May 2010 - 5
CONTENTS
Fellows Only
Got Carbon Offsets?
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we’d like to hear from you. Please send a note to Leah
Fotis at mailto:Lfotis@ashoka.org with more information
on your offsetting program and certification.
Fellow News
US Fellow Andy Lipkis in 'Dirt'
On April 20 PBS aired Dirt! The Movie which explored the
ways in which human activity has endangered the quality of
our soil. Read more here.
Kenyan Fellow Receives International Women of
Courage Award
Ashoka Fellow Ann Njogu was one of 10 recipients this
year, selected for her work against sexual and gender
based violence and her role in the passage of Kenya’s
Sexual Offences Act.
Arnold Noyek and Conflict-to-Cooperation
Conversations in the Middle East
Skoll’s Social Edge is holding a conversation hosted by
Canadian Senior Fellow Arnold Noyek. He has built
cooperative health initiatives across the Arab and Israeli
fault line. He sees these as a new blueprint to peace
through health, a common language of need.
Join the discussion on Skoll’s Social Edge.
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Fellow News
Awards & Funding
Conferences
Information for Fellows
Networking & Communication Tools
Changemakers®
Volunteers, Interns, Partners
Awards/Funding
Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program
Deadline: May 30, 2010
This grant’s themes are “Biodiversity Conservation” and
“Global Warming Countermeasures” that are serious and
urgent issues for conserving the earth environment. This
year, applications are accepted for either an overseas
project grant, with activities targeted outside of Japan, or a
domestic project grant, targeting community-base activities
implemented in Japan. Find details here.
2010 Challenge of Stockholm Prize
Deadline: May 31, 2010
This prize is for projects that pioneer information
technology (IT) and that benefit society and the local
environment in innovative ways. Projects will only be
accepted in English and will be selected from the categories
of e-government, culture, health, education, and the
environment. Find details here.
Access to Justice
Deadline: June 1, 2010
The Clifford Chance Foundation and its international law
firm is launching an Access to Justice Award focusing on a
not for profit organization that helps individuals, groups or
communities preserve or secure their rights to the basic
necessities of life, including shelter, liberty, economic self-
sufficiency and equal treatment before the law. There are
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three principal focuses: Access to Education, Access to
Finance and Access to Justice. Find details here.
Innovation Award for Women's and Girls'
Empowerment
Deadline: Initial concept paper by June 1, 2010
The Innovation Award is part of the US State
Department's continuing emphasis on
public-private partnerships, and seeks to find and bring to
scale to the most pioneering approaches to the political,
economic and social empowerment of women and girls
around the globe. Submissions can be sent to
SGWIRFPInnovation@state.gov.
The Small Grants Program
Deadline: June 1, 2010
This program is administered by participating World Bank
Country Offices. Not all Country Offices participate in the
Small Grants Program. Guidelines and application forms
are available from the participating World Bank Country
Office in January. The Small Grants Program makes
decisions only once a year by June. Applicant organizations
should apply at least four to six months in advance of the
date of the grant activity. This is one of the few global
programs of the World Bank that directly funds civil
society organizations. It is a concrete tool to aid in the
advancement of the Bank’s social development agenda to
empower poor and marginalized groups. Find details here.
Tourism Cares for Tomorrow
Deadlines: June 1, 2010
This is the tourism industry's nonprofit organization which
exists to preserve and promote the responsible use of our
world's natural, cultural, and historic treasures and to
support education and research to help secure the positive
future of travel and tourism worldwide. It distributes
charitable grants to worthy tourism-related nonprofit
organizations worldwide. Find details here.
Women PeaceMakers Program
Deadline: June 1, 2010
Inviting four women from around the world who have
been involved in human rights and peacemaking efforts in
their home countries to participate in a 8-week residency
program that offers women leaders an opportunity to
document, share, and build upon their unique peacemaking
stories. Find details here.
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BBC World Challenge
Deadline: Nominations due by June 13, 2010
The World Challenge is a global competition aimed at
finding projects or small businesses from around the world
that have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots
level. It is about championing and rewarding projects and
business which really make a difference. The awards are
broadcast annually on BBC World News. For details, click
here.
All Roads Seed Grant Program
Deadline: June 15, 2010 and quarterly
This program provides a platform for indigenous and
underrepresented minority-culture storytellers around the
