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Business / Management Support for NGOs
LaLuz
Platform aimed at matching volunteer professional expertise with NGOs / social causes. [in Dutch]

Lulu
Do-it-yourself publishing. Publish and sell your own books, calendars, etc. This link brings you to their site in German. Lulu is also available through www.lulu.com

Business education
Export911
Business and educational website focusing on international business. The site provides information on export-import marketing, management, letters of credit, export cargo insurance, shipping, logistics, manufacturing, purchasing, bar codes, and many more.

StartUp Journal
Wall Street Journal stories / extensive resources on starting up your own business.

Communication best practice
Information Design
Site heralding the work and teachings of Edward Tufte, Prof. Emeritus at Yale University in statistical evidence, information design, interface design; author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information

Computers-in-Education platforms
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
Movement seeking to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves.

SchoolNet Namibia
A nonprofit provider of internet service, hardware and training to schools in Namibia

World Computer Exchange
Global platform for low-cost computer redistribution -- applications from NGOs considered from ~300 computers per application

Countryside development action research
MS Swaminathan Research Foundation
Non-profit Trust aimed at imparting a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development

Panchayat Academy model
Weekly training courses in Kuthambakkam (35 km west of Chennai, India) on Gandhian approach to democracy, development and economic regeneration aimed at helping village leaders plan for their own villages.

Democracy platforms
Bad Subjects
Bad Subjects seeks to revitalize progressive politics. We challenge progressive dogma by encouraging readers to think about the political dimension to all aspects of everyday life. We seek to broaden the audience for leftist and progressive writing.

Edit Net
Education for Democracry Network, grouping NGOs from former Soviet republics (in Russian - no pyccku)

Education for Democracy Foundation
Independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization promoting the dissemination of knowledge concerning democracy and a free market economy as well as providing skills for civic activity in a democratic state

Freedom House
Non-profit, nonpartisan organization working to promote democracy and political freedom around the world through various international programmes and publications.

Open Democracy
OpenDemocracy is the leading independent website on global current affairs - free to read, free to participate, free to the world... offering stimulating, critical analysis, promoting dialogue and debate on issues of global importance and linking citizen

Open Society
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. OSI supports many different local initiatives.

The Council of Europe
The Council of Europe (founded in 1949, 46 member states) seeks to develop throughout Europe common and democratic principles based on the European Convention on Human Rights and other reference texts on the protection of individuals. Scroll down on the h

The Village Project
Educational programme for children aged 10-13 in which the participants build a miniature town. Also see Programmes section on this site.

Transparency International
International non-governmental which says: corruption ruins lives -- fight back! TI is committed to raising public awareness of the daily and long-term impact of corruption.

e-tools for Education
826 National
US-based non-profit organization helping students (ages 6-18) with expository and creative writing. Great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention. Strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.

eSchoolNet
The European Teachers' Portal: eSchoolnet is a portal for teachers in Europe. At our website you can get in contact with other colleagues, find and exchange learning resources, share your experiences, join our international teacher networks, work together

Google Earth
Virtual globe programme which maps the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe. Google Earth is a free version with limited functionality.

How Stuff Works
How science stuff works, how money stuff works, how electronics stuff works, how health stuff works, etc. etc.

Learning Village
Learning Village reviews educational software and then recommends the best. Our software guide reviews some of the best learning software we, as educators, have seen for either the home or classroom.

Museum.com
Global museum portal with 40,000 museums and historical sites ... and counting.

The GLOBE Program
An exciting, worldwide, hands-on education and science program -- languages include Russian, English and French

Eco Platforms
Centre for Alternative Technology
Europe's leading eco-centre, based in Wales (UK), featuring a visitors' centre, consultancy services, a wide variety of courses (also at full academic level), plus links to like-minded organisations across Europe

Climate-neutral products and services
Attempt by a coalition of government and non-governmental institutions in Holland to build a portfolio of "climate-neutral" products and services. In Dutch only.

Dutch + International network on environmentally-sound rural living
NELK stands for Network Ecological Rural Cores (www.nelk.nl). NELK aims at a responsible life in rural surroundings, wherever in the world.

EcoWorld
EcoWorld is an internet publishing company featuring the www.EcoWorld.com Web site, an information resource on nature and clean technology

Energy consumption reduction action site
Includes a host of links to other sites, and statistics / graphs on the Dutch webmaster's personal energy (solar power) production and consumption offered as a (not the) benchmark.

