{"id":20599,"date":"2012-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/on-the-value-of-global-working-for-the-charity-and-nonprofit-sector\/"},"modified":"2020-03-21T08:29:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T08:29:53","slug":"on-the-value-of-global-working-for-the-charity-and-nonprofit-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/on-the-value-of-global-working-for-the-charity-and-nonprofit-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"On the value of global working for the charity and nonprofit sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest entry to our Global Working video competition, Howard Lake discusses how technology has facilitated far more effective global working amongst not for profit organizations, who have been able to see some of the benefits of genuine co-operation across organizations that might even consider themselves competitive. A forward thinking manager let Howard experiment in his early days at Amnesty International with en email forum. The rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><code><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BJf8iSdjjBs?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BJf8iSdjjBs?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can vote for Howard&#8217;s video on <a title=\"Global working enables charities\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/video-competition\/entries\/why-global-working-is-helping-charity-fundraisers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his competition page<\/a> &#8211; he needs your votes to be included in the top twenty videos that go through to the judges for the winner to be selected.<\/p>\n<p>To see all of the videos in the competition, please visit the <a title=\"video competition\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/video-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Working Video Competition pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest entry to our Global Working video competition, Howard Lake discusses how technology has facilitated far more effective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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