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A $3 Water Purifier That Could Save Lives
6,000 people a day — most of them children — die from water-borne diseases. Vestergaard Frandsen, a Danish textile company that supplies water filters to the Carter Center guinea worm eradication program and mosquito-killing plastic tarps to refugee camps, has come up with a new invention meant to render dangerous water drinkable.

The invention is called Lifestraw, a plastic tube with seven filters: graduated meshes with holes as fine as 6 microns (a human hair is 50 to 100 microns), followed by resin impregnated with iodine and another of activated carbon. It can be worn around the neck and lasts a year. Lifestraw isn’t perfect, but it filters out at least 99.99 percent of many parasites and bacteria.It is less effective against viruses, which are much smaller and cause diseases like polio and hepatitis, and it wouldn’t protect backpackers against the parasite giardia. Nor does it filter out metals like arsenic, and it has a slight iodine aftertaste (not necessarily a bad thing in the large stretches of the globe with iodine deficiency). It can be manufactured for about $3, but it needs more field-testing. Only about 100,000 have been handed out, 70,000 to earthquake victims in Kashmir last year.

Red Cross Urges Aid to North Koreans
North Korea should continue to receive humanitarian aid from around the world, despite its announcement that it tested a nuclear weapon, according to Jaap Timmer, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ delegation in Pyongyang.
In most years, North Korea falls short of about one million tons of the food it needs to feed its people and relies on food assistance from other countries. However, the North Korean government has been known to bristle over the aid it receives, occasionally insisting, even in the face of famine, that its people do not need humanitarian aid.

Grameen Bank and Its Founder Win Nobel Peace Prize
Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, which he founded, have won the Nobel Peace Prize for their pioneering use of microcredit to lift millions out of poverty. Founded in 1974, Grameen Bank was the first lender to make small loans to poor Bangladeshis who didn't qualify for loans from conventional banks. Since it was established, Grameen has lent $5.72 billion to more than six million Bangladeshis, provided services in more than 70,000 villages, and claims a 99 percent repayment rate. Yunus, the first Nobel Prize winner from Bangladesh, called the honor "great news for the whole nation" and said he would use part of his share of the $1.4 million prize to create a company to make low-cost, high-nutrition food. The rest will be used to set up an eye hospital for the poor in Bangladesh.

Actor Works to Bring Clean Water to Africa
A trip to film a documentary in one of the driest places on earth inspired the actor Matt Damon to help start a charity to support clean water programs on the African continent. Damon and the production team working on Running the Sahara, a documentary that follows ultra-marathoners as they attempt to run across the African desert, founded H2OAfrica to raise awareness and help programs that provide clean water. He said the water crisis facing the world is at its worst in Africa. The organization will identify areas in need of clean water as it crosses the continent during filming.

Celebrity Sponsors Dwarf Charities
Celebrities who sponsor charitable events and philanthropic organizations often end up drawing more attention than the causes they support.Over all, charities benefit from increased awareness of their causes. But, to take a recent example, while millions of people heard about Madonna adopting a child from Malawi, few knew she also founded Raising Malawi, a nonprofit group that assists other orphans in the country. Debate over Madonna’s intentions, specifically whether she adopted an African child because it was fashionable has been risen.

Some Foreign Charities in Russia Allowed to Resume
The Russian government has allowed 40 foreign nonprofit organizations to get back to work after forcing about 100 such groups to temporarily shut down.
A new law in Russia requires that all foreign nongovernmental organizations must register with its Justice Ministry. Scores of groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, had to suspend after their registrations were not processed in time for 18 October deadline. Many people say that the law is a way for the Kremlin to control and limit organizations that are critical of its practices, but the Justice Ministry insists that it is working as fast as possible to register the remaining groups and that the suspensions are not politically motivated.

Fund for London Bombings Victims Shuts Down
The London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund, a charity set up to help the victims and families of the 2005 terrorist attacks in London, has closed its doors. The group handed out $22-million following the attacks by four Muslim suicide bombers, which left 56 people dead and more than 700 injured.

Disease a big risk from Global Warming
The world is not doing enough to combat global warming, which left unchecked, could trigger a mass movement of people and have serious consequences for security . Experts have said that millions of people in densely populated, low-lying, developing countries such as Bangladesh and parts of China, Indonesia and Vietnam might be forced to move by rising sea levels.  
The world's top polluting nations agreed new energy-generating technologies are needed to curb global warming. Energy and environment ministers from the 20 biggest polluting countries have vowed to work faster to control greenhouse. Time is running out to avoid a more than 2 degrees Celsius average global temperature rise over pre-industrial revolution levels and technology agreements should urgently be explored. Two-thirds of the growth in energy demand in the next 25 years will be from developing countries mainly for transport as renewable energy ramps up but oil, gas and coal are still likely to fuel 83 percent of energy use in 2030.
The next meeting of energy and environment ministers to coordinate a global action plan to combat global warming is set for mid-2007 in Germany with the plan due to be set in 2008.

