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Arts, Culture & Humanities
Chamber Music America Offers French American Jazz Exchange Program
The French-American Jazz Exchange was created by Chamber Music America http://www.chamber-music.org, the French Embassy, and the French American Cultural Exchange http://facecouncil.org to foster collaborative projects that unite French and American jazz artists. The program supports initiatives in both countries.
In forming international relationships, artists are encouraged to think beyond traditional boundaries. Collaborations with musicians who champion world, electronic, contemporary classical, or other genres are welcome. French and American citizens or legal residents are encouraged to apply. Grants are for up to $10,000 each. http://www.chamber-music.org
Tourism Cares Offers Worldwide Grant Program
Deadline: November 1, 2006
Tourism Cares http://www.tourismcares.org/, the tourism industry's non-profit organization, awards charitable grants through its Worldwide Grant Program to worthy tourism-related non-profit organizations worldwide for capital improvements as well as education programs in conservation and preservation.
The program's primary consideration is to fund projects and programs whose goal is capital improvements that serve to protect, restore, or conserve sites of exceptional cultural, historic, or natural significance; or the education of local host communities and the travelling public about conservation and preservation of sites of exceptional cultural, historical, or natural significance. Based on merit and availability of funds, grants of up to $100,000 will be considered.
http://www.tourismcaresfortomorrow.org/TourismCares/What We Do/Grants/Worldwide Grant Program/
Education
International Dissertation Research Fellowship Program Supports Research Outside the United States
The International Dissertation Research Fellowship program supports full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States, regardless of citizenship, conducting dissertation research outside the United States. Fifty fellowships of approximately $20,000 each will be awarded in 2007 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation http://www.mellon.org/. The program is administered by the Social Science Research Council http://www.ssrc.org/ in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies http://www.acls.org/. Deadline: November 1, 2006
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/idrf/
Human Services
Big Lottery Fund – International Strategic
Open for applications until 26 January 2007.
Minimum grant: £1 million. Maximum grant: £5 million. Total available: £30 million.
The International programme is Big Lottery Fund’s way of helping disadvantaged communities overseas. This £72 million programme will support work that tackles the causes of poverty and deprivation, and brings about a long-term difference to the lives of the most disadvantaged people across the globe. They will make £30 million available to fund projects that aim to deliver one or more of the following outcomes: Improved mother and child health; Improved primary education, with a specific focus on girls; Improved measures to prevent HIV/AIDS and mitigate its impact. International Strategic will fund projects in sub-Saharan Africa, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and a selection of states in India. They will award grants of between £1 million and £5 million to lead organisations, working with a range of partners within the UK and overseas. Full details, Guidance notes and Application Forms are available on the website: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_international_strategic.htm?regioncode=-uk&progStatus=open&status=theProg&title=International Strategic
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WINNER! WARREN BUFFETT COMPETITION
In the last edition of Grants & Resources we were pleased to announce that Vincent Onyima had won our competition ‘What would you do with Warren Buffett’s Money?’ below is Mr Oniyma’s winning entry:
 “If I had Warren Buffett’s money, I would provide excellence in computer education, an HIV/AIDS prevention campaign, as well as providing clean water and modern health care facilities in Nigeria and other countries of the West African sub-region.I would offer a variety of programs that will serve community members of every background. My programs will be a cornerstone in an effort to bring technology to low income teenagers in Africa. To reach this mission, I will launch an innovative partnership with some non-profit organizations through our own Human Welfare foundation, also a charity organization mainly based in Nigeria-which I am the executive director [website: www.hwf-nigeria.org]I would also fund an innovative computer program for young people. The program will serve thousands of education and economic opportunities created by information technology. I would work to bring computer and Internet access, creating education opportunities to all the community members in the region through a variety of programs.Further more, I would initiate an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign. The campaign would publish news and information about the dangers of high-risk sexual behaviours and encourage people to have safe sex through supplying them condoms.Additionally, as water shortages and other infrastructures reach a crisis stage in some places, I would employ contractors to construct boreholes, wells, and good road networks and supply hospitals with modern medical equipment to save lives and thereby create job opportunities to the poor and the needy in the ever-growing population in the region.”
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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
Arts, Culture & Humanities
To help connect individuals who are interested in surveying, defining and advancing cultural rights, and to document selected case studies: $300,000 has been granted to the International Music Council (France) http://www.unesco.org/imc/back.php?typ=0&subsite=0 by the Ford Foundation www.fordfound.org.
