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Grand Challenges Explorations fosters innovation in global health research
Category: Health
Available from: Gates Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Grand Challenges Explorations fosters innovation in global health research. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $100 million to encourage scientists worldwide to expand the pipeline of ideas to fight our greatest health challenges. Launched in 2008, Grand Challenge Explorations grants have already been awarded to 405 researchers from 34 countries. Topics for Grand Challenges Explorations Round 7 are: The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication; Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies; Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Solutions for Improved Uptake and Coverage of Childhood Vaccinations; Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection; Explore Nutrition for Healthy Growth of Infants and Children and Apply Synthetic Biology to Global Health Challenges. The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
Read more | Gates Foundation
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The Templeton Prize - Open for Nominations
Category: Religion
Available from: Templeton Foundation
Deadline: 3rd October 2011
The Templeton Prize honors a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works. Established in 1972 by the late Sir John Templeton, the Prize aims, in his words, to identify “entrepreneurs of the spirit”—outstanding individuals who have devoted their talents to expanding our vision of human purpose and ultimate reality. The Prize celebrates no particular faith tradition or notion of God, but rather the quest for progress in humanity’s efforts to comprehend the many and diverse manifestations of the Divine. Men and women of any creed, profession, or national origin may be nominated for the Templeton Prize.
Read more | Templeton Foundation
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Supporting, Strengthening, and promoting those organizations dedicated to reversing the
trend of destruction of ocean environments around the world
Category: Environment
Available from: The Ocean Foundation
Deadline: See Website
The Ocean Foundation (TOF) is a unique community foundation with a mission to support, strengthen, and promote those organizations dedicated to reversing the trend of destruction of ocean environments around the world. They work with a
community of donors who care about the coasts and oceans. In this manner, they grow the financial resources available to support marine conservation in order to promote healthy ocean ecosystems and benefit the human communities that depend on them. They operate using a well-established business model (the community foundation) to serve donors and partners interested in marine conservation. TOF does this by increasing the capacity of conservation organizations, hosting projects and funds, and supporting those working to improve the health of ocean species globally.
Read more | The Ocean Foundation
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Supporting leaders and institutions working to achieve a biologically rich, sustainable world
Category: Children & Young People | Community | Education | Environment | Health | NGO Capacity Bldg
Available from: David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Deadline: See Website
The Foundation supports leaders and institutions working to achieve a biologically rich, sustainable world where all families can plan for their children and all children reach their potential. They also invest in efforts to learn from their work and increase the impact of their investments through targeted evaluation and communications grants. They have a number of program areas: Conservation & Science; Population & Reproductive Health; Children, Families & Communities; Organizational Effectiveness & Philanthropy; and Local Grantmaking. Eligibility and geographical focus varies with the program.
Read more | David & Lucile Packard Foundation
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Category: Education | Health | Social & Human Services
Available from: TY Danjuma Foundation
Deadline: See Website
The TY Danjuma Foundation is committed to enhancing the quality of life of Nigerians by supporting initiatives that improve access to health and educational opportunities. Based in Abuja, Nigeria, the Foundation was established by General TY Danjuma and works with a distinguished Board of Trustees. The main goals of the Foundation are to: Enhance community health care by providing free medical services to rural communities which lack adequate medical facilities; Improve the quality of education of children and young people (18 years and younger); and Alleviate the extreme poverty in communities across the country by providing clean drinking water, and encouraging the education and empowerment of women.
Read more | TY Danjuma Foundation
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Supporting projects focused on poverty reduction and pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals
Category: Children | Community | Education | Health | Human Rights | NGO Capacity Bldg;
Available from: Department for International Development (DfID)
Deadline: June 2011
The Global Poverty Action Fund (GPAF) was launched on 27 October 2010. It is a demand-led fund supporting projects focused on poverty reduction and pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals through tangible changes to poor people’s lives including through: service delivery, empowerment and accountability and work on conflict, security and justice. Projects will be selected on the basis of demonstrable impact on poverty, clarity of outputs and outcomes, and value for money. There
are 2 funding windows, the Innovation Window and the Impact Window. The criteria for each is given on the website (see link below). These awards are currently open to UK-based organizations only.
