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Dialogue in the Dark - so many lessons from the blind (and not-so-blind too)

Paul — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Earlier today we were invited to a trial opening of the brand new Dialogue in the Dark facility at Ngee Ann Polytechnic here in Singapore. It was a stunning experience. For nearly 2 hours you get to experience darkness and dialogue led mostly by blind people. Sure, you get to experience (ooops, that’s the third time I’ve used that word in three sentences) different sensations in new ways. But because in B1G1 we know something about how Dialogue in the Dark came to be in Singapore , it’s an even more fascinating learning than normal.

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Giving and Goats on B1G1 (and the G word!)

Paul — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:00:00 +0000

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Sinema Old School - B1G1 comes to the Cinema (well, to the Sinema)

Elvin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:38:35 +0000

Yes, Sinema spelt like that does make you do a quick double take doesn't it? But Sinema it is – in fact, to give it it's full title, Sinema Old School. It's a magical place in Singapore where you can go to watch the kind of movies you won't see anywhere else – movies by classical directors, movies that inspire, movies from Asia and above all, what Sinema Old Scholl Founder Nicholas Chee calls, 'Films for Change'.

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Singapore - GOOD PAPER - An eco-system of giving

David Anttony — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:00:00 +0000

GOOD PAPER (Oct 2009) "AN ECO-SYSTEM OF GIVING" - Why a different approach to our modern day issues is now required to create sustainable win-win solutions.

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B1G1 (Buy1GIVE1) and the Negroponte Impact

Paul — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000

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Getting the whole family involved

Elvin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:33:19 +0000

Keith Abraham is somewhat of a legend in Australian speaking circles – a quick look at his website www.keithabraham.com.au shows you why. Amongst other topics, Keith speaks powerfully about 'Finding your Why' and for him now B1G1 is a part of his 'why'. And Keith was smart enough to extend that into his family too. So he and his wife Kristine sat down with his 2 children (11-year old Mazana and 9-year old Isabella) and not only matched the speeches and presentation 'types' with causes but they allowed the girls to nominate their causes too.

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Malaysia - The SUN - Buy1GIVE1 and Masami Sato

David Anttony — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000

The SUN (01 July 2009) "Sato brings family values to business" - Masami Sato, Founder of B1G1 shars her insight with Malaysia news, the SUN

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Global Marketing consultancy improves understanding in the world

Admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:14:46 +0000

Just how do you work with Social Media like Twitter and Facebook. And how do you convey notions that are novel and innovative? Well, that's where Missing Link comes in. It's a global-reach company fosters 'harmonious' communication through its own work and now through Buy1GIVE1.

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Australia - I am gr8ful magazine - interview with Masami Sato

David Anttony — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0000

i am gr8ful magazine (May 2009 edition) "Giving - a key to abundant and fulfilling life" by Masami Sato - Founder, Buy1GIVE1

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'Conscious Capitalism' the Solution?

Paul — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:00:00 +0000

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Branson and the Green Army on �Radical, Positive Change�

Masami Sato — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000

On the weekend I picked up a book from our local library, 'The Secrets of CEOs'. Sir Richard Branson sets the tone in the foreword of the book. "When all businesses puts sustainability at the heart of what they do, we will see a radically positive change in the impact we have on our planet. I believe that day is not too far away," he says. And that's precisely what Hong Kong-based Green Army is doing every day. CEO Michael Hung has sustainability right at the heart of what Green Army does, supplying packaging products and containers to manufacturers and retailers right around the world. And green Army's products are produced with recycled, biodegradable, organic and other...

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Singapore - Walk Your Talk magazine - Article by Masami Sato - Founder, Buy1GIVE1

David Anttony — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Walk Your Talk magazine (Janurary 2009 edition) "Turning Crisis into Opportunity" by Masami Sato - Founder, Buy1GIVE1

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Is it hurting? On sadness, smiling and giving.

Paul — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:00:00 +0000

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Minimonos - Virtual world makes a real-world difference

Elvin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Mother of two Melissa Clark-Reynolds is creating minimonos, a values-based virtual world, so that our children have a place of their own on the Internet – a place that allows them to explore and develop without the constant pressure to buy stuff. minimonos is a compelling world that captures the imagination of children and a world that encourages sustainable behaviour just by its essence. Melissa puts it this way: "We've told kids, 'it's your world, it's yours to take care of. You can keep the water clean. You can make it a beautiful place to live."

