News about grants, gifts
The Bumi Sehat Foundation received a Dollar for Dollar Challenge Grant from Hyperbiotics to help complete its new health clinic in Bali, Indonesia; the Dollar for Dollar Challenge Drive concluded on August 31st.
Mr. Charles Chen Yidan, China’s Philanthropist of the Year and a core founder of Tencent Holdings Limited has established the Yidan Prize with an endowment of $320 million and annual awards of $7.6 million divided between two categories – The Yidan Prize for Education Research and The Yidan Prize for Education Development.
The entire fleet of Medical Teams International mobile dental vans in Oregon and Washington will upgrade from film-based X-ray equipment to digital radiography, thanks to the generosity of the Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust, the Maybelle Clark MacDonald Fund, the Joseph Weston Foundation, the Hedco Foundation, the Oregon Community Foundation (William Swindells, Sr. Memorial Fund), and an anonymous Washington family foundation.
News about people, groups
The Jamiya Project launched its first pilot university courses for Syrian refugees. The pilots will test the Jamiya Project’s model that brings together Syrian academics, European universities and education technology to make higher education courses accessible and relevant for refugees.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation celebrated 2 billion meals served as part of its mid-day meal initiative in India on August 27th, with a live YouTube video featuring the Honourable President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee.
Elrha‘s Humanitarian Innovation Fund and the Small Arms Survey partnered to develop a new report titled, “Gender-Based Violence Interventions: Opportunities for Innovation.”
AidEx closed its deadline for entries to the 2016 edition of the AidEx Humanitarian & Development Journalism Award on Friday, September 2nd.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada and TD Bank Group are marking National Forest Week with the announcement of 25 conservation projects across the country.
The Bayat Foundation and The Starkey Hearing Foundation concluded their third annual joint Bayat-Starkey Afghanistan Hearing Care Mission in Kabul on August 28th and 29th. The event provided free auditory and hearing restoration care to approximately 1,000 Afghan citizens.
News about opportunities, initiatives
At its 32nd Triennial Conference, Graduate Women International announced a partnership with MsGinko, an online video recording and sharing community where real stories inspire action for women and girls.
Democracy Reporting International (DRI) launched the first activity of its latest project, Accompanying Sri Lanka’s Democratic Transition on June 21 in Colombo, the GSP+ Information Session, in cooperation with the European Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka.
Eleven of the world’s leading conservation organizations, including BirdLife International and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, will partner to identify, map, monitor and conserve the most important places for life on earth.
The Strategic Planning Innovation Summit will take place in London this year on the 22nd and 23rd of October.
The MasterCard Foundation will host their 2016 Symposium on Financial Inclusion on October 20-21 at the Serena Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda. The Symposium convenes people and organizations committed to scaling financial services to the financially excluded.
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship along with Jubilant Bhartia Foundation will accept applications for the 2016 Social Entrepreneur of the Year India Award (SEOY). Applicants are evaluated on key parameters of innovation, sustainability, scalability, reach and social impact. The winner will join the global community of Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneurs and will participate in the annual and regional meetings of the World Economic Forum.
APOPO will partner with Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania to begin a five year tree-planting project in the Uluguru Mountains in Tanzania.
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