Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. has announced a five-year, three-country initiative to help address critical gaps in malaria treatment and education.
Highlighted during last year's Clinton Global Initiative, the Mobilize Against Malaria program will provide funding, evaluation support, and the technical expertise of Pfizer Global Health Fellows to malaria initiatives in Kenya, Ghana, and Senegal. Each of Pfizer's programs in the three countries aims to reduce the rate of malaria morbidity and mortality by improving symptom recognition, treatment, and referral through training and community mobilization campaigns.
Local partners in each country will oversee the program and evaluation efforts. In Ghana, the partners include the informal sector of licensed chemical sellers (LCS) — more than seven thousand retail outlets found in almost every community — working with Family Health International and the Ghana Social Marketing Foundation. In Senegal, Intrahealth will train community health workers and nurses and document the benefits of malaria treatment messaging in the Tambacounda region. And in Kenya, Population Services International will work to promote symptom recognition and treatment-seeking behaviors at the household level, with an emphasis on pregnant women and children under five.

The Global Greengrants Fund has over the past 12 years provided over 3,000 grants in 120 different countries. Grassroots groups are a key to solving the intractable problems of poverty, powerlessness and environmental destruction.
They make small grants (typically $500 to $5,000) to grassroots groups around the world working to help people protect the environment, live sustainably, preserve biodiversity and gain a voice in their own future.
Their portfolio of grants allows them to support a variety of approaches all around the world. More

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced its largest package of tuberculosis-related grants ever.
The $280-million set of grants will support the research and development of tuberculosis vaccines, diagnostic tests, and drugs. The foundation has spent $740-million over all to fight the disease.
The grants have a five-year lifespan, and the largest portion of money — $200-million — will be spent to support trials of experimental vaccines at the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation.

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that its Global Libraries initiative has presented the 2007 Access to Learning Award of $1 million to the Northern Territory Library, a regional public library system in Darwin, Australia. In addition, Microsoft, a Global Libraries initiative partner, will donate $224,000 in software and technology training curriculum to upgrade the library's three hundred computers.
NTL received the award in recognition of its approach to bringing computer and Internet technology to remote indigenous communities. The majority of the Northern Territory's indigenous population lives in extremely isolated areas with limited services and infrastructure, poor health, and economic conditions, and educational levels that are far below national averages. Press Release

The Community Foundation for Ireland is calling for nominations for the inaugural Philanthropist of the Year awards. CFI will hold the inaugural the awards event on November 15th, with the deadline for nominations October 12th.
The awards will provide recognition for outstanding achievements by individuals whose giving helps society. The Community Foundation hopes this will encourage others to become donors in the future.
Nominations can be made by charities, community groups and the public at large.
More: www.communityfoundation.ie

Transparency International (TI), the global anti-corruption organisation with national chapters in over 90 countries, is calling for nominations for the 2007 Integrity Awards. Transparency International is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption.
The Awards honour individuals and organisations that have demonstrated exceptional courage and outstanding leadership in fighting corruption. This means challenging institutions and individuals that often wield enormous power. The TI Integrity Awards Committee consists of 13 individuals from around the world who have been active in the anti-corruption movement for many years. They serve as the jury for the Awards and confer with TI’s Board of Directors. Nominations are accepted for individuals and organisations, and are subject to independent vetting.
Nominations for the 2007 Integrity Awards will be accepted until 30 September 2007. For more info email

The International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) and the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) are pleased to announce the first International Research Fellowship.  This fellowship will be awarded to a scholar from outside the U.S. and Canada, for research using the Rockefeller Archive Center and attendance at the 8th International Conference of ISTR.
Applicants must demonstrate that they have a scholarly research project that will benefit from attending the ISTR conference and requires research at the Rockefeller Archive Center.  The fellowship award is US $5,000 intended to cover the cost of travel to and attendance at the ISTR conference in Barcelona, Spain (July 9-12, 2008), and to the RAC in Sleepy Hollow, New York, for research at the Archives. More
Deadline:  Applications must be received by November 15, 2007.

Oxfam has launched what it claims to be Britain's first online charity shop. Starting with 50,000 items for sale and rising to 120,000 by Spring 2008, the shop is expected to generate £2 million a year for the charity.
Oxfam's Online Shop features donated items such as clothes, books, music, household goods and collector's items such as stamps and coins, together with over 100 new Fair Trade goods, such as jewellery, gifts, chocolate and coffee. It also features the alternative gift range Oxfam Unwrapped.
Specialist online volunteers "from students to silver surfers" have selected and uploaded the items for sale, which are being sold at fixed prices, and will continue to add new items to the site every day. More Oxfam shops will be taking part over the next few months. More
Source: UK Fundraising