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JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Subject: Media & Arts | Children & Young People | Community | Social & Human Services
Deadline: Rolling
JPMorgan Chase supports non-governmental organizations working internationally in three focus areas: community development, youth education, and arts and culture. Requests focusing on microfinance and small business development, low-income housing, youth education in low-income communities, and arts and culture projects aimed at promoting asset development in low-income communities are of particular interest. Nonprofit organizations both inside and outside the U.S. where JPMorgan Chase has a grants program, including specific countries in the Asia/Pacific region, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, as well as Canada, are eligible to apply. (A list of eligible countries is available on the JPMorgan Chase website.) Organizations based in the United States can apply throughout the year using the online letter of inquiry form available on the JPMorgan Chase website.
Read more | JPMorgan Chase homepage

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Sundance Institute
Subject: Media & Arts
Deadline: 9th February 2010
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program provides year-round support to non-fiction contemporary-issue filmmaker internationally. The program encourages the exploration of innovative non-fiction storytelling, and promotes the exhibition of documentary films to a broader audience. It supports independent artists both domestically and internationally. Proposals are considered in two categories:
Development grants for projects that have not begun filming. Production & Post-Production grants, which minimally require 20 minutes of continuoulsy edited material with the application. In addition, Egagement, Impact and Discretionary grants are available to previously funded project or by invitation.
Read more | Sundance homepage

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National Geographic
Subject: Media & Arts | Community | Social & Human Services
Deadline: 15th of each Mar, Jun, Sep & Dec
The All Roads Seed Grant Program funds film projects by and about indigenous and under-represented minority-culture filmmakers year-round and from all reaches of the globe. The program seeks filmmakers who bring their lives and communities to light through first-person storytelling. All Roads Seed Grant funds must be used toward the development and production of a feature film, long documentary, short documentary, shorts, animation or music video. These grants are intended to function as primary or secondary support for your film project. They may be used for equipment, travel for field research, editing time, etc.
Read more | National Geographic homepage

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Starbucks Foundation
Subject: Children & Young People | Social & Human Services
Deadline: Rolling
The Starbucks Shared Planet Youth Action Grants program is designed to help young people realize their natural potential to reinvent their local communities. The Foundation will solicit applications from organizations that provide young people (ages 6 to 24) with a continum of service opportunities in social
entrepreneurship. Grants range from $10,000 to $25,000. The Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals. Interested organizations may submit an online profiel. The Foundation reviews these profiles periodically and will contact those organizations about which they are interested in learning more. These submissions are reviewed on a quarterly basis.
Read more | Starbucks Foundation homepage

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Flextronics Foundation
Subject: Education | Health | Community | Social & Human Services | Tech Dev. & Science
Deadline: Rolling
The Flextronics Foundation invests globally and serves as a catalyst for positive change in communities around the world. The Foundation's focus is on educational programs, and disaster, community, and medical relief. Emphasis is given on programs that serve the needs of people in communities
where Flextronics employees, suppliers and customers live and work. In their educational and associated programs, Flextronics sponsors educational programs and other charitable activities where Flextronics employees volunteer their time. They focus on programs that benefit students with socioeconomic issues, learning disabilities or handicaps. They also support academic programs in areas related to electronics manufacturing, and the betterment of disadvantaged students. The medical relief/health programs
funds organizations that provide medical releif to communities where Flextronics employees live and work. They also support specific local health programs and organizations. They also provide aid to relieve human
suffering caused by natural or civil disaster, or an emergency hardship.
Read more | Flextronics Foundation homepage

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Open Meadows Foundation
Subject: Community | Social & Human Services
Deadline: 15th February 2010
Open Meadows Foundation is a grant-making organization for projects that are led by and benefit women and girls, particularly those from vulnerable communities. Open Meadows Foundation funds projects that do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity and expression, sexual identity and expression, age or ability. It offers grants up to $2000 to projects that: Are designed and implemented by women and girls; reflect the diversity of the community served by the project in both its leadership and organization; promote building community power; promote gender, racial, social, economic and/or environmental justice; and have limited financial access or have encountered obstacles in their search for funding. Applicant organizations should have an organization budget of less than $150,000. Small and start-up organizations are strongly encouraged to apply.
Read more | Open Meadows homepage

