April 2011 – 16
CONTENTS
Fellow News
Ashoka Fellow Karl-Henrik Robert is finalist for
The Globe Sustainability Research Award
Senior Ashoka Fellow Karl-Henrik Robert collaborated
with Göran Broman to research the development of an
overarching methodology for strategic sustainable
development and aligned methods and tools, and their
work on making this widely accessible at a time when it is
needed the most, is considered excellent in all dimensions.
This sustainability research is not only regarded as one of
the top six in the world but also made it as a finalist for
The Globe Sustainability Research Award.
Ashoka Fellows Rebecca Onie and Madhav Chavan
win the Skoll Award
Each year The Skoll Foundation searches for top social
entrepreneurs and their organizations working in the fields
of human rights, health, environment sustainability, peace
and security, and the economic and social equity. This year
the Skoll award was presented to two Ashoka Fellows,
Rebecca Onie for her work on health care and Madhav
Chavan for his work on education in India. Find out more
details here.
Ashoka Fellow Manzoor Mirani wins the most
prestigious All Pakistan Newspapers Society Award
2010 for Best Columnist
Ashoka Fellow Manzoor Mirani from Hyderabad, Pakistan
won the APNS award for his column on the aftermath of
last year’s flood devastation affecting a small city of
Khairpur Nathan Shah in the Sindh province of Pakistan.
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Fellow News
Awards & Funding
Conferences
Information for Fellows
Networking & Communication
Tools
Changemakers®
Volunteers, Interns, Partners
Awards/Funding
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowships
First call for nominations is in April
The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program provides
ten months of non-degree academic study and related
professional experiences in the United States. Humphrey
Fellows are selected based on their potential for leadership
and their commitment to public service. The Humphrey
Program fosters a mutual exchange of knowledge and
understanding about issues of common concern in the
United States and the Fellows’ home countries.
To apply, please contact the Public Affairs Section of the
U.S. Embassy or Binational Fulbright Commission in your
country for more information about application
procedures and deadlines. Click here for a list of eligible
countries and in-country contact information. Embassies
and Commissions must submit their nominations to the
Institute of International Education office in Washington,
DC by October 1. The deadlines for applicants vary by
country. For more details, click here.
Atlas Service Corps Fellowship
Deadline: April 15 for Fall classes and October 15 for Spring
class
To address critical social issues, Atlas Corps develops
leaders, strengthens organizations and promotes
innovation through an overseas fellowship program for
skilled professionals. If you are interested in applying,
please view more details at http://www.atlascorps.org
Lola Kenya Screen 2011 Film Awards
Deadline: April 15, 2011
The Lola Kenya Screen is an annual international
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audiovisual event that seeks to place production tools in
the hands of children and youth for the advancement of
literacy, gender equity, self-expression, and democracy in
their world. For more information, please visit
http://comminit.com/en/node/306792/38
2011 Mary Fran Myers Gender and Disaster Award
Deadline: April 18, 2011
The Gender and Disaster Network and the Natural
Hazards Center invite nominations for women and men
who should be recognized for their efforts to advance
gender-sensitive policy, practice or research in the areas of
disaster risk reduction. This award recognizes that
vulnerability to disasters and mass emergencies is
influenced by social, cultural and economic structures that
marginalize women and girls and may also expose boys and
men to harm. Click here for more information.
The Goldman Environmental Prize
Deadline: April 22, 2011
The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largest
prize program honoring grassroots environmentalists. The
Prize awards $125,000 annually to six environmental
heroes from each of the inhabited continental regions.
Recipients are chosen for their sustained and important
environmental achievements. There is no application for
the Goldman Prize, and unsolicited nominations are not
accepted. Contact Cat Jaffee if you would like to be
nominated. For more details, go to
http://www.goldmanprize.org.
Reinventing Maternal Health: Win 10K via ABC
News' Be the Change/Duke Innovation Challenge
Deadline: April 29, 2011
In celebration of International Women’s Day, ABC News’
Be the Change: Save a life and Duke Global Health Institute
are pleased to announce an opportunity for university
students – undergraduate, graduate, and professional
students – to share their big ideas and emerging
innovations in maternal health care. The Reinventing
Maternal Health Challenge is looking for university
students from around the world to submit a five-minute
video explaining their big idea for improving maternal
health. The prize: $10,000 and the opportunity to deploy
those ideas, or early prototypes, into the world. To apply,
click here.
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Grand Challenges Canada: Saving Lives at Birth
Deadline: April 29, 2011
With the help of USAID, Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
and The World Bank, Grand Challenges Canada is
launching a new multi-million dollar funding program,
Saving Lives at Birth, to improve maternal and newborn
health in the developing world. The goal of this program is
to leapfrog conventional approaches by stimulating
innovation that can improve prevention and treatment
services to women and newborns in poor, rural
communities. To find out more information about this
opportunity, click here.
International ReSource Award for Sustainable
Watershed Management
Deadline: April 30, 2011
Swiss Re invites entry in the annual International ReSource
Award for Sustainable Watershed Management,
acknowledging leadership in the implementation of the
principles of sustainability in watershed management. It is
worth US$150,000 in total and is granted to one or several
projects selected by an international jury. For more
information, click here.
The Ivy Humanitarian Prize
Deadline: May 1, 2011
The Ivy Humanitarian Prize was established in 1996 to
recognize those individuals who have made outstanding
humanitarian contributions toward improving the lives of
children and their communities in the Americas over a
period of more than five years.
The purpose of the Ivy Humanitarian Prize is to raise
public awareness of the plight of over 50 million children
who are orphaned, abandoned, or living in extreme
poverty in Latin America. The award also aims to create
goodwill and encourage cooperation throughout the
Americas.
Anita Borg Award for Social Impact
Deadline: May 2, 2011
This award identifies achievements by an individual or team
who has increased the positive impact of technology on
the lives of women. For more information, click here.
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Anita Borg Institute Change Agent Awards
Deadline: May 2, 2011
The Anita Borg Change Agent Awards celebrate the
accomplishments of technical women from emerging
countries. These awards are designed to recognize up-and-
coming leaders that impact or advance women’s
participation in technology.
For more information, click here.
The Awards for Excellence in Inter-American
Public Health
Deadline: May 13, 2011
These awards honor dedicated professionals who led the
way in advancing health conditions in the Americas during
the last century. The awards stimulate the growth of the
next and rising generation of leaders working together to
improve health and health care in the Americas. For
further details, click here.
Grand Challenges Explorations
Round 7 now open (until May 19, 2011)
This $100 million initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation is intended to help scientists across the globe
pursue ideas that have never before been tested for solving
major health problems. For example one topic is “Create
Low-Cost Diagnostics for Priority Global Health
Conditions.” For full list of topics and application
instructions, click here.
The Aga Khan Foundation
Deadline: rolling
The Aga Khan Foundation has a sharply defined funding
strategy. Grants are normally given to local organizations
interested in testing new solutions, learning from
Conferences
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experience and in being agents of lasting change. These
organizations must share the Foundation's goals in the
fields of health, education, rural development and
strengthening of civil society. With few exceptions, the
Foundation funds programs in countries where it has
offices and local professional staff to monitor
implementation (South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan
Africa and the Middle East). For more information about
this opportunity, click here.
African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)
Small Grants Program (SGP)
Deadline: Rolling
The Small Grants Program (SGP) supports small,
community/rural-based grassroots women's groups that
would otherwise not be able to access AWDF's main
funding program. The SGP also supports emerging or
emergency issues, i.e. community disasters, activities that
require a rapid response, etc. It is working in Ghana,
Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria.
The AWDF funds work in six thematic areas: Women’s
Human Rights, Political Participation, Peace Building,
Health, Reproductive Rights, HIV/AIDS, and Economic
Empowerment.
The AWDF makes grants in three cycles: March, August,
and November. Applications can be sent in at any time. For
further details, click here.
Contact the Ivy Inter-American Foundation for the
application form or visit the webpage by clicking here.
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Information for Fellows

