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Grants for the conservation of the earth's global and local environments
Category: Environment
Available from: Aeon Environmental Foundation
Deadline: See website
The Aeon Group is among Japan’s largest conglomerates in retail and financial services, with sister companies in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Since 1991, the Aeon Environmental Foundation has been making grants to organizations and individuals for the conservation of the earth's global and local environments. Aeon provides funding for conservation field work and environmental research in Japan and the developing countries. The interests of the foundation are: tree planting, afforestation, prevention of desertification; Wildlife protection; Ecosystem conservation; Waste disposal and resource recycling (environmental clean-up); and the reduction of greenhouse gases.
Read more | Aeon Environmental Foundation
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Reaching out to vulnerable populations
Category: Children | Community | Disability | Education | Health
Available from: Aga Khan Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) focuses on a small number of specific development problems by forming intellectual and financial partnerships with organisations sharing its objectives. Most Foundation grants are made to grassroots organisations testing innovative approaches in the field. With a small staff, a host of cooperating agencies and thousands of volunteers, the Foundation reaches out to vulnerable populations on four continents, irrespective of their race, religion, political persuasion or gender.
The Foundation is largely an implementing organisation rather than a grant-funding agency.
Grants are normally given to local organisations interested in testing new solutions, in learning from experience and in being agents of lasting change.
These organisations must share the Foundation's goals in the fields of health, education, rural development and strengthening of civil society. With few exceptions, the Foundation funds programmes in countries where it has offices and local professional staff to monitor implementation (South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East).
Read more | Aga Khan Foundation
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Providing direct aid and assistance to vulnerable children
Category: Children & Young People | Community | Education | Health | Social & Human Services
Available from: Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation
Deadline: See Website
The Ross Foundation has compassion for all children, regardless of their circumstances. However, the Ross Foundation is most concerned with a young child who is vulnerable through no fault of his or her own. The Ross Foundation provides direct aid and assistance to vulnerable children, including those who are ill, orphaned, disabled, injured, disfigured, abused and malnourished or have limited access to education. They are looking for small grassroots projects that they can fully fund or nearly fully fund with the small grants that they make. The Foundation provides financial assistance to organizations that are qualified under the laws of the United States as a charitable organization for projects that directly benefit vulnerable children. They do not fund day-to-day operations, individuals, conferences, day care, or public education. They encourage organizations applying from foreign countries to call or email their office at info@dhrossfoundation.org.
Read more | Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation
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The protection of Africa’s wilderness through support for the socio-economic development of rural populations
Category: Community | Education | Health
Available from: Africa Foundation
Deadline: See Website
The projects that Africa Foundation fund and facilitate, assist in the protection of Africa’s wilderness through support for the socio-economic development of rural populations living in, or close to the conservation areas. Together with eco-tourism operators - primarily the & Beyond organisation - and in consultation with the communities themselves, Africa Foundation has supported many successful community empowerment projects and is currently helping to fund six major programmes in addition to over forty smaller projects in South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
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Improving the lives of people with chronic diseases
Category: Community | Education | Health | Media & Arts | Social Services
Available from: Medtronic Foundation
Deadline: Various
Medtronic Foundation operate a number of programs. With Patient Link grants, Medtronic partner with national and international patient organizations that educate, support and advocate on behalf of patients and their families to improve the lives of people with chronic diseases. Patient Link grants are made to organizations in the U.S., Canada and Europe. CommunityLink grants are made to areas were Medtronic have a business presence, namely Toronto, Canada; Netherlands:
Limburg (Heerlen/Maastricht) and Arnhem areas; Ireland: Galway and surrounding areas; Switzerland: Lac Leman and surrounding areas; Japan: greater Toyko area. Funding priorities for this program are Health, Education, Human Services,
and Arts/Civic/Culture. Strengthening Health System grants focus on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory disease, in specific low-income countries - Brazil, Central/Eastern Europe, China, India, Russia, South Africa. Full details of these programs are available via the link as are the relevant deadlines.
