Call for applications: Allen & Overy Foundation Global Grants Programme

Deadline: 27th February 2018

Focus

The  Foundation is open to supporting innovative projects that will enable the charity to pilot a new approach. It is also open to supporting projects where the charity is the only organisation using this methodology to bring about social change.

  • Our global charity partnership 
  • Disaster relief efforts
  • Charities that address our core themes of access to justice, education, and employment

Three or four charities will be awarded grants of approximately GBP50, 000 in Summer 2018. Grantees will also be given an allocation of up to 100 volunteering hours of pro bono and/or community investment time, subject to capacity and agreement with the pro bono and community investment team. 

Application:

To apply, charities should submit a letter of no more than two pages, demonstrating: 

  • how the project is aligned with A&O’s key themes of access to justice, education and employment (the project does not need to address all themes)
  • the project to be funded and its anticipated impact and achievements, including how the project will be sustainable
  • how A&O’s support will result in the organisational development  / capacity-building of the charity to enable the charity to deliver long-term impact
  • opportunities for staff involvement, including legal pro bono or other professional skills volunteering. Please note that staff fundraising and / or visits to see the project on the ground are not included in this. Applications which have strong existing or potential pro bono and community volunteering opportunities will be given preference.  

Charities must also include details of: 

  • the amount requested and a basic overview of how the grant will be spent
  • the organisation’s legal status and whether it is incorporated as a charity
  • annual income and total number of staff
  • the name of an Allen & Overy partner or staff member supporting the application (this is essential)

Applicants should demonstrate that the project will be delivered in an area of considerable need, for example countries in the bottom rankings of the UNDP’s Multidimensional Poverty Index. 

The Allen & Overy Foundation will accept applications for up to three years of successive funding (i.e. a maximum of GBP150,000 over three years). It will also accept applications from charities previously supported with a one-year grant from the Foundation. Charities that have received three-year grants must wait three years after the last year of the grant period before applying again.

In recognition of the amount of funding available, the Foundation will consider part-funding projects.

Charities may ring-fence 20% of the grant for core funding (not necessarily related to the project funded).

Please note that the Allen & Overy Foundation only supports organisations and is unable to support applications from individuals.

If you would like to apply, or for further information, please send your application to GlobalFoundation@AllenOvery.com

Please visit Allen and Overy Foundation for more details

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Persephone Miel Fellowship for Journalists, 2018

The fellowship, overseen by the Pulitzer Center in collaboration with Internews, is designed to help journalists from the developing world do the kind of reporting they’ve always wanted to do and enable them to bring their work to a broader international audience. The fellowship will benefit those with limited access to other fellowships and those whose work is not routinely disseminated internationally. Miel fellowships involve reporting from within the applicant’s native country—or following migrant communities from there to other locations.

Eligibility

The Persephone Miel fellowships are open to all journalists, writers, photographers, radio producers or filmmakers, staff journalists as well as freelancers and media professionals outside the U.S. who are seeking to report from their home country. Female journalists and journalists from developing countries are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants must be proficient in English.

Selection

The fellowship recipient will be selected by the Pulitzer Center in consultation with Internews. Selection will be based on the strength of the proposed topic and the strength of the applicant’s work as demonstrated in their work samples. We are looking for projects that explore systemic issues in the applicant’s native country and that provide an overarching thesis, rather than individual spot-reports from the field.

Terms of travel grant

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting will provide a travel grant of $5000 for a reporting project on topics and regions of global importance, with an emphasis on issues that have gone unreported or under-reported in the mainstream media.

Specific grant terms are negotiated during the application process based on the scope of proposed work and intended outcomes.

Payment of the first half of the grant is disbursed prior to travel, upon receipt of required materials, and the second half on submission of the principal work for publication/broadcast.

The Pulitzer Center will also offer $2500 to cover travel expenses associated with travel to Washington, D.C., to meet with Pulitzer Center staff and journalists and take part in a 2-day workshop. Depending on the specific needs of the fellow, this may occur prior or after the reporting takes place.

The Center works with fellowship recipients to distribute their work across multiple platforms in the U.S. to reach the widest possible audience. Projects with multimedia components that combine print, photography and video are strongly encouraged.

Applications will be accepted through March 1, 2018.

Click here to apply 

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ViiV Healthcare #EndFGM Challenge for $25,000 Prize

Challenge Summary

We are looking for interventions that can demonstrate they have effected a sustained change in attitudes and social norms at community level towards ending the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting. This includes the attitudes of practitioners, boys and men, families, community leaders and the broader community.

