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Scholarships programs with field research components that produce knowledge or insight into specific conservation challenges in the African Heartlands
Category: Education | Environment Available from: African Wildlife Foundation Deadlines: 31st July 2010
Under the Charlotte Conservation Fellowship Program, AWF is offering scholarships for full MSc or partial Ph.D. programs with field research components that produce knowledge or insight into specific conservation challenges in the African Heartlands or Conservation in general. This year, applicants must be citizens from Democratic Republic of Congo, Southern Sudan, South Africa, Zambia, Niger, Benin and Burkina Faso. Women who meet the eligibility requirements are particularly encouraged to apply. Expenses that AWF expects to cover under the scholarship will vary depending on the individual program selected by the scholarship recipient, but each scholarship is valued at a maximum cost of US$25,000. Those whose total costs for their studies exceed this figure must demonstrate that they have secured additional funding from other sources to enable them to complete their studies.
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Natural disasters and emerging diseases — that result in the immediate need for animal health research
Category: Environment | Tech Dev & Science
Available from: The Morris Animal Foundation Deadline: Rolling The Morris Animal Foundation was established by the Betty White Wildlife Rapid Response Fund in March 2010 to give wildlife researchers timely monetary aid to respond to unexpected events — such as natural disasters and emerging diseases — that result in the immediate need for animal health research. Grants from the fund will enable wildlife researchers and veterinarians worldwide to respond quickly to disease outbreaks and other events that result in wildlife health issues. Grants will be awarded based on health research and conservation relevance in alignment with MAF's mission to advance animal health and welfare. All proposals must adhere to existing MAF policies, including the Health Study Policy for Animals Involved in Research. The proposed study must be highly relevant to wildlife health, and there must be strong evidence that the event is unusual, is associated with significant morbidity/mortality, or demands immediate response. The study must address a truly unexpected emergency that cannot be addressed during the foundation's regular grant process. Researchers, organizations, and facilities must be experts in the research field and show a good probability of success. In addition, proposals cannot be for a rescue effort, but instead must have an animal health and welfare research component. Grants from the fund will range in amounts between $5,000 and $50,000 each.
Invests in leading social entrepreneurs around the globe who are advancing promising solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems. Category: Community | NGO Capacity Building | Social & Human Services Available from: Skoll Foundation Deadline: 4th August 2010
The Skoll Foundation is looking for new applicants for the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. The foundation's flagship program invests in leading social entrepreneurs around the globe who are advancing promising solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems. The program seeks social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale positive change in the areas of tolerance and human rights, health, environmental sustainability, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and economic and social equity. In addition to alignment with one or more of these issue areas, Skoll Award winners typically exhibit many of the following characteristics: are led by a visionary, effective social entrepreneur serving as a spokesperson for their issue; have strong leadership team and board; have a clear mission and implementation model; demonstrate an unwavering focus on their mission; boast strong, well-established partnerships; have a commitment to systems, including for measurement and learning; and have diversified and mission-aligned funding sources.
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Funding the drug discovery research programs
Category: Health | Medical Research
Available from: Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
Deadline: Jan, April, July, October each year
ADDF funds drug discovery research programs from domestic and international investigators in academia and biotechnology companies. In addition, ADDF initiates, sponsors, and co-sponsors conferences to stimulate new ideas and approaches in areas of interest to the Foundation, bringing together physicians, scientists, and policy makers worldwide. As a biomedical venture philanthropy, ADDF seeks to fill the critical translational funding gap between basic research and later stage drug development. They fund high risk, early stage drug discovery and
development projects and catalyze scientists to enter the drug discovery field. They have adapted the operating model and principles of venture capital investing to their philanthropic mission in biomedical research. They help to create new biotechnology companies,
and to fund early stage biotechnology companies, with programs dedicated to Alzheimer’s
disease drug discovery. They seek a return on investment for all of their grants based on the achievement of scientific milestones. When these milestones are met, funds return to the Foundation to increase their ability to support more research.
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Providing social and economic value by encouraging employee contributions
Category: Education | Tech Dev & Science
Available from: ADC Foundation Deadline: Rolling
The ADC Foundation makes direct grants to two strategic focus areas: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education - grants to organizations whose primary mission impacts K-12 or higher education, for projects where the aim is systemic improvements in the teaching or learning of mathematics and science or enhancements to the "pipeline" for the preparation of students for work in technology-oriented industry; and Access to Technology - grants to organizations where the proposed project serves to promote nonprofit access to technology by providing the nonprofit sector with competitive computing or telecommunications technologies, with the end goal of using technology tools to improve
service delivery and enhance sector capacity. Outside the United States, grants are made to Bangalore, India; Berlin, Germany; Delicias & Juarez, Mexico; and Cheltenham, United Kingdom.