Read more | Medtronic Foundation
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Funding medical research pertaining to the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Category: Medical Research
Available from: Preeclampsia Foundation
Deadline: 16th May 2011
The Preeclampsia Foundation has supported close to a half a million dollars worth of research since its founding in 2000. Two types of grants are available: The Preeclampsia Vision Grant program funds medical research pertaining to the
pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy that might otherwise not be pursued due to lack of funding. All novel, well-considered research topics are encouraged. International applicants are welcome, though applications must be submitted in English. Up to two $25,000 grants will be awarded in 2011. New for this year is the announcement of grant funding for proposals on the application of health services research to the field of preeclampsia. The focus is on health delivery strategies such as enhancement of health care distribution, patient education, patient safety, and
guideline development and/or utilization. All such studies may include a focus on health care disparities as well. Up to one such $25,000 grant will be awarded in 2011.
Read more | Preeclampsia Foundation
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Focusing on initiatives which promote the emergence of sustainable development
Category: Community | Environment | Social & Human Services
Available from: Foundation Ensemble
Deadline: 15th June 2011
Ensemble Innovation Competition. This competition is open to NGOs and all other non-profit organizations, as well as anyone working in developing countries. Various prizes are available. It is up to you to verify if your project falls within these two focus areas: Sustainable Development and Conservation & Biodiversity. The involvement of women is also a priority focus for the Foundation and has its own prize. The Prize 'Ensemble Feminine' focuses most particularly on initiatives which promote the emergence of sustainable development by giving women the means of getting involved in every stage of a project. Full details of eligibility and how to apply for all the prizes are available on the Fondation Ensemble website.
Read more (PDF) | Foundation Ensemble
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The annual $1.5 million Humanitarian Prize to a nonprofit organization doing extraordinary work to alleviate human suffering
Category: NGO Capaicty Bldg | Social & Human Services
Available from: Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Deadline: 28th April 2011
Following selection by an independent international jury, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awards the annual $1.5 million Humanitarian Prize to a nonprofit organization doing extraordinary work to alleviate human suffering. Created in 1996, the Prize helps recognize and advance the efforts of the recipient organizations, and calls attention to the worldwide need for humanitarian aid and support. For further details see the Conrad N Hilton Website.
Read more | Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
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Supporting the development of open, democratic societies in Central and Eastern Europe
Category: Community | Human Rights | NGO Capacity Bldg
Available from: Stefan Batory Foundation
Deadline: See website
The Stefan Batory Foundation is an independent private Polish foundation established in 1988 by American financier and philanthropist George Soros and a group of Polish democratic leaders of 80’s. The mission of the Foundation is to support the development of an open, democratic society in Poland and other Central and East European countries. The Foundation’s activities are funded by the Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and other institutional and individual donors in Poland and abroad. The priorities of the foundation include: enhancing the role and involvement of civil society in public life; promoting the rule of law and transparency in public life; and developing international cooperation and solidarity. They operate a number of grant making programs, details of which can be found on their website.
Read more | Stefan Batory Foundation
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Focusing efforts on key problems in Parkinson’s disease research
Category: Medical Research
Available from: Michael J Fox Foundation
Deadline: See website
The Michael J Fox Foundation focuses on Parkinson's Disease. As part of MJFF’s ongoing Critical Challenges in Parkinson’s Disease initiative, three new funding opportunities have been opened. These programs focus efforts on key problems in Parkinson’s disease research: reducing dyskinesias, optimizing levodopa delivery and understanding PD-associated cognitive deficits.
Read more | The Michael J Fox Foundation
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Category: Education | Human Services | Tech Dev & Science
Available from: United States Institute of Peace
Deadline: See website
USIP supports innovative peacebuilding projects involving research, the identification of promising models and effective practices, the development of practitioner resources and tools, the development and delivery of education, training and dialogue programs, and the production of films, radio programs, and other media and funds projects focused on preventing, managing, and resolving violent conflict and promoting post-conflict peacebuilding in settings outside the borders of the U.S. Awards support activities that apply across a broad range of relevant disciplines, skills, and approaches. USIP welcomes proposals of an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary nature.
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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.
Category: Environment
Grant Amount: $7,000,000
Grant made to: Various
Grant made from: Alcoa Foundation
To help celebrate International Corporate Philanthropy Day the Alcoa Foundation has announced $7 million in commitments to bolster global reforestation efforts, promote sustainable hydropower development in China, and address regional environmental challenges in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, Russia, and the United States.
Investments made through the foundation's "Reduce, Recycle, Replenish" program
include $4 million for Advancing Sustainability research initiatives focused on environmental challenges in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Russia, and the United States,
as well as $1.1 million for the company's Ten Million Trees program, which, in partnership
with the Nature Conservancy, American Forests: Global ReLeaf, and Greening Australia,
aims to plant ten million trees around the world by 2020.