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Tech Museum of Innovation
Subject: Environment | Health | Tech Dev. & Science | Social & Human Services
Deadline: 31st March 2010
The Tech Awards is an international awards program that honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. The Tech Awards program inspires global engagement in applying technology to humanity's most pressing problems by recognizing the best of those who are utilizing innovative technology solutions to address the most urgent critical issues facing the planet. Each year, candidates are nominated and then invited to submit applications. Individuals, for-profit companies,
and not-for-profit organizations are eligible. International panels of judges review the applications and annually select 15 Laureates. Awards are presented in five categories: Health, Education, Environment, Economic Development, and Equality. Three Laureates in each category are honored and one Laureate per category receives $50,000.
Read more | Tech Museum of Innovation homepage

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Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund
Subject: Environment
Deadline: 1st January 2010
The DWCF seeks to promote and enable wildlife conservation through partnerships with scientists, educators and organizations committed to preserving earth's biodiversity. The fund's interests are in furthering the support of established conservation programs - particularly those long-term in nature - that contain a strong in situ component  (scientific field studies); promote education, awareness, and training in-country (education programs); and demonstrate a marked benefit to in-country participants, habitats, and species by working with local communities, regional/national NGOs, or governements that directly impact the initiative. The fund encourages global projects however it will only make grants to 501(c)(3) organizations. NGOs outside the U.S. can apply in partnership with a U.S. organization. Applications are
by invitation only. Potential applicants should contact the fund with a letter/email of inquiry.
Read more | Disney Worldwide Conservation homepage

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American Red Cross Received $1 Million From HP for Disaster Response Efforts in 2009
The American Red Cross has announced that it received grants totaling more than $1 million this year from the Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation to support disaster response efforts around the globe.
The largest grant, $350,000, enabled the organization to help Philippine communities affected by typhoons in September and October. Other contributions to the organization's Disaster Relief and International Response funds were used to help survivors of flooding in the state of Georgia, earthquakes in Indonesia, wildfires in Australia, an earthquake and tsunami in Samoa and American Samoa, typhoons in Vietnam, and an earthquake in Costa Rica.
During the holiday season, HP will provide additional support to the Red Cross through its Create Change With HP campaign. As part of the campaign, 4 percent of purchases made at HP Direct stores between now and the end of January will go to the Red Cross or one of six other nonprofits.
"Financial support of the Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation has helped the Red Cross to provide relief to people here in the United States and across the world in disasters such as floods in Georgia, an earthquake in Costa Rica, bushfires in Australia," said American Red Cross president and CEO Gail McGovern. "We are grateful for the company's continuing generosity with selection of the Red Cross as one of the participants in its Create Change With HP campaign."
“Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation Donates $1 Million for Red Cross Disaster Response.” American Red Cross Press Release

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-International health funding scheme launched
The UK-based international health charity, THET, and the British Council, the UK’s international body for cultural relations have launched a pioneering funding scheme supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Department of Health.
The scheme is aimed at strengthening partnerships, or ’links’, between UK health institutions and their counterparts in the developing countries.The International Health Links Funding Scheme (IHLFS), worth 3 million pounds, is a three-year scheme that provides grants and support for links.
The primary purpose of links is to build the capacity of developing countries’ health systems. Link activities can be very broad and include training and capacity building for staff, providing practical skills, continuing professional development and curriculum development.
This scheme will greatly contribute to the UK’s commitment to international development. The IHLFS will be divided into small grants of up to 3,000 pounds for ’brokering’ or supporting the development of new and young links; medium grants of up to 15,000 pounds over one or two years, and large grants of up to 60,000 pounds per year for three years. Grants will be given to links that contribute to the achievement of priorities defined in the national health plans of target developing countries, an official of British Council told APP.

-Cargill Foundation Giving Tops $58 Million in 2009
The Cargill has announced grants of more than $58 million to organizations around the world working to promote nutrition, health, education, and environmental stewardship.
In response to the global financial crisis, the company donated $5.5 million for emergency hunger relief in ten countries through organizations such as Feeding America, the Salvation Army, and the Global Foodbanking Network. In addition, the company, as part of a five-year, $10 million commitment, awarded $2 million to the humanitarian organization CARE, which works to alleviate poverty in the developing world. And to help foster science, technology, engineering and math learning in Minneapolis schools, the company invested more than $3 million in two programs.
Cargill Charitable Giving Tops $58 Million in FY2009. Cargill Inc. Press Release