To help build societies in which everyone’s rights are more likely to be observed and protected Category: Human Rights | NGO Capacity Bldg Available from: Atlantic Philanthropies
Deadline: See website
To help build societies in which everyone’s rights are more likely to be observed and protected, and in which the rule of law is respected, the Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme seeks to enhance the ability of key organisations to advocate and communicate effectively. Atlantic Philanthropies also support the development of strong leaders in the human rights field, and
endeavour to strengthen connections between diverse groups that are committed to protecting and expanding human rights. They do this at the grassroots, organisational and government levels. The programme also supports advocacy campaigns for specific public policy changes to promote reconciliation and address the root causes of conflict, discrimination and inequity in the communities where change is needed the most. The countries currently served by the program are Northern Ireland, Irish Republic, South Africa, and the United States.
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Awards grants to non-profit organizations that provide services to individuals with paralysis
Category: Education | Science | Social & Human Services Available from: Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
Deadline: Sept 1st 2010
The Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grants Program awards grants to non-profit organizations that provide services to individuals with paralysis. Quality of Life grants, conceived by the late Dana Reeve, are awarded to programs or projects
that improve the daily lives of people with paralysis, with some emphasis on, but not limited to, paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries. She started the Quality of Life grants program to recognize and support organizations that help disabled individuals, their families and caregivers in ways that more immediately give them increased independence, day-to-day happiness, and improved access. Funding is awarded twice yearly to programs in three broad categories: Actively Achieving projects enable people with paralysis to get out and live -- ride a bike, compete in sports, climb a mountain, hike a trail, train for a job, play with friends on a totally accessible playground, work out in a fitness program and much more; Bridging Barriers projects help people with paralysis to overcome obstacles to full participation in society --operate voice-activated computer technology, modify homes and buildings to make them wheelchair accessible, help with legal problems, access transportation services, and more; Caring and Coping projects help take care of both the individuals with paralysis and the
people that care for them -- caregiver support and respite, peer networks, support groups, counseling, consumer and healthcare professional educational conferences, specialized training for healthcare professionals and more. Most Quality of Life grants are awarded within the United States of America, although the Reeve Foundation does award a small number of grants to nonprofit organizations based outside the United States.
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Focusing on healthcare, children, communities and the environment
Category: Children | Community | Disability | Education | Environment | Health | Social & Human services Available from: KPMG Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
In addition to providing grants to post-secondary institutions across Canada, The KPMG Foundation supports a wide variety of activities by operating Canadian charities. The Foundation focuses their support on activities relating to healthcare, children and youth needs, communities, and the environment, although grants to organizations in other fields are made.
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Celebrating tangible achievements in protecting wild animal and plant species
Category: Environment Available from: Future of Nature Foundation
Deadline: 29th August 2010
The Future for Nature Award is a prestigious international award, which celebrates tangible achievements in protecting wild animal and plant species. The Future for Nature Award aims to: reward and fund individuals for their outstanding efforts in the protection of species of wild flora and fauna; stimulate award winners to sustain their dedicated work; and help winners to raise their profile, extend their professional network and strengthen their funding basis. The Award provides the winners international recognition, financial support and reinforced linkages to an international conservation .
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Red Cross Announces New, Expanded Haiti Relief Programs
Category: Disaster Relief
Grant Amount: $10,000,000 +
Grant made to: Various organizations
Grant made from: American Red Cross
The American Red Cross has announced tens of millions of dollars in new or expanded health, shelter, and financial assistance programs to support ongoing relief and recovery efforts in Haiti.
The efforts include $7.9 million directed to health programs, including a $3.8 million agreement with Partners in Health to pay the salaries of more than 1,800 Haitian doctors, nurses, and other staff at the largest general hospital in Port-au-Prince who have been working without pay since before a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the impoverished country in January; $8.6 million in shelter efforts, with a focus on building semi-permanent shelters for people now living in tarps and tents in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas; and $9.7 million in financial assistance programs, including a $6.1 million cash-for-work program in partnership with Mercy Corps to support families outside Port-au-Prince who are hosting homeless Haitians and a $3.6 million expansion of a cash grant and loan program with microfinance institution Fonkoze. In addition, the Red Cross has launched a $50 million text message cash-transfer program that will give grants of about $125 to up to 400,000 Haitian families over the next several months.