In a partnership with the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the funds also will
support the expansion of the company's signature Make an Impact program through the
Make an Impact: Change Our 2morrow (CO2) Schools Challenge, which is designed to
engage students in reducing their environmental footprint and helping their families
save money through improved energy efficiency. In addition, a new partnership
with the World Wildlife Fund will work to promote water security, habitat protection,
responsible water governance, and strategic conservation in China as the emerging
global superpower develops twelve new dams along the Mekong River, a critical
water source for almost ten million people.
Category: International Affairs | Media A five-year, $20 million grant awarded to the BBC World Service Trust by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in December blurs the lines between funding for traditional media and public education, the Seattle Times reports.
The grant will largely be used to support efforts to disseminate information about public-health initiatives in Bihar, one of the poorest and most underserved states in India.
The BBC World Service Trust, the international charitable arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation, works to promote human rights and reduce poverty through media and communications. It often works with the BBC World Service to get its message to the 180 million people around the globe who tune in to BBC World Service on a weekly basis and also provides technical support for news and media organizations in the developing world.
A recent Seattle Times analysis found that the Gates Foundation has spent nearly $70 million on direct grants to media organizations or for media training and research in an effort to boost and shape coverage of global health and development issues. However, the foundation told the Times that the BBC grant was different than grants it had awarded to news organizations like ABC and PBS.
BBC World Service Trust | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Category: Environment | Health
Grant Amount: $50,000,000
Grant made to: WaterAid America | World Vision
Grant made from: Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has announced a five-year, $50 million commitment to help improve water conditions for more than one million people in sub-Saharan Africa and areas of India and Mexico.
Announced in conjunction with World Water Day on Tuesday, the grant will support a three-part strategy to deliver access to clean water, increase advocacy and capacity, and expand knowledge on best practices for communities, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and donors. The pledge builds on the foundation's twenty-year commitment to increase access to safe drinking water in developing countries. By building water systems, training community members, and supporting water treatment research, the foundation seeks to build local capacity for ongoing water quality testing and management.
As part of the commitment, the foundation awarded grants to WaterAid America and World Vision to build sustainable safe water sources in the West African countries of Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Niger, as well as to educate communities on sanitation and hygiene; the African Regional Centre for Water and Sanitation to assess the functionality of two thousand existing Hilton-sponsored wells and develop long-term sustainability guidelines for current and future projects; and Water.org for a comprehensive communication and advocacy program. In addition, the New York City-based Foundation Center received a grant to build a Web-based platform that will serve as a central hub for information about water-related issues in an effort to attract more donors to support sustainable global water projects.
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation | WaterAid America | World Vision
A $6 million commitment to support water and sanitation programs with the potential to improve the lives of about 250,000 women and girls in twelve African countries
Category: Environment | Women
Grant Amount: $6,000,000
Grant made to: Various
Grant made from: Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola Africa Foundation
Coca-Cola and the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation have announced a $6 million commitment to support water and sanitation programs with the potential to improve the lives of about 250,000 women and girls in twelve African countries.
Awarded through the company's Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN), which seeks to provide at least two million people with access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2015, the funding will support programs in Algeria, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Uganda. In 2011, RAIN also will continue its support for multiyear initiatives implemented through the Water and Development Alliance, a partnership between Coca-Cola and the United States Agency for International Development in Angola, Burundi, Egypt, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, and Tanzania.
According to the World Health Organization, African women and children spend up to forty billion hours a year collecting water. Because the distance they must travel to retrieve clean water is often great, women frequently resort to using unsafe water sources, putting themselves and their families at risk of life-threatening diseases. Indeed, data from the United Nations finds that an African child dies every fifteen seconds from a waterborne disease.
Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola Africa Foundation
Category: International Affairs | Development | Health
Grant Amount: $5,000,000
Grant made to: AquaFund
Grant made from: PepsiCo Foundation
The PepsiCo Foundation has announced a $5 million grant to AquaFund, a fund launched by the Inter-American Development Bank to support investment in water supply and sanitation, water resources, and solid waste management and wastewater treatment in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Part of a public/private partnership initiated in February between PepsiCo and IDB, the grant will support a variety of projects, including microcredit loans and improved sanitation projects that will reach some 500,000 people in the region by the end of 2015. The partnership aims to spur social and economic growth in twenty-six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean by addressing a variety of critical issues, including water and sanitation, recycling, youth development, disaster relief and recovery, sustainable agriculture, nutrition and food security, and sharing knowledge and best practices about sustainability.
