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More than 40 countries are backing calls for an international organisation to police governments that fail to act against climate change. It would also fight threats such as global warming, water shortages and the loss of species.
A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that rising temperatures could cause droughts, heatwaves and rising seas for more than 1,000 years, even if emissions of greenhouse gases are capped.
Not everyone has welcomed the idea of a global body that would define and possibly enforce environmental rules. Key world polluters, including the US, China, India and Russia, are missing from the list of 46 countries that will be meeting in Morocco this spring to take the plan forward.

The Body Shop and MTV have joined forces with the launch of The Body Shop and MTV Rougeberry edt as part of the Spray To Change Attitudes Campaign. Profits will go to MTV's Staying Alive Foundation to benefit HIV awareness programmes for young people, who number among half of all new HIV infections.
The foundation provides grants to support young people in areas where AIDS hits hardest through The Staying Alive Awards, and is committed to fighting stigma and improving education to help prevent the spread of HIV. The launch of the fragrance marks the largest multi-platform campaign and is expected to reach more than 1.3bn people globally through all MTV channels.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and financial services provider Credit Suisse have announced a joint food and education initiative that is intended to build a sustainable future for nineteen thousand schoolchildren in Sri Lanka.
Under the auspices of WFP, the Credit Suisse Food for Education program will build sixty-one school feeding facilities in Batticaloa, Jaffna, and Ampara and provide daily school meals through 2008. The $1.5m grant makes Credit Suisse the largest corporate donor to WFP development programs in Asia. In addition to providing food, the program also will aim to increase the percentage of educated women in order to reduce childhood hunger in the long term. See Press Release

British airline tycoon Richard Branson announced a $25m prize for the first person or group to find a way to remove billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
The contest, called the Virgin Earth Challenge, will be open for five years, with a panel of judges including Branson and former U.S. vice-president, Al Gore evaluating submissions. The goal is to find a way of removing one billion tonnes of carbon gases a year from the atmosphere for 10 years. The winner will receive $5m US up front and the remaining $20m after the 10-year time frame. If no winner is identified after five years the judges may decide to extend the competition.

In an effort to bolster higher education in the United Kingdom, the British government has announced plans to increase the endowments of such elite universities as Oxford and Cambridge. Under the plan, every two pounds donated to a university by alumni, philanthropists, or businesses will be matched by one pound from public funds, up to £2m ($3.9m). Read full story

Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global social and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged. Since 1998 when the Foundation was reorganized and began to hire new staff, it has made over 900 grants to not-for-profit organisations throughout the world.

Oak Foundation’s Programmes
Environment — Climate Change
Environment — Marine Conservation
Child Abuse
Human Rights
Issues Affecting Women
Housing and Homelessness
Learning Disabilities
Special Interest Grants

The Conservation, Food, & Health Foundation purpose is to assist in the conservation of natural resources, the production and distribution of food, and the improvement and promotion of health in the developing world.
Through grants to support research and through targeted grants to help solve specific problems, the Foundation helps build capacity within developing countries in its three areas of interest.
The foundation is especially interested in supporting projects which lead to the transfer of responsibility to the citizens of developing countries for managing and solving their own problems and developing the capacity of local organizations.
Preference will be given to projects, including research projects, in areas that tend to be under-funded.
Concept applications in 2007 may be submitted at any time, but must be received in the office by July 1 in order for projects to be eligible for the November meetings of the Foundation.http://www.grantsmanagement.com/cfhguide.html

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust http://www.jrct.org.uk is an independent, progressive organisation committed to funding radical change towards a better world. The JRCT makes grants to individuals and to projects seeking the creation of a peaceful world, political equality and social justice. They chiefly support work undertaken in the UK, Ireland and South Africa.
Deadlines: South Africa and Ireland: 
19 March 2007
20 August 2007
All other applications: 
2 April 2007
3 September 2007
A more detailed grants policy is available at http://www.jrct.org.uk/text.asp?section=00010004

The ExxonMobil Foundation has announced a $1m grant to USAID to support the efforts of the Angolan Ministry of Health to strengthen and extend malaria prevention and control throughout that African country.
The grant was awarded through ExxonMobil's Africa Health Initiative, which has contributed approximately $30m since 2000 to combat malaria and other infectious diseases in Africa. Since the Angolan Ministry of Health announced the creation of a national strategic plan to control malaria in 2005, several public- and private-sector organizations have partnered with the World Health Organization, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and the President's Malaria Initiative to build local capacity and align resources and expertise to reduce illness and death caused by the disease. See Press Release

The Stanford University School of Medicine has announced a $7m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a new initiative that will create the world's largest public database of the genes involved in latent tuberculosis. One-third of the world's population has latent TB, a form of the disease in which the bacterium lies dormant, often for decades. The new database will be made accessible to scientists around the world via the Web and could become a model for battling other disease-causing organisms. See Press Release

The ExxonMobil Foundation has announced that it will award $5m in grants to organizations dedicated to improving education and opportunities for women and girls in developing countries. Awarded through the foundation's Educating Women and Girls Initiative, the grants will fund efforts to reduce barriers that prevent girls from attending school and train women to start or improve businesses and nonprofit organizations. Studies conducted by the World Bank have found that programs to educate women and girls yield a higher rate of return than any other community investment available in the developing world and contribute to improved sanitation, lower rates of HIV/AIDS infection, and higher household incomes. View Press Release

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When & Where: University of Warwick, UK 5 - 6 September 2007
Are you relatively new to the field of research on issues relating to the voluntary sector and/or volunteering? Then this session could be of interest to you.
As part of the annual NCVO/VSSN Voluntary Sector Researchers Conference, a special session will be run for "new" researchers. The session (which has now run for the last four years) is aimed at those who are relatively new to the field of voluntary sector research, whether as post-graduate students or researchers in the sector. It is a great opportunity to meet, discuss research and share ideas with other researchers.
If you would like to present in this session please send an abstract of 200 to 400 words to joanna.machin@volunteeringengland.org by March 9th 2007. Web: http://www.ivr.org.uk

When & Where: 22 - 23 March 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
Governments and Foundations Learning to Work Together
Organised by: EFC, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Government of Portugal, OECD
* This is an invitation only event. For more information, please email international
Source: EFC News Digest

Innovation,Advancement, and Best Practices to Achieve Global Goals. Unite For Sight Fourth Annual International Health Conference
When & Where: 14-15 April , 2007 at Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/
More Than 300 Renowned Speakers from North America, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe
Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors, professionals, and students from 5 continents for an engaging exchange of ideas and best practices.
Who should attend? Anyone interested in eye care, international health, medicine, health education, health promotion, public health, international service, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, or microenterprise
COMPLETE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE WITH 300 SPEAKERS: http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php