Environmentally-friendly house building
Web log on / by Dutch activist building low-cost, low-energy house (and his battle with local bureaucracy).

European Environmental Bureau
Federation of more than 140 environmental citizens’ organisations based in all EU Member States and most Accession Countries, as well as in a few neighbouring countries, ranging from local and national to European and international.

Knowledge site on environmentally friendly living
Independent expert advise on a variety of environment-relative topics in and around the house [in Dutch only].

Seeds exchange
Not-for-profit site where private individuals can exchange plant seeds, so as to promote biodiversity [in Dutch].

English
BBC pod casts
For free downloading

English Forums
Learn English with online help from volunteer teachers all over the world.

Librivox
Free audio files of books. Librivox aims to make all public domain books available as free audio books. Librivox is a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

Word Spy
Keeps track of the latest words to enter the English language - time will tell if they are here briefly or permanently. Ever heard of a growth recession? A mobile speed bump? Togethering? Try Wordspy!

World Wide Words
Highly praised resource site on the English language

Human rights Organisations
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights

eumap
EUMAP, a program of the Open Society Institute (OSI), monitors the development of human rights and rule of law standards and policies both in the European Union and in its candidate and potential candidate countries.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky press center
Human rights in Russia - news platform monitoring the imprisonment of and cases against the former Yukos chairman and others in Russia. Also in Russian / no-pyccku.

Unicef Innocenti Research Centre
Unicef unit in Florence, Italy, promoting the effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Inter-Ethnic groups
Albanian-Serb Information Exchange Forum
CDRSEE in Thessaloniki, Beta Media Center (Belgrade) & KosovaLive agency in Pristina: internet-based, interactive news resource in order to re-establish direct information exchange channels between Albanians and Serbs.

C for Community -- Force for Change
CFOR is an organization devoted to conflict resolution and building community in zones and neighborhoods in conflict.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the U.S. Nonpartisan and dedicated to achieving practical results.

Conflict Prevention Partnership
Joint effort by Int. Crisis Group, Int. Alert, Eur. Policy Centre and EPLO to prevent conflicts worldwide by helping improve the EU's conflict prevention, crisis management and peacebuilding capacities.

Cross-religion movement working for peace
IKV Pax Christi, a Dutch peace movement ("IKV" = Interchurch Dialogue for Peace), with many programmes and contacts across South-East Europe (and elsewhere); info in Dutch, English and Spanish.

European Centre for Conflict Prevention
The European Centre for Conflict Prevention is a non-governmental organisation that promotes effective conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategies, and actively supports and connects people working for peace worldwide.

European Peacebuilding Liaison Office – EPLO
EPLO is the platform of European NGOs, networks of NGOs and think tanks active in the field of peacebuilding, who share an interest in promoting sustainable peacebuilding policies among decision-makers in the European Union.

Inter-Ethnic Project of Kumanovo (Macedonia)
The Inter-Ethnic Project of Kumanovo (IPK) encourages cooperation between all ethnic communities residing in the Kumanovo region, in order to reduce prejudices and promote tolerance and peace.

Nil by Mouth
Movement against sectarianism in Scotland (protestants vs. catholics / Rangers vs Celtic fans), emphasizing the detrimental effect of abusive language.

Peacemakers
Canadian charitable organization for research, education and training in concerning conflict resolution and peacebuilding.

Stability Pact
The Stability Pact is the first serious attempt by the international community to replace the previous, reactive crisis intervention policy in South Eastern Europe with a comprehensive, long-term conflict prevention strategy.

Law
Guerrilla Lawyer
The Center for Guerrilla Law is a radical, legal think-tank and a multi-service project.

Legislation On-Line
Internet-based, free-of-charge legislative database published and maintained by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. legislation in all OSCE official languages.

Street Law Interactive
Street Law provides practical, participatory education about law, democracy, and human rights. Also see the Programmes section on this site.

NGO / Civic society local groups
гражданските права в България / Social Rights Bulgaria / Droits sociaux en Bulgarie
Social Rights Bulgaria aims to promote and bridge the protection of human and social rights through common actions of social movements and NGOs in Bulgaria, EU and all over the world by using the Internet. In Bulgarian, English and French.