The first PepsiCo Foundation-supported AquaFund project will be launched in Peru, with others to follow in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Mexico.
- Initiative launched to improve food security for millions of people in the developing world
Category: Internation Affairs | Development | Health | Human Services
Grant Amount: $32,000,000
Grant made to: TBC
Grant made from: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
The UK-based Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has announced the launch of a $32 million international research initiative to improve food security for millions of people in the developing world.
Through the initiative, teams from the UK, India, and developing countries will receive grants to work on research projects that improve the sustainability of vital food crops. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department for International Development, and the Indian Department of Biotechnology, funding will be awarded to teams which can show that their research will improve food security and increase sustainable crop yields within five to ten years.
The initiative will place particular emphasis on improving the sustainable production of staple food crops across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, including cassava, maize, rice, sorghum, and wheat. The initiative also hopes to maximize the impact of its research by supporting more comprehensive approaches to improving productivity and yield, for example by tackling crop resistance to drought or flood.
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Insider tips from people in the know about philanthropy
Giving Green Paper - Response to consultation from Withers LLP
This month the UK Government has published a Green Paper on encouraging a culture of giving and written submissions were invited. Withers Worldwide have responded and our CEO considered it was an ideal Ask An Expert contribution.
Withers is a global law firm representing a significant number of the wealthiest individuals and families in the US, Europe and Asia. In the UK alone they act for nearly a quarter of the Sunday Times Rich List. In addition to having many high net worth individuals who establish and fund charities, Withers LLP acts for a substantial number of charities, many of which are ‘household names'. They're in the unique position amongst legal advisers to charities and philanthropists in that they advise on both sides of the Atlantic.
Philanthropy's role in a culture of giving
We applaud the concepts underpinning the Giving Green Paper, in particular the need and desirability of fostering a culture of giving in the UK. To us, this must sensibly include both a greater number of gifts of significant value as well as a greater number of gifts of modest value, and should foster both philanthropic attempts to deal with systemic societal problems as well as responsive ad-hoc charitable giving. As a general comment then, the Giving Green Paper is to us too heavily focussed on encouraging low-value charitable giving and does not attend adequately to the great potential of encouraging high-value philanthropic giving.
ATM giving and ‘cost-free' giving mechanisms such as ‘everyclick' should certainly be taken forward by government, including the necessary facilitation in respect of Gift Aid declarations. However, we suspect that the nature of such systems will tend to channel many small donations to a limited number of established charities and may therefore be largely irrelevant for those who have large sums to give, particularly those donors looking not to top up the funds of a large established charity, but to make their own impact.
Tax Incentives
The Giving Green Paper seeks response on the government's role in entrenching social norms for giving and what generally government can do to support and increase giving. We understand that the Cabinet office is looking at the role of tax incentives and working closely with Treasury in this area.
We wish to preface our comments on this point by emphasising that in our collective experience in the US and the UK: donors and philanthropists do not give in order to obtain tax relief; no system of charitable tax incentive that we have come across has the effect of putting the donor in a better net financial position after the donation; and at the end of the transaction, the donor may have benefitted from some relief, but she or he has still parted with the donation itself. Instead, donors tend to 
be genuinely interested in making the donation - at their own net loss - because they want to put their assets to work for something they believe in. The more the donor can benefit the charitable project (or the lower the net loss to the donor), the better.
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)
Fundraising from trusts, foundations and companies: know your targets
This course sets the policy, finance and decision making context in which trusts, foundations, companies and high net worth individuals operate. It will enable you to understand and emphathise with your targets, both as organisations and as individuals, and develop a strategic plan for broadening your donor base and increasing your success rate in raising money from different kinds of donor.
What you will learn
• How charitable trusts are formed
• Motives for giving: trusts, foundations, companies and high net worth individuals
• Company partnerships: what they are looking for, what they can offer, and what to avoid
• How trusts and foundations get their money and give it away
• Types of corporate support, in cash and in kind
Venture Philanthropists - How They Are Re-shaping The Third Sector
Born in the US in the 1990s, venture philanthropy spread rapidly to the UK and continental Europe and is now beginning to appear in Asia. It’s talked about at foundation conferences, fundraising events and around the water cooler in development offices world-wide. But what is so important about this form of philanthropy? And how is the pitch of giving by this small group of “fringe” philanthropists having such a crystal-shattering impact on our nonprofits?