In the six months since the quake struck near Port-au-Prince, the Red Cross has raised some $468 million for relief and recovery efforts and has spent nearly a third of that, or $148.5 million. About 38 percent of the funds have been spent on food and emergency services, 35 percent on emergency and transitional or semi-permanent shelters, and the rest on livelihood and host family assistance, health and disease prevention programs, disaster-preparedness activities, and providing clean water and sanitation.
According to the Red Cross, it is on track to meet its goal of spending more than $200 million to address immediate needs in Haiti in the first twelve months after the quake.
The remainder of the funds will be directed to longer-term recovery over the next three to five years, with spending plans likely to evolve to respond to changing needs.
Over $1 Million in New Grants From Clinton Bush Haiti Fund to Rebuild Lives, Livelihoods
Category: Disaster Relief | Economic Development
Grant Amount: $1,000,000
Grant made to: Various
Grant made from: Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund today announced $1 million in new grants aimed at creating new jobs and promoting economic opportunity in Haiti.
Reflecting the shared vision of founders former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, more than 230,000 generous donations made to-date will fund these new grants and have a powerful impact on helping post-disaster Haiti build back better.
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is focused primarily on longer-term reconstruction, especially job creation and the promotion of economic opportunity. The success and sustainability of reconstruction will depend in large part on a more vibrant, decentralized, inclusive, and competitive economy – an economy where every Haitian has the opportunity to achieve his or her full potential.
Post-earthquake Haiti’s challenges are many, but among the most compelling and critical is the need to create jobs and economic opportunity. CBHF will do this by:
- Supporting the restart, expansion and creation of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, to which women are often key contributors.
- Empowering people and enterprises by helping them access the formal business sector.
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Promoting job creation, particularly jobs with a direct social benefit, such as in health and education.
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Providing life skills and job training to people, especially youth, so they can embrace economic opportunity.
The legacy of building back better will be future generations of Haitians for whom the country’s vicious cycle of aid-dependency is history.
The grants announced ealier this month will create opportunity for Haiti’s workers and businesses in key industries – garment production, microfinance, the artisan community, and the health sector.
Institute for OneWorld Health Receives $10.7 Million From Gates Foundation
Category: Health
Grant Amount: $10,700,000
Grant made to: Institute for OneWorld Health
Grant made from: Gates Foundation
The Institute for OneWorld Health has announced a $10.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to prepare for the large-scale production and commercialization of a key ingredient in first-line malaria treatments.
In partnership with global pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis, the institute will use the grant to work toward industrializing and commercializing artemisinin-based combination therapies containing semi-synthetic artemisinin by 2012. The funding builds on a $42.6 million grant from the Gates Foundation in 2004 for semi-synthetic artemisinin research and a $10.7 million grant in November 2009 for commercialization of the treatment.
The institute, the University of California, Berkeley, and biotechnology company Amyris have been working together for the past six years to develop a new, low-cost technology platform to produce artemisinin. The semi-synthetic version of artemisinin will be a complementary, high-quality source of non-seasonal and affordable artemisinin that can alleviate shortages and meet future demand by supplementing the current botanical supplies derived from the sweet wormwood tree that grows in many parts of the world. According to the Seattle Times, artemisinin in combination with other drugs is considered to be the most effective medication for malaria and is credited with improving recovery rates globally.
Omidyar Network Awards $2.1 Million to Help Secure Land Rights for India's Poor
Category: International Affairs
Grant Amount: $2,100,000
Grant made to: Foundation for Ecological Security
Grant made from: Omidyar Network
The Omidyar Network has announced a two-year, $2.1 million grant to the Foundation for Ecological Security to extend property rights to common land for individuals in India's poorest communities.
FES will use the funding to advance policy advocacy, grow its operations, and offer new programs that enable 1.5 million people to obtain rights to community land while also restoring natural resources. Although up to 30 percent of India's population depends on common land for their livelihood, very few have formal rights to that land. FES works to address the problem by representing landless communities and organizing long-term leasing arrangements. The organization uses a holistic approach to resource management that includes securing legal rights and financial resources for individuals, strengthening village institutions, and improving the productivity and long-term sustainability of natural resources.
