Royal Caribbean International - funding organizations that offer services to the entire community
Subject: Children & Young People | Community | Education | Environment
Deadline: October 2009
Royal Caribbean Intl currently award monetary funding, sponsorships and cruise donations on a quarterly basis. Their corporate philosophy is to fund organizations that benefit and offer services to the entire community. They focus support on the following areas: children and families, education and marine conservation.
Read more | Royal Caribbean homepage
National Geographic Conservation Trust - Are you a conservationist ready to make your vision a reality?
Subject: Environment
Deadline: Rolling
The objective of the Conservation Trust is to support conservation activities around the world as they fit within the mission of the National Geographic Society. The trust will fund projects that contribute significantly to the preservation and sustainable use of the Earth's biological, cultural, and historical resources.
Read more | National Geographic homepage
Open Society Institute - Government Accountability
Subject: Human Rights
Deadline: Rolling
The mission of the Government Accountability Fund is to promote public participation in, and oversight of, governmental activity at both the national and local levels, including in the delivery of services. The fund evolved out of a desire to combat corruption, and it provides support to national and international NGOs which monitor public administration and use legal avenues to hold governmental authorities accountable and limit the opportunities for corruption.
Read more | Open Society homepage
Request for Proposal: Today's care, Tomorrow's cure - The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
Subject: Human Services
Deadline: September 1st 2009
The Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grants Program awards grants to non-profit organizations that provide services to individuals with paralysis.
Quality of Life grants, conceived by the late Dana Reeve, are awarded to programs or projects that improve the daily lives of people with paralysis, with some emphasis on, but not limited to, paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries. Funding is awarded in amounts of up to $25,000 per grant.
Read more | The Reeve Foundation homepage
International Development Research Center - Think Tank Initiative
Subject: Community | Human Rights
Deadline: September 28th 2009
The Think Tank Initiative is a multi-donor program dedicated to strengthening independent policy research institutions – or “think tanks” – in developing countries, enabling them to better provide sound research that both informs and influences policy.
Read more | International Development Research Center homepage
Second Annual Open Enterprise Solutions to Poverty Request for Proposals
Subject: Social & Human Services | Technological Dev. & Science
Deadline: October 15th 2009
The S.E.VEN Fund second annual open “Enterprise-based Solutions to Poverty” request for proposals (RFP). The competition will award up to two (2) research grants of no more than $100,000 each.
Read more | SEVEN Fund homepage
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award
Subject: Community | Education | Technological Dev. & Science
Deadline: 31st October 2009
Access to Learning Award. Given each year by the foundation's Global Libraries initiative, the Access to Learning Award recognizes the innovative efforts of public libraries or similar organizations outside the United States to connect people to information through free access to computers and the internet.
Read more | Bill & Melinda Gates homepage
Ashoka Changemakers - Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing
Subject: Disability | Health
Deadline: 2nd September 2009
Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing. Share your innovation for improving mental health and community wellbeing with the world! Submit your entry by the early entry deadline. The competition is open to all types of organizations (charitable organizations, private companies, or public entities) from all countries.
Read more | Change Makers homepage
Community Development Foundation - Hardship Fund opens for applications
Subject: Education | Health | Social & Human Services
Deadline: Rolling
The £16.7m Hardship Fund for charities, announced in the Budget in April, has opened for applications.The fund offers grants of between £50,000 and £250,000 for third sector organisations in England that work with vulnerable and disadvantaged people but are in financial difficulty.
To apply, organisations must have annual turnovers of at least £200,000 and deliver services in health and social care, housing support, education and training, or information, advice and guidance.
Read more | Community Development Foundation homepage
Grant Activity
Identifies funders who make cross border grants and gives examples of actual funding.
PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative Awards $2 Million to GenVec
Biotechnology company GenVec has announced a $2 million grant from the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative to continue its efforts to develop a malaria vaccine.
The grant will enable GenVec to expand its existing contract with MVI to develop preclinical feasibility studies of novel adenovirus-based vaccines. Based on the results of those studies, GenVec, MVI, and the U.S. Agency for International Development will consider preclinical and clinical development of promising vaccine candidates.
GenVec, which began working with MVI in 2004, also receives funding from USAID. MVI was founded in 1999 with a $50 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the development of malaria vaccines and ensure their availability and accessibility in the developing world.
"We appreciate the continued support from MVI and USAID," said Dr. Joseph Bruder, head of GenVec's malaria program. "And we look forward to advancing GenVec's vaccine technology through this collaboration." [Read more] (PDF)
GenVec Expands Contract Supporting Malaria Vaccine Program. GenVec Press Release
Doris Duke Fund Awards Nearly $44-Million for African Health Care
As part of an ongoing effort to help Africa, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation today is awarding $43.8-million to support primary health care on the continent — a cause that is attracting a growing amount of philanthropic support.
The money, which will be provided over a five- to seven-year period, will assist five impoverished countries in sub-Saharan Africa to train managers of government health centers, expand innovative programs to curb child deaths, and examine ways to offer health services in rural areas. The grants are part of a $100-million African Health Initiative the New York foundation announced in 2007 during the Clinton Global Initiative.
The programs will work closely with African governments to make sure that any progress made will continue when the foundation’s support ends, the grant maker said in a press statement. Each of the projects will seek to benefit residents living in specific districts, ranging in population from 300,000 to 1.6 million. Doris Duke Press Release
World Bank Grant Competition Awards $840,000 to Grassroots Initiatives to Address Undernutrition in South Asia
Twenty-one civil society organizations from across South Asia won grants today from an $840,000 award pool funded by the South Asia Region Development Marketplace (DM). The winners received up to $40,000 each to implement innovative ideas on how to improve nutrition in their respective countries. A proposal from Sri Lanka to address the root cause of undernutrition in young children was one of the winners today.
Innovative ideas, such as the proposal called 3 Generation Communication for Improved Infant and Young Child Nutrition from Sri Lanka Green Friends Environmental Organization to change the complementary feeding practices and nutrition of expectant and nursing mothers through rural radio networks was one of the winners.
With the funds, the winners will have up to 18 months to carry out and implement their innovative projects.
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