| Komen for the Cure to Help Women Worldwide |
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's largest breast cancer organization, has announced the launch of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Promise Fund. The Fund will provide grants to non-governmental organizations to develop and implement breast health and breast cancer programs and services in countries experiencing high breast cancer incidence and death rates.
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Promise Fund announcement coincided with International Women's Day and sends a clear message to women around the world that Komen for the Cure is expanding its work to the far corners of the world where women need the most help.
With more than 1 million women worldwide receiving a breast cancer diagnosis each year, the organization believes it is critical to increase advocacy for and education about this life-threatening disease. With $1 billion invested in the cause to date, Komen pledged last year to invest another $2 billion in research and community-based programs within the next decade to bring about a dramatic decrease in the incidence of breast cancer and deaths resulting from the disease.
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| Goldman Sachs Launches $100 Million Initiative to Teach Business to Women in Developing World |
The Goldman Sachs Group has announced a five-year, $100 million initiative to provide ten thousand underserved women -- predominantly in developing and emerging areas of the world -- with a business and management education.
Through partnerships between universities in the United States and Europe and business schools in emerging and developing countries, the 10,000 Women initiative is designed to help disadvantaged women earn business and management certificates. The partnerships will support flexible, short-term programs for women whose financial and practical circumstances prevent them from receiving a traditional business education. A select number of MBA and BA degrees will also be conferred.
"Goldman Sachs Launches 10,000 Women." Goldman Sachs Foundation Press Release (PDF) |
| Ethos Water, H2O Africa Foundation Join Forces to Address Water Shortages |
Starbucks, which acquired Ethos Water in 2005, has announced a new collaborative effort with the H20 Africa Foundation to raise awareness and funding for the world water crisis.
For each bottle of Ethos Water sold in the United States and Canada, five cents (ten cents Canadian) will be directed to the Ethos Water Fund, which is part of the Starbucks Foundation. To date, more than $6.2 million in grant commitments have been made through the fund, which will benefit an estimated 439,000 people in water-stressed countries. Ethos Water is expected to contribute $10 million by 2010 to nongovernmental organizations implementing water, sanitation, and hygiene education programs.
“Ethos Water and H2O Africa Join Forces to Help Alleviate the World Water Crisis.” Starbucks Coffee Company |
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| Starbucks Foundation Pledges $2 Million to Help Water-Stressed African Communities |
Starbucks Foundation has pledged $1 million each to CARE and Project Concern International to support water, sanitation, and hygiene education programs in water-stressed African communities.
The grants, to be made over three years through the foundation's Ethos Water Fund, will help the organizations reach an estimated fifty-four thousand people who currently lack access to clean water and sanitation services. With the funds, CARE will introduce transformative sanitation and hygiene practices in Rwanda's Musanze district, while Project Concern International will work to implement participatory methods and low-cost, easy-to-maintain technologies in Tanzania's Babati district.
Grants from the Ethos Water Fund are made possible through purchases of Ethos Water. To date, the fund has generated more than $6.2 million; Ethos intends to award a total of $10 million to nongovernmental organizations by 2010.
“Starbucks Foundation Awards US$2 Million from the Ethos Water Fund to Help Improve the Lives of People in Water-Stressed African Communities.” Starbucks Foundation Press Release
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| Coca-Cola Company, partners with organizations around the globe to help develop and maintain vibrant, sustainable and local communities. |
Their community commitment is shared across the Coca-Cola system. When natural disasters strike, The Coca-Cola Foundation and the entire Coca-Cola system respond to offer emergency relief. Through the Coca-Cola Matching Gifts Program, eligible employees make personal contributions to qualified organizations and The Coca-Cola Foundation matches those contributions on a 2-for-1 basis.
In response to community needs and priorities across the globe, they support initiatives focused on:
Water Stewardship (Conservation/Clean Water/Sanitation)
Fitness and Active Lifestyles (Physical Activity/Nutrition Education)
Sustainable Packaging (Community Recycling/Research & Innovation)
In addition to their global priorities, local support of their operating groups includes:
Africa - Education and HIV/AIDS
European Union - Education
Latin America - Education and HIV/AIDS
North America - Education (via the Foundation's two Signature Programs…The Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program and The Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship Program)
Pacific Group - Education
Regional and local foundations will be found at here
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| Mama Cash financially supports groups and organisations that through their work strengthen women's rights |
Mama Cash supports women's rights groups and organisations in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa. Mama Cash financially supports groups and organisations that through their work strengthen women's rights in their country or region through providing general support grants, project grants, and travel grants.
