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While the Sudan and the tsunami-affected countries are receiving strong financial support, the response to most humanitarian crises around the world remains severely under-funded and neglected. Far exceeding the initial aid request of $3.6 billion for emergency relief and recovery efforts, donors have now pledged an impressive $4.5 billion to Sudan for 2005 to 2007. More remarkable has been the response of the international community and donor governments to the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami. The international community has pledged $6.7 billion in aid to the tsunami-affected countries.

A Kenyan woman who won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to plant 30 million trees in Africa has started a campaign to plant 1 billion more.
Wangari Maathai said her project will help fight climate change and poverty worldwide, since trees sponge up greenhouse gases, help anchor topsoil to prevent erosion, and provide cheap building material for homes.
Ms. Maathai announced the campaign, which she hopes will be a worldwide movement, as 189 countries met in Nairobi for a United Nations summit on climate change.

By pledging $31-billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the investor Warren Buffett made it to the top of BusinessWeek’s annual list of the nation’s most-generous donors. Just to be one of the top 50 givers meant donating at least $157-million - up from $120-million in 2005.  BusinessWeek’s rankings are based on the amount pledged or donated over the past five years. Mr. Buffett has given or pledged a total of $40-billion, and was followed on the list by Bill and Melinda Gates, who has given $3.3-billion over the past five years.

PATH is leading the effort, millions of vials of two new vaccines will be bought that combat rotavirus and several strains of pneumonia. Rotavirus is an intestinal bug that causes dehydration, fever, severe diarrhea, and vomiting. It kills approximately 500,000 children per year. By the end of 2007, the new vaccines will be given to children in South America and other developing countries.

The William J. Clinton Foundation has brokered deals with two Indian pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of HIV/AIDS drugs for children, making the lifesaving drugs more accessible worldwide.
Starting in 2007, Cipla and Ranbaxy Laboratories will make nineteen different retroviral drugs available to HIV-positive children at prices as low as sixteen cents a day, or less than $60 a year, allowing an additional 100,000 children in sixty-two countries to receive treatment at a cost that is about 45 percent below current prices in developing countries. Unitaid — a Geneva-based consortium formed by France, Brazil, Chile, Norway, and Britain — will provide $35 million for the initiative, while the Clinton Foundation will contribute $15 million.

The GAVI Alliance has announced plans to finance the purchase of rotavirus vaccines to curb childhood deaths in the world's poorest countries.
GAVI is allocating $200 million to enable developing countries to begin using the vaccines after their introduction this year. The funds, which would accelerate the introduction of new vaccines to developing nations by as much as fifteen years, could also save more than $71 million in direct medical costs. See Press Release

On 22 November Hilary Benn spoke to NGOs at BOND’s Annual Meeting in London. He encouraged NGOs to continue to hold Department For International Development (DFID) to account, but at the same time called for more responsibility when communicating with the public. Running negative stories in the media to grab the public’s attention undermines support for development.
Hilary Benn said: ‘We shouldn’t assume that the public are immune to a barrage of bad news stories or cynicism. For if there is one thing I fear most – cynicism. Cynicism won’t get one child into school, or prevent a woman dying in childbirth. Most NGOs understand this. Some do not.’ Whole speech is available here

Steven Gerrard is not only a hero to Liverpool and England supporters, but also to some of the World’s poorest children. Steven has agreed to Captain a “fantasy” football team of International soccer stars to support the International Childrens Trust, a charity that works with extremely vulnerable children globally. Gerrard leads a team which includes Tim Howard, Dominic Matteo, Chris Riggott, Jamie Carragher, Tim Cahill, Scott Parker, Robbie Keane and Emile Heskey. Details of the team will be sent to the thousands of children that ICT support across the world. All the players have generously committed funds to ICT to try to help end the cycle of ill health, low self esteem, unemployment and abuse and the potential criminality that so many children face in the developing world. http://www.ictinfo.org.uk/homeindex.html

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GRANTS OFFERED
This section links you to funders who invite you to submit grant applications if you qualify. Follow the links for details

Environment

Deadline: Rolling

Global Greengrants Fund makes small grants (typically $500 to $5,000) to grassroots organizations working to help people promote environmental justice. Global Greengrants Fund accepts applications on activities such as capacity-building & technical assistance, film or video projects, monitoring of human rights, publications, reporting of human rights violations, scholarships/fellowships, research, seminars, conferences, meetings services, training and travel around the world. For more information, see www.greengrants.org/advisors.html