world to showcase their works in order to promote
knowledge, dialogue, and understanding with a broader,
global audience. Find details here.
The Clarence H. Moore Award for Voluntary
Service
Deadline: June 15, 2010
This award recognizes outstanding contributions to public
health by volunteers or non-governmental organizations
working to improve the lives of the peoples of Latin
American and the Caribbean. Find details here.
The Genographic Legacy Fund Deadline: Rolling until
June 15 and December 15
The fund aims to empower indigenous and traditional
peoples on a local level while helping to raise awareness on
a global level of the challenges and pressures facing these
communities. Reflecting the values and missions of the
Genographic Project, support from the fund will be
directed primarily toward education initiatives, cultural
conservation, and linguistic preservation and revitalization
efforts. Please feel free to ask any questions or send a
summary or draft application for your project prior to
deadline. Danae L. Tuley will be happy to offer preliminary
feedback. Find details here.
Horwitz Award for Leadership in Inter-American
Health
Deadline: June 15, 2010
Nominees must be individuals whose professional
achievement in any field of inter-American health
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stimulates excellence, and has impacted the health of
populations across the borders of the Americas. Find
details here.
Human Rights Defenders Tulip Award
Deadline: June 15, 2010
Nominees should be individuals (not organizations) whose
daily activity is to promote or protect human rights using
peaceful means. They should be human rights defenders
who have faced or be at risk of facing negative
consequences because of their work. Find details here.
The John Merck Fund
Deadline: Rolling
The Human Rights program concentrates on the defense
and promotion of human rights in Latin America.
Approximately 70 percent of the program’s budget goes to
human rights organizations based in six countries in the
region: Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru and
Venezuela. The remaining 30 percent of program
resources supports activities of key US groups dedicated
to advancing human rights. The Fund actively seeks out
projects and programs that may merit support then
requests grant applications on behalf of those it finds most
promising. It does not encourage the submission of
unsolicited proposals. However, organizations interested in
obtaining support for work they do in one of The Fund’s
areas of interest are welcome to send a brief letter of
inquiry. See the Programs and Contact Us sections on
their website.
Rockefeller Foundation Funds US State
Department Award for Empowering Women and
Girls Around the World
Deadline: June 21, 2010
The award is intended to enable individuals and
organizations to address female empowerment more
effectively in new and sustainable ways and to encourage
others to join them. The two 2010 award winners will
each receive a grant of up to $500,000 to advance their
Conferences
Global Maternal Health Conference 2010
New Delhi, India // August 30-September 1, 2010
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work. For more information about the award, please visit
the US Department of State website.
Open Society Institute
Deadline: Rolling
The Open Society Institute invites grant proposals from
organizations around the world in accordance with its
project aims. Those aims are to support organizations and
their projects that work to foster freedom of expression,
access to information, women's rights, the rule of law, local
governance, and educational reform. Preference is given to
local organizations on the ground in the region or
initiatives that partner local and foreign organizations'
expertise. There are many programs with various
deadlines, so be prepared to dig.
Rolex Awards for Enterprise
Deadline: Biennial
Established to foster a spirit of enterprise around the
world, the awards provide visionary individuals with the
means to turn their ideas into reality. Projects must
expand our knowledge of the world, enhance quality of life
or improve human well-being. Apply for the next Rolex
awards including the Young Laureates Program. Winning
grantees will be awarded in 2012.
Roma Initiatives Fellowship
Deadline: Rolling
Proposals are invited from Roma activists to support work
on questions of social policy, human rights protection,
employment policy, culture, education, health policy, and
other topics important for the inclusion of Roma in
society. Fellows' projects and initiatives should also
contribute to advancing the goals of the Decade of Roma
Inclusion (2005 – 2015). The fellowships are intended
primarily for individuals active in the field of Roma rights.
Find details here.
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The Global Maternal Health Conference 2010 aims to build on the existing momentum around MDG5 to coalesce and
catalyze the maternal health field. Lessons learned, neglected issues, and innovative thinking will be the underpinnings of the
conference, and the anticipated outcome is increased consensus around the evidence, programs and advocacy needed to
improve maternal health. For registration information, click here.