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Supporting and accompanying Human Rights and Social Justice related organizations in Africa
Category: Community | Human Rights | Social & Human Services
Available from: Akiba Uhaki Foundation
Deadline: See Website
Akiba Uhaki, the Human Rights and Social Justice Fund, is an emerging grant-making organization dedicated to supporting and accompanying Human Rights and Social Justice related organizations in East Africa i.e. Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda,
Tanzania and Uganda. Akiba Uhaki was established as a fund for Human Rights and social justice in February 2006, in response to the need to fill the critical gap that existed within the sector, with regard to developing capacity for sustainably
addressing social injustice and Human Rights violations. The Fund exists to support the growth and strengthening of the Human Rights and Social Justice Sector in East Africa. Through their Programs Department, Akiba Uhaki Foundation offers grants to Human Rights and Social Justice Organizations up to a current limit of Kshs. 500,000 for organizations within Kenya and USD 6,500 for organizations from Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania.
Read more | Akiba Uhaki Foundation
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Category: Health | Tech Dev & Science
Available from: Commonwealth Fund
Deadline: 12th September 2011
The Commonwealth Fund's Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provide a unique opportunity for mid-career health services researchers and practitioners from Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom to spend up to 12 months in the United States, conducting original research and working with leading U.S. health policy experts.
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Supporting some of the most disadvantaged and poorest people in the world
Category: Children | Community | Disability | Education | Environment | Health | Human Services
Available from: Comic Relief
Deadline: Rolling
Comic Relief supports some of the most disadvantaged and poorest people in the world. Africa is the focus for most of our international work as the continent has the highest levels of poverty and injustice in the world. At the same time we support work in a limited number of countries in Asia and Latin America. Comic Relief grants to UK-registered charities only (including charities registered in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man) whose main aim is development and who work closely with identified local organisations. They believe lasting change requires investing in work that addresses people’s immediate needs as well as tackling the root causes of poverty and injustice. To do this effectively they’ve developed a set of principles which guide the way they work and the expectations they have of the organisations they fund. Organisations applying will need to demonstrate how their work addresses the following: understanding the context; consulting with key players; building on good practice; involving local people; investing in local organizations; working with others; implementing learning strategies and applying learning.
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Reducing violence in young children's lives
Category: Children | Education
Available from: Bernard van Leer Foundation
Deadline: See Website
The Bernard van Leer Foundation is based in Holland. Grantmaking is pursued through three goals: taking quality early learning to scale; reducing violence in young children's lives; and improving young children's physical enviroments. Grantmaking is focused on selected countries: Brazil, India, Israel, The Netherlands, Peru, Tanzania, Turkey, and Uganda. The also pursue a regional approach within the European Union.
Read more | Bernard Van Leer Foundation
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Identifies funders who make cross border grants and gives examples of actual funding.
Icons indicate the area of the world that the grant awarded will fund.
GAVI Announces $4.3 Billion in Commitments to Vaccine Program
Category: Health | International Development
Grant Amount: $4,300,000,000
Grant made to: GAVI
Grant made from: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization (GAVI) has announced commitments totaling $4.3 billion from private donors and donor countries — including $1 billion over five years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — to immunize more than 250 million of the world's poorest children against life-threatening diseases.
Announced at GAVI's first pledging conference, the commitments exceeded the Geneva-based organization's $3.7 billion goal and will enable it to reach more children faster than planned and accelerate the introduction of new vaccines. Although a portion of the pledges must be matched with support from new donors, the increase will allow GAVI to fully fund approved applications; a record fifty countries applied in the organization's latest funding round.
As a result of the conference, funding from donor country governments more than doubled, with some countries, including Japan and Brazil, pledging to support GAVI's vaccine program for the first time. Developing countries also committed to maintain or increase co-financing of their programs, while vaccine manufactures said they would lower prices on a range of drugs purchased by the alliance.
Hosted by the governments of the United Kingdom and Liberia as well as the Gates Foundation, the conference was preceded by publication of a series of studies which found that if 90 percent of the children in the more than seventy developing countries were fully immunized, about 6.4 million lives and more than $151 billion in treatment costs could be saved over ten years, producing economic benefits of $231 billion. To that end, conference attendees — including international government officials and global public health leaders from the public and private sectors — plan to meet again in two years to review GAVI's progress.
“Donors Commit Vaccine Funding to Achieve Historic Milestone in Global Health.” GAVI Alliance Press Release
Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Category: Children & Youth | Internatonal Development Partners in Health has announced a three-year, $1.5 million commitment from the Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation to help fight childhood cancer in Rwanda.