Oprah Donates Debit Cards for Charity
Oprah Winfrey, an American day-time chat show host, has given 300 audience members on her show debit cards worth $1,000 each that they can use to contribute to the charities of their choice. Oprah has given cars and other financial assistance to her audience in the past, but she quoted to say that the debit cards were her “favorite giveaway ever.” She added that she hoped the cards would allow audience members to experience the same happiness that being a philanthropist has brought to her. Audience members can donate the $1,000 to one organization or person in need, or they can split it up among many groups.

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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

Education

The Infinity Foundation
The Infinity Foundation is calling for project proposals to do research and/or develop educational materials, whose objective would be to improve the authenticity of portrayal of Indic traditions in the educational system. These projects would result in one or more of the following: books, curriculum development, articles, conferences, CD-ROMs, digital slide shows, Internet presentations, and audio/video materials. Topics covered may include: philosophy, history, religion, science, art and sociology, as they pertain to the educational curricula on Indic traditions. The Foundation provides national and international grants. Deadline: Rolling
http://www.infinityfoundation.com/index.shtml

Environment

BP Conservation Program Invites Applications for Future Conservationist Awards
The BP Conservation Program is offering Future Conservationist Awards of up to $12,500 each to teams of young conservationists who aim to develop their skills through practical conservation projects. These awards are highly competitive and winners are selected from among the highest-quality applications. BP will make $250,000 worth of funding available for winning projects. Deadline: November 24, 2006
For complete program information, application guidelines and forms, and examples of past winning projects, visit the program's Web site. http://conservation.bp.com/applications/fcawards.asp

Sport

Nike Accepting Applications for Bowerman Track Renovation Program
A philanthropic initiative of Nike, Inc., the Bowerman Track Renovation Program provides matching cash grants to community-based, youth-oriented organizations that seek to refurbish or construct running tracks.
Administered by Nike's Community Affairs department, this ten-year, $2 million program provides matching funds of up to $50,000 to youth-oriented nonprofit organizations anywhere in the world. The program distributes approximately $200,000 in matching grants each year. Deadline: Rolling
http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml?page=26&item=bowerman

Women

Dress for Success
Dress for Success Worldwide is an international non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of women located in 78 cities across the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and New Zealand.
The mission of Dress for Success is to advance low-income women's economic and social development and to encourage self-sufficiency through career development and employment retention. Dress for Success responds to the needs of select international communities by providing programs that help economically disadvantaged women acquire jobs, retain their new positions and succeed in the mainstream workplace. Deadline: Rolling
For more information about Dress for Success visit: http://www.dressforsuccess.org/home.aspx

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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.

Economic Development

For efforts to re-build Israel's economy and infrastructure in the wake of the recent air strikes on Israeli cities: The Koret Foundation has granted $3,000,000 to be distributed among non-profit organizations in Israel.

Environment

For efforts to provide clean water to people throughout sub-Saharan Africa: Case Foundation has awarded $5,000,000 jointly to PlayPumps International-South Africa (Johannesburg) and PlayPumps International (Washington DC).

Health

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it will invest $23 million over three years to enhance the capacity of India's HIV-prevention efforts.The commitment is part of an additional $58 million committed to Avahan the foundation's five-year, $258 million HIV prevention initiative in India. The new funding will support the training of staff at the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) to enhance their skills in project and financial management. More about grant here

Ford Foundation has donated $125,000 to Egyptian Society for Population Studies and Reproductive Health to develop a way to assess reproductive health services.
Ford Foundation has also showed interest in enabling youths to gain access to reproductive health services by granting the Youth Advancement Organization (Nigeria): $150,000.

Thanks to philanthropic efforts, programs are under way in Brazil to vaccinate the population against hookworm, one of the most widespread, and preventable, viral diseases in the third world. The programs were made possible by a $53-million donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which, along with the Rockefeller Foundation and Doctors Without Borders, has invigorated the treatment of neglected diseases in recent years.
Hookworm—which increases child mortality and stunts learning, in addition to causing economic harm through lost labor—was targeted because it was so widespread in Brazil. In some villages, up to 80 percent of people are infected, mostly because of poor sanitation.