A member of the European Venture Philanthropy Association’s Finance and Fundraising Committee, Chris Carnie and his team at Factary have recently published a white paper with an insider’s look at venture philanthropy that is rarely seen. The report places VP firmly in context but then focuses specifically on the venture philanthropists themselves and their giving priorities. In this special session for ShareTraining, Chris will present key findings from the research, discuss venture philanthropy in Europe and the US, and provide information about the most active funders.
Transforming Fundraising: A Senior Management Forum and Retreat
This is a unique opportunity for charity leaders in the South West to get together to focus intensively on the big issues and work out how to do one thing brilliantly: Transform your fundraising!
Only 14 places are available so don’t delay – Book now! £100 discount available for IOF South West members
This pioneering initiative is brought to you by the Institute of Fundraising South West Group in conjunction with Clayton Burnett Ltd. Featured speakers include: Alan Clayton, Ken Burnett and Giles Pegram CBE.
Here are selected highlights from the programme:
• How transforming fundraising transforms charities and their impact on the world.
• How to unite an organisation behind fundraising.
• Working with Chief Executives and trustee boards towards investment driven strategies.
• Balancing investment and risk.
• Major appeals as a way of permanently transforming income
• Integrated campaigns which transform charities.
• Building a team capable of vastly increased performance.
• The role of the fundraising leader.
Gift Aid reform figures prominently in UK BudgetUK Chancellor George Osborne says these are 'the most generous reforms to charitable giving for 20 years'
George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has unveiled a raft of measures aimed at helping voluntary sector organisations in what he claimed were the "most radical and most generous reforms to charitable giving for more than 20 years".
In the latest Budget, Osborne announced reforms that included enabling charities to claim Gift Aid on donations totalling up to £5,000 per charity without any paperwork, implementing an online claim system for the tax relief by 2013 and a 10 per
cent tax break on inheritance tax for people whose wills include a 10 per cent legacy to charity.
He said 100,000 charities would benefit from the removal of Gift Aid paperwork "to the tune of £240m".
Osborne said he would retain community investment tax relief, which allows investors in community development finance institutions to reclaim up to 25 per cent of their investment in tax relief over five years. This was recently recommended for removal by the Office of Tax Simplification.
The Chancellor said he and Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, had been working on "a series of substantial reforms that will support giving, from the largest donations to the coins collected in the charity bucket".
Osborne said he wanted to make "giving 10 per cent of your legacy to charity the new norm in our country".
From April 2012, anyone who leaves 10 per cent or more of their estate to charity will have their inheritance tax bill cut by 10 per cent, Osborne said. "Let’s be clear, no beneficiaries will be better off," he said. "Just the charities. To the tune of £300m."
[Read more] Source: Third Sector Online
UK needs 'giving pledge' for philanthropists, says NPC
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) suggests the UK should develop a Bill Gates-style “giving pledge” for home-grown philanthropists, as part of a ten-point plan to boost giving in the country.
The rich in the UK need to, and can, give more, NPC says in a report outlining ways in which to incentivise and mobilise greater levels of giving, particularly among the wealthy. The report was released today, just six days before the end of the consultation period for the government’s Giving Green Paper which mostly concentrates on the smaller-scale end of philanthropy, and from which planned and thoughtful giving by the wealthy was “largely absent”, according to NPC.
Advocating a “giving pledge” to encourage ultra high net worth donors to publicly commit to donating a specific percentage of their wealth, which NPC says could be led by a group of millionaires rather than one of the UK’s 53 billionaires, is just one of ten recommendations made by NPC in a report which aims to overcome barriers to unleashing high end philanthropy.
[Read more] Source: Civil Society Magazine
Eric Clapton charity auction makes £1.3 million
Rock icon Eric Clapton has raised more than £1 million for charity at an auction of his guitars and amplifiers,
which more than tripled their pre-sale expectations.
Collectors, fans and musicians from all corners of the globe gathered at Bonhams New York to bid for 138 lots, made up of 75 guitars and 55 amps from Clapton's personal collection.
Memorabilia including Clapton's three-piece "stage suit" made by the late fashion designer Gianni Versace was also included in the sale.