The Omidyar Network works to bring greater awareness to the fundamental role of property rights in poverty alleviation globally. To that end, it has invested more than $50 million in India to date.
Category: International Affairs
Grant Amount: $950,000
Grant made to: Lutheran World Relief
Grant made from: Gates Foundation
Lutheran World Relief has announced a grant of nearly $950,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help address the growing food crisis in Niger.
Building on its successful response to a similar crisis in Niger in 2005, LWR will work with more than forty thousand individuals in the rural municipality of Kalfou to meet their immediate food needs and reduce their vulnerability to future crises. A cash-for-work program for twenty-seven thousand people will put much-needed money in the hands of rural families, providing cash in exchange for labor to rehabilitate dams and wells and build structures for soil and water conservation. The money that families earn will enable them to buy enough food to get them through the "hungry season," while the work they do on water systems and soil conservation will help improve agricultural yields and make them less vulnerable to future droughts. In addition, LWR will help restock depleted herds of goats and sheep.
Earlier this year, the government of Niger, one of the world's poorest nations, confirmed that nearly half the population is food insecure. Drought has severely affected crop production, while increased prices have made the food that is available in markets out of reach for Niger's poorest families. Most rural communities have already depleted whatever food they had in reserve and will not harvest again until October. At the same time, many families that raise small livestock have sold their animals so they can buy grain, leaving them without a source of milk or meat in their diets or a future source of income.
$150 Million Public-Private Initiative Launched to Reduce Health Inequities in Mesoamerica
Category: Health Services | International Development
Grant Amount: $150,000,000
Grant made to: TBA
Grant made from: Gates Foundation | Carlos Slim Foundation | Inter-American Development Bank
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Health Institute of the Carlos Slim Foundation, the government of Spain, and the Inter-American Development Bank have announced the launch of a $150 million initiative to reduce health inequities affecting millions of poor people in Mesoamerican countries and to support government efforts in the region to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals.
Funded with $50 million each from Spain and the Gates and Slim foundations, the five-year Salud Mesoamérica 2015 initiative will promote the use of health services and the adoption of healthier behaviors for the poorest 20 percent of the population in Central America and southern Mexico in the areas of reproductive health, maternal and neo-natal health, maternal and child nutrition, immunization, and preventing and controlling dengue and malaria. IDB will serve as the agency responsible for working with the region's governments to prepare, implement, and monitor projects funded by the initiative, commission independent evaluations, and manage the donors' funds.
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2010 Annual Conference of European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding
Are We Running out of Talent?The role of European foundations in building human capacity in research 7-8 December 2010, Stuttgart, Germanyhosted byRobert Bosch Stiftung
Good research needs good people. European research foundations support many thousands of researchers in the sciences and humanities. The 2010 Annual Conference of the European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding will focus on how foundations and other funders work with the researchers they support to foster creativity and innovation, and encourage mobility, international networking and the development of research leaders of tomorrow.
Confirmed speakers
Professor Enric Banda, President, Euroscience
Professor Liselotte Hojgaard, University of Copenhagen
Professor Maria Teresa Lago, University of Porto & Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC)
Professor Helmut Schwarz, President, Alexander Von Humboldt Stiftung
Small and medium enterprises play a major role in economic development, particularly in emerging economies. The competition is designed to identify effective and innovative interventions that help SMEs overcome obstacles to obtaining necessary financing. Interventions could take a variety of forms, including policy or regulatory changes, strengthening market infrastructure, capacity-building assistance for SMEs or those financing SMEs, or public-private risk-sharing initiatives. The competition's aim is to identify the most successful pilot projects, scale them up, and spur their wider adoption by a broad range of private and public finance providers.
Up to fifteen applicants will be selected as winners. Challenge winners representative of all regions (Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia) will be invited to the November 2010 G-20 Summit in Korea to be recognized for their innovative ideas. Winners will then be connected with donors and investors at an SME conference in Germany following the Korea Summit.
The challenge is open to all private sector participants, including private financial institutions, private investors and companies, socially responsible investors, foundations, and civil society organizations. Proposals may be submitted as collaborations among eligible organizations.
The final deadline for the submission of solutions or nomination of projects is August 25, 2010. Those that enter by August 6, 2010 will be eligible to win a $1,000 early entry prize.