Human Services

To help save the estimated two million children who die each year from severe diarrhea, the Gates Foundation will award $46-million to develop an anti-diarrhea drug.
OneWorld Health, a nonprofit drug company will administer the grants, which will be distributed to scientists in the United States, England, and Bangladesh for six and a half years of preclinical work and a limited number of human trials. OneWorld said the new drug was likely to be mixed with fluid medications already distributed to children in the third world, as opposed to being delivered as a separate pill or serum. The sought-after drug would inhibit a protein in the walls of the intestines.
Medical advocates welcomed the grant, which is the Gates Foundation’s largest yet to fight infectious diseases. But they warned that curing diarrhea would require stronger public-health measures as well, such as improving drinking water.

For medical research on Sanfilippo syndrome, a disease that results in abnormal cell functions: The MPS Society has granted $130,000 to Children, Youth and Women's Health Services to support the work of Doug Brooks (Australia).

International

Give2Asia and the Skoll Foundation have established a strategic partnership to increase charitable giving to causes in Asia. With a $300,000, multi-year grant from the Skoll Foundation, Give2Asia founded in 2001 by the Asia Foundation to promote private philanthropy will support efforts to generate $85 million for Asia between 2007 and 2010. According to Skoll Foundation president and CEO Sally Osberg, the partnership will enable the foundation to achieve a broader reach in Asia by leveraging the organization's direct knowledge of the region's most promising and innovative social entrepreneurs.
Give to Asia Press Release

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AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
Echoing Green
Echoing Green has an open application process for their fellowship program, which means that anyone who meets their eligibility requirements posted on their website and has a compelling and innovative idea for social change is welcome to apply. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2006.
Their 2007 application is now available at http://apply.echoinggreen.org/.

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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
Funding the Future Conference
Central Hall Westminster, London on 23 November
This annual event – organised by Action Planning with ACEVO, Third Sector and UK Fundraising – provides a valuable opportunity to meet the statutory, lottery and trust funders specifically interested in your field of work – and to network with colleagues from across the UK.  Speakers at the morning plenary session include the Third Sector Minister, the Compact Commissioner, the Chair of the Big Lottery Fund, the Chair of the Fundraising Standards Board, the Chief Executive of the Association of Charitable Foundations, the Strategy Director of ACEVO and the Director of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts.
More information: http://www.actionplanning.co.uk/

Making Globalisation Work
10 November 2006, Felix Meritis, Amsterdam
Joseph Stiglitz was a consultant to President Bill Clinton, held a top position at the World Bank, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001. Stiglitz, who is currently a professor at Columbia University , will deliver a lecture on Globalisation and its Discontents at the Felix Meritis European Centre for Arts and Sciences. For more information (in Dutch) see http://www.globaliseringslezing.nl

India Social Forum to take place
13 November 2006, India
The India Social Forum (ISF) 2006 is expected to be attended by nearly 60,000 people from India , Asia and Africa. The ISF will be held at the Exhibition Ground, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium with the theme “Building Another World: Visions for the Future”. The upcoming India Social Forum (ISF) 2006 focuses on engendering dialogue, optimism and hope, by creating a space that will enable a greater mobilisation of resources for an alternative future within India, Asia, and Africa. For more information, see http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/141122/1/1893

UK Fundraising Perfect Pitch - IT
30 November 2006  09.45 - 15.00
CCT Venues - Barbican, 135-137 Aldersgate Street, London EC1A 4JA
UK Fundraising is running a free one-day event presenting a range of IT specialists who can help your charity, voluntary or membership organisation. Find out how to get your donor database working effectively for your organisation, and discover the different ways in which IT can support your fundraising and marketing activities.
Find out more about the organisations attending http://www.fundraising.co.uk/perfectpitch?pageid=81

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BLOGS, BOOKS & REPORTS
World poverty rate cut in half since 1970
New research conducted by the Fraser Institute concludes that the world poverty rate is in decline. According to the report, between 212 and 428 million people escaped poverty in the past three decades. Researchers attribute these changes to the dramatic rise in economic growth of Asia, especially in China and India. In East Asia, for example, poverty rates fell to 2.4% in 2000 from 32.7% in 1970. Poverty fell to 2.5% from 30.3% in South Asia. Unfortunately, at the same time, the proportion of the African population living in poverty increased to 48.8% in 2000 from 35.1% in 1970. As a result, world poverty is now concentrated in Africa, currently home to 70% of the world's poor. View the Full Report (PDF)

