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$5,000 competitive grant is designed to fund small start-up rescue projects that are in need of seed money

Category: Anmals | Environment
Available from: Amphibian Ark
Deadline: 1st May 2011

In 2011, Amphibian Ark will be pleased to announce the third annual call for proposals for its Seed Grant program. This $5,000 competitive grant is designed to fund small start-up rescue projects that are in need of seed money in order to build successful long-term programs that attract larger funding. Successful proposals will reflect AArk values – please pay careful attention to the grant guidelines, including: focusing on species whose threats cannot be mitigated in nature in time to prevent their extinction and who therefore require ex situ intervention to persist; working with species within their native range country involving range-country biologists; adhering to recommended biosecurity standards for ex situ programs; linking ex situ programs to in situ conservation and involving partnerships to maximize the likelihood of the program’s long-term sustainability.

Action for World Solidarity

Category: Community | Environment | Human Rights | Social & Human Services
Available from: Action for World Solidarity
Deadline: See website

Action for World Solidarity is based in Berlin, Germany and since 1957, they have supported small, self- initiated groups in India, Africa and Brazil, which try to strengthen and improve the situation of women, strive for environmental protection, or attempt to achieve social and cultural human rights. Action for World Solidarity promotes projects which have already begun working, proven their effectiveness and need further financial assistance in order to continue functioning. Currently the countries supported are India, Brazil, Senegal, Burkina Faso, West Sahara and Zimbabwe. At the moment, they do not accept requests of financial support from any other countries.

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MacArthur Awards for Creative and Effective Institutions Announced

Category: International Affairs
Grant Amount: Between $350,000 - $1,000,000
Grant made to: Various
Grant made from: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the 2011 winners of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

Eleven organizations in six countries will receive grants ranging from $350,000 to $1 million — a large sum given that their annual budgets are each less than $5 million — for a range of purposes, including the acquisition of office space, construction of a library and conference room, and technology upgrades. While the recipient organizations' missions are diverse — from protecting biodiversity in Bhutan, to fighting poverty in the United States, to improving maternal and child health among India's impoverished — they have much in common. All have demonstrated significant impact in their fields, for example, and have spurred significant change with modest budgets.

This year's recipients include the Arms Control Association (Washington, D.C.); the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (Chicago); the Royal Society for Protection of Nature (Thimphu, Bhutan); the Social and Economic Rights Action Center (Lagos, Nigeria); Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico); and the W. Haywood Burns Institute (San Francisco).

"These exceptional organizations effectively address pressing national and international challenges and they have had an impact that is disproportionate to their small size," said MacArthur Foundation president Robert Gallucci. "The [foundation] is proud to recognize them. It is our hope that these awards will help position them for long-term growth and even greater impact in the years ahead."

“MacArthur Foundation Announces Winners of Award for Creative and Effective Nonprofits.” John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Press Release

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions

Wikimedia Foundation Raises $16 Million Through End-of-Year Campaign

Category: Technology
Grant Amount: $16,000,000
Grant made to: Wikimedia Foundation
Grant made from: Various

The San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation has announced that it raised more than $16 million to support Wikipedia and its sister projects in the 2010-11 fiscal year.

During the final fifty days of 2010, the organization received more than 500,000 gifts from people in nearly 140 countries, more than doubling the number of its donors. The organization's annual campaign to keep the site ad-free raised an average of $22 per donor. The funds will enable the organization to pay for technology to keep the Wikimedia sites running around the world, as well as programs that encourage more people to participate and contribute as volunteers.

"This outpouring of support by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people from all walks of life is a testament to the spirit of the Wikimedia movement," said Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. "Wikipedia is a public resource created and maintained by hundreds of thousands of volunteers, relied on by over four hundred million people and paid for by half a million donors. It's truly user-created, supported, and maintained."

