Cheryl Tan is the tiger in the kitchen. A Singaporean born in the year of the tiger and the oldest child in the family, she was raised by her father to excel in academic and professional pursuits. Eschewing domestic pursuits, she carves out a successful career in New York as a fashion...
How The World’s Bigg...
posted by Geordie Wilks
At the IAVE World Volunteer Conference held in Singapore in January 2011, Dr Kenn Allen of Civil Society Consulting, a Washington DC-based consulting firm, presented an executive summary of the Global Corporate Volunteering Research Project, a multiyear research project that conducted in...
Connect with Good Pa...
posted by Geordie Wilks
Do you want a really COOL volunteering experience! Join us at Scape on 26 November for International Volunteer Day and we will give you a GOOD reason to talk to anyone that interests you, tell them what excites you and hear what they have to say about themselves. Here, you can connect with...
Be a Part of the Chu...
posted by Geordie Wilks
He may not have a Wikipedia entry yet, however Chua Thian Poh has been a long serving Chinese community leader and in partnership with the government, created the 10 million dollar Chua Thian Poh Entrepreneurship Education Funds, which is being used to foster entrepreneurship and innovation...
For your Awareness a...
posted by Geordie Wilks
It has been 4 issues so far. Volunteering: It is not about picking up rubbish and accumulating points. Unlock your passion and explore the many different ways you can volunteer. Social Entrepreneurship: Let us all get rich together. Experience the thrill of running a business which is...
The Exciting Fire
posted by Geordie Wilks
Collaborating is the route to the power of many and the fire of success. Business associations to create awareness about farming and movements to secure release of wild dolphins are partnerships that have been possible for years. Technology has now become so cheap and pervasive that we can...
Study on Social Inno...
posted by Geordie Wilks
Social Innovation Exchange and the Young Foundation prepared a report ‘Study on Social Innovation’ for the Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA) about social innovation in Europe. The six grand challenges facing Europe are economic growth, unemployment, climate change,...
Happy Humans and Sad...
posted by Geordie Wilks
Will a photo of hundreds of happy humans standing to form a shape of a dolphin on an open field do what a plea from a Mexican Senator and condemnation from conservation bodies and celebrities across the globe has not been able to do so far? Release 25 still living bottlenose dolphins into the...
The Wild West of Aid
posted by Geordie Wilks
Good Paper attended a Conference on “Social Enterprise: Developing the social economy and generating sustainable and creative solutions to poverty and social exclusion” which was held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 19 and 20 August 2011. This inaugural conference was organised by Royal...
Good Paper in One Ci...
posted by Geordie Wilks
The latest Good Paper has been printed, Ninety points, islandwide, it must travel, Social Enterprises are too stretched, The latest Good Paper has been printed, To send, Charities are not interested, Online, ask for heroes by the handful, The latest Good Paper has been printed, Ninety...
If only everyone liv...
posted by Geordie Wilks
Oooh! I would need half a world, if I lived in India. One planet is just right for Myanmar me, Stealing India’s share is Iran’s great idea, From Nepal, I believe in ‘buy one, get one free’, Right here, just 2.73 planets sia, Green cards require four and half blue-green orbs...
From Tanzania with L...
posted by Geordie Wilks
It usually begins the same way. “Oooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooooooh Ooooooh Ooooooh Ooooooh”. You all know what it is. A greeting from the chimpanzees of the Gombe in Tanzania. It always generates a round of applause when it is uttered by 77 year old Dame Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, more...