Follow @chapelyork on Twitter. A large number of the articles included each month in
Grants & Resources are featured first on our Twitter feed. We also re-tweet interesting resources about the fundraising world from the people we follow.
| Have you been forwarded Grants & Resources from a friend or colleague? Subscribe here today to receive this FREE monthly e-info service that is read by over 16,000 subscribers worldwide. |  |
Links you to funders who invite you to submit grant applications. Icons indicate geographical area of interest.
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
Want to receive Grant Opportunities before they appear in Grants & Resources? Click here
Providing support to domestic and international NGOs active in Central and Eastern Europe
Category: Human Rights
Available from: Open Society Institute
Deadline: 1st June 2011
The Human Rights and Governance Grants Program (HRGGP) welcomes projects in the three priority areas: Promoting Respect for Human Rights in Pretrial Detention and Prisons; Challenging the Overuse of Incarceration; and Combating Discrimination in Sentencing, Prisons and Reentry. The Human Rights and Governance Grants Program provides support to domestic and international NGOs active in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Coalitions of NGOs are also encouraged to apply.
Read more | Open Society Institute
Want to receive Grant Opportunities before they appear in G&R? Click here
A new funding initiative for innovative projects that address HIV/AIDS among gay men
Category: Community | Health | Social & Human Services
Available from: amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
Deadline: June 2011
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, has announced a new funding initiative for innovative projects that address HIV/AIDS among gay men, other men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender (TG) individuals in the Asia-Pacific region. Grassroots organizations led by or closely linked to MSM/LGBT communities in low- and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region are encouraged to submit relevant proposals. Funds for this round of awards are made available through the generous support of the ViiV Healthcare Positive Action and Aids Fonds. Each organization may apply for an award of up to $20,000 USD to support project-related costs for up to 12 months. Only one application may be submitted per organization. Proposals for general operating support will not be considered. Approximately $150,000 is available for this round of awards in the Asia-Pacific region; amfAR anticipates funding from six to eight proposals. Funding recommendations will be announced in September 2011. Organizations that are approved for awards can expect to receive funds to begin
activities as early as October 2011.
Want to receive Grant Opportunities before they appear in G&R? Click here
The European Commission (EC) has issued a number of open calls for applications for research grants that are of relevance to the cancer research community
Category: Health | Medical Research
Available from: European Commission
Deadline: Various
The European Commission (EC) has issued a number of open calls for applications for research grants that are of relevance to the cancer research community. The Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships, a series of three awards which aim to facilitate mobility of experienced researchers both within and outside the EU, have a deadline of 11 August 2011. The Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC) has also issued calls for three separate initiatives that all have a deadline of 27 May 2011. The first is for projects that will assist member states to develop action plans to reduce health inequalities.
Read more | European Commission
Want to receive Grant Opportunities before they appear in G&R? Click here
Category: Community | Social & Human Services | Tech Dev & Science
Available from: eBay Foundation and Ashoka’s Changemakers
Deadline: 15th June 2011
eBay Foundation and Ashoka’s Changemakers are launching this online competition to find the world’s most innovative market-based solutions that create economic opportunity and generate employment for disadvantaged populations. They are looking for the most innovative market-based solutions that create economic opportunity and generate employment for disadvantaged populations. Submit your solutions, or nominate a project, to create tomorrow’s job markets today. Submit your entry by the early entry deadline, 5PM EST, May 11, 2011, and be eligible to win the US $1,000 Early Entry Prize provided by Ashoka’s Changemakers. The final competition deadline is June 15, 2011.
Read more | eBay Foundation | Ashoka Changemakers
Want to receive Grant Opportunities before they appear in Grants & Resources? Click here
Jewish Child's Day aims to assist disabled, disadvantaged neglected or abused children worldwide
Category: Children
Available from: Jewish Child's Day
Deadline: Various
Jewish Child's Day aims to assist disabled, disadvanted, neglected or abused children worldwide. In general, help may be given for small or medium sized items of equipement or a project that will be of direct benefit of the children under your care. If your organisation meets JCD’s criteria, you could apply for a grant ranging from £500 to £5,000. The committee considers
applications in February, June and September each year. Completed application forms should be sent together with a set of audited accounts by December 31, April 30 and July 31 accordingly.
