Participation
![The Bristol Cable A local newspaper that puts the community in the center of its actions.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/23-edition-thank-you-bright-1080x810.jpg?itok=JuRqvpKT&c=47085b38b4a6075194833bf959c45963)
Lucas Batt, a membership and fundraising Lead for the Bristol Cable, stands out the importance of this local newspaper which aims to "inform and empower citizens making membership an inclusive, meaningful and sustainable model for local journalism".
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This entity develops participatory art interventions around the world and promotes personal and collective development in each community where it acts.
![27 countries from all around Europe are participating in this project.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/youth_wiki.png?itok=VJ0nJq0h)
The platform is a comprehensive database of national structures, policies and actions supporting young people and it covers the eight main fields of action identified in the 2010-2018 EU Youth Strategy.
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This is the title of the EUth Open Summit which will take place in Berlin on 7-8th December.
![Pathways to Rights: Empowering Young Europeans.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/pathways.jpg?itok=6gYpnWwR)
This is the title of the Volonteurope’s 26th Annual Conference which will take place in Brussels on 30-31 October.
The country I’m talking of, with just over 7 million inhabitants, will hold a referendum to decide its future on the 1st of October this year, and in all likelihood, will offer its letter of presentation as a new State in Europe.
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Getting volunteers or members of your organisation to actively engage is one of the big challenges in nonprofit organisations. Here we provide some tips based on the experience of several organisations.
What roles do we find on a nonprofit organisation’s executive board? In what way do they make internal participation easy or difficult? Roger Buch gives us some ideas.
Any palliative solution will not change the structural causes of the disempowerment of citizens, write Mònica Guiteras and Lourdes Berdié.
Any palliative solution will not change the structural causes of the disempowerment of citizens, write Mònica Guiteras and Lourdes Berdié.
What makes a good donor retention? Danielle Johnson-Vermenton shares her knowledge with us through this opinion article.
Susan J. Ellis explains rights and obligations that volunteers should comply with. Want to know more about it?