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? - Anyone who has … [Read more...] about Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship Program offering support for innovative social change ideas
Fundraising Resources for Women and Girls Worldwide
This resource guide seeks to provide an overview of resources, guides, and sources of funding for organizations working with women and girls. Reports Untapped Potential: European Foundation Funding for Women and Girls A 2010 survey report that summarizes European foundation granting to programs … [Read more...] about Fundraising Resources for Women and Girls Worldwide
Human Resource Management for NGOs
Capacity-building for NGOs is an ongoing process. As we move ahead to bring about social change, we also end up facing new and unexpected challenges. However, constant training and exposure to new ideas can lead organizations to address these challenges and improve their organizational … [Read more...] about Human Resource Management for NGOs
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 … [Read more...] about 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 … [Read more...] about 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 … [Read more...] about 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, … [Read more...] about Nominations invited for the 2010-2011 Communication for Sustainable Social Change Award
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 … [Read more...] about 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 … [Read more...] about The 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship
Global Fund for Women: Flexible Grants for NGOs
The Global Fund for Women is a grantmaking international network organization based in the United States, but making worldwide grants to women’s groups and organizations. It works to advance the rights of women around the world and specifically focuses upon women’s economic security, violence … [Read more...] about Global Fund for Women: Flexible Grants for NGOs
