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Tom Harrison
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Developing a better understanding of Business-NGO partnership types and impacts
Developing a better understanding of Business-NGO partnership types and impacts
Developing a better understanding of Business-NGO partnership types and impacts
Parrots, and in particular ring-necked parakeets, are now a common bird where I live in South-East England. So common, in fact, that even while I was thinking about painting some for the Blog Action Day I heard, and then saw, one on Bookham Commo...
Building a Common Future with Business: Concluding event in the 2009 Event Series at Commonwealth Club
October 13, 2009 from 5:30pm to 7:45pm
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Profile Information
- Source of my passion about the power of business to fight poverty
- I am a social entrepreneur
- Website:
- http://www.partnerfordevelopment.eu
- About my work:
- I am an accredited partnership broker, supporting:
• private sector organisations that are committed to supporting international development activities to forge action-oriented partnerships with governments, NGOs and multi-lateral organisations. Support new ways of engaging and developing their employees in order to maintain a skilled and motivated workforce that is aligned ethically with the company;
• international NGOs to deepen their partnerships with private sector organisations, making full use of the range of resources available from their partners;
• design and implement enterprise development projects and programmes that will remove the barriers that poor people experience to benefiting from markets, and to support and promote entrepreneurial activity by those with very few assets.
- Interested in:
- Professional Contacts
- Topics on my radar:
- Cross-sector partnerships; UN guidelines for collaborating with the private sector; supporting NGOs to be good partners
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Blog Action Day - my small contribution yesterday
Parrots, and in particular ring-necked parakeets, are now a common bird where I live in South-East England. So common, in fact, that even while I was thinking about painting some for the Blog Action Day I heard, and then saw, one on Bookham Commons. Though parrots have been seen in the UK for over 150 years (a… Continue
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Didn't manage to get to the event in the end...we are in the middle of corporate strategic review meetings this week....things are going well in with the Secure Livelihoods work, a new accenture grant now underway. Hope to catch you at another event! Louise
Great to hear from you. Looking forward to catching up this evening & hearing more about your latest projects.
Cheers,
Ian
Christie
I am booked for tomorrow too, so hope to see you there.
best,
Jack