who has been asked to write a chapter for the Volunteer Management Handbook, together with Dr. Stephen Hobbs (www.wellthlearningnetwork.com).  In this chapter - Volunteer Resource Manager Techniques and Tools for Performance Management - Julie will be applying her Impact Wheel model, currently used in the Impact Programme Coaching, to the volunteer sector.

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Entrepreneurship is the engine of growth.  Even more so in developing countries. Small and medium-sized enterprises not only provide jobs but create platforms for ongoing, sustainable, growing businesses. These businesses adapt well to the local environment and  to changes in the market.

The Brazilian entrepreneurship magazine, Destaque Empresarial and our partner company, Stratagem International, Inc. are co-hosting the First International Business Meeting - Impact Forum. It is to take place on 4-7 April in Recife, Brazil at the Hotel Premium Norte (Rua Novotel, nº 931, Campinas - SP - 55 (19) 3781.8000/ (19) 3781.8001 - hotel@hotelpremiumnorte.com.br).

As funding of social enterprise is found too risky by many mainstream parties, Jumpstart, a new incubator program that calls itself a seed philanthropy organisation has launched to fill the gap.

http://thenextwomen.com/2009/11/29/female-insead-director-launches-incubator-program-for-high-impact-social-ventures/

Total philanthropic spending by the US alone is larger than the gross domestic product of all but the fourteen largest nations in the world. That is before you add philanthropic spending by the rest of the world. And still, almost half of the world lives on less than $2.50 US per day, almost a billion people have no access to clean water, a quarter of the population cannot read and write – two thirds of them women – and millions die of preventable diseases. Something here is terribly wrong.