Deadline: 19 December, 2006
A program of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Doris Duke Operations Research on AIDS Care and Treatment in Africa program seeks to help improve the care and treatment of AIDS patients in resource-limited settings. The 2007 ORACTA competition will provide up to ten two-year grants of up to $100,000 per year to teams of investigators conducting health operations research on AIDS care and treatment in Africa. The program is interested in a spectrum of health services research, including operations and implementation research, related to AIDS care and treatment in Africa.
The complete 2007 Request for Proposals is available here

Women

Deadline: Rolling

Mama Cash is one of the very few international women's rights funds working at the global level with a critical focus on cutting-edge issues. The strength of Mama Cash stems from the belief that women worldwide know both how to prioritise their struggles and have the best solutions to address them. With great courage, solidarity and creativity, women throughout the world strive to improve their own lives and those of other women. Mama Cash, as part of such movements, supports this work, particularly the most pioneering and groundbreaking women's rights initiatives.
Mama Cash supports small groups, often newly established and ones that have difficulty finding resources elsewhere because of theirs small size or original approach. Apply for a grant

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DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN GRANTMAKERS FUNDRAISING FROM AMERICA FUNDRAISING FROM AMERICAN VISITORS £9.50, $17.83, €13.96 £9.50, $17.83, €13.90 £6.50, $12.20, €9.55 THE ASIA PACIFIC RIM IS NEXT:DIRECTORY OF ASIA PACIFIC GRANTMAKERS is published soon

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GRANTS RECEIVED
Identifies funders who make cross border grants and gives examples of actual funding. If you are interested in similar funding follow the links.

Education

The Goldman Sachs Foundation has announced $9.4 million in grants in support of its commitment to the academic and leadership development of young people around the world.
Awarded to programs in the United States, Europe, and Asia, the grants will promote math and science education and improve access to colleges and universities for promising students from disadvantaged backgrounds. They include awards totaling $1.5 million to the University of Manchester, the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham to replicate the Masterclass program, which prepares secondary school students from disadvantaged urban backgrounds to enroll and succeed at top universities across the United Kingdom. The foundation also awarded $1.4 million to the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh to launch the school's Access Program. For more information See the Press Releas

Environment

The Ford Foundation has announced an initial grant of $2.2 million to build understanding of environmental hazards in Vietnam and bring much needed health services to people there living with long-term disabilities. Ford Foundation hopes the important series of grants on environmental research and public health will encourage new collaborations and partnerships with a broader array of international funders and organizations.
View the press release

Health

Responding to the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS) has announced a €30 million ($38.1 million) investment in three nonprofit Product Development Partnerships— the largest investment to research and the development of new tools to combat the pandemic ever made by a single country.
DGIS will award €18.4 million ($23.4 million) to the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation for pre-clinical work and clinical trials of two of the world's most promising TB vaccine candidates; €8 million ($10.2 million) to the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) to expand its portfolio of new, novel TB drug discovery projects, develop tools and processes to speed clinical development; and €4 million ($5.1 million) to the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, to accelerate the development, evaluation, and demonstration of rapid diagnostic tests to detect TB in phlegm and urine. All three awards will be made over a four-year period. More Information

International

The 237 organizations that received grants ranged throughout the world in the Foundation’s seven primary areas of interest: The environment, education, global development, performing arts, philanthropy, population and regional grants. See Press Release
Among the International highlights:

Science & Technology

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced grants totalling $17.5 million to Botswana, Latvia, and Lithuania through its Global Libraries initiative.
Latvia was awarded $16.2 million to provide all Latvian libraries with broadband Internet connections and up to three new computers, build wi-fi networks for library users, and offer basic computer training to librarians and patrons. Lithuania received $220,396 to plan a national effort designed to provide free access to computers and the Internet in its libraries. And Botswana was awarded $1.1 million to plan and launch a national effort to put computers and Internet connectivity in public libraries and village reading rooms. See Press Release

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AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

The 2006 winner of the world's largest humanitarian prize is not a familiar name. However, Women for Women International is a lifeline for more than 70,000 women in war-torn countries who are fighting to keep themselves and their children alive.
In September, the nonprofit received the $1.5 million Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the largest humanitarian award in the world, besting even the Nobel Prize.  Since its inception in 1996, Women for Women has come to the aid of 70,000 female victims of war in nine chaos-torn countries, including Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan. Women to Women provides emergency assistance and emotional support by matching the women with sponsors, or "sisters," from other countries who send encouraging letters and $27 a month for water, food and other necessities.
To learn more about Women to Women International visit http://www.womenforwomen.org

Closing date 15 February 2007
The  Non-Governmental Public Action Programme funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)  is now calling for applications for practitioner fellowships and international fellowships.  These will be
based either with one of the NGPA research projects which are located in various UK universities or with the programme director at the London School of Economics.
For further details about the programme, please see http://www.lse.ac.uk/ngpa

