Camphill Foundation
Subject: Disability, Education, Health, Media & Arts
Deadline: Rolling
The Camphill Foundation funds activity that addresses the challenges of people living with developmental, cognitive and psychological disabilities. They provide grants to individuals, nonprofit organizations in the United States, as well as nongovernmental organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe and elsewhere in North
America. Grant applicants should share the focus on work that promotes mental and emotional well-being. If you are committed to techniques of curative education and social therapy, community living, sustainable agriculture, and arts-based approaches, a grant from Camphill Foundation can help you learn and adapt the highly effective models of care that have emerged from the Camphill Movement and its communities.
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Starbucks Foundation
Subject: Children, Community
Deadline: See website
Organizations which have been implementing youth-focused programs can apply to the Starbucks Foundation. Nonprofits in the U.S. And NGOs in other countries are eligible for this funding opportunity. Grants are made to organizations that: provide training to young people (defined as 6-24 years) to develop necessary skills and knowledge to incubate ideas, identify and assess community needs, create a plan of action, execute a plan and evaluate outcomes against goals; and build ongoing capacity and longterm engagemement of young people; communicate young peoples' success stories through various media. Grants vary between $10,000 and $30,000.
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CanLiv - The Heptabiliary Cancers Foundation
Subject: Health, Medical Research
Deadline: 5th March 2010
The mission of CanLiv is to improve the lives of individuals diagnosed with cancer of the bile ducts, gallbladder and liver by providing accurate, current information, calling public attention to those orphan tumors and fostering patient-focused translational and clinical research to improve patients' outcome. The
awards provide funding to promising new investigators to encourage and promote translational research in cancers of the gallbladder and/or bile ducts . CanLiv's definition of translational research is hypothesis-driven research that seeks to expand understanding of carcinogenic mechanisms in cancers of the liver, gallbladder, and/or bile ducts and has significant likelihood to imminently lead to new therapeutic options for patients. Awards are for $30,000 for one year. For eligibility view the Application guidelines through the link below.
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David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Subject: Environment, Health
Deadline: Various
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation, one of the largest in the United States, has varous funding programs, some of which are international in scope. There programs fall under a number of headings: Conservation and Science; Population & Reproductive Health; Children, Families, and Communities; Local Grantmaking and Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy Funds. There main international programs are the Conservation & Science program and the Population and Reproductive Health Program.
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African Women's Development Fund
Subject: Human Rights, Social & Human Services
Deadline: See Website
The African Women's Development Fund is a grant-making foundation which supports local, national and regional organizations in Africa working towards women's empowerment. They support organizations that: protect and promote women's human rights, mobilize the support for women's rights at grassroots level through networking and empowerment of community based organizations; research harmful traditional practices and forms of violence against women which infringe women's basic human rights; and monitor policies and legislation. They have two grants programs - Main grants of between $1000 and $25,000, which grants to projects related to the above thematic areas. Grants can be awared to support the capacity and institutional strengthening of organisations including grants for strategic planning, governance systems and fundraising/communication strategies. The Small Grants program's objective is to support small, community/rural based grassroots women's groups in Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and
Nigeria, which are most likely not to have access to any financial support or meet the other eligibility criteria.
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The Elsevier Foundation
Subject: Health | Education | Community
Deadline: See Website
The Elsevier Foundation is a knowledge-centered, corporate foundation making grants and contributions throughout the world. Created in 2002, The Elsevier Foundation supports the broader scientific, technical and medical communities they serve, as well as the many local communities where their employees
live and work. The Foundation has three main program areas: The Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries (ILDC) Program, which awards grants to library programs in the developing world for innovative systems and services that improve access to STM information; The Elsevier New Scholars Program, which awards grants to support the efforts of the academic and research community to address the fundamental challenge of balancing childcare and family responsibilities with the demanding careers of science and technology; and the Elsevier Employee Matching Gift Program, which matches employee donations on a one-for-one basis to the charity of their choice.
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MedEvac Foundation International
Subject: Health | Medical Research
Deadline: 31st March 2010
The MedEvac Foundation International supports research, education, outreach, and charitable services to advance medical transport worldwide. The MedEvac Foundation International offers grants in two areas: Research Investigator Grants whose goals are: 1) to promote research within the specialty of critical
care transport, 2) to advance patient care standards in critical care transport, 3) to advance safety in critical care transport, 4) to advance the overall cost-benefit ratio of all aspects of air medical and critical care transport systems, and 5) to facilitate the academic growth and development of future researchers in critical care transport; and Education grants whose aim is to support the development of education and research in the critical care transport community.