“Half a Million People Donate to Keep Wikipedia Free.” Wikimedia Foundation Press Release

Wikimedia Foundation

$2 Million to Namibian Wildlife Sanctuary

Category: Anmal Welfare | Health
Grant Amount: $2,000,000
Grant made to: N/a'an ku se Lodge and Wildlife Sanctuary
Grant made from: Jolie-Pitt Foundation

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have awarded $2 million through their Jolie-Pitt Foundation to the N/a'an ku se Lodge and Wildlife Sanctuary in Namibia.

The gift, made in the name of the actors' Namibian-born daughter Shiloh, came after the family spent Christmas at the lodge. "We want [Shiloh] to be very involved and grow up with the understanding of her country of birth," said Jolie in a statement released recently. Noting that the owners of the sanctuary, Rudie and Marlice van Vuuren, were old friends, she added, "We continue to be impressed by their hard work and dedication to the people and conservation of the land and wildlife of Namibia."

A portion of the funds will be used for large animal conservation projects, but the gift will primarily benefit San bushmen on the farm and in the surrounding area.

"Some of the donated funds will be used in the running of a clinic which provides free medical care to the community of bushmen," said Dara Barrett, head of finance at the sanctuary, "including the treatment of malnutrition, tuberculosis, and HIV [and San community projects that have yet to be identified]."

Jolie-Pitt Foundation | N/a'an ku se Lodge and Wildlife Sanctuary

Gates Foundation, USAID Award $2.5 Million to Digicel for Mobile Money Service

Category: Internation Affairs | Disaster Relief
Grant Amount: $2,500,000
Grant made to: Digicel
Grant made from: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a $2.5 million award to Haitian mobile operator Digicel and its partner Scotia Bank.

The award, the first to be made through the Haiti Mobile Money Initiative (HMMI), a $10 million effort established by the Gates Foundation and USAID to jump-start mobile financial services in Haiti and expedite the delivery of cash assistance by humanitarian agencies to victims of last year's devastating earthquake, recognizes Digicel for launching Tcho Tcho Mobile, the first mobile money service in the impoverished Caribbean nation. The second such operator to launch and meet HMMI's stringent criteria within a year will receive $1.5 million, while another $6 million will be disbursed after the first five million mobile transactions take place, divided accordingly among those operators that contributed to the transaction total.

A year after the January 2010 quake that destroyed more than a third of the country's bank branches, ATMs, and money transfer stations, cash shortages among Haitians remain widespread. Establishing new mobile services will help humanitarian agencies, charities, and donors get billions of aid dollars and remittances into the hands of ordinary Haitians. Digicel's mobile money service makes it possible for customers to use their mobile phones to make deposits and withdrawals at retail outlets and transfer money between Tcho Tcho Mobile accounts. Other services to be added in the future include bill payments, payment for government services, and international remittance transfers.

“Foundation and U.S. Government Give $2.5 Million Prize for Transforming Banking Sector in Haiti.” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Press Release

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Digicel

Israeli Government Announces $100 Million in Funding for Birthright Israel Program

Category: International Affairs
Grant Amount: $100,000,000
Grant made to: Taglit-Birthright Israel
Grant made from: Israeli Government

Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netantayahu has announced a three-year, $100 million government funding package for Taglit-Birthright Israel, an Israeli charity that provides free, ten-day educational trips to Israel for young Jewish adults from around the world.

Israeli government funding for the program will grow annually, starting at $26 million in 2011, increasing to $34 million in 2012, and reaching $40 million in 2013. In light of the government's announcement, philanthropic supporters of Birthright Israel, including the Birthright Israel Foundation, have pledged to help the program reach its financial targets.

In 2010, Taglit-Birthright Israel provided trips for 30,000 participants, while another 30,000 were placed on a waiting list due to funding shortages. By expanding its funding capacity, the program aims to increase the number of annual participants to 51,000 by 2013. Since its inception in 2000, Birthright Israel has provided trips for more than 250,000 young adults from 53 countries.

“Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Announces $100 Million in Funding for Birthright Israel Over Three Years.” Birthright Israel Foundation Press Release

Taglit-Birthright Israel

$50 Million for Documentary Film Initiative

Category: International Affairs | Arts & Culture
Grant Amount: $50,000,000
Grant made to: Just Films Initiative
Grant made from: Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation has launched a five-year, $50 million initiative to help identify and support a new generation of filmmakers whose work addresses urgent social issues, the New York Times reports.

The JustFilms initiative will invest $10 million a year to help expand the community of filmmakers around the world working to create documentaries with a social conscience but who may lack the resources to realize their vision or connect with audiences. Building on the foundation's longtime support for film documentaries, the initiative will leverage Ford's global network of ten regional offices to identify talent from emerging documentary film communities and will focus on film, video, and digital works that show courageous people confronting difficult issues in pursuit of a more just, secure, and sustainable world.

Award-winning filmmaker Orlando Bagwell, director of the foundation's Freedom of Expression team, will head up the initiative, which will divide funding equally among three distinct project areas: partnerships with major organizations; an ongoing open application process; and partnerships with other Ford Foundation grantmaking programs. Additional funds will be allocated to marketing partners to help filmmakers promote their work and engage with audiences.

“Ford Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund for Next-Generation Documentary Filmmakers.” Ford Foundation Press Release

Ford Foundation | JustFilms

Initiative launched to improve food security for millions of people in the developing world

Category: Internation Affairs | Development | Health | Human Services
Grant Amount: $32,000,000
Grant made to: TBC
Grant made from: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

The UK-based Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has announced the launch of a $32 million international research initiative to improve food security for millions of people in the developing world.

Through the initiative, teams from the UK, India, and developing countries will receive grants to work on research projects that improve the sustainability of vital food crops. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department for International Development, and the Indian Department of Biotechnology, funding will be awarded to teams which can show that their research will improve food security and increase sustainable crop yields within five to ten years.

The initiative will place particular emphasis on improving the sustainable production of staple food crops across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, including cassava, maize, rice, sorghum, and wheat. The initiative also hopes to maximize the impact of its research by supporting more comprehensive approaches to improving productivity and yield, for example by tackling crop resistance to drought or flood.

“International Research Initiative Launched to Improve Food Security for Developing Countries.” Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Press Release

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Ideas for the UK Government's Charity Green Paper

Chapel & York's Executive Director David Wickert gives some ideas to the UK Government about their Charity Green Paper.

The government asked for comments on their Green Paper http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Giving-Green-Paper.pdf

Before I even saw the Green Paper I saw the objections to a minimum 5% per annum distribution for grant making charities from David Emerson, chief executive of the Association of Charitable Foundations http://www.acf.org.uk He was quick off the mark and hadn’t a good word to say about the suggestion.

The suggestion that UK charitable grant makers should give away 5% of their fair market value each year is constructive. Does anyone know how much money is sitting in the bank accounts of grant makers from year to year and why don’t they tell us? Millions obviously. However David Emerson’s suggestion that 5% was based on the US model where regulation is different and therefore is inappropriate in the UK is weak, and the idea that the Charity Commission, despite budget cuts, is going to ensure that grant makers grant as much as they can is implausible. The government, sensibly, wants to ensure that grant makers don’t hang on to increasingly large sums of money when it could be put to good use immediately. Most of us say Yes to that. The most straightforward way is a minimum distribution.

However, I have another better idea for a minimum distribution: 5%+.

As part of their annual reporting, all charities should be required to certify that they have spent on administration or made grants that together total at least the amount of tax that they have recovered through Gift Aid and any other tax relief they have enjoyed. If they are unable to certify that this is the case they should be required to provide details of why they are retaining funds in reserve.

It is completely reasonable for charities to have reserves in order to fulfil their commitments, for example a grant maker may wish to provide funding to a particular charity over several years, or launch initiatives that need funding up front such as a new building, and must ensure that they can meet their obligations to their employees, e.g. maternity and paternity leave, pension provision, and redundancy.

