The Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality-Social Change Program

DEADLINE- January 23, 2012

Countries/Region- MENA region

The Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality is happy to announce its call for applications to its Social Change Program. The Program aims to develop the capacity of sexual and bodily rights and gender equality activists across the MENA region.

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Nominations invited for the 2012-2013 Communication for Sustainable Social Change Award

CSSC is currently inviting nominations for its prestigious 2012- 2013 Communication for Sustainable Social Change Award. . . . → Read More: Nominations invited for the 2012-2013 Communication for Sustainable Social Change Award

Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship Program offering support for innovative social change ideas

Shuttleworth Foundation seeks applications for the fellowship program offering fellows the freedom and financial ability to bring about the change you envisage for the world as well as an enabling support structure and an existing network of social change agents.

Who Can Apply?

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The Results of Social Media Campaigning: Lessons from Greenpeace’s Kit Kat Campaigning for the Environment

Social media is about connecting and interacting with people around the world through available online resources such as blogs, internet forums, wikis, video sharing websites etc. Facebook and Twitter are two such examples of social media where internet users worldwide interact with each other for a common purpose. But can social media also . . . → Read More: The Results of Social Media Campaigning: Lessons from Greenpeace’s Kit Kat Campaigning for the Environment

Using Innovative Technologies to mark Social Change

As technology becomes relevant to address social problems in developing countries, the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had launched a seed grant program in which its students competed with innovative ideas for bringing about social change. Fourteen teams of students were selected for the funding . . . → Read More: Using Innovative Technologies to mark Social Change

Deshpande Foundation’s Innovators Challenge for Social Innovation

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

Nominations invited for the 2010-2011 Communication for Sustainable Social Change Award

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.

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Farz Foundation

A brief introduction

The Farz Foundation is a social performance based poverty alleviation organization with a unique and innovative Islamic Microfinance model and business design. It is the organization which has been formed on a strong ideological foundation with the belief of “partnership with the poor and profit and loss sharing” as its . . . → Read More: Farz Foundation

The 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship

The 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship is for those individuals which “the next big idea for social change, and also have what it takes to start your own groundbreaking organization.” Organizations both non-profit and for-profit from any part of the world can apply for the fellowship. The criteria for applying for the fellowship are;

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