Read more | Jewish Child's Day
Want to receive Grant Opportunities before they appear in Grants & Resources? Click here
The South African Institute for Advancement strives to build an enduring culture of philanthropy that will support a strong and stable civil society in South Africa
Category: NGO Capacity Building
Available from:The South African Institute for Advancement
Deadline: 30th June 2011
Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Inyathelo - the South African Institute for Advancement strives to build an enduring culture of philanthropy that will support a strong and stable civil society in South Africa. The organization offers resources, training, and capacity-building services to nonprofit organizations, particularly in relation to fundraising, organizational governance, and long-term sustainability. As part of this work, Inyathelo established its philanthropy awards in 2007 to honor and call attention to the full range of South African philanthropy. The central aim of the awards program is to inspire South Africans at all economic levels to take responsibility for South Africa's social development by contributing what they can. The program invites nominations of individuals from around the world for the International Philanthropy to South Africa Award. This award recognizes individuals outside South Africa who have shown leadership and innovation in providing funds to establish and support a community or social initiative in South Africa. Nominees must be South African citizens or individuals resident in South Africa.
Read more | The South African Institute for Advancement
Want to receive Grant Opportunities before they appear in Grants & Resources? Click here
Category: Children
Available from: Schwarzkopf Foundation
Deadline: 1st September 2011
The Schwarzkopf Foundation offers travel grants to enable young people to undertake field trips investigating political and cultural developments in neighbouring European countries. There are two types of grant: the classical travel grants offers young people the chance to get to know European neighbours as well as to face current cultural or political developments of the respective country. It is important that these developments have to be seen in context of the guest countries’ relations with the EU. This way the Foundation wants to make a contribution towards a better understanding among European people and for the idea of a united Europe; and InterRail-Global Pass which are similar to its classical travel grants as they offer young people the chance to get to know their European neighbours as well as to become aware of current cultural or political developments there. It is important that these developments are seen in the context of the guest countries’ relations with the EU. Classical travel grants are available to either German citizens between the age of 18 and 26 or other Europeans between the ages of 18 and 26. InterRail-Global Passes are available to young people between the ages of 17 and 25 who have permanently lived in the EU, the GUS or Turkey.
Read more | Schwarzkopf Foundation
Want to receive Grant Opportunities before they appear in Grants & Resources? Click here
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.
Want to receive Grant Opportunities before they appear in G&R? Click here
Clean water delivery to vulnerable communities in Africa and America
Category: Children | Community | Education | Environment | Health | NGO Capacity Bldg
Available from: The Buffet Foundation
Deadline: See Website
The Buffet Foundation primary funding areas are agricultural resource development for smallholder and subsistance farmers and clean water delivery to vulnerable communities in Africa and Central America. Their funding for water is primarily provided through their Global Water Initiative. The Foundation also provides funding for nutrition-based programs, support for refugees and internally displaced people, and journalism initiatives focused on student learning and improved governance. There is a limited focus on wildlife conservation. The foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals.
Read more | The Buffet Foundation
Want to receive Grant Opportunities before they appear in G&R? Click here
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: Arts & Culture
Grant Amount: $51,600,000
Grant made to: Various
Grant made from: Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation
The UK-based Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has announced the launch of a £32 million ($51.6 million) initiative to support nonprofit arts and cultural organizations across the UK facing government funding cuts, the Financial Times reports.
The foundation will use money raised from the sale of Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto to support projects "that provide a real and ongoing difference to people's lives," foundation officials told the FT. In conjunction with the announcement, the foundation awarded grants to Nordoff Robbins, which delivers music therapy and other music services to people of all ages; the Chickenshed Threatre Company; Time Spanners, a community music group for people with physical or learning disabilities; and the Orpheus Centre, a performing arts college for disabled young adults.
The sale of the Picasso painting was the first such sale by the foundation, which was founded in 1992 by Lloyd-Webber to buy works of art, to raise funds to support other arts and cultural projects. "Previously we have concentrated on fine art and arts education, but we have decided to help a broader scope of people and projects directly with the funds invested from the Picasso sale," said foundation chair Mark Wordsworth. "Although holding a small number of extremely valuable pieces of art and displaying them is a public benefit, we felt a lot more could be achieved if the money [from their sale] was pump-primed
in the right way."
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation
View this Grantmaker profile on Grantmakers Online. A unique social networking tool for non-profits.
Category: Science & Technology The Lemelson Foundation in Portland, Oregon, has announced grants totaling $4 million to organizations working to advance social innovation in both the United States and the developing world.