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Seminar: Keeping Up With America

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As part of our ongoing endeavours to ensure all 501(c)(3) organisations are fully U.S. compliant, fit for purpose and up-to-date with best practice, Chapel & York would like to invite you to attend a specialist seminar that is designed for everyone involved with the 501(c)(3)s governance, management and fundraising.

We'll look at websites, literature, membership schemes, the relationship between the US and non-US entity, new US regulations you need to know about. We will help you communicate effectively; making sure your message is relevant and appropriate, helping you to connect with US donors. We will also touch on the topic of State Registration – when to do it, how to do it and how much it costs.

This is designed for everyone involved with the 501(c)(3)s governance, management and fundraising.

We will be charging a booking fee of £56.00 + VAT per person which includes the cost of materials and refreshments.

Tuesday 26th January 2011, The King’s Fund, 11-13 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0AN, 10.00am - 12.30pm

Very limited places are available, so book today to avoid disappointment.

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Social Media Week London

London has always been at the forefront of communications – from the earliest newspapers, through telegraphy to pioneering TV and radio broadcasts. Fitting, then, that the capital is also emerging as a world centre for social media startups, as punctuated by the Prime Minister’s recent pledge to invest in the sector.

Part of that spirit is captured in the upcoming Social Media Week London (7-11 February), which will see over 70 (mostly free) events across the city, organised by Chinwag.

The events explore how social media has an impact on every aspect of our daily lives: what TV we watch, who we go down the pub with, how we find business contacts, how we digest news, how we make news…but is particularly geared up for people who use social media professionally. i.e. just about everyone these days.

Event themes include social media in the public sector, for charities, and museums & galleries, how to make money from social media and, of course, how it’s being used for marketing, advertising and PR. Some require booking, so take a look at the schedule now.

As well as talks and discussions, the Week will also include plenty of breakfasts, mingling and networking events – hey, it’s got the word ‘social’ in its title.

The London week forms part of an international festival, spread across 9 cities worldwide. Naturally, it has its own Twitter hashtag (#smwldn), Twitter feed, Facebook page, and a good old-fashioned web site. See/tweet/text/ping/4square you there.

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Research & Reports

Pepsi Refresh Project Under Fire Again for Alleged Proxy Voting

For the second time in a year, the Pepsi Refresh Project, a $20 million online contest launched by consumer products giant PepsiCo, has been criticized by nonprofits convinced that the contest's results are being manipulated, the New York Times reports.

Pepsi has run the monthly online giving contest in which thousands of organizations and causes compete for cash prizes of $5,000, $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, and $250,000 since February. While the contest bans proxy voting and votes from international locations, a number of nonprofit groups allege that recent winners have used an outside service to boost their vote counts. "I'd say only three months of this contest, the first three, were pretty legitimate," said Randall G. Herzon, founder of Kritter Kountry, a California-based nonprofit animal shelter that competed over several months for the $250,000 prize.

Several sources told the Times that Carol Schultz of Guardian Angel Feline Rescue in South Elgin, Illinois, used an India-based service to generate proxy votes from abroad in order to win a $50,000 grant in October. The only information known about the service that Schultz and other groups allegedly used is that it is represented by an unknown person identified by contestants as "Mr. Magic." The individual, who uses the e-mail address tubebilling@gmail.com, offered to help boost vote totals in exchange for payment or a share of an organization's winnings.

Pepsi has said in a statement that the company is committed to maintaining the integrity of the contest and that it has deployed various proprietary methods to identify fraudulent votes and remove them from the final count. "We take any allegation of fraud very seriously," said the company, "and once we have completed a thorough investigation, we will take appropriate action."

“New Charges of Cheating Tarnish Pepsi Fund-Raising Contest for Nonprofits.” New York Times

Haiti: A year after the quake, waiting to rebuild

A year after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people and leaving over a million people homeless, bodies are still being found in the rubble — a sign of how much remains to be done to get the Caribbean nation back on its feet, the Associated Press reports.