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In the Arts: Actors Jackman and Craig Help Set Fund-Raising Record
With its movie-star leads of Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig making nightly curtain-call appeals, the Broadway drama “A Steady Rain” set a fund-raising record for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Playbill.com reports.
The stage charity announced that during the show’s six-week run, Mr. Jackman and Mr. Craig raised $1.55-million in the organization’s annual Gypsy of the Year competition, the most ever for a single production. In all, the group raised $4.63-million from the event.
In other arts news, many New Jersey arts organizations are struggling to cover their bills after learning this week that the state has frozen more than $10-million in cultural grants approved last summer, writes The Star-Ledger.
Also, the Smithsonian Institution will pay $233,000 to an employee who was exposed to asbestos during his 28-year tenure at the National Air and Space Museum, says The Washington Post. The organization will also pay some health-insurance costs for Richard Pullman, who sued the Smithsonian after being diagnosed with an asbestos-related lung disease.
And California tax authorities have ruled that specialized license plates issued by the California Arts Council are tax-deductible, a decision the grant-making group hopes will help its fund raising, according to the Los Angeles Times. Buyers will be able to deduct the cost difference between the specialty plates and normal state tags as a charitable contribution.

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Pew Charitable Trusts Announces Environmental Partnership with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
The Pew Charitable Trusts has announced a partnership with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation to support environmental conservation work.
Announced by HSH Prince Albert II during a speech at the National Press Club on global warming and the environment, the effort will complement the foundation's primary focus on three areas: climate change and renewable energies, biodiversity, and water and desertification. In identifying shared policy goals, the two groups anticipate working together to preserve Canada's boreal forest, one of the world's last remaining carbon-rich, old-growth forests. Like other projects the foundation supports in places such as the Mediterranean basin, the polar regions, and least developed countries, the new initiative aims to stop the destruction of the world's oceans and conserve natural resources on land.
"There is much promise to an alliance among our two organizations, as we each have a base in a key continent, expertise, and a history of advancing a strong conservation agenda," said Joshua Reichert, managing director of the D.C.-based Pew Environment Group. "We are enthusiastic about partnering with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation to tackle issues that plague the land and the sea."
“The Pew Charitable Trusts Announces Environmental Partnership with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.” Pew Charitable Trusts Press Release.

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Madoff Trustee Says Shapiro Family Got $1 Billion in Fraudulent Profits
Irving Picard, the trustee in the Bernard Madoff case, has accused Boston philanthropist Carl Shapiro and his family foundation of reaping $1 billion in fictitious profits from investments over forty years, calling the Shapiros among the "largest beneficiaries" of Madoff's Ponzi scheme, the Boston Globe reports.
Picard made the allegations in a court filing last week, after months of private negotiations between his office and lawyers for Shapiro broke down. A letter from Picard's office said that Shapiro, during his long relationship with Madoff, enjoyed "unrealistically and consistently purported high rates of return and remarkable purported trading success." Those high rates of return were allegedly false profits invented by Madoff, who since 1980, if not earlier, had used clients' money to pay off other investors.
In the court filing, the Shapiros said they expect Picard to demand that the family return several hundred million dollars to Madoff's estate for redistribution to other victims of Madoff's Ponzi scheme. The family has acknowledged losing at least $545 million to Madoff — about $145 million from the family foundation and another $250 million in money Carl Shapiro had invested at Madoff's request, just weeks before the scandal was exposed in December 2008. Through spokesmen, Shapiro has maintained that he had no idea Madoff was stealing from some investors to pay off others.
However, Picard has made clear he does not see Shapiro as a victim like thousands of others fleeced by Madoff. His investigation, Picard's office said in its letter, "has demonstrated inconsistencies between Mr. Shapiro's counsel's account of the family's history with Madoff and the records available."
Shapiro's lawyer, Stephen Fishbein, filed documents in mid-November which said his client, who is 96, is frail and in poor health. He asked for the deposition about the matter to be held in mid-December. "This could well be Mr. Shapiro's last chance to tell his story," Fishbein said. "Mr. Shapiro's upcoming testimony may well be the first and last time he is able to offer meaningful testimony in this proceeding."
“Philanthropist Got $1B in Fake Profit, Madoff Trustee Says.” Boston Globe

GuideStar - Connecting People with Nonproft information
Encourages nonprofits to share information about their organizations openly and completely. Any nonprofit in the database can update its report with information about its mission, programs, leaders, goals, accomplishments, and needs–for free. [View] (US) [View] (UK)