The grant will support efforts by Boston-based PIH and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to develop a comprehensive cancer program in the African nation and improve cancer prevention, diagnosis, chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and follow-up care for children. In 2002, the World Health Organization put the number of new cases of cancer diagnosed annually on the continent at 650,000 and predicted more than a million new cancer cases in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020.
There are no practicing oncologists in Rwanda, and financial, geographic, and logistical barriers limit the accessibility of the few cancer care services that do exist. Despite the lack of oncological treatment infrastructure within the country, PIH and a local partner organization, Inshuti Mu Buzima, have been providing pediatric cancer care in rural Rwanda since 2007.
Partners in Health | Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation
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Category: International Development | Environment
Grant Amount: $20,000,000
Grant made to: Various
Grant made from: Coca-Cola Foundation
The Coca-Cola Foundation has announced grants totaling $20 million to sixty-five organizations in the United States and around the world.
Grants were awarded to organizations working to advance programs in the company's key focus areas, including health, education, and the environment. During the first quarter, the foundation awarded more than $6 million in grants. The grants just announced bring the total amount awarded by the foundation in 2011 to nearly $27 million.
Of the grant dollars awarded by the foundation this year, approximately $22 million will support the beverage company's philanthropic priorities, including water stewardship projects ($12 million), educational initiatives ($6.8 million), community recycling programs ($1.6 million), and fitness and nutrition programs ($1.2 million). An additional $5.2 million will support local community and civic initiatives. The foundation also awarded $550,000 to five organizations providing disaster relief services in tornado-battered communities across the United States.
“The Coca-Cola Foundation Awards $27 Million to 65 Sustainable Community Initiatives Worldwide.” Coca-Cola Press Release
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Save the Children Receives $1.5 Million From Oprah Winfrey Foundation to Educate Zimbabwean Children
Category: Education | Children & Youth
Grant Amount: $1,500,000
Grant made to: Save the Children
Grant made from: Oprah Winfrey Foundation
Save the Children has announced a $1.5 million grant from the Oprah Winfrey Foundation to rebuild the Matau Primary School in Zimbabwe.
Announced on one of the final episodes of the Oprah Winfrey Show, the grant was awarded in honor of Winfrey's "favorite" guest, Tererai Trent, a woman from the village of Zvipani whose lifelong dream was to gain an education. Trent first appeared on Winfrey's show in 2009 and explained that she had received support from the people in her village to relocate to the United States in 1998, where she eventually earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural education and later a master's and doctorate degree. During her second appearance, Trent told Winfrey that she felt she had to give back to the village by improving educational opportunities for children.
The grant will be used to begin construction on new classrooms, latrines, a playground for preschoolers, a school administration building, and teachers' houses. Save the Children also will supply locally made desks, chairs, books, toys, and other learning materials for students and preschoolers. Through the project, Save the Children will work to improve learning for nearly four thousand children at Matau Primary School and in neighboring communities. In addition, the humanitarian organization will spend three years training teachers, carrying out a community-wide literacy program, and helping instructors plan and prepare activities for preschoolers to help them succeed.
Save the Children | Oprah Winfrey Foundation
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Category: Children | Food
Grant Amount: $3,800,000
Grant made to: TBC
Grant made from: Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods, the U.S.-based food and beverage giant, has announced a $3.8 million initiative to help eradicate child malnutrition in Indonesia and Bangladesh.
Announced at a World Economic Forum meeting in Jakarta, the program will fund 180 farming "centers of excellence" over the next four years in the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) region of Indonesia and the Satkhira district of Bangladesh. In partnership with Helen Keller International, the program will work to teach thousands of women across NTT and Satkhira sustainable farming practices and provide "start-your-own-farm" supplies, including fertilizers and other tools; nutrition education; and small business training. The hope is that participants in the program eventually will create thousands of homestead farms, enabling them to grow what they need to feed their families a nutritionally balanced diet.
The program represents the company's first major investment as part of Project Laser Beam, a five-year, $50 million public-private partnership led by the UN World Food Programme. Over the past twenty-five years, Kraft Foods and its foundation have donated more than $1 billion in cash and food to hunger-relief organizations.