Spring 2011 grants recipients include Ashoka, which was awarded a three-year, $900,000 grant to support two programs that address the needs of inventors; East Meets West, which will receive a three-year, $1.5 million grant to support a partnership with Design that Matters to develop new neonatal health technologies; Root Capital, which was awarded a $600,000 grant and a $500,000 program-related investment to support grassroots businesses in rural areas in developing countries; and Selco, which will receive $650,000 over five-years to provide solar-technology solutions to the poor in India.
The foundation also will provide support for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, which works to connect innovators to resources and promote entrepreneurship in the developing world, and to Rosemary Anderson High School, a Portland, Oregon, school for at-risk youth.
View this Grantmaker profile on Grantmakers Online. A unique social networking tool for non-profits.
Category: Health
Grant Amount: $100,000,000
Grant made to: Various
Grant made from: Global Alliance
The Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization has announced a $100 million commitment to tackle meningitis A in Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria as part of a strategy to save tens of thousands of lives in Africa with a new vaccine, MenAfriVac.
The commitment includes $72 million for the vaccine and $27 million for operational costs GAVI's funding for the project is part of a $571 million regional strategy to defeat the disease in Africa's "meningitis belt," which stretches from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east.
Developed at approximately fifty cents per dose, the new single-dose vaccine addresses group A meningococcal meningitis, which is responsible for more than 85 percent of observed meningococcal meningitis in Africa. While Chad and Nigeria are hyper-endemic (i.e., they exhibit a high and continued incidence of the disease), northern Cameroon's location between the two means preventive immunization there could help stop the spread of the disease.
Next month, the British government will ask donors at a pledging conference in London to contribute $3.7 billion to help GAVI fund the immunization of 243 million children with a range of vaccines, including MenAfriVac, by 2015. According to GAVI, the vaccine could prevent as many as 150,000 deaths and, by checking the spread of the disease, could also help keep hundreds of thousands of people from falling deeper into poverty.
“GAVI Commits US$100 Million to Fight Meningitis A.” GAVI Alliance Press Release
Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization
View this Grantmaker profile on Grantmakers Online. A unique social networking tool for non-profits.
$100,000 to eighty-eight researchers from twenty-five countries for innovative projects that address persistent health and development challenges
Category: Health | International Development
Grant Amount: $100,000
Grant made to: Various
Grant made from: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced grants of $100,000 to eighty-eight researchers from twenty-five countries for innovative projects that address persistent health and development challenges.
Awarded through the sixth round of the foundation's Grand Challenges Exploration initiative, the grants are designed to encourage scientists to pursue bold ideas with the potential to lead to breakthroughs in global public health. Winners in this round were asked to create ways to accelerate, sustain, and monitor polio eradication; develop the next generation of sanitation technologies; design new approaches to preventing HIV infection; produce low-cost cell phone-based applications for urgent global health problems; and generate new technologies to improve the health of mothers and newborns.
The winners include James Flanegan of the University of Florida, who will use his grant to explore development of a poliovirus vaccine composed of virus capsids — the protein shell of the virus; Marc-Andre Langlois of the University of Ottawa, who will attempt to develop small molecules that combine to form a compound that specifically eliminates only HIV-infected cells; Olufunke Cofie of the International Water Management Institute in Ghana, who will develop fertilizer pellets made from treated human waste to help increase agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa as well as reduce health risks from untreated waste; and Simon Carding of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, who will test whether live gut bacteria could generate immunity by delivering poliovirus antigens to the intestinal mucosa.
For a complete list of the latest Grand Challenges grantees, visit the Grand Challenges Web site.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
View this Grantmaker profile on Grantmakers Online. A unique social networking tool for non-profits.
Category: Disaster Relief
Grant Amount: $30,000,000
Grant made to: Japanese Red Cross
Grant made from: American Red Cross
The American Red Cross has announced an additional $30 million commitment to relief and recovery efforts in Japan following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeastern region of the country in March.
The contribution boosts total funding from the Red Cross for relief and recovery efforts to nearly $200 million, including $4.5 million in text donations. Donations from Americans to the Red Cross have helped support relief assistance distributed through more than two thousand evacuation shelters in the devastated region as well as the medical operation mounted by the Japanese Red Cross, which has involved nearly six hundred emergency medical teams. In addition, funds are being used to help outfit prefabricated homes with a package of electrical appliances, which will help an estimated 280,000 people resume normal activities and jump-start the country's recovery.
