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WHO WE ARE
The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action (CIVA) was set up in 1995 by Michael Norton with the idea that:
- New ideas and new approaches can make a real impact in addressing social and community problems.
- Socially and economically excluded peoples (which includes women and young people, whose views are not always listened to) should be involved much more in developing solutions for themselves and their communities.
- Sharing of ideas and working methods globally can be extremely productive. The countries of the South and the North have a great deal to learn from each other, but the flow of ideas and expertise should not be one way.
- Information is an important factor in creating change but such information needs to be effectively produced and disseminated
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Some ideas we’ve helped develop:
- Emergency telephone helplines for street children
- The street children’s banking movement
- Village libraries and village publishing in India
- MyBnk developing enterprise skills and financial literacy for young people
- FoodCycle, volunteers cooking surplus and donated food in donated kitchen space to feed the hungry
- YouthBank: young people making grants in their community
- Changemakers: young people leading social change
- UnLtd: the foundation for social entrepreneurs
- South-North exchanges: solutions from the South informing problems in the North
- 365 ways to change the world: an idea for each day of the year
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