Acumen Fund Global Fellows Program

The Acumen Fund are accepting applications for the 2012-2013 class of Acumen Fund Global Fellows

Fellows are drawn from a pool of highly-talented, passionate people who come from all geographies, sectors, backgrounds, and ethnicities. Last year, Acumen Fund received nearly 600 applications from over 70 countries.

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Canada World Youth 2012 Leadership Awards

Canada World Youth (CWY) is currently seeking nominations for the 2012 Leadership Awards aimed at recognizing the excellent achievements of young Canadians and youth from around the world that are engaged in innovative initiatives promoting peace, intercultural understanding, and community and international Development. The candidates must be nominated by a third party.

CWY is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of young people that have a desire to become informed and active global citizens. CWY programs are designed to help youth experience the world for themselves, learn about other cultures and diverse Canadian communities while developing leadership and communication skills.

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2011 Innovators Challenge

The mHealth Alliance and the Rockefeller Foundation are seeking nominations from innovators across the world for the Top 11 in 2011 Innovators Challenge enabling them to attend the all-expense paid trip to the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington, DC’s National Harbor to be held during December 5th – 7th 2011. The winners will be also honoured at a reception on December 4th.

The 2011 mHealth Summit will build on last year’s success by bringing a dedicated focus to the business, end-user, and policy perspectives of mHealth, fostering in-depth dialogue to identify and accelerate cross-cutting value chains and sustainable mHealth business models from around the globe. The summit will also provide a dedicated focus to the healthcare research and evaluation needs of mHealth, facilitating the development and commercialization of empirically-supported solutions.

The 2011 Innovators Challenge is aimed at identifying and awarding individuals who have used mobile technology in innovative ways to improve health systems and outcomes in even the most remote areas of the world.

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Ashoka – 20 Challenges for 20 Entrepreneurs

Ashoka, the world’s largest community of social entrepreneurs, with support from its global network of Fellows, business entrepreneurs, policy makers, investors, academics, and journalists works collectively to ensure that social entrepreneurs and their innovations continue to inspire a new generation of local changemakers to create positive social change.

During the past three decades after its launch, Ashoka has responded to a wider range of programs and initiatives to deal with the citizen sector’s growing needs by launching thousands of social entrepreneurs and helping them succeed.

In continuation of its efforts to achieve its objectives, Ashoka has now taken up to explore the challenges facing the world today and as a result it has determined 20 main issues that require an immediate attention of excellent entrepreneurs (social or business).

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Call for Curation Proposals

The Open Society Foundations’ Youth Initiative requests proposals for up to $10,000 in funding to develop and curate thematic pages on the new global youth portal and community at youthpolicy.org

The site aims to consolidate knowledge and information on youth policies across the international sector, ranging from analysis and formulation to implementation and evaluation.

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2012 STARS Impact Awards

The STARS Foundation (STARS) improves the lives of disadvantaged children around the world by supporting organisations which meet their health, education and protection needs. STARS believes that effective and well-run local NGOs are best placed to respond to the needs of those they serve.

Founded by the Dabbagh Group in 2001 and based in London, STARS has provided grants to non-profit making organisations working with disadvantaged children and in 2007 launched the STARS Impact Awards. Each year, the STARS Impact Awards identify and support local organisations that achieve excellence in the provision of services to disadvantaged children and that demonstrate effective management practices.

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Buckminster Fuller Challenge

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award 2011 worth $100,000 in prize money is aimed at supporting the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.

Buckminster Fuller Challenge: Program Goals

The Program’s guiding objective is to catalyze wide-spread change in the understanding and approach to solving complex global problems.

To achieve this, the program seeks to:

• Create a rigorous, transformational process for entry in which applicants grapple deeply with a unique set of criteria.
• Promote and disseminate an integrated, comprehensive, systems-based approach to the design of solutions.
• Highlight and reward exemplary strategies which embody this approach.
• Accelerate the implementation of these solutions.

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