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Foundation Search
FoundationSearch is a leading source of US fundraising information for non-profits and charities. This online resource includes more than 120,000 foundations, representing billions of dollars in annual granting, and includes tools to locate grants by type, value, year, recipient, donor and historical giving trends, and much more. [View]

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Charity Commission Database
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is established by law as the regulator and registrar of charities in England and Wales. Their aim is to provide the best possible regulation of these charities in order to increase charities’ efficiency and effectiveness and public confidence and trust in them. [View]

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OSCR: Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
OSCR is the independent registrar and regulator for Scotland's 23,500 charities. They are a Non-Ministerial Department and form part of the Scottish Administration. [View]

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Directory of Social Change Trustfunding Database
Trustfunding details all trusts included within Directory of Social Change (DSC) and Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) publications and is updated regularly throughout the year.
It includes information on over 4,200 UK grant-making trusts with a total of over £3.1 billion a year. [View]

-2009 America's Giving Challenge Winners Announced
The Case Foundation and Parade magazine have announced the winners of this year's America's Giving Challenge.
Funded by the Case Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the thirty-day online competition on the Facebook Causes platform was designed to raise money and friends for nonprofit causes. As part of the challenge, participants competed for daily and overall cash awards based on the number of donations to their cause. Overall, the challenge generated more than 105,000 donations totaling $2.1 million. In addition, thousands of nonprofits and individuals were exposed to new social media technologies and encouraged to think strategically about leveraging social networking to engage supporters for their causes.
This year's overall winners were Gan Liang, who won $50,000 for the Houston-based Overseas China Education Foundation (13,722 donations, $156,637 raised); Steve Kowarsky, who won $25,000 for the Los Angeles-based Prem Rawat Foundation (11,981 donations, $187,398 raised); Hua Xiao, who won $25,000 for the Toledo, Ohio-based Overseas Save Chinese Children Foundation (10,203 donations, $112,922 raised); and John Wordin, who won $10,000 for the Calabasas, California-based Ride 2 Recovery (8,230 donations, $85,225 raised). For a list of this year's winners, visit the Case Foundation's Web site. America's Giving Challenge Inspires More than 105,000 Donations. Case Foundation Press Release

-Fundraising from Europe
Part I: Donors from Europe – people, companies & foundations
Part II: EU Grant Opportunities
An introduction to the largest philanthropic market outside the USA – the US$19 billion philanthropic market in continental Europe. The market will be covered, explaining the background to philanthropy in Europe, showing examples of current giving and fundraising, and illustrating where and how UK organisations have succeeded in winning funds, as well as the potential pitfalls. You will be shown where and how to find out more about people, companies and foundations as donors, and outline successful strategies for development.
Delegates will also receive a complimentary copy of EU Grants Directory 2009 (which includes 12 months access to EU Grants Update Service)

Date: Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Venue: The Sloane club, 52 Lower Sloane Street, London, SW1W 8BS (view map)
Time: 10.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: £205.00 + VAT
Speaker, Part I: Chris Carnie, Factary
Speaker, Part II: Dr. Paul Quantock, Senior Partner, European Consultancy Services
For further details and outcomes delegates can expect please and to book a place please visit
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How to Choose Effective Website Photos and Images Part 2
This article continues a series of guidelines to help you with website image selection. Part 1, covered some general principles to consider, including the image's mood, uniqueness, content quality, and contextual cropping. In this article we discuss ways to use images to support and reinforce a business brand. View the article here. Web Marketing Today

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-World Wide Web Foundation Launches Global Operations
World Wide Web Foundation (Web Foundation), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the Web to empower people, announced yesterday the launch of global operations including the existence of its first projects. Speaking at the 2009 Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a Web Foundation board member, unveiled the organizations new partnerships with VU University Amsterdam (VU) in the Netherlands and CDI (Center for Digital Inclusion) based in Brazil.
Web Foundation is delighted to announce a partnership with the VU to expedite “re-greening” initiatives throughout the African continent. This new program, Web Alliance for Re-greening in Africa (W4RA), will train and assist local developers to implement and deploy mobile Web- and voice-based platforms to improve communication between agricultural specialists and farmers in Burkina Faso, Mali and other countries. Web Foundation is an international not-for-profit organization. In the United States it is a recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit. Please visit www.webfoundation.org/programs for more information about Web Foundation and its new programs.