Mama Cash supports women's groups and organisations around the world that:
More information is available here |
| London School of Hygiene Receives $60 Million to Fight Malaria, HIV, and Tuberculosis |
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has announced grants totaling almost $60 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other funders to help find new and effective ways of treating and preventing malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis.
The foundation awarded nearly $40 million over four years to LSHTM in support of the ACT Consortium, which includes almost fifty academic institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States. With the funds, the consortium will conduct a coordinated research program to identify ways to optimize the delivery and cost-effectiveness of combination drug treatment for malaria in Africa and Asia as well as across a range of epidemiological and healthcare settings.
The school was also awarded a separate $3 million grant from the foundation for research on seasonal intermittent treatment of malaria in children; $986,000 from the University of Dakar for a project to implement intermittent preventive treatment (IPTP) in Senegal; and $7.6 million through the Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium in support of four major activities, including a multi-center trial based in India and countries in Southeast Asia comparing the safety and efficacy of two new antimalarial drug combinations during pregnancy.
“London School of Hygiene Celebrates $60 Million in New Gates Funding to Fight Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and Tuberculosis.” London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Press Release |
| Gates Foundation Seeks Proposals for Innovative Global Health Research |
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that beginning March 31, 2008, it will accept grant proposals for the first funding round of the Grand Challenges Explorations, a new $100 million initiative to help scientists pursue ideas that have never before been tested for solving major health problems.
The first Grand Challenges Explorations funding round will consider proposals in four topic areas:
1) Creating new ways to protect against infectious diseases: Untried or unproven approaches to protect against infectious diseases, including harnessing natural or synthetic immune responses, or eliminating the need for an effective immune response.
2) Creating drugs or delivery systems that limit the emergence of resistance: Innovative ideas for discovering or delivering drugs that are less likely to lose effectiveness because of resistance developing in the disease-causing agent.
3) Creating new ways to prevent or cure HIV infection: Innovative ideas for HIV prevention or treatment methods that fall outside current research on vaccines, antiretroviral drugs, and other
biomedical and behavior-change strategies.
4) Exploring the basis for latency in TB: Unconventional approaches to understanding latent TB infection, with the goal of discovering new ways to identify and eliminate latent infection and break the cycle of TB transmission.
Initial grants through the initiative will be for $100,000 each.Projects showing success will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of $1 million or more.
Grant proposals for the first funding round will be accepted from March 31 through May 30, 2008; applicants must register their intent to submit a proposal by May 15, 2008.
For more information Click here |
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| 98,000 US Online Foundation Database |
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Of invaluable use to all organizations and researchers wishing to access the vast international funding potential represented by United States grant-making foundations, this online database has been developed over six years and contains more than 4,000,000 pages of searchable information on over 98,000 United States Foundations. Updated daily, this online database contains detailed information on all aspects of foundation grant-making history, financial information, contact information, and application details. More
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| International Agriculture Grants |
A directory of selected international grants, exchanges, fellowships, and collaborative research opportunities in agriculture GO >>> |
| International and Foreign Grantmakers |
Listing of relevant international websites and books, with annotated entries GO >>>
Another list, this time from the International Nobel Peace Prize Recommendation Forum (INPPRF). GO >>> |
| International Funding |
An interactive map covering all regions of the world GO >>> |
| International Grants |
From Fundsnet, a lengthy list of links to international grants, initiatives, foundations and directories on the web GO >>>
Another Free International Grant Resource Guide from Nonprofitexpert.com GO >>> |
| The Green Entrepreneur: 100 Networking Resources, Guides & Links by Jessica Hupp |
Whether you’re looking for funding, news, or networking, there are lots of resources out there dedicated to green entrepreneurs. We’ve hand picked some of the best. Check out these resources that can give you the boost you need to be green and successful at the same time. GO>> |
| Community Funding Agencies |
Community Funding Agencies in the UK. GO>>> |
AWARDS, PROGRAMS & FELLOWSHIPS
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| Priest Wins $1.6-Million Prize |
Michael Heller, a Polish Roman Catholic priest, cosmologist, and philosopher, has been awarded the $1.6-million 2008 Templeton Prize, the largest award made to an individual by a nonprofit group, reports The New York Times.
