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21 May 2012 | Robert Ashton

Community isn't led by government, so why wait for it to tell you what to do, protests Robert Ashton.

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It’s two years since Britain voted in the previously unlikely coalition of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Celina Ribeiro tracks the main developments of the coalition’s first half of government.

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Philip Spedding invokes an anecdote about the Tate to lambast the government's proposed cap on tax relief for charitable donations.

Fundraising directors must prove themselves to become CEOs

If a fundraising director misses out on a CEO role, they probably weren’t good enough. It is up to fundraisers to stop complaining and change the way they are viewed, says Jason Suckley.

Judith Rowland is taking the Global Poverty Challenge

What is it like to live on just £1 per day? Judith Rowland is finding out as she participates in the 'Living below the Line' project.

As Tories gleefully dismantle the state and public services withdraw, what's left to fill the gap? Those well-off, well-meaning people who have the spare time and energy to run a social enterprise, a school, a library and their nearest roundabout do not live in the areas that are most in need of intervention and services.

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The beautiful game

Love it or hate it, football holds the power for good, argues David Philpott.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Independent but not neutral

Julia Unwin commits the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to act more boldly in the war against poverty.

Would you donate your desktop to charity?

Would you hand your PC desktop background over to advertisers if it was fundraising for a good cause? That is just what one New Zealand organisation is asking. Kirsty Weakley takes a look.

Finding the value in marketing

You learn something every day, they say, and Andrew Chaggar is certainly finding this the case as he delves deeper into the leadership of European Disaster Volunteers.

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