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2007-10-08EarthCorps Training positions
EarthCorps is now accepting international applications for 2008 training positions. Please consider posting this announcement for any prospective members seeking advanced education and training in the environmental field.

EarthCorps offers a 6-month training course in Seattle, Washington, USA that brings together emerging environmental leaders (18-25 years of age) of international organizations to learn the basic fundamentals of environmental restoration, volunteer management and cross-cultural communication.

EarthCorps training is ideal for any organization that works with:
·Conservation/Restoration
·Erosion Control
·Community/Youth Outreach

EARTHCORPS CHARGES NO FEES for its services and in fact supplies insurance, individual homestay families, food, gear, and a monthly stipend to all international participants. EarthCorps provides additional support in acquiring US J-1 Trainee visas.

MINIMUM CRITERIA TO BE CONSIDERED FOR EARTHCORPS:
·4 year college degree and 1 year of work experience in the environmental field -OR- 5 years of work experience in the environmental field
·Support from a sponsoring organization
·Conversational English
·Documented commitment to one’s career field
·No Criminal Record

DEADLINES AND START DATES:
·Applicant Application Deadline: October 31, 2007
·Participant selection: November 2007
·Visa processing: November 2007 - February 2008
·Travel confirmation: February 1, 2008
·EarthCorps Program starting date: mid-February 2008
·EarthCorps Program graduation: mid-August 2008

TO APPLY:
Candidates should be referred to EarthCorps by an environmental organization (i.e. NGO, LGU, community group or student club). Materials are available online.
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2007-10-042007 Net Impact Conference Filed Under: universities youth Net Impact
November 1-3, 2007 - Nashville, Tennessee
Our 15th annual Conference will bring together over 1500

- MBA and graduate students from the world’s top business schools
- Business professionals working in socially and environmentally responsible fields
- Recruiters seeking talented leaders to work in socially responsible companies – check out the Career Expo!
- Hundreds of speakers and panelists sharing their expertise on issues that will define the future of responsible business

It will all happen on the beautiful campus of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management in Nashville, Tennessee.

Judges have been announced for the Net Impact Network Challenge!
They include Robyn Beavers from Google’s Green Business Operations Group and Marcus Chung, Senior Manager, Social Responsibility Strategic Planning & Communications at Gap, Inc. Submissions will be accepted until October 8th.

Keynote Speakers: Yvon Chouinard – Patagonia, Chad Holliday – DuPont, Magatte Wade-Marchand - Adina World Beat Beverages, Tensie Whelan - Rainforest Alliance

Learn more about everything the 2007 Net Impact Conference has to offer: Sessions, Speakers, and more!
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2007-09-24Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition Application deadline: October 31, 2007
GSEC 2008: February 25 – 29, 2008
Application deadline: October 31, 2007

The University of Washington's Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) is a business plan competition in which students from around the world find creative, commercially sustainable ways to address problems of poverty in the developing world. Business plans are evaluated on three criteria: 1) effect on the quality of life and poverty alleviation in the developing world; 2) financial sustainability; and 3) feasibility of implementation.

GSEC business plans can cover various issues such as healthcare, education, the environment, energy, information and communication technology, social services, agriculture, and manufacturing. Social Return on Investment includes the social good of improved health. As such, two new prizes in Global Health will also be awarded this year.

Please visit the Competition Guidelines page for detailed submissions guidelines and competition information.
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2007-09-21Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability Filed Under: Sustainability
$100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
The $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability celebrates individuals whose inventions and innovations enhance economic opportunity and community well-being in developing and/or developed countries, while protecting and restoring the natural environment.

Deadline: Friday, November 2, 2007
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2007-09-20Oxford University 21st Century Challenge Competition £45,000 to help develop your idea
Are you an entrepreneur with a bold and innovative business idea that can make a difference?

Would you like to win up to £45,000 to help develop your idea?

If so, you have until 5pm (GMT), Friday 12th October to submit your idea to the Oxford University 21st Century Challenge Competition.

We are looking for ground breaking business ideas across the following challenge tracks:
• Tomorrow's Planet: the environment
• Tomorrow's People: healthcare and medicine
• Tomorrow's Wealth: widening the benefits of wealth creation

The competition is open to individual entrepreneurs, teams, new companies, existing companies creating spin-offs, scientists and students from across the world.

