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National
Volunteerism & Philanthropy and
Corporate Social Responsibility Conference
2007
30
& 31 Oct 2007
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OPENING KEYNOTE
The Dilemmas of Giving: The Heart of Paradox
By Professor Charles Hampden-Turner
Senior Research Associate, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
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“It is better to give than to receive”, Charles Hampden-Turner was raised to believe. But this poses a dilemma. If the giver is blessed, are the recipients cursed? Does the act of receiving diminish your moral worth? Are you inferior to and indebted to the giver for ever more? How DO you give without turning the other into a mere consumer of others’ largesse? If poverty and disadvantage lie even partly in passivity are we not in danger of fostering this with our own activity? Is the writing of endless proposals that evoke our pity and is advertising wretchedness a pathway out of poverty?
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It should be easy and joyful to be kind to others, but very often giving is hard and painful, with more disappointed hopes than realised ones. Professor Hampden-Turner, a veteran of America’s “war on poverty”, has been studying dilemmas for thirty to forty years and will discuss how the best intentioned givers may accidentally make matters worse. Can we stop begging becoming professionalised? Can we stop recipients developing a vested interest in crises?
He will outline several emerging developments that bring hope and could restore recipients to self-sufficiency. He will explore the ground between profit and non-profit, the role of innovation, social entrepreneurs, self-help, microfinance, social marketing, provident associations, alternatives to welfare and other possible solutions.
Professor Charles Hampden-Turner is a radical thinker on social issues, and experienced reconciler of cross-cultural conflict. Listed by The Financial Times in 2001 as one of the top 50 world management thinkers, Professor Hampden-Turner is the creator of Dilemma Theory and an expert in
innovation.
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OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS – DAY TWO
Every Individual Makes a Difference – Reason for Hope
Dr Jane Goodall DBE
Founder - The Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace
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As Gombe National Park in Tanzania nears its 50th year of chimpanzee research, Dr Jane Goodall’s pursuit of her dreams has led her in many directions.
From Roots & Shoots (a global youth network active in nearly 100 countries which was born in 1991 out of a discussion with teenagers) to community-centered conservation
programmes, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is making a positive difference in thousands of lives.
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Dr Goodall will inspire her audience with how volunteers and donors have made a difference since the start of her dreams decades ago, in areas such as chimpanzee research, initiatives that help conserve forest habitat and improve the lives of adjacent communities, her work as a UN Messenger of Peace and JGI’s youth leadership
endeavours.
Read more about Dr Jane Goodall here
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