"We can end child malnutrition," said Kraft Foods chairman and CEO Irene Rosenfeld. "For our part, we're employing innovative solutions and investments in sustainable farming, microenterprises, and nutrition education to improve food security and provide economic opportunity for Indonesian and Bangladeshi families in need. By working together under Project Laser Beam, we help ensure that these efforts are sustainable and scalable."
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Insider tips from people in the know about philanthropy
Social media tools for grantseeking research
This month Howard Lake, publisher of UK Fundraising, talks about social media channels.
Howard Lake is publisher of UK Fundraising (www.fundraising.co.uk), the online resource and community for professional fundraisers which he created in 1994. He advises and trains charities and fundraising sector businesses on many aspectsof using digital tools, from web and email through to social media (http://ukfundraising.eventbrite.com/).
He is consistently voted in the 50 most influential in fundraising by readers of Fundraising magazine, and has been a judge for the UK's National Fundraising Awards for five years. He is advising several digital fundraising companies and startups.
Social media channels and tools like Facebook and Twitter offer a surprising number of opportunities to support charities' grantseeking research. Not surprisingly, many grantmakers use these tools themselves both to share information & announcements and to keep up to date with developments and professional contacts themselves.
Here are four tools that I use on a regular basis for various elements of fundraising research, including grants and funding research, and which you might find useful.
1. Twilert (www.twilert.com)
If you use Google Alerts (www.google.com/alerts) you will be familiar with this kind of free current awareness service via email. Twilert lets you set up one or more searches for words or phrases that appear on Twitter: you then choose how often you wish to receive these email alerts (daily or weekly). Then sit back and wait for the alerts to arrive.
They appear aggregated in one message, presented in an easy-to-scan fashion.
They include links to the original tweet and the original author, together with any web links included in the tweet.
Twilert, and tools like it, help you scan Twitter for the issues that matter to you, and they save you from conducting regular manual searches of Twitter.
Dates for your diary plus other interesting bits and bobs that can help you. Here's what has captured our attention this month.
Awards, Conferences, Seminars & Webinars. Icons indicate the area of the world the event is being held
(Seminars / Workshops etc) OR what countries are entitled to apply (Awards)
American Foundation Research Workshop : Researching US Foundations, a practical approach
Hosted by: Chapel & York This workshop, which has been profited and enjoyed by over 60 organizations over the last two years, is aimed at anyone wishing to explore the multi-million dollar funding opportunities represented by the 100,000+ US Grantmaking Foundations.
The workshop includes:
- 3 hours plus of supervised individual research time at a dedicated terminal using the most comprehensive and flexible American Foundation Research Database available
- An overview of what you need to know to maximise your chance of success when applying to US Grantmaking Foundations
Cost: £201.25 Early Bird Discount Price: £175.00 + VAT (inc. Lunch & Refreshments)
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Prospect Research in the USA – an introduction
WHAT IS PROSPECT RESEARCH AND WHY DO I NEED IT?
Prospect research is a vital element in fundraising. It means the gathering and analyzing of relevant biographical, financial, company, foundation and other philanthropic information in a purposefully ethical way on behalf of charitable organizations, using only publicly-available information. But where do you start?
Prospect Research in the USA – an introduction
Chapel & York has invited Helen Brown, president of The Helen Brown Group LLC, a full-service prospect research consulting firm in the USA, to present a seminar to its clients and others about the cornucopia of opportunities prospect research can offer.
Date: Monday 19th September, 2011
Time: 10:30am – 12:30pm
Venue: King's College London, Building A, Strand Campus, Strand, WC2R 2LS
Price: £35.00+VAT for Clients / £55.00+VAT non Clients
Refreshments will be provided
Charity Fair 2011 
Join 1,000 of your peers at Charityfair 2011 on
Monday 27 & Tuesday 28 June 2011 for affordable, high quality
training for everyone in the voluntary sector, with a FREE resource area packed with coaching, talks, bookshop, exhibitors, networking and much more. Can you afford not to go?
Entry to Charityfair is FREE and you can access high quality training for as little as £25 per session and £50 for masterclasses depending on how many sessions you book!
Sessions last one hour and provide you with the core information you need to develop your skills in key subject areas. Most of these sessions are practical, interactive and information-based.
Masterclasses are high level sessions that last for two hours and take a more detailed look into the topic.