Although hundreds of aid groups were on the ground providing food, water, first aid, and other services within weeks of the quake, efforts to rebuild the impoverished country have been hampered by the scale of the disaster, the extent of the need, and a lack of political leadership and coordination among the more than ten thousand nongovernmental organizations with a presence in the country. Indeed, most Haitians feel as if little has been done to ease their suffering, despite one of the largest and most costly humanitarian aid efforts in history.

According to the most recent accounting, the international donor community spent more than $3.5 billion on immediate relief efforts, pledged another $4.5 billion in recovery aid through the end of 2011, and has committed to an additional $1.1 billion in debt relief. But efforts to rebuild the shattered country have been hampered by a hurricane, an outbreak of cholera that has killed more than 3,600 people, and an electoral crisis that threatens to subvert the political calm that has prevailed in the country for the last few years. The evidence of these and other challenges is all too apparent: less than 5 percent of the rubble in Port-au-Prince and its suburbs has been cleared, about a million people remain homeless, and neighborhood-size camps for the displaced are beginning to take on an air of permanence.

Study shows considerable growth in philanthropic organisations in Europe

A new study reveals the considerable growth in the establishment of philanthropic organisations in Europe, among its findings.

The research Global Institutional Philanthropy: a preliminary status report, from the Center for Global Philanthropy, based in Boston, and published by WINGS, a network of over 140 grant-making organisations in 54 countries, shows:

In Germany, between 1994 and 2004, the number of independent foundations increased by 100%, with over 6,500 new independent foundations being created. Between 2000 and 2005, the number of foundations increased from 30 to 107 in Ireland. In Italy, since the 1990 passing of the Amato law, which led to the establishment of 90 foundations of banking origin, the number of independent foundations has increased by 133%.The study also found that 20 community foundations have been established in Poland in the last 10years.

The report written by Paula D. Johnson, vice president and director of the Center for Global Philanthropy, also shows a growing number of foundations using collaboration as a way to address economic and social challenges.

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Source: Philanthropy UK | Laura McCaffrey

FARM-Africa launches ground-breaking business model

FARM-Africa, a UK non-governmental organisation that is committed to the economic empowerment of Africa’s marginal farmers, today announced that it has received funding to develop the first franchise business model that will establish a chain of new veterinary stores to provide quality, accessible and affordable livestock services including clinical services, veterinary drugs, farm inputs, animal feeds and artificial insemination in Africa.

The franchise model has been devised to ensure scalability and to allow it to become globally applicable across developing countries where the livestock sector can contribute to economic growth and development. Two thirds of the world’s 1.04 billion rural people living in absolute poverty rely on their livestock for their income.

Through a US$5m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation FARM-Africa will establish at least 150 stores across Kenya over four and a half years to help 300,000 under-served livestock keepers in rural Kenya gain access to affordable

livestock products and services.

The social business will draw on over two decades of FARM-Africa’s practical experience of establishing sustainable livestock services.

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Source: Farm Africa

Prince William, Kate Middleton choose charity gifts

Prince William and Kate Middleton will ask their wedding guests to make donations to their favourite charities rather than giving them traditional wedding presents, such as toasters or tea sets.

The couple, who will marry on April 29 at Westminster Abbey in London, have decided to forego matching sets of chinaware and napkins, and will instead ask their wedding guests to donate to charity.

The future king and queen are finalising the list for their wedding invitations, in which guests will be given details of how to make a charitable donation to a cause with which they are associated.

The Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry, established by the two princes in 2009 to help young people in society and raise awareness and support for servicemen and women, will be one of the charities listed in the couple''s invitations, say sources.

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Source: The Times of India

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Online Publication: European Grants Directory 2010

The European Community’s budget totals over €122 billion and covers a wide range of expenditure but anyone who has attempted to untangle the mine field of information when applying for funding will know how perplexing it can be. The European Union Grants Directory will help to solve all your problems!

Produced annually, the 155 page Directory contains outline details of the hundreds of grants offered by the EU for organizations throughout the world. The EU budget covers a vast range of expenditure. The comprehensive Directory contains the extracted details of the wide range of subsidies available from the Community
(excluding agricultural guarantee payments).

