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audiovisual event that seeks to place production tools in Grand Challenges Canada: Saving Lives at Birth
the hands of children and youth for the advancement of Deadline: April 29, 2011
literacy, gender equity, self-expression, and democracy in With the help of USAID, Bill and Melinda Gates
their world. For more information, please visit Foundation, The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
http://comminit.com/en/node/306792/38 and The World Bank, Grand Challenges Canada is
launching a new multi-million dollar funding program,
2011 Mary Fran Myers Gender and Disaster Award Saving Lives at Birth, to improve maternal and newborn
Deadline: April 18, 2011 health in the developing world. The goal of this program is
The Gender and Disaster Network and the Natural to leapfrog conventional approaches by stimulating
Hazards Center invite nominations for women and men innovation that can improve prevention and treatment
who should be recognized for their efforts to advance services to women and newborns in poor, rural
gender-sensitive policy, practice or research in the areas of communities. To find out more information about this
disaster risk reduction. This award recognizes that opportunity, click here.
vulnerability to disasters and mass emergencies is
influenced by social, cultural and economic structures that International ReSource Award for Sustainable
marginalize women and girls and may also expose boys and Watershed Management
men to harm. Click here for more information. Deadline: April 30, 2011
Swiss Re invites entry in the annual International ReSource
The Goldman Environmental Prize Award for Sustainable Watershed Management,
Deadline: April 22, 2011 acknowledging leadership in the implementation of the
The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largest principles of sustainability in watershed management. It is
prize program honoring grassroots environmentalists. The worth US$150,000 in total and is granted to one or several
Prize awards $125,000 annually to six environmental projects selected by an international jury. For more
heroes from each of the inhabited continental regions. information, click here.
Recipients are chosen for their sustained and important
environmental achievements. There is no application for The Ivy Humanitarian Prize
the Goldman Prize, and unsolicited nominations are not Deadline: May 1, 2011
accepted. Contact Cat Jaffee if you would like to be The Ivy Humanitarian Prize was established in 1996 to
nominated. For more details, go to recognize those individuals who have made outstanding
http://www.goldmanprize.org. humanitarian contributions toward improving the lives of
children and their communities in the Americas over a
Reinventing Maternal Health: Win 10K via ABC period of more than five years.
News' Be the Change/Duke Innovation Challenge The purpose of the Ivy Humanitarian Prize is to raise
Deadline: April 29, 2011 public awareness of the plight of over 50 million children
In celebration of International Women’s Day, ABC News’ who are orphaned, abandoned, or living in extreme
Be the Change: Save a life and Duke Global Health Institute
poverty in Latin America. The award also aims to create
are pleased to announce an opportunity for university
students – undergraduate, graduate, and professional goodwill and encourage cooperation throughout the
students – to share their big ideas and emerging Americas.
innovations in maternal health care. The Reinventing
Maternal Health Challenge is looking for university Anita Borg Award for Social Impact
students from around the world to submit a five-minute Deadline: May 2, 2011
video explaining their big idea for improving maternal This award identifies achievements by an individual or team
health. The prize: $10,000 and the opportunity to deploy who has increased the positive impact of technology on
those ideas, or early prototypes, into the world. To apply,
the lives of women. For more information, click here.
click here.
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Anita Borg Institute Change Agent Awards experience and in being agents of lasting change. These
Deadline: May 2, 2011 organizations must share the Foundation's goals in the
The Anita Borg Change Agent Awards celebrate the fields of health, education, rural development and
accomplishments of technical women from emerging strengthening of civil society. With few exceptions, the
countries. These awards are designed to recognize up-and- Foundation funds programs in countries where it has
coming leaders that impact or advance women’s offices and local professional staff to monitor
participation in technology. implementation (South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan
For more information, click here. Africa and the Middle East). For more information about
this opportunity, click here.
The Awards for Excellence in Inter-American
Public Health African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)
Deadline: May 13, 2011 Small Grants Program (SGP)
These awards honor dedicated professionals who led the Deadline: Rolling
way in advancing health conditions in the Americas during The Small Grants Program (SGP) supports small,
the last century. The awards stimulate the growth of the community/rural-based grassroots women's groups that
next and rising generation of leaders working together to would otherwise not be able to access AWDF's main
improve health and health care in the Americas. For funding program. The SGP also supports emerging or
further details, click here. emergency issues, i.e. community disasters, activities that
require a rapid response, etc. It is working in Ghana,
Grand Challenges Explorations Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria.
Round 7 now open (until May 19, 2011)
This $100 million initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates The AWDF funds work in six thematic areas: Women’s
Foundation is intended to help scientists across the globe Human Rights, Political Participation, Peace Building,
pursue ideas that have never before been tested for solving Health, Reproductive Rights, HIV/AIDS, and Economic
major health problems. For example one topic is “Create Empowerment.
Low-Cost Diagnostics for Priority Global Health
Conditions.” For full list of topics and application The AWDF makes grants in three cycles: March, August,
instructions, click here. and November. Applications can be sent in at any time. For
further details, click here.
The Aga Khan Foundation
Deadline: rolling Contact the Ivy Inter-American Foundation for the
The Aga Khan Foundation has a sharply defined funding application form or visit the webpage by clicking here.
strategy. Grants are normally given to local organizations
interested in testing new solutions, learning from
Conferences
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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.
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
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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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