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Charitytours - the fund raising cycling adventures of Sandra and Robin Weston
2011 challenge: A solo cycle ride to follow the Tour de France 2011 route. Taking place in September 2011
Raising funds for:
The Prostate Cancer Charity is the UK’s leading charity working with people affected by prostate cancer. It funds research, provides support and information, and campaigns to improve the lives of men with prostate cancer.
Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque Enfants du Monde
Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque Enfant du Monde summons up all its energies in favour of disadvantaged children suffering from heart disease. Whenever these children cannot receive the appropriate medical assistance in their country of origin (for technical or financial reasons), we take care of them by financing their operation and their stay in France (which lasts approximately 6 to 8 weeks). We do everything possible to allow them to go back home cured and, finally to live normally.
Founded by SRAM Corporation and Trek Bicycles in 2005 and supported by many leaders in the bicycle industry, World Bicycle Relief specializes in large-scale, comprehensive bicycle programs by providing supply chain management, technical knowledge and logistics expertise to poverty relief and disaster assistance initiatives.
If you are involved with a particular charity or have specific concerns, we should be happy to consider cycling to support them
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Virgin billionaire Sir Richard Branson and fellow mogul Ted Turner took the stage at Wall Street’s Cipriani to tell a crowd of entrepreneurs about their latest initiatives in global health.
Among other things, Branson established a health clinic in South Africa and has become an advocate for the war on drugs; meanwhile, Turner pledged $1 billion to help establish the United Nations Foundation (he’s already given $841 million) and has been an advocate for women’s health and fighting against female genital mutilation.
Despite the tough topics there were some light moments. Turner said it was easy for him to sign on to Bill Gates‘ and Warren Buffett‘s Giving Pledge to give away half his net worth (“I’d already pretty well done it”). He tried to convince Branson to sign on, too.
[Read more] Source: Forbes
AIDS at 30: Nations at the crossroads
This report provides evidence of how much we have achieved and weighs that against our vision for the future: zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS related deaths. In these pages you will find scientific analysis, personal insights and the results of extensive national and regional consultations at the front lines of the AIDS response. While perspectives differ, one simple truth emerges: we cannot break the arc of this epidemic – where five people were newly infected for every three starting treatment in 2010 – if we adopt a 'business as usual' approach.
[View more information] Source: UNAIDS
It's popular, celebrities promote it, but what do sponsored children feel about being sponsored?
Sponsoring a child in the developing world is a popular form of charitable giving. But what do the children themselves make of the system?
When Priscilla was a child, a donor many thousands of miles from her Ghanaian village helped pay for her schooling.
For years she exchanged letters with her British benefactor. Now she is 20, the charity has stopped the sponsorship and the relationship.
“Last year I wrote to them saying goodbye and thanked them for taking care of me up to this day,” says Priscilla, an accountancy student. “When I was writing, I was full of tears. Tears were coming from my eyes.”
Sponsor-a-child arrangements throw up emotional highs and lows for the children, something many donors are unaware of.
Charities like World Vision and Plan International use sponsor-a-child models to raise funds Priscilla’s sponsorship was arranged through World Vision. The charity has boosted the fortunes of Dangme West, which used to be one of the most deprived areas in greater Accra, the capital of Ghana.
[Read more] Source: NewsDze-Zimbabwe
The seven deadly sins of fundraising appeals – and how to avoid them
These points and tips are mainly written in the context of individual giving, although many are also just as relevant to events, community and legacy fundraising, membership marketing, volunteer recruitment or anywhere direct marketing techniques are used. They represent the most common issues in fundraising appeals that I have come across and include suggestions to help you avoid the same pitfalls.
I hope that some of these insights and suggestions are useful to you and that you will test to prove or disprove them for yourself!
1. Beating around the bush
Many people seem to feel slightly embarrassed about asking for donations. I only say this because there have been numerous occasions where I’ve been asked to remove most of the asks for a donation from appeal copy; once to the point that the first mention was almost at the bottom of the last page of the letter, almost as though it was an afterthought.
This is a fundraising appeal, not a magazine article or a short story, so get to the point and do it quickly. You’ve heard of the saying, ‘if you don’t ask, you don’t get’, and never has this been more true than in this context. Experience and testing tells me that the earlier you include an ask, and the more direct you are about it, the better the response will be.
Tips to uplift response & income:
[Read in full, Tips 2-7] Source: Beautiful World
Both IBM and the Carnegie Corporation will turn 100 this month. Has the multinational business or universal philanthropy done more for society?
