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Volunteer

Verb -To offer (oneself or one's services) for some...purpose.

Noun 1 - a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service ...without pay.

Noun 2-  A cultivated plant growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed.

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You know all this

Volunteers are not paid -- not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless. Unknown

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have

the heart. Elizabeth Andrew

Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.   Booker T. Washington

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Tapping hidden energy

Volcan.org

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New building material

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Expectation & Preparation

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Cholmondeley-A Friendly Refuge

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A Special Gift to the People of Canterbury

Margaret and Hugh Heber Cholmondeley

“...so far apart”

Past and Future

Video link:http://www.cholmondeley.org.nz/

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Our challenges/-and yours?

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Survival

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”

W. Edwards Deming

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Don't ever question the value of volunteers. Noah's Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by professionals.   Unknown

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“Our organisation is divided up into watertight compartments – just like the Titanic!” Editor –international magazine

The Winds of change shall not discourage the volunteer.

  Lorna Wilson

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L > C

“For an organisation to survive its rate of learning must be equal to, or greater than, the rate of change in its external environment.” Reg Revans as quoted by R.Garratt in ”The Learning Organisation”.

The Learning Organisation

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What do we do now?

... So much of today's turmoil is unprecedented that we can't find much guidance by looking to the past. For managers across the global economy... today's great question is, What do we do now?" Geoff Colvin How to Manage Your Business in a Recession Fortune magazine January 19, 2009

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Some silver clouds

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Engaging Your Community

Power of network....5 people-10 relationships, 10 –45 etc

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Facebook

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YouTube repurposing

Hayley and Sophie Westenra 2000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqsFoKMA1w0  

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New media-child’s play New interfaces http://www.slideshare.net/chadnorman/50-social-medi

a-tactics-to-help-nonprofits-meet-their-mission

Focus on your FutureEntrée

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Growing the Living Organisation “ “To create better health in a living system, connect it to more of itself.“ Margaret Wheatley

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Cultivating Change

“An ecology is basically an open, complex adaptive system comprising elements that are dynamic and interdependent.” John Seely Brown 

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A dead systems approach

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Information Flows

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Digital I-rrigation

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Time to rethink your Business Strategy?

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Great projects!

“….people with great projects afoot…look further and more clearly into the future than people who are mired in day to day concerns. These former control the future because by necessity they must project themselves into it…”

Robert Grudin Time and the Art of Living

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Engaging your people?

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“ People will support what they help to create." Marvin Weisbord

Harnessing Collective Intelligence

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Vision to action

I have got a beautiful horse which I haven’t thought up the name of yet.I don’t know what colour it is.I don’t know how old it is.I have not ridden it yet but I will.

Sandra Lukey, aged 8, 1980

Re-Focus your Thinking

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Over the Rainbow

Eva Cassidy

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