Report: Warren Buffett Gave $1.9 Billion to Charity in 2009
Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett gave $1.93 billion to charity in 2009, the third-highest amount since the billionaire investor pledged in 2006 to donate the bulk of his fortune to charitable causes, Reuters reports.
The bulk of Buffett's 2009 giving — some $1.6 billion — was directed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the form of Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's insurance and investment holding company, whose share price rose 35 percent, to $78.81, in the twelve months ending July 1. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the value of Buffett's donation to the foundation was up 28 percent over the $1.25 billion installment it received from Buffett in 2008. The Gates Foundation has now received more than $8 billion from Buffett since the famed investor pledged in 2006 to donate 85 percent of his wealth to the foundation within ten years of his death.
The rest of Buffett's 2009 giving was split between the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, which is named for the investor's late wife, and the Howard G. Buffett, Sherwood, and NoVo foundations — the foundations established by Buffett's children, Howard, Peter, and Susan.
Report: Recession Continues to Exact Toll on Nonprofits, Survey Finds
Nearly 40 percent of nonprofit organizations lack adequate staff to deliver their programs and services, a new report from the Johns Hopkins University Listening Post Project finds.
According to the report, Recession Pressures on Nonprofit Jobs (17 pages, PDF), almost a third of the 526 organizations surveyed by the project reported making workforce reductions over the preceding six months (October 2009 to March 2010), while only 23 percent reported employment gains over the same period and 46 percent reported no change in head count despite facing greater demand for their services.
In addition to workforce reductions, the survey found that nonprofits have taken other actions that impact staff and their ability to deliver critical programs and services; they include "refining" job descriptions (49 percent), often a euphemism for assigning the responsibilities of laid-off staff to remaining employees; salary freezes (39 percent); waiting to fill new positions (36 percent); increasing staff hours (23 percent); cutting or reducing benefits (23 percent); increasing non-program work for program staff (12 percent); and wage reductions (12 percent).
The survey also found that employment changes varied significantly by field. For instance, organizations in elderly services and community and economic development reported overall employment growth, while theater groups reported job reductions of 6 percent, orchestras 3 percent, museums 1 percent, and children and family service organizations 0.7 percent. Arts and culture organizations have been hit particularly hard by the recession, with 56 percent of nonprofit theaters and 53 percent of museums reporting inadequate staff to maintain their existing activities.
Report: China Foundation Center Hopes to Boost Transparency of Country's Philanthropic Sector
A new organization has been launched to help increase the transparency of Chinese charitable organizations, which have struggled to combat public perceptions of mismanagement and corruption, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The China Foundation Center will work to bolster trust in Chinese foundations and ultimately encourage more participation in philanthropy by making information about Chinese foundations' activities available to the public. To that end, the group's Web site will initially archive data on more than 1,800 foundations across the country.
Chinese citizens have demonstrated themselves to be a powerful charitable force when mobilized in times of crisis; individual giving in China in 2008, the year of the Sichuan earthquake, totaled $8 billion, for example. But a lack of clarity on how organizations use donated funds and on the interaction between the Chinese government and local charities have fueled public mistrust. Nongovernmental organizations in China are heavily scrutinized by the Communist Party, whose leaders fear that such organizations could subvert its power, while the public is often wary of foundations sanctioned by the government.
Report: Questions Raised About Beneficiaries of San Francisco AIDS Walk
The revelation that a significant amount of money raised by San Francisco AIDS Foundation AIDS walks in the past has gone to an international AIDS charity rather than local HIV/AIDS groups has led some to question whether the benefits of the event for Bay Area organizations have been misrepresented, the New York Times reports.
A crowd of 25,000 was expected for this weekend's walk, which promised to raise nearly $3.5 million to benefit "the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and other HIV/AIDS organizations serving the Bay Area counties." But according to an analysis of government tax filings from 2008, a year when the walk raised $4.4 million and SFAF awarded $1.7 million in grants, about $1 million of the total went to the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, which SFAF created in 2001 to support HIV/AIDS efforts in Cambodia, China, Ukraine, and five African countries. The rest of the money was split between sixty-two Bay Area nonprofits, with most receiving $10,000 or less. Similarly, in 2009 the walk raised $4.1 million, and Pangaea received $910,000, or about 73 percent of SFAF's total grantmaking that year.