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Singapore - TODAY newspaper interview with Paul Dunn by Alicia Wong - Customer Social Responsibility

David Anttony — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:35:25 +0000

Paul Dunn's Interview with Alicia Wong from Singapore TODAY newspaper.

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This is how to do Social Entrepreneurship

Paul — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:00:00 +0000

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The value of partnerships - Affinity makes it happen

Paul — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:00:00 +0000

All too often, we act through life on our own. We try to do things on our own without realising the joy of sharing via great partnerships. Affinity Maker™, a Melbourne-based international consultancy, makes partnerships work. They're enormously inspired by B1G1 and we've been the beneficiary of Affinity Maker's expertise. Even more importantly perhaps, we've been the beneficiary of their outright caring and professionalism.

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Masami Sato Interview with Honestly Woman Magazine in Brisbane, Australia

Abdul Rahman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:23:27 +0000

Masami Sato is interviewed for the leading Australian women's magazine Honestly Woman about her passion, Buy1GIVE1 (B1G1) and her business jouney.

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B1G1 Giving: Acting alone not an option.

Paul — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I wrote a blog about a dream I had about President Obama. I related how I’d envisage him taking a stand and imploring business to take a stand. And today I realised that the President had already said essentially what I’d been dreaming about (more on that in a moment). And then just a few moments ago I downloaded the latest update on the progress we as ‘the world’ are making on the UN Millennium Goals set down and finally agreed upon in 2002. It’s NOT a pretty picture.

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Giving bookworms - reading more to change the world

Masami Sato — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Reading books can be one of the most important habits we can have to improve our lives. But not only is this additive to our own life, reading now can also be a giving activity! Let us introduce you to some of the first Buy1GIVE1 books from the B1G1 Book store. You can visit the store and purchase these books to also add important value to someone else's life today while enjoying the great insights, knowledge and inspiration these authors share. Visit the Global Giving Village to start making a difference.

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Buy1GIVE1 - AsiaX Japanese Magazine

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:31:08 +0000

Masami Sato is interviewed about Buy1GIVE1 (Buy One Give One - B1G1) in AsiaX Japanese magazine.

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Could Obama really say this?

Paul — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000

A few nights ago, I dreamt about Obama making a speech – a very special speech. And I remember now what got me into that dream. Before I went to bed I read a piece that made me say, ‘I wish I’d been game enough to say that’. The piece I’d read was a post on the Huffington Post from Harvard Professor Clayton M. Christensen with additional input from the folks at New Profit Inc What really got me was this quote from the Christensen article in the Huffington Post article . ‘Hence, rather than capital flowing to social initiatives that are most effective, much of it goes to failing non-profits with suboptimal impact or whose footprint is limited...

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The Water Footprint - everyday difference

Masami Sato — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:00:00 +0000

More and more, we're all realising the impact of water on our planet. We see it in so many ways – in drought we see its lack, in floods we see its destructive capacity, and in health we see how essential it is for us all. To help us 'get' that, Prof. Arjen Hoekstra at UNESCO-IHE and scientists at the University of Twente in the Netherlands developed the concept of the 'water footprint' (you can see more at www.waterfootprint.org).

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Give First - Buy One Give One's story - XL Magazine

David Anttony — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:46:06 +0000

Buy1GIVE1 (Buy One Give One) is profiled by XL Magazine in Singapore.

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Giving getting better. Would you like giving with that?

Paul — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000

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�Stretching� for peace-yoga to child education through Buy1GIVE1

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:41:51 +0000

Responding to the twinge It is certainly not so nice to feel the twinge in our stomach when the financial market is shaking as well as our bank account. We want to make sure that we have the certainty and security for our future. We actually do so many things to create this 'peace of mind'. Working hard for money, saving and investing wisely, buying property, getting life insurance, even having the cup of coffee and chocolate can be pretty much for the 'peace of mind'.

