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Results worth reporting - Buy1GIVE1 (B1G1) giving brings great outcomes
Sure we love what we do at Buy1GIVE1 (B1G1). And when we see the results of what we do we get even more passionate about the journey we're on. Importantly, it's a shared journey too - none of what...
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Started by Paul Dunn in Buy1GIVE1 Jun 3.
Embedding the Giving into the Corporate DNA
One of the great things about this Village is that it's easy to communicate, it's easy to state a position, it's easy to share news AND, as in this instance, it's easy to get feedback. And that's ...
Tagged: Feedback., Giving, B1G1, Buy1GIVE1, DNA
Started by Paul Dunn in Buy1GIVE1 May 17.
Welcome to a New B1G1 Business Ambassador 1 Reply
Good news - another B1G1 Business Ambassador has joined the movement - Chartered Accountant and Financial Intelligence Specialist, Graham Donnelly and his wife Nicole. They're based in Beenleigh c...
Tagged: B1G1-Business-Ambassador, Graham-Donnelly, cause-related-marketing, philanthropy, Buy1GIVE1
Started by Paul Dunn in Buy1GIVE1. Last reply by Les Gordon Apr 22.
Your help is needed in Ghana and beyond
Do you want to become a humanitarian volunteer, start your own NGO, work for the United Nations or become a field worker for a charity organisation in Africa? Well here is something for you...a ...
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Started by Shaibu in Buy1GIVE1 Apr 8.
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Meet Sedrico Husselman... Educated at the University of the Western Cape's Institute for Social Development, Sedrico has brought Cape Flats charm to Marketing and Communication. Seasoned with just...
Started by Sedrico Husselman, CEO, People's in Buy1GIVE1 Mar 16.
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Welcome to our giving village
If you do not know what Buy1GIVE1 is, please watch the 'HOME' video below to see what we are creating together. It is about turning our world into a world full of giving and caring through everything we do, everything we have and everything we experience.
So we would love you to share your passion with others and start giving with lots of fun! And so that you can get the FULL experience of what we’re creating together, we would love you to join as a Citizen and receive your special Global Village Citizenship Pass.
We’re really looking forward to you adding to the magic here and to you sharing your own joy of giving with as many people as possible. In that way, our own seemingly small actions bring huge results and help us make a real difference together. As ONE.Masami Sato
Founder, Buy1GIVE1 - B1G1
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Giving - are we missing something fundamental?
I called it ‘Yikes: the giving is disappearing’. And it told the story of how, like the honeybee vanishing, giving is going down worldwide (with the exception of parts of the Asian region).
Yet something else is going up – yes, you guessed it – the number of charities is booming! Last year alone the IRS in the US registered 1000 new charities per week!
There are now nearly 1.5 Million of them in the US alone - that’s mo… Continue
Posted by Paul Dunn on July 1, 2009 at 6:00pm
B1G1 Founder a hit in Malaysia too.
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That's particularly true when people meet the founder of B1G1, Masami Sato. And last week, lots of people in Malaysia had the opportunity to do that… Continue Posted by Paul Dunn on June 24, 2009 at 10:30am
B1G1 Partner wins National Innovation Award
And at B1G1 we’re thrilled that one of our B1G1 Partners, Affinity Maker , has been honoured with the award in the Innovation category.
We’re not surprised that the judges of this quite prestigious award have honoured Robin Power and his team at Affinity Maker. They’ve done wonderful things for us in B1G1.… Continue
Posted by Paul Dunn on June 22, 2009 at 1:47pm
So is giving actually about getting? Masami has a view worth reading.
The question is rarely asked precisely that way. More often than not it comes out like this: ‘so when I give through B1G1 , does it impact my sales; do more people buy from me?’
And perhaps not surprisingly with my marketing background I sometimes want to scream ‘of course!’ I’m eager to tell people about the impact giving has in all sorts of ways. I want to quote the stories of B1G1 businesses.… Continue
Posted by Paul Dunn on June 20, 2009 at 11:10am
RESULTS WORTH REPORTING - Buy1GIVE1 (B1G1) giving brings great outcomes
And when we see the results of what we do we get even more passionate about the journey we're on. Importantly, it's a shared journey too - none of what you're about to read could have happened without the businesses in 14 countries around the world who have so enthusiastically emabraced the magic of B1G1 transaction-based giving.