The Directory is arranged in budget reference number order and gives the title of the Budget, the Reference Number, and the amount of appropriation available.

The Commission allocates grants directly to recipients (public and private bodies, Universities, Special Interest Groups, and NGOs – and private individuals in certain circumstances) for the implementation of their common policies in areas such as research and development, education, training, the environment, consumer protection and information. It also awards direct grants for the application of the EU’s external policies.

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Email Alert Service: European Grants Update Service

Directory of American Grantmakers

The EU Grant Proposals Update Service is the most efficient way to obtain the full range of information available on the latest calls for grant proposals for Members of the EU.

We will regularly email you our “EU Grants Proposals – Alert” which will include a link to the following information:

Call for grant application
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Grant deadlines
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Subscription for this service includes updates (at least 1 per month) for 12 months and costs £25.00

Each European Grant update contains an HTML attachment that takes you directly to the latest call for grant proposals.

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Social Media: A Bubble About to Burst ?

Are your nonprofit staffers addicted to social media? Do they feel that one day Twitter and Facebook are going to bring in the big bucks and build a huge base of activists that will come to your organization’s rescue when you need their help the most? Perhaps around passing one of the most important legislative bills in your organization’s history? Well, I wish you lots of luck and good fortune.

Don’t get me wrong, some wonderful initiatives have been leveraged via social media. The inspiring Tweetsgiving, developed by Epic Change, raised over $55K over the last three Thanksgiving holidays to build schools in Tanzania. Twestival, raised $1.2 million within 14 months for 137 nonprofits. The American Red Cross reached tons of people on Twitter and Facebook after the tragic earthquake hit Haiti and raised a historical amount of money via a texting to donate campaign. But these examples are rarities. That’s why they are often highlighted in case studies – because they stand out from the rest of the nonprofit sector which has seen a limited return on their investments in the last four years.

Nonprofits have also had some degree of success targeting politicians publically on Twitter and Facebook and tweet bombed them around legislation. There’s value in putting politicians in the hot seat. It makes for a good news hook and can help fire up a campaign, but how much has organizing around social media truly moved the needle around key legislative battles? That’s the important question to ask.

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Source: Allyson Kapin blogging on FrogLoop.com

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November '10 - Includes...Ask an Expert! NEW FEATURE - Insider tips from people in the know about philanthropy - This month the President of the American Fund for Charities, Kenneth Hoffman offers his advice to charities setting out to raise funds from the US. View the edition here

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$6 Million Global Workforce Development Initiative

Category: Children | Education | Human Services
Grant Amount: $6,000,000
Grant made to: TBA
Grant made from: BNY Mellon

Global financial services firm BNY Mellon has announced the launch of a five-year, $6 million workforce development initiative designed to help vulnerable youth make the transition to adulthood.

With a focus on education, job training, and career development opportunities, the initiative will work to ensure that at-risk youth in the United States, United Kingdom, and India become successful, independent, and productive citizens; assist youth in becoming gainfully employed; reduce negative outcomes for youth in terms of substance abuse, poverty, and crime; and make a significant difference in advancing employment and educational outcomes for the target population.

To that end, BNY Mellon will collaborate with public and nonprofit agencies in the U.S., U.K., and India to mitigate challenges faced by at-risk youth, including chronic unemployment, poverty, and homelessness. In the U.S., the initiative will target youth shifting out of foster care; in the UK, it will focus on youth between the ages of 16 and 19 who are neither in school nor employed; and in India, it will support programs to aid older youth as they transition out of orphanages.

“BNY Mellon Launches $6 Million Global Workforce Development Initiative Targeting Vulnerable Youth.” BNY Mellon Press Release

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Report: In 10 years, the Gates Foundation will have a GDP bigger than 70% of
the world's countries

The billionaire boys - Beware of geeks bearing gifts. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and the world’s richest men are giving half their fortunes to charity – but there is a downside.