Foundations in Europe outpace U.S.
Recently Philanthropy in Europe was featured in the UK Guardian Newspaper. The article is about how Europe’s largest corporate foundations give more than their counterparts in the U.S. and have a more focused approach to international charity. Philanthropy in Europe magazine ranked the 25 largest corporate funders in Europe and compared them to the top 25 in the U.S. and found the European firms outgave the American group by $680 million. Full Guardian Article

Karina Holly is a journalist, researcher, and editor of Philanthropy in Europe. To view Karina's Blog VIEW BLOG
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The Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
The Novartis Foundation (NFSD) for Sustainable Development Handbook bases its daily work on existing and deeply proven planning documents from Swiss and international organisations. The handbook does therefore not re-invent the wheel, but is a summary of best practises in international development cooperation. The purpose of the handbook is to orient and guide project managers of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development and of their partner organisations. The mission statement of the NFSD is to improve the quality of life for poor people in developing countries by addressing public health issues through projects, and to contribute to the development policy debate. Download the Management Handbook [PDF, 676KB]

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WEBSITES
Britain's Open University Launches Online Education Program
Funded by a $4.65 million grant from the Menlo Park, California-based William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Britain's Open University has announced the launch of a free online educational program.
The Web-based program, OpenLearn will provide students and teachers with access to nine hundred hours of study materials, from the introductory to post-graduate level, on eleven subjects ranging from the arts to science and technology. By April 2008, OpenLearn will have a total of five thousand hours of course materials available, presented in units that require three to fifteen hours of study time, including self-assessment activities.
Hewlett Foundation Press Release

New Data from GlobalHealthFacts.org
GlobalHealthFacts.org has expanded its country-level data with 40 new indicators across a wide range of areas and topics. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses. Globalhealthfacts.org, operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation, provides free, easy access to a range of global health information for all countries in the world, including key indicators for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Organizations are encouraged to link to GlobalHealthFacts.org. Linking information, including an interactive map that other websites are free to use, can be found at www.globalhealthfacts.org/linktous.jsp.

The Literacy Project
The Literacy Project is a resource for teachers, literacy organisations and anyone interested in reading and education.  It is currently available in German and English. Google, in conjunction with LitCam and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning, has formed The Literacy Project. The site, hosted at Google.com, brings together Google Book Search, Google Scholar, Google Video, Google Maps, Blogger, and Groups into one landing page. The site was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair with hopes to combat global illiteracy. Nikesh Arora, vice president of Google's European operations said, "Google's business was born out of a desire to help people find information."
http://www.google.com/literacy/

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

Assistant Professor in Public Management
Company:	University of Albany
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Closing Date for Applications: December 15 , 2006

Collaborative Fund-Raising Facilitator
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Below are a selection of Good Gifts that have been posted online at Chapel & Yorks Good Gifts for Christmas Directory recently.

Adopt a Donkey From the Holy Land

Company: SHADH                   Phone: +44 (01444) 831177

Great idea for animal lovers Worldwide. Why not give someone a new friend this Christmas. You will receive an adoption certificate, photograph and biography of your adopted donkey, along with SHADH’s quarterly newsletter. Visit our Website for more information.

Beehive

Company: Hives Save Lives          Phone: +44 1273 306397

A beehive that will be made and distributed in Uganda to create employment and a sustainable income. Each hive will generate over £40.00 every year in direct income, but will also contribute to increased crop yields (through the pollination activities of the bees) and improved health and nutrition in the community.

Donate a Cow this Christmas

Company:  COWS 'n' Things          Phone: 0800 107 5770

A cow mite seem an unusual sort of gift for Christmas. But, there are plenty of older people overseas who would think all their Christmases had come if you gave them a cow, a goat or even a water storage tank. And that's what COWS 'n' Things is all about. It's a gift scheme designed to help the most disadvantaged older people in developing countries get the things they need-and that's cows and things. Things like livestock, seeds, training tools, water storage facilities, home-based care kits and cataract operations, which will all make a difference to an older person's life.

Protect the Human

Company: Amnesty International Phone:+44 1709 888333

Amnesty International United Kingdom has teamed up with New Internationalist Publications to bring you amnestyshop.org.uk. Income from sales goes to support Amnesty’s work (see below) while the majority of items are also either organic, fairly traded, educational or eco-friendly. Your purchases will therefore not only be supporting Amnesty, but also various other good causes from around the globe. About Amnesty International: We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights. Our purpose is to protect individuals wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied. For more information click on www.amnesty.org.uk Posted by the Westminster Branch Amicus the Union. The Branch supports the work of Amnesty

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