The following links go to sites that can help you with ethical living, fundraising, finding volunteers, partners and projects, and other non-profit, green and ethical activities. Please email if you know of any more!
Black Spot Sneaker - Adbuster's new sneaker, aiming to overtake Nike as the coolest trainers around. Adventures in Ethical Consumerism - a blog with info on ethical consumerism, with loads of links to ethical traders, companies, info sites, and other ethical blogs Charity Bank - a CAF project, Charity Bank has accounts for individuals, charities and corporations. All income is used to support charities, mainly by offering low-interest loans. You can choose to recieve the interest or donate some of it to charity, and it's the only bank that will make loans to small charities. The Co-op Bank - seeks to uphold the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through its investments, so will not invest in any government or business which fails to uphold basic human rights within its sphere of influence, or any business whose links to an oppressive regime are a continuing cause for concern. Ecotricity - switch to the 'New Energy' tariff, and children's charities will get £10 when you put 'Kids International' as the place where you heard about Ecotricity. Envocare - the information site that promotes care of the environment. Includes information on recycling, environmentally friendly computer and phone disposal, ethical financial management, energy conservation resources, composting, environment-related articles and news, and a charity resources page. Ethical Consumer - The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names Ethical Threads - clothing and merchandise sourced from workplaces that meet international conventions on workers rights, and which are verified by free trade unions. Mainly directed at making the music industry sweatshop free The Fairtrade Foundation - info on the Fairtrade movement, guaranteeing a better deal to producers in the developing world; plus links to fairtrade sellers, producers, and other ethical sites Get Ethical - created by Red Pepper and The Big Issue magazines. By buying through getethical, you are purchasing products or services that are reducing environmental impact and/or are made by social business investing in the local economy and helping to create sustainable communities. Getethical screen all the companies hosted on the site to ensure they pay more than just lip service to environmental and social justice issues as well as offering good quality, reasonably priced products Mooncups - the environmentally friendly alternative to tampons No Sweat - No Sweat is an activist, campaigning organisation, fighting sweatshop bosses, in solidarity with workers, worldwide No Sweat Apparel - sweatshop free, union-made casual clothing, trainers etc The Phone Co-op - A phone co-operative, offering a more ethical and environmentally responsible approach to business plus cheaper phone bills. Please put 'referred by agent 436' on your form and 6% of your bill will be donated to children's organisations.
IndyMedia - a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. New Internationalist Magazine - Exists to report on issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary if the basic material and spiritual needs of all are to be met. The Ecologist - A key player in major environmental campaigns against GM crops, rainforest destruction, climate change and the impact of globalisation, The Ecologist's early-warning signs have helped set environmental and political agendas across the world. OneWorld - provides coverage of human rights and sustainable development issues, news, campaigns, events and resources. They include the voices of those at the front line of development - the poorest and most marginalized, and those that work directly with them CounterPunch - Independent American political newsletter. "Twice a month we bring our readers the stories that the corporate press never prints". FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - a US media watch group, offering criticism of media bias and censorship. Working to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. Alternet.org - a project of the Independent Media Institute, dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. AlterNet's online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism. The AlterNet article database includes more than 7,000 stories from over 200 sources. Speckz.com - Links to free open-source software sites and news Project Gutenberg - an archive of free public domain online texts. Distributed Proofreaders - the main source of PG e-books.
E-force Hosting - Brilliant, really helpful independent web hosting service with links to free open-source software and news, offers half-price hosting & service to selected charities and non-profits. Please mention that you were referred by Firefly and we'll get 3 months' free hosting! Ben Courtney - Independent graphic designer, offers reduced rates on websites, posters etc to selected charities CharityDays - dial-up and broadband internet accounts, a percentage is donated to the charity of your choice.
Kids International Net Donations - a charity shopping portal, that allows any children's charity in any country, or any of their supporters, to put themselves on a list of organisations to recieve funds every time someone shops at a range of places including Amazon, No Sweat - sweatshop-free clothes and trainers/sneakers, Travelocity and other cheap travel booking portals, and many other shops. Kids International is committed to giving 100% of income to the charities nominated. Shoppers can choose to have the income they generate divided between all the charities on the list, or given to one particular charity. Access-Funds.co.uk - lists of donors Funder Finder Trusts - List of links to individual donors Funder Finder Resources - List of fundraising resources Awards for all - A lottery grants programme for small community groups looking for small sums of money iGive.com - A list of shops that will donate money to charities if you go through this site before buying stuff from them. Submit your charity to their list, get your supporters to buy through them, and up to 40% of what they pay for purchases will be donated to you efundraising - Charities' Aid Foundation's fundraising portal, allowing you to get free profiles on giving portals, register for their charity card scheme, set up donations pages on your website, and reclaim tax on all donations The Hunger Site - Click on a button on this and the linked sites (breast cancer, rainforest, child hunger etc) once a day and sponsors will donate money. Ok this isn't really for your cause but it only takes a minute so it's worth doing anyway...
b) In Kind:
Computers for charities - Cheap recycled computers for charities Donate a PC - Free used computer equipment for charities and projects In Kind Direct - passes on companies' old computers, furniture etc to charities and projects for a fee Good Will Gallery - professional services - a list of professionals (accountants, IT, fundraisers, councellors, musicians for fundraising events, etc) willing to offer their services for free or at a reduced rate Good Will Gallery - Free goods for charity - a range of free stuff for charities, from beds to computers, posted by individuals with stuff to give away
i) Organisations/projects you can volunteer for:
The Forest, Edinburgh - Free community arts and events space, offers free room and board to people volunteering during the Edinburgh Festival each August. At other times offers free meals while working. Firefly Bosnia - Youth, arts and community programmes in Bosnia, looking for staff and volunteers to run programs for children and young people in Bosnia. Firefly's 2006 Summer Camps for children from Bosnia - looking for volunteers to help raise funds and run activities during the two week camps project. KIND - Kids International Net Donations - looking for virtual/online volunteers to help develop ways of allowing small children's & community organizations in the developing world to to become self-sustaining.
ii) Websites with lists of organisations/placements, or where you can post your details: evolunteer.co.uk - find international volunteer placements Idealist.org - find NGO jobs and volunteer placements worldwide Scotland's national centre for volunteering Experiencecorps.co.uk - For potential volunteers aged 50 and over, find placements and post your details Do-it.org - over 64,000 local and international volunteer placements & organisations listed
evolunteer.co.uk -advertise for volunteers for local international projects Idealist.org - place free ads for volunteers, interns etc that get posted on various sites worldwide, including UNV Scotland's national centre for volunteering Good Will Gallery - professional services - a list of professionals (accountants, IT, fundraisers, councellors, musicians for fundraising events, etc) willing to offer their services for free or at a reduced rate Good Will Gallery - volunteers - a list of individuals (with contact details) wanting to volunteer locally Do-it.org - List your organisation with over 64,000 UK volunteer placements This site! - email us with details of your organisation and we'll post your details for potential volunteers to see
EUCLID - search for project partners, funding, networks, events and workspaces Eurodesk - Find European project partners OneWorld Network - An online civil society community working for global justice NIDOS - Network of International Development Organisations in Scotland