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Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust
Subject: Children & Youth | Health | Medical Research | Social & Human Services
Deadline: 1st Jun 2010 and 1st Nov 2010
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust grants to charitable organizations in the United Kingdom and overseas. For 2010 the focus areas of the Trust are children, youth, the elderly and medical research. The deadlines are given above, but because of the number of applications they receive, the Trust recommends that applications are sent as early as possible prior to these deadlines. Grants range from £1,000 to £20,000 however the largest grants are reserved for exceptional medical research projects with other areas receiving grants of between £1,000 and £10,000, with an average of less than £5,000.
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U.S. Environmental Projection Agency
Subject: Environment
Deadline: 11th February 2010
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a request for proposals under it's Methane to Markets Partnership. It will support up to 35 cooperative agreements through grants of between $100,000 to $750,000 under the heading of 'Activities that Advance Methane Recovery and Use as a Clean Energy Source'. Successful proposals will support the Partnership's Action Plans and advance project development in the following countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Mongolia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and Vietnam. Eligible organizations include foreign governments,
international organizations, universities. and other public or private non-profit organizations. Eligible projects will focus on technology transfer and/or deployment of technology, technical reports, feasibility and pre-feasibility studies, databases of methane emissions or potential sites for projects, information clearinghouse, training and/or capacity building, study tours, conferences, project expositions, workshops, improved methane emission estimates, and country-wide methane reduction programs.
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Grant Activity
Identifies funders who make cross border grants and gives examples of actual funding.
Gates Foundation Commits $13 Million to Eliminate Two Tropical Diseases
The Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has announced a five-year, $13 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve efforts to eliminate two parasitic diseases, elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis) and river blindness (onchocerciasis), in the developing world.
The grant will support a new project in which scientists at multiple universities work to determine whether existing drugs given in different doses and combinations can be more effective than current treatments.
According to the World Health Organization, lymphatic filariasis, which is caused by tiny worms spread by mosquito bites, is a leading cause of disability worldwide, infecting an estimated 120 million people and causing symptoms in 40 million people. Onchocerca volvulus, which causes onchocerciasis, is spread by black fly bites and occurs mainly in Africa, where it infects an estimated 20 million people and has caused blindness in approximately 300,000 people.
“WUSTL Receives $13 Million Gates Foundation Global Health Grant Toward Elimination of Tropical Diseases.” Washington University School of Medicine Press Release
American Cancer Society Receives $7 Million From Gates Foundation to Tackle Tobacco Use in Africa
The American Cancer Society has announced a $7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to coordinate and lead a global coalition of public health organizations that will use evidence-based approaches to address the tobacco epidemic in Africa.
The African Tobacco Control Consortium, whose members include ACS, the Africa Tobacco Control Regional Initiative, the Africa Tobacco Control Alliance, the Framework Convention Alliance, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, will work to advance an ambitious tobacco control agenda across the forty-six countries of sub-Saharan Africa through policies such as banning advertisments for tobacco products, raising tobacco taxes, issuing product warning labels, and promoting smoke-free environments in line with the requirements of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The consortium will also advocate for further tobacco control resources in the region, work to protect existing laws from tobacco industry efforts to overturn them, and conduct research to improve and inform future tobacco control work.
In Africa, a part of the world where HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases are widespread, cancer is emerging as a serious public health threat. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, much of the rise is attributable to tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke. According to the World Health Organization, tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the world, but if current trends continue, tobacco use will cause one billion deaths worldwide during the twenty-first century.
“American Cancer Society to Manage New Effort Against Tobacco in Africa.” American Cancer Society Press Release
Hewlett Foundation Announces $90 Million in Grants
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $90 million to nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the globe.
Global development grants totaling $24.4 million were awarded to thirty-six organizations, including the Revenue Watch Institute, which received $4 million to advise governments on best practices in natural resource revenue management, and the International Budget Partnership, which received $4 million to advocate for greater government accountability and help civil society organizations analyze government budgets and fund distribution. In the area of population, the foundation awarded thirty-three organizations a total of $12.6 million, including $2.25 million to the Center for Reproductive Rights to advocate for laws that secure reproductive rights worldwide, and $1 million to the INDEPTH Network to gather demographic data on people across Africa so as to better understand how government policies and programs affect their well-being. For a complete list of grants announced by the foundation, visit the Hewlett Foundation Web site.
“Hewlett Foundation Awards Over $90 Million in New Grants Through Six Grantmaking Programs.” William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Press Release