£1.3million was raised for The Crossroads Centre in Antigua - a drug rehabilitation centre set up by the reformed addict Clapton in 1998 .
]Read more] Source: The Telegraph
NGOs must form creative alliances to tackle global poverty and injustice
Clever collaboration between sectors is essential if we are to build public support to achieve our common goals.
Why work with others? Life is a lot more straightforward when you don't. But no NGO can succeed in isolation. Oxfam's charitable mission is to end poverty and injustice. We're not the only ones. We all have a responsibility to work together where it accelerates progress towards goals we share.
In developed countries, that means collaborating to influence the actions of our governments and to deepen public support for those efforts. This has never been easy. But it's getting much harder. A shift in public expectations of NGOs and the (very welcome) rise of new social actors are among the trends that make it tougher than ever.
How good are we at this today? First base is co-operation within individual NGO sectors. For Oxfam, that happens through organisations like Bond in the UK, Eurodad in Brussels and the Global Call to Action against Poverty. Such groups enable us to develop a common approach to external events such as the forthcoming G20 summit in France, and to share knowledge and learning.
[Read more] Source: The Guardian UK
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
Prince Harry's charity, Sentebale, paid one of its staff members more than £90,000.
Prince Harry, who pulled out of a fund-raising polo match in Dubai because of the turmoil in the Middle East, has discovered how costly running a charity can be.
Mandrake can disclose that Sentebale, the Prince's organisation for African orphans, spent almost £500,000 on staff last year, an increase of £154,000 on 2009. One employee, said to be Kedge Martin, the chief executive, was paid as much as £100,000.
Sentebale, which Harry co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006, employs "16.3" staff, four of whom are based in London, with the others in Africa, on total salaries of £485,000. According to its latest accounts, it spent £1.1 million on charitable activities, up from £970,000 the previous year.
The total raised by Sentebale, which means "forget me not" in Sesotho, was £1.8 million. In 2009, Harry took part in a polo match in New York, attended by Madonna, which made a high "six-figure sum".
[Read more] Source: Telegraph.co.uk
The corporate sector is leading the sustainability charge but the government's lack of ambition and the charity sector's reticence have shaken confidence
Who is leading the transformation to a more sustainable future? My answer will surprise you. Over the last week I have seen first-hand examples from multinational companies, the UK government and the charitable sector.
Clearly leading the charge is the corporate sector, and not just the usual suspects. Last Thursday, I was in Brussels for a corporate stakeholder group with Hitachi.
It's a fascinating company – within a year they plan to transform their financial performance by investing in what they call their social investment business.
Globally the company is using its technological skills to deliver smart grids, green data centres, renewable energy and greener transport. The company realises that the future will involve more complex solutions and greater collaboration with the public sector. Leading the charge to this new future is China. Indeed the underlying philosophy for many growing businesses seems to be that we are all living off China at the moment.
[Read more] Source: Guardian UK
The European Community’s budget totals over €122 billion and covers a wide range of expenditure but anyone who has attempted to untangle the mine field of information when applying for funding will know how perplexing it can be. The European Union Grants Directory will help to solve all your problems!
Produced annually, the 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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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
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies (CCSS) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have announced the release of a new manual to help statistical agencies around the world track the amount, type, and value of volunteer work in their respective countries.
Drafted by CCSS in cooperation with ILO and an international technical experts group, the Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work (68 pages, PDF) is believed to be the first internationally sanctioned guide to generating reliable, official data on volunteer work using a common definition and approach. Previous research by CCSS has found that even conservative estimates of the value of volunteering is roughly double the value of donations of cash and other contributions by individuals, foundations, and corporations.
Supported in part by the United Nations Volunteers, the manual includes a definition of volunteer work as well as a cost-effective means of measuring its scale and economic value using existing statistical systems.
This is the message of a unique short documentary film,
The Big Society: A View from the Frontline, commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Launched in Westminster by the Prime Minister's Big Society adviser Lord Wei, the film showcases a diverse range of community and voluntary sector organisations and gives those involved - users, volunteers and managers - the chance to express their views about the Big Society.