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Global Citizens - Radio Singapore International with Masami Sato

David Anttony — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:31:51 +0000

Masami Sato is interviewed by Jason Tan Ming Chaing from Radio Singapore International about how Buy One Give One - Buy1GIVE1 got started.

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Could it be that we're missing something fundamental about giving?

Paul — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Just yesterday I wrote a piece for the July issue of the B1G1 newsletter. I called it ‘Yikes: the giving is disappearing’. And it told the story of how, like the honeybee vanishing, giving is going down worldwide (with the exception of parts of the Asian region). Yet something else is going up – yes, you guessed it – the number of charities is booming! Last year alone the IRS in the US registered 1000 new charities per week!

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From one to many-KipMcGraths giving for the children`s dreams

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:00:00 +0000

Giving from head or heart Ken Hawkins owns one of the Internationally renowned Kip McGrath Education Centre franchises in Australia. When Ken first saw the power of Buy1GIVE1, he tried very hard to figure out the most effective giving for his business. And then, as he puts it, "I just let go and chose a WorthyCause Partner from your list - a small school in a slum in India. I wanted nothing in return. I just wanted to see what would happen if I let go of needing to 'make sense' with my giving."

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Children's Charity school saved By Buy One Give One

David Anttony — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:01:04 +0000

Maya Shahani of SAGE Foundation shares how Buy One Give One (Buy1GIVE1 - B1G1) saved a slum school in India from closure by providing vital funds.

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Giving - is it actually about getting?

Paul — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Several times a week it seems we have the question asked, “so when we give, what do we get?’ The question is rarely asked precisely that way. More often than not it comes out like this: ‘so when I give through B1G1 , does it impact my sales; do more people buy from me?’ And perhaps not surprisingly with my marketing background I sometimes want to scream ‘of course!’ I’m eager to tell people about the impact giving has in all sorts of ways. I want to quote the stories of B1G1 businesses. I want to talk about how giving develops much more ‘connection’. And I know the Duke University study backwards (the study that showed as much as a...

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Loosing to gain at Wendy`s body chains

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:00:00 +0000

New Zealand based Buy1GIVE1 Member Wendy Barker has had an amazing week. She recently decided to support the feeding of children through Midday Meals in Mumbai, India from the sale of each of her amazing Figure 8 Body Chains. "As you lose, they gain," says Wendy who has been so excited by the media response.

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Buy1GIVE1 - HERO magazine - UK

David Anttony — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:21:55 +0000

Masami Sato interviewed about Buy One Give One (B1G1) sharing about the special impact this form of transaction-based giving is having around the the world.

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Fabulous Footprints: the Power of Buy One Give One

William — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Imagine a world in which consumption created contribution, in which our lifestyle left fabulous footprints rather than a path of selfish spending. Imagine if you could patronize the goods and services of companies that give back with every transaction, not to you the customer, but to someone in greater need. Imagine how your company would stand out in the media and the public eye if you engaged in totally transparent transaction-based giving. This is the mission and the system created by Buy1GIVE1, a Singapore-based service established by a Japanese woman named Masami Sato, who not only imagined all of this as possible, but created the means by which anyone can easily make it...

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Vision Without Sight at St. Nicholas Home for the Blind

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0000

Nicole is a passionate blind lady who works for one of the B1G1 Worthy Cause Partners called St Nicholas' Home for the Blind (www.snh.org.my ) in Penang, Malaysia. Did you find it strange that we said “who works for”, not “who is supported by”? The Most Surprising Job Application Mr Ooi, who is the director of this organisation, told us this story when we were visiting the centre. “One day, we put an advertisement for the position to teach blind children music as we started music classes at our centre. Soon we received an application which really attracted us because we saw the broad experience and passion of this particular applicant.

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B1G1 in FT of London Report

David Anttony — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:31:51 +0000

Paul Dunn, Chairman of Buy One Give One (Buy1GIVE1) talks with Mike Southon for an interview published in the Financial Times.

