The African Media Initiative (AMI), leading African media organization, has announced to contribute $1 Million for creation of a fund to encourage innovation in news industry. AMI is ranked as the largest association of media owners and operators in Africa. A new African News Innovation Challenge (ANIC) is also being launched to encourage . . . → Read More: African Media Initiative Announces $1 Million Fund for News Innovation
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 Million Fund for News Innovation">One comment  Africa, United States  African, AMI, contest, digital, innovation, Knight Foundation, media, support, technical, winners Global Conference on Technology, Innovation, Media & Education 2012 (Online) conference invites final call for virtual participation. This conference will be organized from February 7 to 9, 2012. This is online conference so one can be a part of it by sitting at home, office or any part of the world. . . . → Read More: FINAL Call for Virtual Participation Proposals due January 11, 2012 Call for Proposals are invited at Science-2-Business programme at ESOF2012 which will be organized at Dublin, Ireland from 11 to 15 July, 2012. The Science-2-Business programme will provide delegates the opportunity to acquire the knowledge, skills and contacts necessary to progress along the road from Science to Business. This program is . . . → Read More: Call for Proposals at Science-2-Business programme at ESOF2012 In the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) application form, information about project results has been requested separately under outputs and outcomes. Outputs are the immediate results of any activity and these are to be expressed in measurable quantity For example, if a project activity involved ‘training women on human rights,’ the . . . → Read More: Project Results and Monitoring & Evaluation: United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) Comments are closed UNDEF 2011 activity, donors, evaluation, human rights, innovation, project, rights, training, undef, women Royal Philips Electronics has launched a unique online social innovation site dedicated to the Low Smoke Chulha stove. Philips has taken a pioneering step by designing the Low Smoke Chulha . . . → Read More: Philips launches social innovation platform Comments are closed Donor Updates innovation, issue, link, Low Smoke Chulha, online, platform, site, social, social innovation, www Social Venture Hong Kong is seeking innovative social enterprise concepts from general for the Asia Social Innovation Award 2011 aimed at promoting the culture of social innovation and enriching people’s knowledge on social issues. . . . → Read More: Submit an Enterprise Concept for the Asia Social Innovation Award 2011 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Awards and Prizes, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam Award Details, Criteria, Hong Kong, idea, ideas, innovation, innovative, issues, social, social innovation The Awards are presented to honor excellence, achievement and innovation in the field of mobile communication. . . . → Read More: GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards to recognize Mobile Innovation for Education or Learning Comments are closed Donor Updates achievement, applications, education, excellence, Global Mobile Awards, GSMA, innovation, learning, mobile, technology The publication offers several approaches for improving the access of rural men and women to the fundamental resources of ICT. . . . → Read More: “Community listeners’ Clubs – Stepping stones for action in rural areas”, a publication seeking community development through innovation IATED is organizing the sixth Annual Edition of INTED2012 that will be held in Valencia (Spain) invites all those who are interested in education, research and innovation. . . . → Read More: IATED seeks papers for the sixth Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain One comment - (Comments are closed) Call for Papers, Conferences, Events Annual International Technology, countries, education, IATED, innovation, international, person, research, Spain, Virtual Participants Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras will be holding 13th edition of Shaastra, the technical festival of this premier institution, between September 28th and October 2nd. Shaastra 2011 will extend its focus on challenging new boundaries and will be a platform of ingenuity and innovation. In this context, Shaastra 2011 has . . . → Read More: IIT Madras seeks solutions to create a Stored Energy Solar Cook Stove and Robot capable of waste segregation for the Shaastra Social Innovation Challenge Award 2011 The Innovation for India Awards were started in 2006 by the Marico Innovation Foundation with the aim to recognize innovations that bring positive changes for the society and ease problems of people in some sort. In the past four years, 28 breakthrough innovations have been recognized and awarded including organizations such as Kirloskar . . . → Read More: The Marico Foundation invites applications for Innovations for India Awards 2012 Comments are closed India applications, funding, funding opportunities, India, innovation, opportunities, organization, other useful resources, resources, scholarships EdelGive Foundation is an initiative of Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd., one of India’s leading financial services firms. It provides strategic direction to the philanthropic activities of Edelweiss, its employees, clients and associates. Its key priority is to focus on the areas of education, livelihoods and supporting women’s empowerment. It achieves this . . . → Read More: EdelGive Foundation’s 4th EdelGive Social Innovation Honours 2012 Comments are closed Awards and Prizes, India award categories, funding, funding opportunities, India, innovation, opportunities, other useful resources, resources, scholarships, women EdelGive Foundation is an initiative of Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd., one of India’s leading financial services firms. It provides strategic direction to the philanthropic activities of Edelweiss, its employees, clients and associates. Its key priority is to focus on the areas of education, livelihoods and supporting women’s empowerment. It achieves this . . . → Read More: EdelGive Foundation’s 4th EdelGive Social Innovation Honours 2012 5 comments - (Comments are closed) India award categories, funding, funding opportunities, India, innovation, opportunities, other useful resources, resources, scholarships, women The Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF), created through a partnership between ELRHA (Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance) and ALNAP (The Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action), represents a collective effort to enhance the contribution of innovation to improving operational humanitarian performance