Civil Society, Civil Rights
Anti-Slavery International for the Protection of Human Rights (England, UK) has been granted $200,000 by the Ford Foundation www.fordfound.org to study and document abductions, forced labor, and slavery in western Sudan and to circulate the findings.
Education
Ford Foundation www.fordfound.org has granted $325,00 to AfriHUB (Nigeria) http://www.afrihub.com/ to develop computer-literacy programs for students at Nigerian universities and polytechnic schools.
Environment
EU Transparency (England, UK) has received a grant for $176,000 from the Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/Default.htm that will support www.farmsubsidy.org, a website that provides information on subsidies from the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy.
The Goldman Foundation www.goldmanfund.org has granted $280,000 to Israel Union for Environmental Defence http://www.iued.org.il/default.aspx for its environmental advocacy efforts.
Health
To support research on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation www.gatesfoundation.org has granted $500,000,000 over five years to Global Fund (Geneva, Switzerland) http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/.
The Ford Foundation www.fordfound.org, Elton John AIDS Foundation www.ejaf.org and Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation www.kff.org : $1,000,000 to the Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS for its work broadcasting information about the disease on television and radio stations throughout the Caribbean.
Human Services
A $30,000 grant made by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/Default.htm to the African Population and Health Research Centre (Kenya) will go towards programs to promote the well-being of Africans in slum communities
The Grameen Foundation http://www.gfusa.org/ has announced a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm in support of its microfinance efforts worldwide. To advance its strategic plan, Grameen will use the unrestricted grant to reach five million new families, ensure that at least half of them permanently escape poverty within five years of becoming a microfinance client, and champion innovations that transform the microfinance industry.
A $382,500 grant has been made by the Ford Foundation www.fordfound.org to the World Population Foundation (Netherlands) http://www.wpf.org/home_gb to expand a pilot theatre project for children that relates to sexuality and reproductive health rights.
To provide emergency services to the women and children who have been displaced in Lebanon by the recent air strikes on that country; a $15,000 grant from Global Fund for Women www.globalfundforwomen.org has been awarded to Collective Research and Training on Development-Action (Beirut, Lebanon).
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Google.org – the philanthropic arm of Google
The founders of Google have set up a philanthropy, with its main aim to tackle poverty, disease and global warming. However, unlike most charities, it will be for-profit, allowing it to fund start up companies and form partnerships with venture capitalists.
The fist project shows the philanthropy’s different approach. Google.org plans to develop an ultra-fuel-efficient plug-in hybrid car engine that runs on ethanol, electricity and gasoline.
By choosing for-profit status, Google will have to pay taxes if company shares are sold at a profit. Shareholders may not like the fact that the Google.org tax forms will not be made public, but kept private as part of the tax fillings of the parent Google Inc.
Find out more about this new philanthropy at: http://www.google.org/
MacArthur Announces First Awards for Creative, Effective Nonprofits
The MacArthur Foundation http://www.macfound.org has announced the recipients of the first annual MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions for small nonprofits around the world that have shown unusual effectiveness and creativity.
Nine organizations in five countries will each receive up to $500,000 and have their work featured in a series of fall seminars that will be open to other nonprofits, providing an opportunity for mutual learning. The 2006 award recipients, which have diverse missions from finding permanent jobs for ex-offenders in Chicago to promoting police reform in Nigeria are Boston-based RealBenefits; the North Lawndale Employment Network in Chicago; the Chicago Rehab Network; Knowledge Ecology International, with offices in London, Geneva, and Washington, D.C.; Fundar: Centro de Análisis e Investigación in Mexico City; the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law in Lima; Moscow-based Independent Council of Legal Expertise; the CLEEN Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria; and the Society for Education, Action, and Research in Community Health (SEARCH) in Maharashtra, India.
Gates Foundation Help Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced four grants totalling $68.2 million to help fund research on neglected tropical diseases, which kill millions of people in the world's poorest countries every year. One of the grants will support a new medical journal devoted to neglected diseases.
To view the four grants in full: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/Pri_Diseases/OtherInfectiousDiseases/Announcements/Announce-060914.htm
Humanitarian access is the urgent priority as UK announces new emergency help for Lebanon
Hilary Benn, British cabinet member and secretary of state for International development, called on all sides to abide by the ceasefire so that urgently needed humanitarian assistance can get through to the hundreds of thousands of affected Lebanese people.