Contact Centre. Centrul CONTACT. Центр КОНТАКТ. Moldova
Independent, non-profit, unpolitical organization supporting democratic processes in the Republic of Moldova by promoting and implementing the idea of open society and encouraging civic initiatives. In English, Romana, no-pyccku.

Farma (southern Poland)
"Farma", in Sielec / Staszów municipality, Swietokrzyskie province, Poland: working with young people and stimulating their progress, and promoting local development, projects that support creating local civil society and involve the inhabitants

NGO / Civic Society Platforms
Act4Europe
The EU Civil Society Contact Group brings together eight large rights and value based NGO sectors - culture, environment, education, development, human rights, public health, social and women. The ETUC, representing European union workers, is an observer.

Action without Borders
NGO that connects people, organizations and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives ... register free of charge in the database via the Web site (more than ~40,000 NGOs registered worldwide so far)

Business and MDGs
Web site by the World Bank Institute in partnership with Germany's Capacity Building International (InWEnt), seeking to capture best practices for private sector engagement in development and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Fahamu Networks for Social Justice
Network designed to help people to organise and emancipate themselves from oppression, recognise their social responsibilities, respect each other's differences, and realise their full potential ... the site offers many tools & guidelines for NGos

Nabuur
Non-profit platform facilitating direct contact between villages all over the world and people anywhere in the world (their "virtual neighbors") seeking to help them with knowledge, contacts, resources

One World
The OneWorld.net website brings together latest news and views from over 1,600 organizations promoting human rights awareness and fighting poverty worldwide.

Physics
Physics songs
Songs about physics: to help students remember critical concepts and formulas, demonstrate that physics can be fun, help establish an informal classroom atmosphere (even shy students are willing to ask questions).

Potential Funders
X-Y International
XminusY Solidarity Fund is an independent funding organisation in the Netherlands, offering financial support to social movements and small-scale initiatives all over the world.

Press Freedom Action Platforms
Reporters without borders
Award-winning international alliance, registered in France as a non-profit organisation, promoting press freedom around the world.

Tehelka
Investigative journalism publication in India.

Public Achievement
Public Achievement Groups Unite
Public Achievement Groups Unite website launched mid-April 2006 for participants of the Public Achievement Groups Unite Project in 2006 in Poland and Macedonia. Site is sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy and is maintained from Turkey.

Public Achievement in Palestine
In Palestine, Public Achievement is known as 'Popular Achievement', and is supported and organised by staff from the Quaker offices in Ramallah and Gaza.

Public Achievement in the USA
Young people today have few opportunities to really be involved in shaping the world around them. In Public Achievement, they do. People of all ages work with others, meet challenges and solve problems.

Public Achievement in Turkey
Kamusal Başarı sivil toplum bilincinin gelişmesi ve insanların kendi gündemlerine sahip çıkmaları ilkesini temel alan bir toplumsal hareket modelidir.

Public Achievement Northern Ireland
Public Achievement movement in Northern Ireland (in operation since 1999)

Roma platforms
Awareness-raising campaign: “DOSTA!"
"Dosta", a Romani word meaning "enough", is an awareness-raising campaign which aims at bringing non-Roma closer to Roma citizens.

ERGO: European Roma Grassroots Organisations
Intended to become a powerful instrument to support the creation of an international Roma movement

International Forum for Roma Women
International Roma women leaders' movement in Eastern Europe

Roma Education Fund (REF)
The Roma Education Fund seeks to contribute to closing the gap in educational outcomes between Roma and non-Roma, through policies and programs to support quality education for Roma including desegregation of educational systems.

Romea
ROMEA is voluntary, non-governmental, non-profit association of citizens and legal persons, who want to develop respecting of human rights, help in development of democracy and tolerance in society. ROMEA is uniting people who want to battle racism.

Spolu International
Intermediary supporting initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe aimed at improving the socio-economic position of Roma communities

Technology Education
How technology stuff works
Technology chapter in the extensive "how stuff works" site

Train-the-Trainer programmes
Incredible Years
Offers training programs for helping families and teachers with children who are highly aggressive, disobedient, hyperactive and inattentive. Curricula adopted by schools and child care institutitions in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

Playing to learn and learning to play
In "Playing to learn and learning to play," the participants will work on their skills as a youth leader. Be an inspiring leader; Organise activities; Develop communication skills.