In late April, American Red Cross president and CEO Gail McGovern spent four days in Japan traveling the affected areas, meeting with survivors, and learning how American donations have and will be used. While she was there, McGovern discussed with Japanese Red Cross officials opportunities to help build a temporary hospital in the Ishinomaki area, where all but one of the local hospitals suffered tsunami damage. The proposed prefabricated hospital would have one hundred beds and would reduce some of the stress on the single remaining facility until more permanent facilities can be rebuilt or repaired.
View this Grantmaker profile on Grantmakers Online. A unique social networking tool for non-profits.
The Omidyar Network has announced grants totaling nearly $5 million to four organizations working to support investigative and citizen journalism in the developing world
Category: Internation Affairs | Development
Grant Amount: $5,000,000
Grant made to: African Media Initiative + others
Grant made from: Omidyar Network
Announced at the World Press Freedom Day conference, the grants were awarded through ON's Government Transparency initiative, which supports the development of free, open, and vibrant media, credible journalism, and increased civic engagement.
Grantees include the African Media Initiative, which was awarded a two-year grant of up to $1.7 million to strengthen the media sector across the continent through advocacy, investments, technology, and training; Sahara Reporters, which will receive up to $450,000 over three years to support citizen journalists in their efforts to expose ongoing corruption, human rights abuses, and government malfeasance in Nigeria; the Media Development Loan Fund, which will receive $2 million to invest in independent news outlets in countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Southeast Europe, and the Commonwealth of Independent States with a history of media oppression; and the Committee to Protect Journalists, which was awarded $800,000 to promote press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal.
View this Grantmaker profile on Grantmakers Online. A unique social networking tool for non-profits.
Advertise here
Insider tips from people in the know about philanthropy
CharityChannel Launches New Professional Group: International Fundraising from USA
This month Stephen C. Nill, CEO and Founder of CharityChannel, talks about his organisations latest professional group designed to provide discussions and collaborations by colleagues anywhere in the world who are raising funds from the USA on behalf of their NGOs, and for USA colleagues who are raising funds on behalf of non-USA NGOs. Discussions are conducted in English.
Stephen Nill founded CharityChannel in 1992 as a means of connecting his nonprofit hospital chain's fund development staff over the Internet to their colleagues at other organizations. That first discussion community grew into what is today the oldest and largest community of third-sector professionals in the world, comprised of well over 150,000 participants worldwide.
He has been working in the US and international third sector for more than 30 years. He has served as the Chief Development Officer at a major Southern California university, the CEO of a large health care foundation, a vice-president of fund development of a U.S. west-coast nonprofit hospital chain, as a founder and acting director of development of a parochial school in his community, and as a founder of an organization dedicated to providing food and clothing for homeless persons in Southern California.
The new professional group, called “International Fundraising from USA,” is part of a new initiative by USA-based CharityChannel that enables colleagues to join professional groups online and engage in professional-level discussions and collaboration. Although CharityChannel is based in the States, it has an extensive international community of colleagues.
The new group may be found at http://charitychannel.com/groups/international-fundraising-from-usa.
New: CharityChannel Associate Membership – It’s Free
As part of the initiative, CharityChannel now offers a new class of membership called "Associate" for those who are new to CharityChannel. There is currently no charge to join CharityChannel as an Associate. You may join here: http://charitychannel.com/join-today.
How to Join the International Fundraising from USA Group
Once you are a Member or an Associate of CharityChannel, you may join the new “International Fundraising from USA” professional group and begin participating in the group’s journal page and discussion forum. Tip: This particular group is new so don’t expect a lot of prior discussions. In fact, you might be among the first to launch a discussion! Once you join, be sure to invite others to join; CharityChannel is member-driven.
Start Your Own Professional Group
If you don’t see a CharityChannel Professional Group that you’d like to join, as a full Member you may start one
(or more) of your own. This enables you to leverage the large CharityChannel professional community by inviting colleagues with similar professional interests to join the group.
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)
Book online today or contact Peter Haley at peter.haley@chapel-york.com | +44 ( 0) 1342 871910
Institute of Fundraising National Convention 2011
Date: 4-6th July 2011 | Venue: Hilton London Metropole, UK
No matter what your level of experience , or size or organization, gain everything you need to be even better fundraiser.
The Templeton Prize 2011The Templeton Prize is awarded annually based on the decision of a panel of distinguished judges from various academic disciplines and religious traditions. We seek a diverse pool of worthy candidates and welcome nominations from around the world.
