Source We have heard about the famous “first-make-people-laugh-and-then-make-them-think” IgNobel Prizes awarded to so-called scientific achievements that should have not been achieved. How about organizing such an award in the civil society sector? The Just Awards in the United States have been set up for just this purpose. They “will highlight the irrational, the irresponsible, and… [Read More]
Impact Investment Exchange, the Asia’s first Social Stock Exchange funded by the Rockefeller Foundation
18 January 2010 Source The Rockefeller Foundation under its Impact Investing work has made a grant of US $495,000 to the Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange (Asia) Pte. Ltd. (IIX). The grant will support the creation of Asia’s first social stock exchange by undertaking research and proof-of-concept analysis. It will also facilitate development of infrastructure and… [Read More]
Bill Gates Foundation has announced the $38 million new grants for microfinance development
13 January 2010 Source Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is making a contribution of $38 million in new grants to support microfinance institutions (MFIs). These MFIs spread across 12 countries will use these grants to promote thrift activities among the poor. There are some highly innovative approaches adopted by the grant recipients to implement projects… [Read More]
NGOs that received Grants under UNIFEM’s Fund for Gender Equality
Under the catalytic category of the Fund for Gender Equality, UNIFEM announced that it has selected 27 projects to fund more than nine million dollars with each organization receiving between $100,000 and $500,000. Nearly 90% of this funding has been rendered to civil society organizations and the rest given to governmental agencies. These organizations are… [Read More]
NGOs and Projects that received funding under AUSAID’s Human Rights Small Grant Scheme 2009-2010
In the third quarter of 2009, the Australian Agency for International Development (AUSAID) announced the Human Rights Small Grant Scheme 2009-2010 for NGOs from Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and accepted proposals from them till 2 October 2009. On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day celebrated… [Read More]
DevelopmentProfessionals.org is now officially open to registrations
Dear all, It gives me deep pleasure to personally come forward and make this announcement about the official launch of the DevelopmentProfessionals.org. This new interactive website is now open for registrations and anyone wishing to join it can simply do so by visiting this link. For those who are wondering what this is, well…DevelopmentProfessionals.org is… [Read More]
The 26 Great Innovative Ideas that received the World Bank Grant Awards
16 November 2009 The 2009 Climate Adaptation Grant Competition under the Development Marketplace (DM) funded by the World Bank and its partners, Global Environment Facility (GEF), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has chosen 26 innovative ideas from countries around the world to save the planet from… [Read More]
US Project Grant for World Education to Combat Exploitive Child Labor
Source 3 September 2009 The US Department of Labor (DOL) has given a grant of US $4.25 million to World Education for a period of three years to provide education and training in Nepal to achieve the goal of ending child labor. The project is part of the larger grant offered by the Department in… [Read More]
EC-UN JMDI Call for Proposals: the Selected Projects receiving Grant Support
The Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) of the European Commission and the United Nations had announced a call for proposals early this year (2009) to provide funding to projects that work on policy advocacy of the migrant populations and also to share information and best practices in the field. Migrant remittances, migrant communities, migrant… [Read More]
Six NGOs Benefit Grants from the European Commission in Philippines for Protecting Rights of Indigenous People
The European Commission (EC) has signed an agreement with six NGOs in the Philippines to provide financial assistance to them for protecting the rights of Mindanao’s indigenous Filipinos. The organizations receiving the grants are Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST), Buklod Center and Nagkakaisang Kababaihan, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), Institute for… [Read More]