“ONE simple way to assess the impact of any organisation is to answer the question: how is the world different because it existed?” That is the test set out by Sam Palmisano in the foreword to a new book celebrating the 100th birthday of IBM, the firm he has run since 2002. But another organisation is also turning 100 this month—the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a flagship of American philanthropy. Mr Palmisano’s insight is too good to limit to only one of the centenarians. A better question is: which has done more for the world, one of its leading companies or one of its most influential charities?
At first glance, IBM and the Carnegie Corporation seem to be engaged in such different endeavours that comparing them might seem about as sensible as comparing apple orchards and orange groves. Making money has always been the main aim of the company formed in 1911 by the merger of three small producers of mechanical accounting machines, scales and time recorders, and renamed International Business Machines 13 years later. By contrast, the Carnegie Corporation explicitly set out to create a better world by giving away what remained of the great fortune of its industrialist founder, Andrew Carnegie. Yet both can assert that they have made the world a better place during the past century, and it is far from obvious which claim is stronger.
[Read more] Source: The Economist
[Read more] Source: PRowl Public Relations
The European Community’s budget totals over €143 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 167 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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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:
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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Chapel & York is delighted to be the first to announce the launch of www.zorvashop.co.uk, home of downloadable publications. The first series of materials available are 29 fundraising and management QuickGuides, 24 pages each for as little as £2.50 per Guide. These unique guides are written by experts throughout the world for organisations around the world. Chapel & York has arranged a special discount of 25% on all collections for readers of this publication. Simply use the discount code CHAPELANDYORK01. The discount is available until 31st August 2011 so don't delay.
Guess2Give adds a new twist to online events fundraising by offering a sweepstake function to individuals' sponsored events, giving people an opportunity to chip in,
make a donation and stand a chance of winning a cash prize.
Mark Chandler, co-founder of Guess2Give, said: "Anything that can be measured can become a fundraising event using Guess2Give. Whether it’s about guessing the length of a best-man’s speech, the weight of all the fish on a fishing weekend, how far a paper plane will fly or even the number of worms found in a square metre of earth. The possibilities are endless and we’re looking forward to seeing how inventive everyone can be”.
It costs £3 to make a guess and participants are kept in touch via social networks and email. A fixed 50p from each guess goes into a prize fund and up to £2.51 (including Gift Aid) goes to the charity.
Parkinsons UK is the first charity to sign up and get their supporters involved. Fundraising Director, Paul Jackson-Clark said: "For me it was a simple decision to make when I was introduced to Guess2Give, as it will provide a new income stream without any cost or risk to the charity. It also brings a new, fun element for supporters to be more involved with an event”.
[Read more] Source: UK Fundraising
Multi-million dollar funding opportunities at your fingertips
Updated daily, FoundationSearch, an American Foundation Research database,includes more than 120,000 US grant making foundations, representing billions of dollars in annual granting and includes tools to locate grants by type, value, year, recipient, donor and historical giving trends, and much, much more.
FoundationSearch is in our opinion the best database of its kind in the world. It provides more accurate, accessible information than any other comparable database and its unique features enable you to appreciably reduce expensive research time, make your choices significantly better informed, and considerably improve your chances of success.
If you would like to learn more about FoundationSearch or are interested in a free online demonstration please contact research@chapel-york.com for details and costs or visit Chapel-york online
Does exactly whats it says on the tin
501(c)(3)active is specially prepared for Chapel & York’s 501(c)(3) clients. It offers relevant information direct to every client who works with a 501(c)(3) organization maintained by Chapel & York. There is no charge.
If you are a Chapel & York client OR you are not a client but have a responsibility for a 501(c)(3) and would like to start receiving 501(c)(3)active please click here.
During the course of our work we identify many funding opportunities which we know will be of interest and benefit to others.. This is why we have introduced our free Grant Opportunities alert service.
Every time we identify a new opportunity to make an application for funds, or a new cross border grant, or a useful, interesting charity resource relating to our chosen categories (14 in total), we will email you details. There is no charge. [View Example]
Our 14 categories are:
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, Human Rights, Media & Arts, Medical Research, NGO Capacity Building, Human Services, Spirituality & Religion, Sport, Technological & Science
**Update**
Chapel & York are changing the format of Grant Opportunites. Rather than receiving an email for each of your interest areas you will in future receive only one email listing all the opportunities we have identified. Each opportunity will include the interest areas to which they refer enabling you to quickly identify those that may be of interest.
