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The three-day interactive event, including master classes, panels, plenaries, mentoring and awards, shows not for profits how to get the most out of technology, training and strategy.

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Toby Whittington is the founder and CEO of Green World Revolution, a social enterprise that’s doing its bit for the planet and lifting people out of long-term unemployment. He’s this week’s Changemaker. 

Whittington has led many lives. For nearly 10 years he worked as a “living statue” street performer across the world before he fell into the world of fashion, where he started a successful fashion label that he thought he would run forever. 

But finding out that he couldn’t have kids flipped his perspective, and …