The biggest whip-round in history began on a relatively low-key note, when Bill Gates, generally reckoned to be the world’s richest man, suggested that his best pal Warren Buffett, the third-richest, should telephone all the other billionaires they knew, asking them to give away half their fortunes to charity.

By last week, Warren, having diligently worked his way through the annualForbes magazine list of the richest Americans, had signed up at least 40 fellow plutocrats, with a combined worth of close to £150 billion. Portraying his work as “an easy sell”, the avuncular Buffett, long revered as the world’s greatest investor, predicted that many more would agree to chip in. Few of his primary targets, he said, had needed to be asked twice.

Yet a number of tough questions hang over the future of this colossal kitty. How will it be spent? Will it do any good? And might something other than pure-hearted philanthropy explain the apparent ease with which it was amassed?

The glow of richesse oblige in which the plutocrats are now bathed started to flicker in May 2009, when the initial members of this billionaire boys’ club sealed the deal over a lavish lunch. Appropriately, it was thrown by David Rockefeller, the 95-year-old head of the blue-chip New York oil-and-banking family. It was early in the last century that David’s grandfather, John D Rockefeller, the world’s first billionaire, received a now famous letter from his retiring financial eminence grise, one Frederick Gates. “I have lived with this great fortune of yours daily for 25 years,” wrote Gates. “To it, its increase and its uses I have given every thought, until it has become a part of myself, almost as if it were my own. Unless you give most of your money away, it will crush you, and your children, and your children’s children.”

Read full article here. Via Telegraph.co.uk

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Advice to charities setting out to raise funds from the US

This month the President of the American Fund for Charities, Kenneth Hoffman offers his advice to charities
setting out to raise funds from the US.

$304 billion was given in private philanthropy in the USA during 2009. And that was a year when the total dropped by 3% from the prior year! The total may be, as one judgment had it, more than the rest of the world combined. If that is so, it is not because Americans are exceptionally generous; but rather than there are social and historical reasons for why philanthropy – controlled by the church and state in most of the world – was placed in private hands in America. It is, after all, a country populated by people who fled a church or state.

Aside from sheer size, the most remarkable aspect of the American philanthropic market is that, unlike nearly everywhere else, it is remarkably easy for non-American charities to take part. This is not the case even in very generous countries like Canada, where it is difficult for a non-Canadian NGO to raise tax-advantaged funds from Canadian sources.

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Report: DEC Pakistan Floods Appeal reaches £60 million

The DEC Pakistan Floods Appeal has raised £60,800,000, making it one of the three most generously supported appeals the charity has run in its 45 year history. Only the 2004 South Asian tsunami (£390 million) and this year's Haiti earthquake appeals (£103 million) have raised more.

The total is likely to increase because fundraising will continue until the end of January 2011.

The Pakistan Floods Appeal has just exceeded the total raised by the DEC in response to the 2005 Pakistan Earthquake. This totalled £60,668,000.

The current appeal differed from previous ones because of the relatively slow response from the parts of the international community, and the ongoing nature of the disaster as the flood waters affected more and more of the country. Normally appeals start to tail off after an initial high, but in this case the surge in donations came later than other appeals.

Report: World Giving Index 2010

Australia and New Zealand are tied as the most charitable countries in the world, a new report from the Charities Aid Foundation America finds.

Based on data from an ongoing international Gallup survey, the World Giving Index 2010 (20 pages, PDF) ranked 153 countries — representing 95 percent of the world's population — by the percentages of the population that had donated to a charity, volunteered time to an organization, and helped a stranger in need in the previous month. In the United States, 60 percent of the population had given money, 39 percent spent time volunteering, and 65 percent helped a stranger.

Overall, Australia and New Zealand ranked as the most charitable nations in the world, followed by Ireland and Canada. Malta ranked first in the personal giving category (83 percent), Turkmenistan in the volunteering category (61 percent), and Liberia in the helping-a-stranger category (76 percent). Few countries demonstrated low scores in all three categories.

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