at the field level. The . . . → Read More: HIF seeks proposals for small grants facility from projects aimed at recognition, invention and dissemination of an innovation towards making humanitarian aid more effective and cost-efficient 37 comments - (Comments are closed) Grants and Resources for Disaster and Relief Services, Latest Funds for NGOs aid, humanitarian, humanitarian aid, innovation, projects, recognition The Elsevier Foundation is now accepting applications to support the efforts of libraries and their partner organizations in developing countries. The Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries Program supports the following kinds of programs with one, two and three year grants to libraries and supporting organizations in developing countries: Programs to enhance . . . → Read More: Elsevier Foundation Grant for Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs developing countries, foundation, grants, innovation, program The goal of John S. Knight Fellowships is to improve the quality of news and information reaching the public through the news media: print, broadcast and cyberspace. The fellowships give outstanding journalists the chance to broaden and deepen their outstanding of a changing world, while working on very real journalism issues. . . . → Read More: John S. Knight Fellowships accepting applications Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs entrepreneurship, innovation, international journalists, journalists Sourced from http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org Individuals of any age with a concrete working project in any area of work such as science and health, applied technology, exploration and discovery, the environment and cultural heritage can apply for the Rolex Awards for Enterprise. The awards will be presented in 2012 and five new Laureates will be . . . → Read More: Rolex Awards Call for Applications Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs call for applications, innovation, innovative projects, international, prize, submission The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Microinsurance Innovation Facility (MIF) has announced the availability of third round of research grants “on a competitive basis for academics, particularly from developing countries, to analyze various microinsurance issues. Besides answering key questions in the Facility’s research agenda” MIF has teamed up with the European Development Research Network . . . → Read More: Grants for Research on Microinsurance Issues Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs call for expression of interests, developing countries, EUDN, facility, ILO, innovation, Microinsurance, MIF, research fellowships The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Microinsurance Innovation Facility (MIF) in partnership with the European Development Research Network (EUDN) is inviting academics and researchers to submit expressions of interest for research fellowships. There are up to five research fellowships available and these will be awarded on a competitive basis. The research fellows . . . → Read More: Microinsurance Innovation Facility’s Call for Expressions of Interests for Research Fellowships Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs call for expression of interests, developing countries, EUDN, facility, ILO, innovation, Microinsurance, MIF, research fellowships The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is accepting applications from citizens of developing countries and Canada for the IDRC Internship Awards. The awards are an opportunity to get “exposure to research for international development through a program of training in research management and grant administration under the guidance of IDRC program staff.” It . . . → Read More: IDRC Internship Awards Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs Canada, developing countries, IDRC, innovation, internship, policy The US-based Alliance Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the greater San Diego region’s community partner for improving access to healthcare for the region’s poor, working poor and vulnerable populations. Since 1989, AHF has invested more than $45 million in grants into the San Diego community. Committed to the principle that everyone should be able . . . → Read More: “If you had $1 million to change Healthcare for the underserved, what would you do?” Alliance Healthcare Foundation’s new international competition Objective and Overview The Secretary’s Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls seeks to find and bring to scale the most pioneering approaches to the political, economic and social empowerment of women and girls around the globe. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the award is part of the State Department’s continuing . . . → Read More: Secretary’s Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls: Call for Concept Papers Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs award, empowerment, girls, innovation, Rockefeller Foundation, US State Department, women “The WSYA (World Summit Youth Award) selects and promotes best practice in e-Content and technological creativity, demonstrates young people’s potential to create outstanding digital contents and serves as a platform for people from all UN member states to work together in the efforts to reduce poverty and hunger, and to tackle ill-health, gender . . . → Read More: World Summit Youth Award Distinguished young leaders in the Arab region making positive impact over the communities they have been working with can participate in the King Abdullah II Award for Youth Innovation and Achievement. Managed by the King Abdullah II Fund for Development (KAFD), the award recognizes the efforts of young people by providing them with . . . → Read More: King Abdullah II Award for Youth Innovation and Achievement for Young Arabs Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs award, Beijing Platform Action, best practices, innovation, youths Artemisia and Ashoka’s Changemakers have launched a new global competition, Leveraging Business for Social Change: Building the Field of Social Business.” The competition is “a global search for model initiatives and ideas that help build the emerging field of social business.” Individuals and organizations (charities, NGOs, private and public entities etc) can apply for this . . . → Read More: Changemakers’ Social Business Competition Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs Ashoka, Changemakers, competition, impact, innovation, social business, sustainability The Scottish Government’s International Development Fund is seeking applications for funding under its new South Asia Development Programme covering international development work in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The main objective of the programme is to address poverty and contribute towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals through sustainable . . . → Read More: Scottish Government International Development Fund inviting Applications for Funding in South Asia Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs Bangladesh, capacity-building, civil society, funding, gender equality, India, innovation, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka In order to find innovative solutions to water-related problems faced by local communities around the world, GlobalGiving, InnoCentive and the Rockefeller Foundation have come together to sponsor challenges in this area. While the challenges will help find solutions for the water problems, the solution providers will also earn cash rewards of up to . . . → Read More: InnoCentive Challenges to find Innovative Solutions for World’s Water Problems Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs GlobalGiving, InnoCentive, innovation, Rockefeller Foundation, technology, water Indo-Global Social Service Society (IGSSS) – New Delhi is inviting Expression of Interest from Indian NGOs for Small Innovative Project under its People’s Empowerment for Accessing Rights to Livelihood (PEARL). The programme has been developed to “promote and encourage innovative initiatives in people’s empowerment for accessing rights to livelihood.” There are four main . . . → Read More: IGSSS inviting Expression of Interest for Small Innovative Projects from Indian NGOs The US-based Deshpande Foundation is internationally offering an opportunity for individuals “to create solutions through social innovations and entrepreneurship for some of the top issues that NGOs face in the Sandbox region of Northwestern Karnataka in India. This family Foundation of Gururaj (“Desh”) and Jaishree Deshpande has helped NGOs in developing an international . . . → Read More: Deshpande Foundation’s Innovators Challenge for Social Innovation Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs competition, development, foundation, innovation, social change Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Africa 2010 is an open competition for organizations demonstrating innovation, sustainability, direct social impact, reach and scope and replicability in their efforts. It has been established “to recognize outstanding social entrepreneurs around the globe, an initiative of The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.” . . . → Read More: Schwab Foundation’s Open Competition for the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 – Africa Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs competition, entrepreneurship, impact, innovation, research, Schwab Foundation, sustainability, World Economic Forum The EdelGive Foundation, which is an initiative of the Edelweiss Capital Limited, one of the leading financial services firms in India has announced the EdelGive Social Innovation Honours 2010 which recognizes and honours NGOs undertaking innovations to empower women in India. In 2008, the award was given out to organizations which implemented innovative . . . → Read More: Social Innovation Honours for Indian NGOs Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs empowerment, gender, honour, India, innovation, women empowerment The prestigious Communication for Sustainable Social Change Award is given annually to organizations and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the “theory and practice of Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC).” Nominations for this award are invited from NGOs, international agencies, inter-governmental organizations, media networks and others. The objectives of . . . → Read More: Nominations invited for the 2010-2011 Communication for Sustainable Social Change Award NGOs working for children in the areas of health, education and protection located in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South East and East Asia are eligible to participate in the STARS Impact Awards from the STARS Foundation. These awards “support organisations committed to achieving excellence in the provision of services to disadvantaged . . . → Read More: The STARS Foundation’s STARS Impact Awards for NGOs working with Children Ashoka’s Changemakers have launched an online competition called the “Improved Nutrition: Solutions through Innovation” in partnership with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. The competition is looking for “the most innovative entrepreneurial ideas that will ensure all people have access to the vital nutrients and the critical information that will help them thrive.” . . . → Read More: Cash Prizes for Innovative Solutions to Improve Nutrition for Undernourished Populations Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the call for proposals for the Round 4 of the Grand Challenges Explorations in Global Health Research. The Grand Challenges Explorations initiative provides funding support for “innovative ideas that could lead to new vaccines, diagnostics, drugs, and other technologies targeting diseases that claim millions of lives . . . → Read More: Request for Proposals from Bill Gates Foundation: Grand Challenges Explorations in Global Health Research Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, competition, global health, innovation, technologies The 2010 Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development (2010 MIF), organized jointly by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank on 4th and 5th March 2010 in Paris, has issued an invitation to NGOs, governmental agencies, private sector companies and other types of civil . . . → Read More: $100,000 Grant for NGOs to Submit Proposals on Ideas for Developing Financial Mechanisms to reduce Poverty and build Sustainable Livelihoods Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, competition, creativity, development, grant, innovation, microfinance, Microinsurance, MIF, world bank The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand in partnership with the International Development Research Center (IDRC) has launched the grant for carrying out research in bio-innovations that can lead to alleviation of poverty in Asia. NGOs and individuals both can apply for the grant. This grant research programme aims to increase the relevance . . . → Read More: Grant for Enabling Bio-Innovations for Poverty Alleviation IDRC’s Internship Awards open to receive applications The International Development Research Center (IDRC) is accepting applications from individuals for the Internship Awards where individuals get an opportunity to undertake research on international development in Canada. Individuals from developing countries, as well as from Canada, can apply for the awards. Basic eligibility includes that the applicant . . . → Read More: IDRC’s Internship Awards open to receive applications Comments are closed Scholarship Funds for NGOs environment, grants, ICT, IDRC, innovation, intern, research |
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