It's a world where every transaction makes a difference every second, every day and in every way.
Just last night at our… Continue
Posted by Paul Dunn on June 3, 2009 at 11:00am — 2 Comments
B1G1 (Buy1GIVE1) model staring Microsoft in the face.
And on the car radio I heard an interview with the President of Microsoft Africa, Dr Cheick Modibo Diarra.At one point the interviewer asked about Microsoft’s pricing and image in Africa particularly in view of some of the ‘challenges’ t… Continue
Posted by Paul Dunn on May 17, 2009 at 10:30am
STANDOUT: a new way to look at the GFC
Hopefully each one has resonance in one way or another. But one in particular from my friend… Continue
Posted by Paul Dunn on May 16, 2009 at 2:46pm
Embedding the giving - from 'bolt-on' to DNA
And a senior executive in a major corporation told me how the way the giving worked in their company was essentially like this: ‘we figure out what the profit is and then we decide how much of that we can give away – taking into account tax breaks of course’.
Then the President of a major charity told me, ‘Oh… Continue
Posted by Paul Dunn on May 16, 2009 at 9:00am
Joys and Woes - taking from yourself
This morning I was doing that – taking time to have a great breakfast with a friend. When my friend left, I decided to stay on at the café to have a ‘quick flick’ through the weekend newspapers. And something I saw struck me as really relevant to giving to ourselves, or perhaps more appropriately as taking from ourselves.
Maybe it was the ‘Joy’ word in the headline… Continue
Posted by Paul Dunn on May 9, 2009 at 6:56am
Extreme Business Giving Back Automatically, Simply and Effectively
Last week, our very good and highly talented friend Carl Bates held the first Sirdar Extreme Business Summit in South Africa. 60 delegates from start-ups, small business and established enterprises were all able to benefit from… Continue Posted by Paul Dunn on May 8, 2009 at 7:30am
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Could it be that we're missing something fundamental about giving?
Just yesterday I wrote a piece for the July issue of the B1G1 newsletter. I called it ‘Yikes: the giving is disappearing’. And it told the story of how, like the honeybee vanishing, giving is going [...]....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Less communication, more connection. It's about giving. Period.
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Don't pee on the toilet seat
It's really interesting how things come into your life in groups isn't it. You know what I mean - this happens and then some related thing happens and we go 'what a coincidence' or 'dah dah dah dah' in that scary movie tone of voice. Well, today that sequence happened to me. Just 24 hours agoI got to meet wi [...]....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
B1G1 Founder, Masami Sato, a hit in Malaysia too
One lovely things about being involved with B1G1 is that people 'get' it. And that usually happens in a heartbeat. That's particularly true when people meet the founder of B1G1, Masami Sato.And last week, lots of people in Malaysia had the opportunity to do that. Masami was on a sponsored visit to the capit [...]....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
B1G1 Partner wins National Innovation Award
The Australian Business Awards for 2009 were announced over the weekend. And at B1G1 we’re thrilled that one of our B1G1 Partners, Affinity Maker , has been honoured with the award in the Innovation cat [...]....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Giving - is it actually about getting?
Several times a week it seems we have the question asked, “so when we give, what do we get?’ The question is rarely asked precisely that way. More often than not it comes out like this: ‘so when I [...]....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Twitter and B1G1- Explosive growth
Some reports suggest that the micro-blog platform, Twitter, is growing at the rate of 131 per month. That’s huge. As one commentator put it ‘At that pace of growth everyone on the planet will be Twittering by 22 December, 2009’. And B1G1 is part o [...]....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Impact from unrelated situations
Interesting questions often come up in life in seemingly unrelated situations. For example, last night I was at a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) briefing listening to a CSR specialist talking about the importance of harnessing the power of Social Media. He spoke about how, via cyberspace, we can speak [...]....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
How my broken glasses gave sight through B1G1
If you're like me and you have glasses, you treat them 'not well'. Mine get (or used to get) pounded. And eventually they simply gave up - first a simple matter of the lens falling out. And then, two days later, they split in two right across the little piece that goes across the nose (I think it's called [...]....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Results worth reporting - Buy1GIVE1 (B1G1) giving brings great outcomes
Sure we love what we do at Buy1GIVE1 (B1G1). And when we see the results of what we do we get even more passionate about the [...]....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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