If you would like to start receiving Grant Opportunities then please sign up here. For further information please contact our Head of Research, Peter Haley on +44 1342 871913 or email here
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May '11 - Grant Opportunities and Grant Activity items from all over the world helping you find possible sources of funding - covering a vast array of giving interest areas | Ask the Expert: CharityChannel Launches New Professional Group: International Fundraising from USA | What motivates billionaires like Bill Gates? | Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has stopped payment on hundreds of millions of dollars of grants to China | 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report View G&R May here
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has stopped payment on hundreds
of millions of dollars of grants to China
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has stopped payment on hundreds of millions of dollars of grants to China — its fourth-largest recipient behind Ethiopia, India, and Tanzania — in a dispute over China's management of the funds, the New York Times reports.
The Global Fund, which first held back payment of a major AIDS grant to China in November, froze payment on other grants a few weeks ago after new concerns were raised over the country's management of grants from the fund. According to an audit conducted last year, the Chinese government failed to fulfill its pledge to allocate 35 percent of a $283 million AIDS grant to community-based organizations; a report from a nongovernmental group called Global Fund Watch found that China actually allocated less than 11 percent to nongovernmental groups, and that community-based groups appeared to be left out of grant discussions. While Chinese officials responded to the allegations by saying that many private groups could not be trusted to spend the money properly, Chinese activists believe the government and its NGO proxies routinely pocket a significant portion of the funds and are wary of supporting grassroots groups with the ability to organize.
The dispute has fueled a growing debate over whether China should be receiving any aid at all from the Global Fund. Since 2003, China has received $539 million from the fund and is in line to receive an additional $295 million. Critics of China who think the money would be better spent in poorer countries point to the $46 billion the Chinese government spent to stage the 2008 Olympic Games and last year's Shanghai Expo as well as the $586 billion economic stimulus package it recently financed.
[Read more] Source: New York Times
What motivates billionaires like Bill Gates?
After interviewing many of the world's richest men, HARDtalk presenter Stephen Sackur ponders the qualities that those billionaires have in common.
Bill Gates may be a billionaire 50 times over, but he is struggling to raise a five-dollar smile. He arrives for our interview with all the enthusiasm of a man about to have his toenails forcibly removed.
But then the cameras roll. Gates powers up, his eyes engage. For half an hour, the founder of Microsoft radiates passionate intelligence.
We are in Geneva for the UN's World Health Assembly, at which Gates is a keynote speaker. He tells me about the progress being made to vaccinate the world's poorest children against many of the most harmful infectious diseases.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $10bn (£6.15bn) to scientific research and immunisation programmes to make this the "decade of vaccines".
For those who idly wonder about the difference between being plain rich and being vastly, unimaginably wealthy, here is an answer. Billionaires (and there are more than 1,200 of them, according to the latest Forbes Rich List ) get to think and act on a global scale.
[Read more / Watch interviews] Source: BBC - HARDtalk
Strategic Philanthropy: a global movement for positive social change, not just
giving to charity
[Read more] Source: CSR Asia
European Union Tightens NGO Funding Rules
Non-government and civil society organisations seeking funding from the 10th European Development Fund (EDF),
will have to prove that they have been on top of their game before they receive the funding.
Without elaborating, the EDF Democratic Governance and Accountability Program (DGAP) manager, Ms Robina Namusisi,
on Wednesday told NGO representatives during an informational session in Kampala that the tougher conditions are recommendations from activities of the 9th EDF Grantees in which EDF is trying to identify the most suitable NGOs for funding.
She said under the new rules, the European Development Fund EDF will disqualify proposals seeking funding for seminars, workshops, per-diems and scholarships for capacity building, unless they are directly linked to grassroot activities for which they received funding.
[Read more] Source: All Africa.com
Forbes Rich List 2011Online - The richest people on the planet
This year's list broke records in size (1,210 billionaires) and total net worth ($4.5 trillion). China doubled its number of 10-figure fortunes, and Moscow now has more billionaires than any other city. Mexico's Carlos Slim widened his lead at No. 1.
Slim, named the world's richest man by Forbes Magazine, said he's seeking to boost his investments in Colombia because of the country's open policy on oil exploration, its mineral assets and growing middle class.
[View Full list] Source: Forbes
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