Application Deadline: 18 December 2006
The Sheila McKechnie Awards are an annual bursary scheme for emerging and grassroots campaigners. The awards scheme offers a development package to campaigners new to the field or operating with very little resources to be equipped with the skills to make a greater impact and achieve real change. Campaigns can focus on global, national, regional or community issues in the UK. More information

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The UK Fund for Charities assists charitable organizations outside the United Kingdom identify current UK fundraising opportunities. For example, contributions from UK taxpayers can be increased by 28% using the UK government’s Gift Aid. This is significant for schools, colleges and universities which have graduates or alumni in the UK, or for any charity with UK supporters, even just one! For full information contact the UK Fund Administrator Jenny Haley jenny.haley@chapel-york.com

DIRECTORY OF EUROPEAN GRANTMAKERS FUNDRAISING FROM EUROPE PHILANTHROPY IN EUROPE 6 editions per year. £15.50, $29.00, €27.77 £15.50, $29.09, €27.77 £160, $300, €235 per year. See sample edition. THE ASIA PACIFIC RIM IS NEXT:DIRECTORY OF ASIA PACIFIC GRANTMAKERS is published soon

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CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, MEETINGS & TRAINING

14-15 April 2007, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA
More than 300 Renowned Speakers From North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe - An Energizing Weekend of Ideas and Exchange of Best Practices to Achieve Global Goals and to Make a Difference
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php

20-25 January 2007, Nairobi, Kenya
The World Social Forum International Council, in its meeting held in Parma, Italy, from 10-12 October, 2006, has advanced in the preparation for the next edition of World Social Forum, to be held in Nairobi, 20-25 January 2007. The World Social Forum is an innovative process, which continues to expand and deepen itself through world, regional, national, local and thematic events as well as struggles, campaigns and actions that reaffirm commitment for another world that is possible, necessary and urgent. For more information 

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BLOGS, BOOKS & REPORTS

Americans donate a greater share of the country's economic output to charity than do the residents of 11 other countries, according to a new study.
The report, by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) in the United Kingdom, found that giving in the United States equals 1.67 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. The United Kingdom was second among the 12 counties in the study, at 0.73 percent. France was last, at 0.14 percent.
Religious giving accounts for much of the difference between the United States and other nations, the study found. About 60 percent of the variation between the United States and the United Kingdom, the report states, is due to the higher rate at which Americans donate to religious organizations.
United Kingdom give a much higher percentage of their donations to international causes, however, with 13 percent of all giving in the United Kingdom going overseas, compared with just 3 percent of American contributions.
The Charities Aid Foundation works with individuals, companies, and charities in the United Kingdom to facilitate charitable giving. The report is available on its Web site.

Philanthropy UK has launched The Philanthropy Directory, the new, comprehensive guide to the wide range of charitable services and products for UK givers.  You can search the Directory at www.philanthropyuk.org/PhilanthropyDirectory.asp.

Fundraising: CULTURAL GIVING by Theresa Lloyd Fundraising: WHY RICH PEOPLE GIVE by Theresa Lloyd Just a bit of fun! FOYBEL: The Baby Dragon by Phillip Coote £15.50, $29.00, €27.00 £15.50, $29.00, €27.00 £8.99, $18.00, €13.00

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WEBSITES

Back in May, Grants & Resources featured Cancer Charity Tour- a solo cycle ride to follow the Tour de France 2006 Route- helping to raise funds for CLIC Sargent, La Ligue Contre Le Cancer, and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. The cycle ride has now been completed and Cancer Charity Tour wishes to thank everyone who showed support by sponsoring the adventure! For more information visit www.cancercharitytour.com

Perhaps the most up to date and comprehensive listings of human rights training opportunities - in total 107 courses: 75 Masters degrees and 32 short courses http://www.humanrightstools.org/training/training.htm

If you are not using email to raise funds and to generate support for your organization, you are missing a very big boat. Email is immediate and personal. It is also inexpensive, easy to segment and to analyze. If you have been overwhelmed at the prospect of learning how to do email -- opt in? opt out? validation? -- you can check out a free white paper from Eugene Sefanov. It gives a quick overview of email from capturing email addresses, to managing a clean list, to specific tactics used by real organizations. You can download the free E-Mail Fundraising For Nonprofit Organizations: A Direct Marketing Powerhouse at the Direct Marketing Association website. You will have to register at the site but registration is free. 