Business ideas can be based on a new product, a service, operational process or business model.

See website for further details.
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2007-09-19Sport for a Better World Filed Under: Ashoka Changemakers
Changemakers and Nike
Join the global search for innovative ways for sports to promote social change

Join Nike and Changemakers in the global search for the most innovative solutions that use sport to unleash social potential and transform communities for the better. If you are passionate about sport, enter the collaborative competition and share your ideas.

Approximately 12 finalists will be chosen and three winners will receive cash awards of $5,000 each.

Enter by: Dec 4, 2007
Voting begins: Jan 14, 2008
Winners Announced: Jan 28, 2008
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2007-09-182009 Acumen Fund Fellows Filed Under: Acumen Fund
Locations: New York, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa
Description:
Each year, the Acumen Fund Fellows Program provides extraordinary young professionals with a unique opportunity to use their skills to effect real social change with our portfolio organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, India and Pakistan, and to build lasting relationships with other like-minded individuals. Joining us in September, fellows will spend one year working with our team and with local entrepreneurs, gaining intensive experience in price performance, logistics, distribution systems, scaling and innovative technology. Fellows will learn and apply these skills while enjoying an unusual level of responsibility both at Acumen Fund and within our portfolio organizations.

Ideal fellows include those who have already decided on a career in venture philanthropy, those who are seeking a career at the highest levels in the corporate world but want to better understand and have an impact on problems of global poverty, and budding social entrepreneurs who want to learn about managing organizations in the most demanding settings.

Apply online until noon EST on October 24, 2007.
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2007-09-17Ruckus Nation $300,000 in cash to get kids moving!
HopeLab is looking for product ideas that will get kids moving!

Ruckus Nation is an online competition that challenges people to imagine innovative products that will increase physical activity among kids ages 11 to 14. HopeLab—a non-profit organization based near San Francisco—is inviting you to participate as a contestant or judge and to help us spread the word.

People of all ages can enter their ideas to Ruckus Nation and win — win the opportunity to help kids, win recognition for their idea, and win cash prizes. HopeLab (see Pat Christen's interview) will support the development, testing and distribution of products based on the best ideas, and more than $300,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded to winning entries!

Register now here, and keep in mind these dates and deadlines:

September 18 – contestant and judge registration opens, entries accepted
October 15 – contestant registration closes; space is limited, so don’t delay
November 20 – final entry deadline
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2007-09-16Echoing Green Fellowship Filed Under: Echoing Green
Visionaries wanted!
* Do you have an incredible new idea that could change your community, country, or world?
* Are you an entrepreneur who won't rest until your idea has been brought to life? Or a leader who has recently started an organization to do just that?

If so, apply for an Echoing Green Fellowship. You could receive up to $90,000 in seed funding and support to launch a new organization that turns your innovative idea for social change into action.

Follow in the footsteps of the founders of Teach For America, City Year, and over 400 other social change organizations and apply online by December 3, 2007 at https://apply.echoinggreen.org

Watch the video here.

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2007-09-07Knight Foundation - MTV Filed Under: youth Knight Foundation
$500,000 “Young Creators Award” to Fund Digital Journalism
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and MTV announced today the Knight News Challenge "Young Creators Award," a new digital journalism grant program for young people age 25 and under anywhere in the world.

The contest will award up to $500,000 to young creators with compelling ideas for using digitally delivered news and information to enhance physical communities – improving the lives of people where they live, work and vote.

The new award is a component of the Knight News Challenge, an annual competition awarding $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news.

MTV will soon begin promoting the award throughout its international network – spanning more than 160 countries and nearly 500 million households – with promo spots that have been created in nine different languages, including English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Russian and more.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of America, with more than 4,000 Clubs in the United States and abroad, has also signed on to promote the opportunity to the more than 4.8 million young people it serves.

The Young Creators Award is open to young community-minded innovators worldwide with big ideas such as: anything that informs and inspires community using bits and bytes; new ways to deliver news on emerging platforms, such as cell phone documentaries; new types of operating software for news collectors; and journalism games. All entries require three elements: 1) use of a digital media; 2) delivery of news or information on a shared basis to 3) a geographically defined community. Although there is a category for commercial applications, most entries are "open-source" and must share the software and knowledge created. The number of grants awarded will be based on the size of the ideas; no idea is too large or too small.