SFAF's annual operating budget of more than $20 million is allocated to a wide variety of local help and prevention programs. The group's other main sources of income are the government and an annual AIDS/Lifecycle bike ride that raises about $5 million. According to SFAF interim CEO Barbara Kimport, in recent years the group's support of Pangaea had come from sources other than AIDS walks. She also said that this year's walk enabled ten local charities to hold fundraisers during the event and keep the proceeds. When asked about a possible lack of clarity in the way SFAF allocates funding to local and foreign HIV/AIDS groups, Kimport acknowledged that the organization "could do a better job of that."
Meanwhile, some leaders in the local HIV/AIDS care community as well as individuals who have participated in recent fundraisers feel misled. "Does it bother me?" asked Jamie McPherson, who raised $1,200 during last year's walk. "Yeah, it does. You've got to take care of home first."
Website: YouTube Launches $5 Million Grant Program
YouTube, a division of search giant Google, has announced the launch of a $5 million program to support amateur video creators and help them attract a larger audience to its Web site.
Several emerging YouTube video creators have been able to generate substantial revenues and command an audience that rivals those of the broadcast networks while managing all aspects of their business, from writing, filming, and producing content to the marketing, post-production, and distribution of videos. Despite this success, however, many video creators lack the resources and deep financial backing available to studio-backed production houses.
To remedy the situation, YouTube established the Partner Grants program to bolster the production budgets of a small group of YouTube video creators who are at the forefront of innovation. The grants will serve as an advance against the video creators' future YouTube revenue share, enabling them to invest in better cameras, shoot for higher production values, expand their marketing efforts, and hire more staff, with the ultimate goal of bringing a richer body of content to YouTube users and advertisers and raising the creative bar for online video.
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One Day’s Wages (ODW) is a grassroots movement of people, stories, and actions focused on alleviating extreme global poverty. Their vision is to inspire people around the world to donate one day’s wages on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis. All those small donations will hopefully add up to billions of dollars in support of ending world poverty. With such a lofty mission they knew it would take a worldwide movement of motivated people to make an impact and they knew it had to be simple for those people to get involved. That’s where mobile technology and their iPhone app come into play.
“The iPhone app helps aid OWD in integrating human relationships with social technology, a core focus of ours,” said Eugene Cho, Executive Director of ODW. The app is simple, but powerful. It allows you to calculate your daily wage based on what you make by the hour or yearly. Once you know what your daily wage is you can pick the charity you’d like to support and make a one time or recurring donation. The likes of Charity: Water, HEAL Africa, Haiti Relief & Rebuild Fund and Not For Sale are all there. Watch the video to learn more:
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Report: Only a quarter of London Marathon income goes to charity, documentary claims
London Marathon Trading attacks 'stunning ignorance' of Channel 4's Dispatches, which says remainder goes
on salaries and 'undisclosed costs'.
The Channel 4 (UK) programme Dispatches has claimed that the organisers of the London Marathon gave only a quarter of the money raised by the event to its parent charity last year. London Marathon Limited, the trading subsidiary of the London Marathon Charitable Trust Limited, gave £4.5m of the £17.8m raised in 2009 to the trust. Tracing the Marathon's Millions, first broadcast at 8pm on 9th April 2010, will claim that the remainder is "eaten up in salaries and undisclosed costs".
It also claimed that one member of staff, which London Marathon Limited refuses to identify, was paid between £240,000 and £250,000 last year.
Nick Bitel, chief executive of London Marathon Limited, said the documentary displayed "stunning ignorance" of charity trading and that the marathon generated more money for charity than any other running event in Europe. The marathon's costs include toilets, barriers, venue hire, staff and rent. He said its costs compared favourably with other, similar events.
"This is an attack on charity trading companies," said Bitel.
He would not reveal the identity of the highest-earning employee, but said the person's salary last year included a one-off bonus for saving the marathon £3m by finding a new sponsor without using a sponsorship agency. David Bedford, race director of the marathon, said the programme displayed "a toxic mixture of opinions and half-truths masquerading as facts". A statement by London Marathon Limited said it planned to refer the production company, Blakeway, and Channel 4 to communications regulator Ofcom. This year's London Marathon is on 25 April.