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-Social Media: What are you afraid of?
By Elisa Birnbaum. Charity Village.com
As the interview begins, James Topham apologizes and takes a moment to read and respond to an urgent tweet. Another typical day for the communications and marketing director of War Child Canada, where tweeting and Facebook updates are as commonplace as checking one's email. With social media the buzzword of late, some nonprofits are taking the plunge, hoping these newfangled modes of outreach will help them reach their goals. But how useful is social media, really? And how can one ensure it's being used effectively instead of needlessly tying up already limited resources?
What and why? "Everybody is on Facebook," says Topham, and War Child has been using it for years. The response to the organization's Facebook page has been extremely positive, outperforming even their website. Considering how much time people spend with the medium, it's not hard to see why. And besides, he adds, "It's a good communication tool." Twitter - which War Child started using a year and a half ago - is quickly gaining ground too. "It's a very useful place to make deeper connections with people and build a community." Read the article here

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Barron's Names the 25 'Best' Givers
With the recession squeezing donors and charities alike, ensuring that your giving really makes a difference is more important than ever, Barron's reports. And to inspire others to do just that, the business publication has published a year-end list of the twenty-five "most effective" givers.
Compiled in collaboration with the Global Philanthropy Group, a U.S.-based consulting firm that works with high-net-worth individuals, foundations, and corporations to design and implement leveraged philanthropic strategies, the list rates philanthropists from around the world based on such criteria as innovation, quality of alliances, and the extent to which their successful projects can be replicated. At the same time, Barron's and GPG accorded special consideration to philanthropists working to address daunting social challenges and getting results.
The list was topped by eBay alumni Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll, both of whom focus their efforts on supporting and leveraging the work of social entrepreneurs, and includes the likes of Chris and Jamie Cooper-Hohn (no. 3), whose UK-based Children's Investment Fund Foundation works to improve the lives of children living in poverty in developing countries; tech billionaire Thomas Siebel (no. 5), whose Meth Project, a large-scale prevention program aimed at reducing first-time meth use through public service messaging and community outreach, has achieved remarkable results; Bill and Melinda Gates (no. 7); Bill and Hillary Clinton (no. 13); George Soros (no. 19); Earvin "Magic" Johnson (no. 21), who has become the unofficial spokesman for people living with HIV/AIDS and, through his foundation, has provided free testing to more than 38,000 Americans in sixteen major cities; and David and Cheryl Duffield (no. 25), who have given $70 million to animal-welfare groups, veterinary establishments, and other groups, making them the most generous donors to animal rights.

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Measles Initiative Announces 78 Percent Drop in Measles Deaths Worldwide
The Measles Initiative has announced that between 2000 and 2008 measles deaths worldwide fell from 733,000 to 164,000, a decline of 78 percent, but cautioned that a resurgence of the viral disease is likely if vaccination efforts are not sustained.
All but one of the world's regions have achieved, ahead of schedule, the United Nations' goal to reduce measles deaths by 90 percent between 2000 and 2010. The exception is Southeast Asia, where measles deaths declined only 46 percent between 2000 and 2008, due in large part to delayed implementation of large-scale vaccination campaigns in India, where the majority of the world's measles deaths occur. Overall, the vaccination of nearly 700 million children through large-scale immunization campaigns and increased routine immunization coverage has prevented an estimated 4.3 million measles deaths.
Despite this progress, the Measles Initiative, which was launched in 2001 by the UN Foundation, the American Red Cross, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization, is facing a funding gap of $59 million that, if unaddressed, could result in a resurgence of deaths caused by the disease. Immunization experts fear the combined effect of decreased political and financial commitment could result in an estimated 1.7 million measles-related deaths between 2010 and 2013, with more than half a million deaths in 2013 alone.
"We are poised to vaccinate more children than ever in 2010," said UN Foundation CEO Kathy Calvin. "Next year, some of the most populous countries — China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Nigeria, and Ethiopia — are planning national immunization campaigns. We're looking at a pivotal year for measles vaccinations, and the financial commitments haven't kept up with the demand."
“Global Measles Deaths Drop by 78%, But Resurgence Likely.” Measles Initiative Press Release

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Study Finds U.S. Residents Give Twice as Much as Canadians
Canadians give less than half as much to charity as Americans relative to income, the Toronto Sun reports, citing data from the Canadian research group the Fraser Institute.
According to the institute’s 2009 Generosity Index, Canadians donated 0.73 percent of their aggregate income to charity in the 2007 tax year, compared with 1.6 percent for Americans.
The study identified a long-term decline in Canadian giving, with the percentage of the population making donations dropping in 10 of the country’s 13 provinces and territories from 1997 to 2007. However, the amount given by those who do donate has risen in most jurisdictions.