He also announced a further £6 million in UK aid, which includes money for water and sanitation, and for helping humanitarian supplies to get to the south of the country, through the provision of emergency bridging and mine-clearing activities.
Speaking from Lebanon, he said: "Lebanon faces a humanitarian emergency. Nearly one million people have had to flee their homes and some are in urgent need of basic supplies, although people are now starting to return. Infrastructure has been badly damaged and aid has struggled to get through. I am particularly concerned about the 100,000 people or so who have been caught up in the fighting south of the Litani River.
"We all need to work urgently with the Government of Lebanon to ensure we provide the right aid for immediate needs. That is why the UK, which is already one of the leading bilateral donors, is making an additional £6 million available. This will assist thousands displaced from their homes, as well as provide help to get the aid to those who've been cut off by the fighting.
"The additional £6 million ($11.4 million) will bring the total UK contribution to the relief effort to £12.5 million ($23.75 million). UK funding so far has helped provide and deliver emergency food and water supplies, sanitation and expertise through a range of international organisations, the UN and European Commission. This new funding will help improve humanitarian access, including emergency bridging and mine clearance. The UK continues to monitor the situation and we stand ready to do more as needed."
British Charity's Account Frozen
The Charity Commission, Britain’s charity watchdog, has frozen the bank accounts of Crescent Relief, a nonprofit group, on suspicion that it helped support a plot to bomb American-bound planes departing from London. The commission has opened a formal investigation into the charity, which says it has been raising money for earthquake victims in Pakistan. Rashid Rauf, one of the 11 suspects in the terror plot discovered in London, is the son of the charity’s founder, Abdul Rauf. It is unclear whether the elder Rauf is a suspect in the investigation.
McCartney Skips Event, Gives Money Instead
A fund-raising concert scheduled for October for the non-profit group Adopt-a-Minefield was cancelled after the singer Paul McCartney withdrew from the event. Mr. McCartney said that instead of performing, he would donate $3-million to the charity, which he has supported with his wife, Heather Mills. The couple, who have jointly hosted the event since 2001, are in the process of divorcing. In 2005 the concert raised $3-million.
Warren Buffett Makes First Payment to Gates Foundation
The investor Warren E. Buffett has transferred $1.6-billion worth of stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the first instalment in Mr. Buffett’s plan to award the bulk of his fortune to the philanthropy. Mr. Buffett announced in June that he planned to give the Gates Foundation about 85 percent of his fortune, and said the foundation must distribute the money in the same year it is donated.
George Soros Pledges $50 Million to Millennium Promise
Financier and Open Society Institute founder George Soros has pledged $50 million to New York City-based Millennium Promise to help eliminate poverty in dozens of African villages.
The gift will support thirty-three villages in ten Sub-Saharan countries. Each village has roughly five thousand people and will require an investment of $300,000 a year for five years for the project to be successfully completed. The funds will also pay for practical and proven interventions aimed at meeting the Millennium Development Goals, including bed nets to prevent malaria, fertilizers to replenish depleted soils, school lunches for malnourished children, and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS
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AWARDS &
FELLOWSHIPS
Global People's Choice Award Deadline: September 18
The 2006 International ePhilanthropy Awards drew nominations from all seven continents totalling a record 68 nominations. In this year's competition includes a new Global People's Choice Award, allowing you to be the judge. http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=109781
St Andrews Prize
The University of St Andrews and ConocoPhillips have announced the call for entries for the ninth international St Andrews Prize for the Environment.Applications are invited from individuals, multi-disciplinary teams or community groups for the 2007 annual prize of $50,000 for the winner and $10,000 for each of the two runners-up.The primary objective of the prize is to find innovative solutions to environmental problems. The solutions should be practical, combining good science, economic reality and political acceptability. The prize offers people from all backgrounds around the world the chance to help transform their environmental ideas into reality and also provides a network of connections and support. Anyone wishing to enter the 2007 prize should submit a single page project summary of no more than 500 words by 31 October 2006. Full details about the Prize, and how to enter are available at Website: www.thestandrewsprize.com
The John Smith Fellowship Programme 2007
The John Smith Memorial Trust is currently seeking applications from potential candidates for its 2007 Fellowship Programme, to take place in June/July next year. The Programme aims to strengthen and deepen democratic awareness and good governance through a study programme in the UK and placements that show the workings of democratic organisations and their role within a democratic society. Applications for Fellowships are invited from: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.The Trust can only accept applications from the seven countries listed above. Further information about recruitment criteria, application details and deadlines can be obtained from the Trust’s website:
http://www.johnsmithmemorialtrust.org/Web/Site/Programme/how_to_apply.asp
Women for Women International wins 2006 Hilton Humanitarian Prize
Women for Women International in Washington, D.C., has been named the winner of the 2006 Hilton Humanitarian Prize, which comes with a $1.5 million award, one of the largest monetary prizes, in any category, in the world.Women for Women International (WWI) works with female survivors of war and conflict in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan. Picking up where humanitarian aid leaves off, WWI has served more than 70,000 women, assisted 380,000 family members, and distributed approximately $28 million in direct aid and micro-credit loans.