The public at large is encouraged to participate in the nomination process. The Templeton Prize also directly solicits nominations from academic leaders, theologians, scholars, and scientists.
Nominations for the 2012 Templeton Prize are due by October 3, 2011.
Nominators should consider that the Templeton Prize is not awarded for good works per se, but for a substantial record of achievement that highlights or exemplifies one of the various ways in which human beings express their yearning for spiritual progress.
If you submitted a nomination for the 2007 Prize cycle, going forward, you do not need to resubmit using the online nomination form. However, you are welcome to update your candidate’s dossier if matters of significance occur that would enhance your candidate’s nomination. This should be done by contacting the Templeton Prize Director at info@templetonprize.org
What's wrong with donors? A great deal- Donors in the dock in provocative pamphlet In his provocative pamphlet on why charitable funding must change, James Perry, an executive of Panahpur Trust , puts donors in the dock accusing them of unwittingly ‘breaking charity.’
The tract, The End of Charity – the renewal of welfare is written with the aim of illuminating the big concepts around impact investing that applies business imperatives to organisations working to deliver social outcomes. Perry says: “A consensus is emerging that charity and direct government intervention are misfiring, and the search is on for better solutions.”
In setting out the issues, challenges and opportunities for funders and charities he says: “In the evolving world of investing for positive social outcomes, the conventionally applied grant is the financial equivalent of a flint axe head.”
He explains the way in which donors give to charity “inadvertently causes problems”, through:
• One-off gifts making it difficult for charities to plan
• Restricted gifts contorting management decisions and forcing management to make decisions that are not consistent with their long term strategy
• Feeding the myth that money spent on administration is wasteful
• A passive attitude and lack of engagement with the charity beyond the cursory, leading to the lack of functional accountability dynamics
[Read more] Source: Philanthropy: UK
Tsunami pushes Japan from major aid donor to leading recipient
Daunting engineering and waste-management operation begins along north-east coast after world's most
expensive disaster.
Japan is set to make the traumatic leap from being one of the world's most generous aid donors to one of its biggest aid recipients as it begins the mammoth task of cleaning up the wreckage left by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami.
A fleet of bulldozers, cranes and drills have started clearing rubble along
the north-east coast in the most daunting engineering and waste-management challenge any government has faced.
The work is moving slowly as bodies are still being recovered.
More than 25,000 people are dead or missing as rescue workers
struggle to identify bodies that in some cases were carried miles from
their homes by the floodwater. Workers also stop regularly to allow
surviving residents to salvage possessions from the rubble.
According to the World Bank, the total cost of the recovery will be $235bn (£143bn), which would make it the world's most expensive disaster. The Japanese Red Cross said it had received $2.2bn in foreign donations but had been unable to distribute the bulk of it. Tadateru Konoe, the Red Cross president, said: "The biggest problem is that those who should be receiving the money cannot be identified, as more than 10,000 people are still missing and resident registrations are gone and the administrative functions at the periphery are not working."
Until a few months ago Japan was the world's fifth biggest aid donor, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), lending or giving away $9.5bn a year; the disaster has transformed it into a leading destination for international charity. In two months it has received what the Democratic Republic of the Congo is given in a year.
[Read more] Source: Guardian.co.uk
Philanthropy Review presses government on lifetime legacies and payroll giving
Chair Thomas Hughes-Hallett says review group will publish a charter next month.
The Philanthropy Review will press the government to introduce lifetime legacies and reform payroll giving, according to its chair, Thomas Hughes-Hallett, chief executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care.
He told delegates at the Charity Finance Directors' Group conference last week that the review body expects to publish a charter in mid-June, outlining no more than 10 measures that it believes will improve philanthropy in the UK.
He said the review group, set up to design measures to encourage giving, was confident of persuading the government to adopt lifetime legacies. "We've met with Number 10 and the Treasury and been well received," he said.
The model of lifetime legacies is based on the US law of charitable remainder trusts, which allow donors to receive tax breaks for giving capital or property to charity during their lifetime, while continuing to have some right to income from the capital or use of the property.
]Read more] Source: Third Sector.co.uk
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
This week, Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA) was listed among the 25 largest online fundraising organizations in the United States in 2010, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the top news source on U.S. nonprofit organizations. Ranked at number 16, IRUSA was one of only three faith-based philanthropic organizations to make the list in 2010.