Implementing innovative programs aimed at increasing breast cancer awareness, education, screening, and quality access to care
Category: Health | Medical Research | Social & Human Services Available from: Susan G Komen Foundation Deadlines: N/A
Although breast cancer is a global disease, beliefs and approaches to its diagnosis and treatment vary greatly, in part due to differences in cultural norms, health care systems, and economic conditions. In this context, no single approach to breast cancer will prove effective around the world. For these reasons, Susan G. Komen for the Cure is partnering with local non-profit organizations in communities worldwide to implement innovative programs aimed at increasing awareness, education, screening, and quality access to care. Through local grants they strengthen organizations and networks and replicate successful programs that can be implemented on a larger scale.To date, Komen for the Cure has awarded more than $8 million for international community health programs. At this time, Komen is not accepting unsolicited proposals. Komen is focusing funding efforts on current commitments and will be accepting proposals by invitation only. They encourage you to check the website periodically for updates on future funding opportunities. For further information you can contact the foundation on international@komen.org
Carnegie Corporation has announced 33 grants totaling nearly $25.2 million to organizations around the world.
Category: Various
Grant Amount: $25,174,200
Grant made to: Various organizations
Grant made from: Carnegie Corporation
The Carnegie Corporation has announced thirty-three grants totaling nearly $25.2 million to organizations working in the United States and around the world.
Second-quarter grants awarded through the foundation's international program include $3 million over three years to eThekwini Municipality in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to help establish a model city library; $350,000 over two years to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., to help develop a new security architecture for the Euro-Atlantic region; $2 million over four years to the University of Pretoria, South Africa, to establish a master's program in information technology within the university's school of information technology; and $885,000 over two years to Harvard University for executive training programs for military officers and policy makers.
Through its national program, Carnegie awarded $5 million over two years to the San Francisco-based New Schools Venture Fund for general operating support; $275,000 over two years to the Boston-based Center for Public Interest Research for a new voters project designed to promote youth civic engagement, especially at community colleges; and a six-month, $250,000 grant to Public Interest Projects in New York City to supplement the Four Freedoms Fund's immigrant integration activities, especially in the area of strategic communications.
For a complete list of the foundation's second-quarter grants, visit the Carnegie Corporation Web site.
Website: Virgin Money Giving nets half as many pages as rival JustGiving
More than 9,000 London Marathon runners raised money through new site
More than 11,000 people set up fundraising pages for this year's London Marathon on the new Virgin Money Giving website.
A Virgin spokesman said 9,279 of the new pages were used for donations and the rest were inactive. Between £5m and £7m had been raised on the site so far, he said, and a total would be provided in the next few weeks.
A spokeswoman for Virgin Money Giving's main rival, the long-established JustGiving, said it had 20,872 London Marathon pages this year, 847 fewer than last year; 15,011 of these pages were active. More than £19.5m had been donated on the site to support London Marathon runners so far this year, she said; the average per page was up 4.5 per cent on last year's figure, at £1,308.
The Virgin site was launched in October last year after it was announced that Virgin would take over sponsorship of the marathon from Flora. The London Marathon website describes Virgin Money Giving as "the official fundraising website for the Virgin London Marathon".
The Virgin spokesman said marketing for the marathon and the website had been "entwined". He said there were 1,500 more runners in this year's marathon than in last year's, which partly explained the increase in the overall number of people setting up fundraising pages online.
The increase might also have been caused by a shift away from smaller fundraising sites, or by people choosing to raise money online for the first time, he said.
The spokeswoman for JustGiving said she expected this year's fundraising total on the site to be close to last year's figure of £25m. She said integrating JustGiving with social networking site Facebook had encouraged runners to use the site.
Website: Guggenheim, Youtube Launch Online Video Contest
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube have announced the launch of a new online video contest aimed at discovering innovative work from across the country.
Through July YouTube users may submit new or existing videos created within the last two years to the YouTube Play channel. Submissions may include any form of creative video, including art, animation, motion graphics, narrative and non-narrative work, or entirely new art forms. Guggenheim curators will select up to two hundred videos, and YouTube will make them available online. From that group, a jury of experts will choose up to twenty videos, to be presented on October 21 and on view to the public from October 22 through October 24 in the Tower 2 gallery of the museum. In addition, the videos will be displayed at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
HP, which is collaborating on the project, will provide hardware to all four museums for displaying the videos and will offer HP Make tutorials to participants.
The foundation will not identify a first prize or runners-up among the twenty finalists. As Nancy Spector, deputy director and chief curator of the Guggenheim Foundation, explained to the New York Times: "[T]his [effort] is not about finding the best, but making a selection that represents the most captivating and surprising work."
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