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NEW ON KARINA HOLLY'S BLOG
Karina Holly is a journalist, researcher, and editor of Philanthropy in Europe. Her blog provides fundraisers with unique insight and comment on developments in funding practice as well as information on new funders and sources of funding in Europe and beyond. Sometimes provocative, sometimes critical, always authoritative. PiE's print publication, see copy and purchase on line www.chapel-york.com, is an essential addition to this blog.
New on Karina’s blog: Corporate Philanthropy
“For a company to create added value, it must always place the primary focus on social values. However, this understanding can only be successful for the long term if…”
Corporate Europe outstrips the US“Europe’s leading corporate foundations are giving more than their US counterparts and have a much greater international focus”
To view the blog entries: http://philanthropyineurope.blogspot.com/
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BOOKS & REPORTS
The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law
The International Center for Non-for-Profit Law (INCL) has released Volume 8, Number 4 (August 2006) of ‘The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law’. Special Section: Accountability, Effectiveness, and Independence — Striking the Proper Balance. To view the complete current journal as well as past volumes, visit http://www.icnl.org/knowledge/ijnl/vol8iss4/index.htm
Mott Foundation launches 2005 Annual Report
The Mott Foundation's 2005 Annual Report is now available online at Mott.org. The report -- under the theme of "Real People. Real Stories. Real Impact." -- highlights 10 individuals whose lives have been changed by organizations supported by Mott Foundation grants. Click below to access the homepage of the report
http://mott.org/publications/websites/annual2005/
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CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, MEETINGS
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GLOBAL TIE 1st International Educator’s Forum: Global Trends and Innovations in Education
Lucknow, India 16-18th October 2006
Discuss trends in education, in particular what should be the underpinnings of an education in the 21st century. http://www.globaltie.net/
Workshop Challenges of Managing the Third Sector
Venice, Italy, on March 12-13, 2007
The purpose of the workshop 'The challenges of managing the third sector' is to present and discuss high quality research papers exploring contemporary challenges in managing all kinds of non profit organisations.Deadline for submission of papers is November 15. All further information can be found on
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=491
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WEBSITES
New online resource centre launched to assist international development community
A new online resource centre to support the knowledge needs of the international development community in relation to governance, conflict and social development, has been launched. The Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) aims to help reduce poverty by better informing policymaking. This initiative has been made possible with financial support provided by the UK Department for International Development. The GSDRC website features include a document library of the most up-to-date credible publications available in the the field; a helpdesk to help users locate desk-based research and consultants; a conferences and training directory which lists details of upcoming events, conferences and training of interest to governance, conflict, and social development professionals and an organisations directory which provides contact details with an overview of objectives and areas of activity for different organisations. http://www.gsdrc.org/
Charities Aid Foundation has partnered with eBay for Charity to bring the ‘Give it up for Charity’ Challenge.
The Give it up for Charity Challenge will run throughout October as part of National Giving Week. All you need to do is mobilise as many people as you can to sell items on eBay.co.uk in October and donate between 10% and 100% to your charity.
Anything put up for sale through the eBay for Charity programme, including your own charity items, not only appears on the eBay worldwide marketplace in front of more than 200 million users, but are also highlighted with a distinctive blue and yellow ribbon, making them easy for people to find. To get involved, visit www.missionfish.org.uk/ngw and sign-up to learn more about eBay for Charity and the Give it up for Charity Challenge.
Final closing date for the Challenge is Friday 29th September 2006. Go to www.missionfish.org.uk/ngw now and be a part of the Give it up for Charity Challenge.
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| Philanthropy in Europe |
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The ‘Quality Life’ program, which seeks to improve the well-being of people who are paralysed.
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| Green. TV |
The first website to bring together films from a whole range of environmental organizations and independent filmmakers and make them available to anyone anywhere.
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