Deadline: 12 September 2014
The University of Southern California is accepting nominations for the $200,000 John and Alice Tyler Prize 2014. Individuals or entities in different fields are encouraged to make nominations of living individuals or public or private institutions anywhere in the world who have made demonstrated achievements in environmental science, policy, energy and health conferring great benefit upon humanity.
Prize: $200,000 Cash (Joint winners share the cash prize.)
The Prize is awarded for
- Ecological or an environmental condition – protection, maintenance, improvement or understanding – anywhere in the world.
- Sources of energy – known or new – discovery, further development, improvement, or understanding.
- Medical discoveries or achievements with significant benefit in environmental aspects of human health.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nominee can be living individual or public or private institutions in any nation.
- Nominee’s work must fit to one of the above mentioned fields.
- Nominations can be made by – any individuals or entity active in fields such as biology, oceanography, geology, medicine, public health, chemistry, and physics; engineers in fields such as civil, environmental, petroleum and chemical engineering, and social scientists in fields such as geography, political science, economics and the law; and universities, research institutions and their members.
- Self nominations are not considered for the award.
Complete nomination includes- nominee’s curriculum vitae or resume, one page statement of accomplishments and supporting materials (articles, publications or other exemplary materials for which the award is proposed), three or more letters of reference signed by the supporter and emailed directly to the Tyler Prize office, and names, addresses and emails of 3 to 5 additional references.
Nomination form must be submitted electronically via email by the deadline.
For more information, please visit Tyler Prize.
We have a company called SOTWA-LAI initiated as non profit organization, currently we have initiated Reforestation for society well-being project, the project involves training and campaign for environment management by laws enforcement and trees plantation practices. We kindly request your support to get fund to run this project of environmental conservation for the future generation.
I am an Executive Director with Kashog-Karagwe Youth Development Association (KAKAYODA), an NGO targeting school youth in order to alleviate poverty among them. The project area are two districts called Karagwe and Kyerwa at Kagera Region in Tanzania.
Please can I get details how to get the environment grant assistance from you which can help our Youths NGO activities.
I work on indigenous knowledge of women who provide indigenous community based diversity as food for the kitchen table for their families. I have previous experience of this in Africa ;East Africa and Southern Africa, with detailed focus on Kenyan indigenous community time-tested and tried food cultures. I am a female biological scientists who has studied anthropology (Gender bias). I am interested in funding support to raise indigenous women’s community gender issues into the formal sector and thus raise the status of family nutrition globally. Would i qualify for funds to support multidisciplinary research and development of women’s indigenous knowledge of nutrition at the kitchen table?
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Am hereby requesting for any kind of donations eg.Office chairs, Benches, Black boards, Text books, exercise books, school’s bag for our school going activities here in South Sudan. I will be happy if any person can come in to help us in those things.
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Am the project coordinator child development focus of nigeria, we work in the area of human trafficking and child domestic force labor in northern Nigeria. i want to meet with partner organisations around the world and donor support project in the area of my specialty,
Thank you fundsforNGOs.
We are an organization committed to improving vulnerable life,our immediate challenges includes our inability to generate adequate funds; execute our projects on empowerment to the HIV extreem vulnerable. Please. advice.
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I am a wildlife Biologist from the land of diversity with sky touching mountains of the world situated in Northern Pakistan.
The thing i can proudly share is the conservation of Astore Markhore one of critically endangerd globally significant goat species and its fragile mountain ecosystem by involving lcoal community through a participatory approach by enhancing the capacity and empowering them to take part in decision making. The successful interventions brought revolutionary change in the socio economic conditions and livelihood of the community on a sustainable manner keeping in view the need of the community and scientific importance of fragile mountain ecosystems in and around the sky touching mountains of the world. lets encourage those who really contribute to nature keeping in view the well being of planet earth and people living on it regardless of race, color, region and religion.
Natural resources defence council pokhara is an environmental org in pokhara lakeside,can you please help us with more info that how we could apply for the grant?
your’s sincerely
uzzawal baruwal
pokhara nepal
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Development Organization for Social Trust (DOST) is national and relief organization. We would like to apply for grants and donations. Could you please send us email to exchange information for further assistance with the people of Afghanistan.
Regards
Mohammad Rafi
Director, DOST NGO
Afghanistan