According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, these 25 nonprofits – comprising international, health social service and religious organizations – raised more than $1.1 billion online in 2010. With natural disasters in Haiti, Chile and New Zealand, international aid organizations were able to raise a tremendous amount online last year. Social service organizations received numerous donations as a result of online disaster relief appeals.
In 2010, IRUSA also ranked in the top 150 on the Chronicle's Philanthropy 400 list. IRUSA raised more than $147 million for charity in its 2009 fiscal year, doubling its earnings from the previous year.
"We are honored to be recognized once again for our continued service on behalf of those in need," said Abed Ayoub, CEO of IRUSA. "This is a reflection of the hard work our staff and volunteers put into carrying out the mission of Islamic Relief USA."
Islamic Relief USA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3)humanitarian organization with eight consecutive 4-star ratings from Charity Navigator. Its mission is to alleviate suffering, hunger, illiteracy and disease regardless of color, race, gender or creed, and to provide aid in a compassionate and dignified manner. Islamic Relief USA aims to provide rapid relief in the event of human and natural disasters and to establish sustainable local development projects allowing communities to better help themselves.
[Read more] Source: Islamic Finance
Can you believe it?! A hat worn by Princess Beatrice to the Royal Wedding, and likened to a Turkey Twizzler, sells on eBay for £81,100.
The hat worn by Princess Beatrice to the Royal Wedding has sold on eBay for £81,100.
The Philip Treacy design, described on auction site eBay as being made of "delicate tea rose silk", has been sold to raise money for two charities nominated by the princess, Unicef and Children in Crisis.
It caught the attention of commentators as Prince William and Kate Middleton tied the knot on 29 April, with its unusual structure compared to a toilet seat, a cat flap and a Turkey Twizzler.
Prince Beatrice said: "I've been amazed by the amount of attention the hat has attracted.
"I hope whoever wins the auction has as much fun with the hat as I have."
The description on the auction site calls the hat a "unique sculptural celebratory headpiece".
Treacy himself said he had been "surprised by the overwhelming response" to his creation.
[Read more] Source: Channel 4 News UK
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has stopped payment on hundreds 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
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.
PDF DOWNLOAD | £25.00 | BUY
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.
EMAIL ALERT SERVICE | £25.00 | BUY
-3rd annual report on nonprofits & social networksFacebook is Still on Top
Nine of out ten (89%) of nonprofits (all sizes) report having a presence on Facebook. Twitter has the 2nd highest adoption rate with 57% of nonprofits indicating they have an account on this micro-blogging site.
Average Community Size is Up
The average Facebook fan base for nonprofits is up 161% in 2011 to 6,376 members.
Master Social Fundraisers Come in All Sizes
Small nonprofits ($1 to $5MM annual budget) make up 30% of the organizations who raised $100,000 or more on Facebook over the last 12 months. Called “Master Social Fundraisers”, these super savvy fundraisers touted an average Facebook community size of nearly 100K members (99,911).
Enviro/Animal Welfare & International Service Organizations Outpace the Sector
Slicing the survey results along nonprofit vertical sector, Environmental/Animal Welfare recorded the highest average Facebook community size – 8,490. International Service groups reported the highest adoption rate of Facebook (97%) and 4 times (7,630 followers) the industry average Twitter base.
Download your free copy of Participation: Trends, Facts and Figures (PDF 2.4MB), an almanac mapping public participation in civil society.
The report, launched at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Annual Conference, explores key questions around people's motivations for getting involved with charities, campaigning and political activity.
Along with giving time and money to charity, it also addresses other participatory activities including timebanking, ethical consumerism, campaigning and protests.
The Almanac looks at whether there has been a decline in participation over the last decades and finds that the percentage of individuals volunteering formally through groups and organisations at least once a year experienced a slight decrease from 44% in 1981 to 41% in 2008.
[Read more] Source: NCVO
JustTextGiving will let UK-registered charities raise money through text message giving with no commission deducted
The mobile phone provider Vodafone and the donation website JustGiving have launched a new service that they say will enable all UK-registered charities to raise money through text donations for free.
The companies say the new JustTextGiving service, which is launched today, will allow charities to set up text message fundraising for free and collect donations without any commission or charges being taken off.
Smaller charities in particular have often found the associated costs of using text donation services prohibitive.
The companies say JustTextGiving will incur no set-up or running costs for charities, no commission will be taken and no extra charges will be added to donations, no matter which mobile phone network the donor uses.