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Give or Take.com is an innovative way for charities to gain from the huge increase in online shopping over Christmas.  Giveortake.com is a massive online market place designed to raise money for its charity partners - all by harnessing the power of the shopping public!  Once signed up, shoppers can click through to over 500 leading stores including John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, Currys and Virgin.  They're rewarded with money back on their purchases, which they can either keep or give to their favourite charity.  Sound interesting? Please visit www.giveortake.com

PRODUCTS & SERVICES DIRECTORY
Below is a selection of Products & Services that have recently been posted online at Chapel & Yorks New Products & Services Directory.

Advertise fundraising Jobs on UK Fundraising Company: UK Fundraising                        Phone: 01206 579081 UK Fundraising has been publishing fundraising job vacancies online since 1995. With 19,000+ registered users and a #1 Google.com ranking for searches on 'fundraising' it's a key site for fundraisers and the fundraising industry. Jobs can be posted on our website for up to six weeks, and also get included in our fortnightly email newsletter to 9,500+ subscribers.

Fundraising Made Easy                 Company:Just Giving                      Phone:+44 20 7549 2222 Justgiving is the leading charity fundraising website, enabling ordinary people to raise extraordinary amounts of money for the causes they care about. Since the launch in 2001, Just Giving member charities have collected over £100 million in online donations through our website. We provide fun and easy-to-use online fundraising tools that capture donations electronically and reclaim Gift Aid automatically— saving charity supporters a lot of hassle and charities themselves a lot of time and cost.

Charity Rewarding Search Engine   Company: EveryClick.com       Phone: +44 (0) 870 005 5050 Everyclick.com is a search engine that gives half of the revenue it generates to charity. Use it to raise money for your favourite charity whenever you search the web. Last year search engines generated close to £3.2 billion - just imagine how your selected charity could benefit if you and your friends all used everyclick.com to support them whenever you searched the web. All you need to do is select the charity you would like to support, there's absolutely no charge to you or the charities involved.

Recycle your old mobile and raise funds for Charity Company: Crosslinks                            Phone:020 8691 6111 Recycle your old mobile phone and raise funds for Crosslinks. Click to find out more: www.crosslinks.org/what/news/060822phones.htm Registered Charity 24 99 86

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WORLDWIDE JOBS DIRECTORY
Below are a selection of Job Opportunites that have recently been posted online at Chapel & Yorks Worldwide Jobs Directory.

Assistant Research Co-ordinator
Company:	Transparency International
Salary:	NGO Level
Location:	Berlin, Germany
Job type:	Full time
Closing Date for Applications: 8 January, 2007

Head of Fundraising
Company:	MS Society
Salary:	£36,000
Location:	NW London, UK
Job type:	Full Time
Closing Date for Applications: 20 December, 2006

Finance Officer
Company:	Pump Aid
Salary:	£25,000 - £35,000 pa
Location:	London, UK
Job type:	Full time
Closing Date for Applications: 31 December, 2006

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GOOD GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS DIRECTORY
Below are a selection of Good Gifts that have recently been posted online at Chapel & Yorks Good Gifts for Christmas Directory.

Send a Cow
Company: Livestock For Life    Phone: +44 (01444) 831177 The Send a Cow Christmas Catalogue is the perfect way to give gifts that will go on making a difference for years to come. What better way to celebrate the spirit of Christmas than by giving direct, practical help to African farmers trapped in poverty.

Christmas Cards
Company: Fund For Epilepsy          Phone: +44 20 7592 3270 We have 7 fantastic NEW designs for Christmas 2006. Send Fund for Epilepsy branded cards to your family and friends to help us to continue to raise money to find the "causes and cures" for Epilepsy and help spread the message! To view the catalouge visit the website and click the link at the bottom of the homepage.

Greeting Cards, Books and Posters

Company:World Pheasant Association Phone:0845 2410929 Christmas and greetings cards, books and posters. All proceeds to support the vital conservation work which the World Pheasant Association undertakes. The World Pheasant Association is dedicated to the survival of all 300 species of pheasant, their relatives, and their habitats. One of the most threatened groups in the world, these species are vital to rural livelihoods in Asia, Africa and Latin America. WPA undertakes urgent projects, trains conservationists and successfully influences policies where threats are acute, as in China, the Himalayas and South America. We guarantee that contributions are spent wisely. Please help save these most important and spectacular birds from extinction.

Know-how For Beekeepers

Company:Bees for Development Trust Phone:01600 713648 For poor and marginalised people, information and knowledge are often the most valuable things you can give. We have a list of beekeepers who are looking for a sponsor to pay £20 to receive a year's subscription to Bees for Development Journal. As well as keeping beekeepers up to date, the Journal is packed full of instructions on topics such as: making beehives and protective clothing, harvesting clean, good quality honey and planting trees useful for bees. Knowledge is power! To make this gift, and for more information about the UK charity Bees for Development Trust, please go to www.beesfordevelopment.org

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