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February '11 - Even more 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 | Papillion Press & Consultancy Founder Jill Ritchie gives her tips on Global Philanthropy & International Fundraising | Europe cross border philanthropy vastly simplified, a golden age's arrived, but for Europe Only. View the edition here
Europe cross border philanthropy vastly simplified, a golden age's arrived, but for
Europe Only
As a result of recent UK legislation following a developing body of European case law and culminating in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) cases of Persche, which was decided in 2009, and Missionswerk, decided in February 2011, it is now possible for UK taxpayers to make tax-efficient donations to EU charities and those in Norway and Iceland without channelling donations through a UK charity or establishing their own UK charitable foundation.
The case of Persche concerned a German national and resident, who made donations of chattels to a foundation in Portugal and claimed tax relief on the donation. The German tax authorities refused the tax relief on the basis that the recipient foundation was not established in Germany. However, the ECJ concluded that the gifts, whether money or otherwise, fell within the EC Treaty provisions on free movement of capital and goods and, in order for national legislation to be compatible with the EC Treaty, the difference in tax treatment had to concern situations which were not objectively comparable or justifiable in the public interest.
Essentially, the decision states that any law of a member state which refuses tax relief for donations to foreign institutions without regard to whether the gifts would qualify for relief to an equivalent institution in the donor’s member state, constitutes a restriction on free movement of goods and capital and is not justified.
Previously, most EU countries, including the UK, made it impossible for their taxpayers to make tax efficient donations to charitable organisations outside their own member state. Following the ECJ’s decision, it is clear that this practice is discriminatory.
[Read more] Source: Spears
Global New approach to International Development - Report from Shell Foundation
In a roundtable discussion at The Brookings Institution recently, the Shell Foundation presented the findings from its recent report, “Enterprise Solutions to Scale,” to a selection of the development community.
The report documents an approach – evolved over the course of 10 years – for catalyzing lasting solutions to global development challenges that can be scaled for worldwide impact.
By sharing both the success and failure it has encountered during a decade of deploying enterprise-based solutions to achieve scale of impact, Shell Foundation hopes to encourage shared learning in the international development community, which is critical to more effective development solutions and greater progress towards the UN Millennium Development Goals.
[Read more] Source: PNN Online
ASK AN EXPERT: JANUARY 2011
Ideas for the UK Government's Charity Green Paper
Chapel & York's Executive Director David Wickert gives some ideas to the UK Government about
their
Charity Green Paper.
The government asked for comments on their Green Paper http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Giving-Green-Paper.pdf
Before I even saw the Green Paper I saw the objections to a minimum 5% per annum distribution for grant making charities from David Emerson, chief executive of the Association of Charitable Foundations http://www.acf.org.uk He was quick off the mark and hadn’t a good word to say about the suggestion.
The suggestion that UK charitable grant makers should give away 5% of their fair market value each year is constructive. Does anyone know how much money is sitting in the bank accounts of grant makers from year to year and why don’t they tell us? Millions obviously. However...
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Initiative launched to improve food security for millions of people in the developing world
Category: Internation Affairs | Development | Health | Human Services
Grant Amount: $32,000,000
Grant made to: TBC
Grant made from: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
The UK-based Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has announced the launch of a $32 million international research initiative to improve food security for millions of people in the developing world.
Through the initiative, teams from the UK, India, and developing countries will receive grants to work on research projects that improve the sustainability of vital food crops. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department for International Development, and the Indian Department of Biotechnology, funding will be awarded to teams which can show that their research will improve food security and increase sustainable crop yields within five to ten years.
The initiative will place particular emphasis on improving the sustainable production of staple food crops across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, including cassava, maize, rice, sorghum, and wheat. The initiative also hopes to maximize the impact of its research by supporting more comprehensive approaches to improving productivity and yield, for example by tackling crop resistance to drought or flood.
Report: World Giving Index 2010
Australia and New Zealand are tied as the most charitable countries in the world, a new report from the Charities Aid Foundation America finds.
Based on data from an ongoing international Gallup survey, the World Giving Index 2010 (20 pages, PDF) ranked 153 countries — representing 95 percent of the world's population — by the percentages of the population that had donated to a charity, volunteered time to an organization, and helped a stranger in need in the previous month. In the United States, 60 percent of the population had given money, 39 percent spent time volunteering, and 65 percent helped a stranger.
Overall, Australia and New Zealand ranked as the most charitable nations in the world, followed by Ireland and Canada. Malta ranked first in the personal giving category (83 percent), Turkmenistan in the volunteering category (61 percent), and Liberia in the helping-a-stranger category (76 percent). Few countries demonstrated low scores in all three categories.
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