To use the service, a charity must register for a unique code at www.justtextgiving.co.uk. The code will be publicised by the charity, inviting donors to send donations.
[Read more] Source: Third Sector
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:
,
, 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
Chapel & York is proud of the amazing things its clients achieve and is enthusiastic to tell everyone when they are in the news. Clients in the News uses our email broadcast system to promote our clients by linking the publicity they have received in the media.
If you would like us to feature your organization please tell our Head of Communications, Barbara Davidson, on +44 1342 871910 or email here
April '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: Three Useful (and free) Fundraising Research Resources - This month Helen Brown talks about resources for fundraisers and researchers that provide a WOW experience: sources that deliver beyond expectations | European Union Tightens NGO Funding Rules | View G&R April here
Strategic Philanthropy: a global movement for positive social change, not just
giving to charity
[Read more] Source: CSR Asia
Obama made $1.7 million in 2010 - and gave 14% to 36 Charities
President may be Barack Obama’s most prestigious job, but his most lucrative is author.
Obama and his wife, Michelle, reported a gross income of $1,728,096 in 2010, according to their federal tax returns, which the White House released Monday. President Obama collects a $400,000 salary as commander in chief, but received the vast majority of his income from sales of his three non-fiction books: “The Audacity of Hope,” “Dreams From My Father” and “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters.”
The Obamas paid $453,770 in federal taxes. The First Family donated $245,075, about 14 percent of their income, to 36 different charities. The largest gift was a $131, 075 donation to Fisher House Foundation, a nonprofit that builds homes near military hospitals where family members can temporarily stay free of charge while a wounded service member recovers.
[Read more] Source: Washington Post
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
ASK AN EXPERT: MARCH 2011
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.
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
DO YOU HAVE A QUICK MOMENT TO SPARE? We are always looking of ways to improve
Grants & Resources - completing this questionnaire will provide us with valuable feedback to do just that.
Click here (you will be re-directed to the Chapel & York website) Many Thanks
Chapel & York's Free E-Info Service provides current information about cross border grants and international fundraising resources. We give enough information for you to decide whether or not to visit each website. This keeps it brief.
This edition will be read by over 16,000 subscribers in at least 58 countries.
To ensure delivery of this newsletter, please add websupport@chapel-york.com to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. To request a TEXT ONLY version of Grants & Resources please send an email with the words 'TEXT ONLY' to the
email address above.
You are receiving Grants & Resources because you signed up for it or because you requested information from Chapel & York. To subscribe free or unsubscribe at any time go to www.chapel-york.com and click on Free Email Information Service or hit the unsubscribe link that accompanies this email.
Grants & Resources carries lots of external links to other sites they may be removed by the relevant source. We update our online version of G&R throughout the month before the next issue is released, so please click here if you find any links that have become broken.
Please forward this E-Info Service to anyone who may be interested and encourage them to subscribe
via www.chapel-york.com
If you have information for Grants & Resources please send it to websupport@chapel-york.com mentioning
Grants & Resources.
We collect all interesting links from previous editions of Grants & Resources and store them here. Each organisation featured on this list is stored under its main area of expertise.
Interested in advertising in Grants & Resources? click here
Chapel & York offers international services and is headquartered in the United Kingdom near London‚ England. Although this geographical location is usually unimportant, you will often see details about seminars in London on our website and in G&R information. However, seminars aren’t limited to London and we welcome discussions with organizations around and outside the UK about holding seminars in other regions and countries.
Please contact research@chapel-york.com +44 (0)1342 871914.
PUBLISHER CHAPEL & YORK LIMITED: 12 THE COURTYARD, LADYCROSS BUSINESS PARK, HOLLOW LANE, LINGFIELD, RH7 6PB, ENGLAND, UK. www.chapel-york.com
Telephone: +44 1342 871910 Facsimile: +44 1342 871911 E-mail: info@chapel-york.com
Company registered in England & Wales no. 03433025. Registered Office as above
VAT GB679963454
DISCLAIMER Chapel & York cannot guarantee the accuracy of material in this E-Info Service nor take any responsibility for any action occasioned by the use of the E-Info Service.
CHAPEL & YORK
International & cross-border fundraising for
charities & non-profits
PO
Box 50, LINGFIELD, RH7 6FT, ENGLAND, UK
To stop receiving e-broadcasts on 'Grants & Resources' please un-subscribe below