More information here and here.
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2007-09-06Razoo $10,000 contest
Razoo is sponsoring a $10,000 contest that any social change organization/NGO can win by joining Razoo.com, creating a group presence and recruiting 100 people to join the group. Do that, and you're eligible for the prize.

DEADLINE: September 15th.
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2007-09-04The 2007 Purpose Prize Winners Filed Under: Civic Ventures Purpose Prize
Civic Ventures
Civic Ventures today announced the winners of its 2007 Purpose Prize, a three-year, $9 million program that invests in social innovators over age 60. Now in its second year, The Purpose Prize is a large-scale award for those in the second half of life working on critical social issues.

The five $100,000 winners, chosen from more than 1,000 nominees around the country, were selected for their creative and effective work to tackle some of the nation’s most pressing problems. They have developed new ways to help children succeed in life through reforms to the education and foster care systems, and new methods to save lives through improvements in hospital safety, newborn care, and search-and-rescue efforts.

Ten $10,000 winners were also selected. Summaries for all winners are here.

“The Purpose Prize winners are inspired innovators who have turned their experience and passion into new ventures that meet difficult societal challenges. But they are also much more than that,” said Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, co-founder of the Purpose Prize, and author of Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life (PublicAffairs Press, June 2007). “They are encouraging signs of what’s to come as baby boomers leave their midlife careers and enter a new stage of work and contribution.”

In Encore, Freedman outlines a new stage of life — and work — between the end of midlife careers and the beginning of true old age. He has coined the term “encore career” to describe work that combines continued income, new meaning and greater impact. “Prize winners,” Freedman said, “show that the new face of social innovation is one of experience, expertise and the desire to give back in dynamic new careers in the second half of life.”
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2007-08-21Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship Filed Under: Skoll Foundation Funding
The online application process for the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship is now open.
The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship are designed to support and celebrate social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale impact on the critical challenges of our time: tolerance and human rights, health, environmental sustainability, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and economic and social equity.

The Award includes funding to the organization of up to U.S. $1 million paid over three years for core support and an award (non-cash) to the social entrepreneur leading the organization’s work at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.

There are three changes in how the program is now administered:

· YEAR-ROUND APPLICATIONS – The Skoll Foundation is now accepting applications and awarding funding on a year-round basis, with new Awards celebrated once each year in March at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford.

· ELIGIBILITY QUIZ -- All applicants will need to complete an Eligibility Quiz in order to proceed to the Online Application. The Eligibility Quiz is designed to help applicants assess their competitiveness and avoid preparing an application that is unlikely to be a strong match to Skoll’s selection criteria.

· 24-MONTH WAIT PERIOD -- Starting in August 2007 applicants who are not selected must wait 24 months (from application date) before reapplying. This is not retroactive; therefore, applicants who applied prior to 2007 may reapply if they believe that they now fit the Skoll Award criteria.

Internal review of applications begins on August 27. To be considered for funding in advance of the 2008 Skoll World Forum, applicants must submit an Online Application no later than September 24, 2007. Applications submitted after that date will continue to be reviewed and funded throughout the year, with Awards celebrated at subsequent Skoll World Forums.

Visit the Skoll Foundation's website for complete application instructions, the Eligibility Quiz and the Online Application.

The selection process will continue to be highly competitive, with 10-12 Awards in each twelve month cycle.
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2007-08-20GlobalGiving Filed Under: GlobalGiving
GlobalGiving Decision Markets
Do you have an opinion – on EVERYTHING? Do you think you make good decisions?

Well here’s a challenge for you – put those amazing decision making skills to the test and see if you've got what it takes to be a master speculator.

GlobalGiving has a unique opportunity for you – YOU trade “stock” in development here, and earn points by buying low and selling high. By earning the most points you can win prizes and recognition on GlobalGiving.

GlobalGiving and Pact’s Capacity Building Services Group are experimenting with the application of prediction (decision) markets for determining quality international development projects.

This innovative pilot is being run through August 31 at GlobalGiving Decision Markets.