The John Templeton Foundation, which awards grants for research in science and philosophy, commended Mr. Heller for his writings on science and religion.
Mr. Heller said he plans to use the money to establish a center for the study of science and theology at the Pontifical Academy of Theology, in Krakow, Poland, where he is a faculty member. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, will award the prize on May 7 in a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace, in London, UK. |
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CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, MEETINGS & TRAINING
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| Institute for Volunteering Research |
When: 15th-19th July 2008
NCVO/VSSN 14th Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference
9th – 10th September 2008, University of Warwick, UK
As part of the annual NCVO/VSSN Voluntary Sector Researchers Conference, a special session will be run for "new" researchers on the afternoon of the 9th September. The session (which has now run for the last five years) is aimed at those who are relatively new to voluntary sector research, whether as post-graduate students or researchers in the sector. It is a fantastic opportunity to meet, discuss research and share ideas with other researchers.
If you would like to present in this session please send an abstract of 200 to 400 words to joanna.machin@volunteeringengland.org by March 17th 2008.
Institute for Volunteering Research website |
| 27th International Congress of CIRIEC |
When & Where: The 27th International Congress of CIRIEC - International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy that will take place in Seville on 22-24 September 2008.
The official Web site of the congress is www.congresociriec.es (which will shortly also be in English, French and German).
www.ulg.ac.be/ciriec
www.ciriec.es
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| XVII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008) |
When & Where: 3-8 August 2008, México City, México
The International AIDS Society (IAS) invites civil society to participate in the XVII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008). AIDS 2008 will be the first International AIDS Conference ever held in Latin America, and international planning committees are already hard at work developing an exciting programme. For more information, click here.
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| The Chronicle of Philanthropy 'Give & Take' |
| Give and Take is a service of The Chronicle of Philanthropy that rounds up the best postings that appear on blogs about the nonprofit world. You can also read previous postings on issues about philanthropic giving, fund raising, and management of nonprofit organizations. |
| Bill Gates No Longer Tops World's-Richest List |
According to Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of the world’s richest people, Microsoft founder Bill Gates — in part because of generous donations to his foundation — is no longer the world’s richest man, for the first time in 13 years.
Somewhat surprisingly, Warren Buffet, chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, moved into the top spot, with a fortune of $62-billion, up $10-billion in a year. This growth occurred despite Mr. Buffet’s pledge to give away most of his money to Mr. Gates’s foundation, a pledge he has already started to pay.
The world’s second-richest man is Mexican business mogul Carlos Slim, worth $60-billion. Mr. Gates’s fortune is worth $58-billion. More
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| Google Offers New Site for Nonprofit Groups |
The Internet search company Google has opened a new portal for nonprofit groups that explains how to adopt various Google features and software for charitable work.
The Google “suite” of applications includes an e-mail program, mapping software, blog software, tools to analyze Internet traffic, and a grants search engine, among other items. These applications are free for nonprofit groups, and the new site offers tips on how to use the applications for philanthropy.
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| Wikipedia Community Mulls Funding Paths |
While Wikipedia, the Web-based encyclopedia, ranks among the most visited sites on the Internet, it has far less financial clout than Web peers such as Yahoo and Google, leaving its contributors and volunteers to question how the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the project, should raise and spend funds, the Associated Press reports.
The same community that generates content for Wikipedia is quick to scrutinize anything that could improve the project's financial situation. Should the foundation proceed on its present course, soliciting donations largely to keep the site's servers running, or should it try to develop other revenue streams — and maybe accept ads — to raise funds to achieve its grand vision of sending DVDs or printed books to people who lack computers? These are difficult questions for any organization, let alone one in which hundreds of participants expect to have a say.The foundation's leaders have different viewpoints as well. Florence Devouard, a French plant scientist who chairs the board, said.. Read whole article here |
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