Peace Corps and Ashoka: Celebrating Anniversaries and Collaborations
The Ashoka and Peace Corps communities share many powerful points of intersection throughout our history: Volunteers
have trained Fellows during their early professional development (Badara Jobe), worked with Fellows organizations
(Halidou Ouedraogo) and have become Fellows after building on their Peace Corps experience to launch system
changing ventures (Greg Van Kirk and Elisabeth Stock). In Burkina Faso, Ashoka Fellows and Peace Corps Volunteers
are collaborating to build mutual capacity and maximize impact for the communities they serve. Read more here. If
you’ve collaborated with the Peace Corps, please share your story at advantage@ashoka.org

Bioenergy and Food Security Criteria and Indicators (BEFSCI) project of FAO
BEFSCI is reaching out to producers to catalogue and showcase innovative approaches that have been used in sustainable
bioenergy initiatives. We want to hear stories, experiences, lessons learned about what made these pioneering
activities a success both for the producers and for the local communities. For more details, click here.

Networking & Communication Tools

Check out pictures from the recent Orientation of our new India fellows as well as photos from our Rural Innovation and
Farming event in Bangalore, India. Those and pictures from other Ashoka events, including Globalizer available here.

Changemakers®
Vote: Sustainable Urban Housing - Collaborating for Livable and Inclusive Cities
Voting Ends April 6, 2011
You can vote for the winning solutions for sustainable urban housing that will each win US $10,000 in the Sustainable Urban
Housing: Collaborating for Livable and Inclusive Cities competition, hosted by Ashoka’s Changemakers, with support from
the Rockefeller Foundation. The most competitive entrants will be showcased and reviewed at an event that closes the
competition in June 2011 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. where they will be viewed by the public and
private partners, including prospective funders.

Enter a solutions competition: Powering Economic Opportunity: Create a World that Works
Beginning: Early April, 2011
Enter this competition hosted by Ashoka’s Changemakers and The Opportunity Project, an initiative of the eBay
Foundation, to find the world’s most innovative market-based solutions that create economic opportunity and generate
employment for disadvantaged populations. The competition launches early April, 2011. Submit your solutions, or nominate
a project to create tomorrow’s job markets today. Five winners will each receive a cash prize of US $50,000. Be sure to
follow us on Twitter and Facebook to receive regular updates and to give us your feedback.

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Volunteers, Interns, Partners Fellows Only

Volunteers
Need help with Strategic Planning? Fundraising?
Translation? Volunteers can help! In-person assistance?
Virtual help? Volunteer teams? Let us know what you
need, and we‘ll help you find what you‘re looking for!
Please give specific details regarding your plans for using a
volunteer and information about what type of work they‘ll
be doing, special skills required, time-frame,
accommodations available, etc. Email Beth Inabinett at
volunteers@ashoka.org

Interns
Would you like to advertise for an intern on the Ashoka
Volunteer website? Many capable undergraduate and
graduate students are visiting the website looking for a way
to get involved and gain experience in their field of study,
especially over the summer. Contact Beth Inabinett for an
Intern Request Form at binabinett@ashoka.org

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