November '09 - The November edition includes nine new Grant Opportunities inviting you to submit grant applications. WHO, UNICEF, GAVI Alliance Announce Plans to Tackle Child Pneumonia. Social Media: What are you afraid of ? Email Is Not Yet Dead: 9 Tips to Make It More Effective View the edition here

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Landmark tax ruling on cross-border donations
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity wins fight for tax relief on Belgian legacy.
A British charity has won a landmark case that entitles it to a charitable rate of tax on a legacy left by a foreign taxpayer. The Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity was left a legacy worth about €1.2m (£1.1m) from a Belgian resident in 1996. The Belgian government ruled that because the charity was not Belgian the tax on the donation should be 80 per cent rather than the 8.8 per cent rate afforded to domestic not-for-profit organisations.
However, a Brussels court ruled this month that the charity should have been charged the 8.8 per cent rate, meaning it will receive €1.5m (£1.4m), including interest on the delayed payment.
The case comes after a legal victory last year for a German donor, Hein Persche, who won tax relief on an €18,000 (£16,300) donation to a Portuguese charity. This latest case is the first involving a British charity.
Charles Whiddington, partner and head of the competition and EU regulatory group at Field Fisher Waterhouse, which represented the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, said the case set an important precedent for recognition of the British charity model, which is different from the legal structure used by continental. Read more
Source: Third Sector

Social media helps DEC raise £3 million in one week
The Disasters Emergency Committee has acknowledged that social media has contributed significantly to the income it has raised for its current appeal.
In the first week of the DEC's appeal for Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam, over £3 million was donated, over £1 million which was given in the first 24 hours.
BBC websites have been the most significant online referrer to the DEC donations page, but Twitter, which the DEC only started using on 2 October, was the second most important. Facebook, which the charity had previously used very little, was the third largest source of traffic.
The appeal for emergency aid for the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the earthquakes, typhoons, floods, and landslides in East Asia was championed early on by Twitter users Sarah Brown and Stephen Fry who, between them, have more than 1.5 million followers.
@Stephenfry wrote at 13:35 on 4 October: "Do see if you can find it in your heart support the DEC Disasters Appeal for Indonesia, Philippines & Vietnam - donate now at www.dec.org.uk "
@Sarahbrown10 wrote at 20:33 on 6 October: "RT @decappeal - Big international call to support #DEC disasters appeal: www.dec.org.uk Help them make a difference!"
DEC were able to take advantage of the almost instant impact of social media by opening its phone lines and website for donations on Sunday 4 October ahead of the main appeals broadcast on Tuesday 6 October. DEC also uses Flickr and YouTube

Why Email No Longer Rules
Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over. In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold – services like Twitter and Facebook and countless
others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift
promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate – in ways we can only begin to imagine.
We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet – logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone. The always-on connection, in turn, has created a host of new ways to communicate that are much faster than email, and more fun.
Why wait for a response to an email when you get a quicker answer over instant messaging? Thanks to Facebook, some questions can be answered without asking them. You don't need to ask a friend whether she has left work, if she has updated her public "status" on the site telling the world so. Email, stuck in the era of attachments, seems boring compared to services like Google Wave, currently in test phase, which allows users to share photos by dragging and dropping them from a desktop into a Wave, and to enter comments in near real time. [Read more] Source: Wall Street Journal

Gates Foundation pours $115 million into new malaria drugs
Health experts around the globe were chilled earlier this year by the discovery that malaria in Cambodia has evolved resistance to the most promising drug in medicine's arsenal.
With the effectiveness of artemisinin under threat, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is stepping up its investment in new malaria drugs with a $115 million grant to the Geneva-based Medicines for Malaria Venture. The grant brings the foundation's total funding for the group to $317 million.
Malaria has long been a top priority for the Gateses, who in 2007 took the controversial step of calling for eradication of the disease. Many experts question whether that will ever be possible, but foundation CEO Jeff Raikes recently said the world's biggest philanthropy is refocusing its malaria programs with the goal of eradication in mind.
The "E-word," which some malaria scientists utter with trepidation based on past failures, is repeated three times in MMV's four-paragraph press release on the new grant.
In February, MMV and drugmaker Novartis introduced a sweet-tasting version of the combination malaria drug Coartem for African children. The group is funding work on more than 50 drug candidates, ten of which are in clinical development. Read more
Source: Seattle Times

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