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Don't pee on the toilet seat

Paul — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000

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2,126 Sessions in 9 Months! from All One Foundation through Buy1GIVE1

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0000

Often in life, it is so easy to postpone things we want to do. Can you think of anything you have been meaning to do for a while and haven't done yet? We would like to introduce you to this person who didn't postpone it and made a massive difference in just 9 months. His name is Alan Hewitt. Finding the 'Right Fit' Alan runs a company called Earth Star Publishing (www.meditate.com.au ). One of his company's major products is this very innovative meditation CD set that helps us get into deeper meditative states to effectively help release stress coming from many of the inner issues we have. He talks about his journey of finally finding the right match through Buy1GIVE1 in the...

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The SOUL of an Enterprise - Social Enterprise and Buy One Give One

David Anttony — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:14:48 +0000

David Anttony shares about Buy One Give One (Buy1GIVE1 - B1G1) as a social enterprise with Business Gyan magazine from Bangalore, India

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B1G1 Founder, Masami Sato, a hit in Malaysia too

Paul — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000

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True gift hamper-Peter Khoo`s passion for giving

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:00:00 +0000

As a part of the special privilege of being part of the Buy1GIVE1 community, we always get to meet and speak with some incredible people. One of this month’s special gifts for us was meeting the Vice-President of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) - the company that dominates the news industry in Singapore. We had a thirty-minute meeting scheduled which ended up becoming a two-and-a-half-hour meeting as he decided to cancel everything in the afternoon to spend more time with us to share his passion for giving. His name is Peter Khoo. He’s humble, inspirational and enormously insightful.

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B1G1 Partner wins National Innovation Award

Paul — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000

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Seeing is believing-"blind to light" from Alex Teh

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:00:00 +0000

It is great to see more and more people joining Buy1GIVE1 everyday. And everyday there are moments that really take our breath away. We come across unbelievable outcomes we never even imagined when we started. There was also this one moment this week that really got us all feeling deep gratitude.

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Impact from unrelated situations

Masami Sato — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Interesting questions often come up in life in seemingly unrelated situations. For example, last night I was at a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) briefing listening to a CSR specialist talking about the importance of harnessing the power of Social Media. He spoke about how, via cyberspace, we can speak out powerfully about what is happening in our world. "We can even impact corporations that are not being socially responsible," he said. The facts (or often rumours) of how things are produced by exploiting others are revealed by people (for example, the factory workers in China) who now have the power to communicate their thoughts and feelings through the ether like...

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Honestly Woman - the World�s First Buy1GIVE1 Magazine

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:00 +0000

The very first ‘Buy1GIVE1’ magazine just started contributing and giving back through the new Buy1GIVE1 online mechanism last month. The Power of Sharing Many thanks and congratulations to Bev Ryan, the editor of Honestly Woman magazine for making it happen (and for making a difference).

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Twitter and B1G1- Explosive growth

Elvin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Some reports suggest that the micro-blog platform, Twitter, is growing at the rate of 131 per month. That’s huge. As one commentator put it ‘At that pace of growth everyone on the planet will be Twittering by 22 December, 2009’. And B1G1 is part of that growth too.

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When we forget, the story still continues-support to Afghanistan children through B1G1

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:00:00 +0000

When something like a natural disaster happens, we talk about it a lot. The media reports the news with incredibly shocking or moving photographs and stories. The whole world starts taking action to support the ones in need. However, as the time passes, even though the story still continues, we forget. The media is no longer interested in it because there is other news they want to feature.

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How my broken glasses gave sight through B1G1

Paul — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000

If you're like me and you have glasses, you treat them 'not well'. Mine get (or used to get) pounded. And eventually they simply gave up - first a simple matter of the lens falling out. And then, two days later, they split in two right across the little piece that goes across the nose (I think it's called a 'nose bridge').

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Life is an open secret a book by Zabrina Bakar to feed a child

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:00:00 +0000

Zabrina A. Bakar is a wonderfully talented author and one of our latest B1G1 BUSINESS members. She's totally radiant and simply delightful to spend time with. Zabrina took all of 3 seconds to make her Buy1GIVE1 giving happen. Zabrina got to know of Buy1GIVE1 just a few weeks before the launch of her second book. She always believed in giving back and has supported a number of charities in the past. However, encountering Buy1GIVE1 was a real eye-opener to a new world of giving for her. She even came up with the cause she wanted to support locally and suggested this cause to come on board with B1G1.

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Perspective on Billions and lots of Zeros

Paul — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:00:00 +0000

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