Global Women in Management: Advancing Women’s Economic Opportunities (GWIM 53)

Jakarta, Indonesia // October 4-30, 2010 (Application Deadline: June 28, 2010)
The Eligible Countries are China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore.
This program is supported by the ExxonMobil Women’s Economic Opportunity Initiative, a global effort launched in 2005
to help women in developing countries fulfill their economic potential and serve as drivers of economic and social change in
their communities. To apply, download and submit completed application to GWIM.53.INDONESIA@cedpa.org

Information for Fellows

Google Co-Founder and Wife Offer Matching Fund for Ashoka
Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki have established a $1 million matching fund to benefit Ashoka.
Every dollar donated will become $2 thanks to Sergey and Anne’s generosity.
Learning for Social Impact
This is from McKinsey's Social Sector Office. They have developed a site to help funders, their grantees, and other essential
partners achieve social change by offering best practices, guidelines, tools, insights, and practical help in developing
assessment plans that drive social impact. Check it out here.

Networking & Communication Tools

Manage Your Newsletter Communication Preferences with Ashoka
You can now control which newsletters you want to subscribe and unsubscribe from at Ashoka. Simply go to our global
website, http://www.ashoka.org and click the “Newsletter Sign-Up” link at the top of the page. Check back soon as we put
more of our regional and special communications (like the Ashoka Advantage!) on the sign-up form.

Changemakers®
Competition: Enter Your Solution for Building the Field of Social Business
Enter your solution to build the emerging field of social business by June 9 in the Leveraging Business for Social Change
Changemakers competition and you may be one of three winners that receive $5,000 to advance your project. Artemisia
and Ashoka’s Changemakers are launching a global search for model initiatives and ideas that help build the emerging field
of social business. For more information, please see http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/socialbusiness.

Competition: Changing Lives Through Football

You can enter your solution to use football (soccer) to strengthen community, increase development, and drive social
change – or recommend others to participate – in the Changing Lives Through Football competition, hosted by Nike and
Changemakers.com. If you enter by June 11, you may be one of six winners that are eligible to win a total of $90,000 in
prizes. Go to http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/football.

The Next Generation of Ideas for Maternal Health

Voting closed for winners of the Healthy Mothers, Strong World: The Next Generation of Ideas for Maternal Health on
May 12th. Ashoka’s Changemakers and the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth are hosting this competition to
support the best solutions for supporting strong mothers, enabling children, families, communities, and economies to grow

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and thrive. The best innovations will be awarded prizes – or in-kind prizes – totaling almost $600,000 including attending
the Maternal Health Change Summit. In addition, 16 young leaders with great new ideas will spend nine months working
abroad on a maternal health project under the mentorship of Ashoka Fellows in the Young Champions program. To learn
more about the competition, visit http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/maternalhealth.

Get Ready to Vote: Enter Your Solution for Women | Tools | Technology
Check out the solutions that enable women to access and use the power of tools and technology for economic
advancement in the Women | Tools | Technology completion. You can vote for the top three entries between June 2 and
16. The three winners will each win USD $5000 and will be invited to participate in a collaboration workshop with
Ashoka’s Changemakers and ExxonMobil during summer 2010. Go to http://www.changemakers.com/en-
us/technologywomen.

Competition: Strengthen and Improve Communities

There are some great ideas to strengthen and improve communities in Maine, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Connecticut or Massachusetts in the Revelation to Action: Your Place. Your Idea. Your Change competition
hosted by Green Mountain Coffee and Ashoka's Changemakers. You can vote the top three innovations between June 9
and 30. The three winners will be awarded prizes totaling USD $50,000. For more information, please visit
http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/Revelation.

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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