A prediction market (decision market) is a speculative market designed to make predictions on the outcome of a particular event. It is like a stock market, where people buy and sell shares of ‘project stock’ instead of company stock.

When the market closes on August 31, projects will be added to the Global Giving website where they will be able to fundraise. We will track the success of the projects over the next few months and report back to the all the ‘traders’ in the market. Top traders get awards from GlobalGiving!!

Click here to check it out! We want to hear from you.

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2007-08-19Knight Foundation Filed Under: Knight Foundation
News Challenge
It's time to enter this year's Knight News Challenge, which awards big money for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news.

The contest is run by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Last year's winners won awards ranging from US$15,000 to $5 million.

Winning projects included:

* Open-source software that will let citizens find public information about their neighborhoods.

* Young journalists covering the 2008 presidential election on mobile phones, for mobile phones users.

* Online games to inform and engage players about key issues confronting New York City.

* Digital newscasts for Philadelphia's immigrant community distributed through a new citywide wireless platform.
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2007-08-18Investors' Circle Filed Under: Funding Investor's Circle
Fall Conference - November 14-17, 2007 - Boston
Investors' Circle Conferences bring together angel investors, professional venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders who are using private capital to promote the transition to a sustainable future. Since 1992, Investors’ Circle, a national network with 200+ members, has invested more than $112 million in 183 deals in such areas as renewable energy, organic food, education, health care and community development.
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2007-08-14Verité China 2007 Symposium Filed Under: Verité
October 15th, 2007 - Shenzhen, China
Worker Engagement and Social Responsibility in China: Ways Forward
October 15th, 2007
Shenzhen, China

Engaging workers in social and environmental responsibility offers promise as an avenue towards greater impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts.

Please join us in Shenzhen, China for a one-day symposium to explore the successes and challenges of various approaches to worker involvement in CSR.
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2007-08-12Business with Four Billion Filed Under: Base of the Pyramid
September 9-11, 2007 - Ann Arbor, MI
Creating Mutual Value at the Base of the Pyramid
September 9-11, 2007
Ann Arbor, MI

On September 9-11, 2007, the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan is hosting a Base of the Pyramid Conference, bringing together 350 leading thinkers and practitioners in the field. Keynote speakers include C.K. Prahalad and Stuart Hart. The remaining slots are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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2007-08-09MISP Filed Under: Education Social Entrepreneurship
Master Internazionale di Studi sulla Filantropia e l'Imprenditorialità Socialmente Responsabile
MISP is an international and first level Master program (70 ECTS, 1.650 hours) whose duration is 16 months (February 2008-June 2009).

The curriculum includes also a four-month internship in profit and non profit organizations and a final thesis.

The most relevant experts and scholars from philanthropic institutions - both profit and non profit - will be part of the Faculty.

The best students - following the entrance range - will have the possibility to attend the second semester in the following universities: Center on Philanthropy of Indiana University (U.S.A.), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (France), School of Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University (UK). Moreover, an exchange programme with the School of Development Studies at the KwaZulu-Natal University (South Africa) has been defined. In those cases, the students will receive a double degree.

Following the entrance range, fellowships and free enrolment fees will be given to the students.

The deadline is fixed by December 18th, 2007.
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2007-08-07Innovators in Social Responsibility Awards Gala - September 4, 2007 - New York, NY
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
6:30pm Cocktail reception
7:15pm Awards program
8:45pm Dessert and coffee

One Pace Plaza - Pace University
New York, NY 10038


The Innovators in Social Responsibility Awards Gala is taking place in New York City on the evening of September 4th. The gala will celebrate eight inspiring leaders from CEOs to student activists who are using entrepreneurial approaches to make our world a better, safer place to live.

Four of the Innovators are former corporate executives who are now using the business acumen they gained from top jobs on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley to make a social impact. They have started social enterprises that create jobs in the Middle East, offer credit to the global poor, ensure children have access to clean water, and reduce our carbon footprint.

The awards night will also honor four Young Innovators. These young leaders have launched innovative co-existence campaigns in their communities, persuaded their cities to adopt clean energy laws, convinced their universities to divest from Darfur, and even created a “Boot Camp” for young people in the U.S. who want to effectively advocate for child survival worldwide.

You can purchase your tickets here.
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