Indicators of success include reported change in attitude, reduction in cutting, practitioners taking on a new role in the community and uncut girls not experiencing social or economic disadvantages or discrimination as a result of not being subject to the practice. Additionally, young parents not allowing their daughters to be cut, young men expressing their interest in marrying uncut women and influential community figures declaring their support for total abandonment are meaningful indicators.

 

Challenge Status: open, accepting concept notes

Challenge Close: 20th March

Prize amount: up to three $25,000 prizes are available

JUDGING CRITERIA

In addition to the below criteria, solutions must demonstrate how the challenge statement is met in the context of resource-limited settings without contradicting national breastfeeding guidelines for women living with HIV in the resource-limited settings targeted.

  • People Centred: Entries may focus on a process, technology or other method but the ultimate benefit must be measurable in terms of impact on people’s lives. Must ensure privacy, demonstrate an ability to not perpetuate stigma and discrimination associated with HIV and enhance active community participation in solution development.
  • Replicable: Entries can be replicated and adapted by others at low cost to ensure broader implementation and uptake as quickly as possible in similar settings.
  • Scalable: Entries must demonstrate how they can be scaled beyond pilot programmes to large scale responses that can be implemented at greater/national scale.
  • Affordable: Entries must demonstrate affordability (low-cost or no-cost to the end users) within resource limited settings or other similar settings as detailed in the individual challenges.
  • Sustainable: Entries must demonstrate how they are implementable in the longer term (beyond the lifecycle of prize funding) using the resources that already exist or which can be incremental to existing service delivery.
  • Achieving substantive change: Successful entries are expected to change the thoughts, processes and other barriers that prevent people living in resource limited settings from receiving the best care possible within the resources (financial and other) available, demonstrating a clear benefit to the people and systems targeted.EndFGM photo.jpg

SUBMISSION PROCESS

  1. REGISTER
    Click APPLY NOW to access the PAC Community portal where you can register or log in to start an application. Once registered you can connect with fellow solvers to share ideas, find collaborators and work on applications.
  2. CONCEPT
    Submit a Concept Note to provide a summary of your innovation. You can seek input/feedback from other community members or submit right away. Concepts are shortlisted to progress to the next stage by the PAC team based on the challenge criteria.
  3. DEVELOPMENT
    The best eligible Concept Notes are invited to submit a Full Application. This stage requires more detail about the development and implementation of your innovation. This is the final stage for applicants before the judging process begins.

 

 

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Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) Funds To Study In Netherland

The Orange Knowledge Programme aims to advance the development of the capacity, knowledge and quality of both individuals as well as organisations both in the field of Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Higher Education and in other fields related to the priority themes in the OKP partner countries.

OKP April 2018 Short Course & Master deadline
After formal publication of the subsidy and policy outline in the Dutch Staatscourant, the OKP April 2018 deadline will be confirmed. Please note that until that time, adjustments can still be made to comply with the policy outline. The April deadline 2018 for short courses and master’s is open to candidates from the OKP partner countries.

Criteria
A OKP scholarship is intended to supplement the salary that you should continue to receive during the study period in the Netherlands. The allowance is a contribution towards your costs of living such as tuition fees, visa, travel, insurance etc. If applicable,
the scholarship holder is expected to cover the difference between the actual costs
and the OKP scholarship amount.
The scholarships are awarded in a very competitive selection to highly motivated professionals who are in a position to introduce the newly-acquired skills and knowledge into their employing organisation

You must meet a number of criteria that support the aim of the OKP to be eligible for a
scholarship.
Eligibility

  •  One must be a professional and a national of, and working and living in one of the countries on the OKP Country list valid at the time of application;
  • One must have a current employer’s statement that complies with the formal Nuffic has provided. All information must be provided and all commitments that are included in the formal must be endorsed in the statement;
  • One must not be employed by an organisation which can be expected to have their own funds for staff development, e.g.: a multinational corporation (e.g. Shell, Unilever, Microsoft) a large national and/or a large commercial organisation; a bilateral donor organisation (e.g. USAID, DFID, Danida, Sida, Dutch ministry of Foreign affairs, FinAid, AusAid, ADC, SwissAid); a multilateral donor organisation (e.g. a UN organisation, the World Bank, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, IADB); an international NGO (e.g. Oxfam, Plan, Care);
  • One must have a current employer’s statement which complies with the Nuffic format. All information must be provided and all commitments, which are included in the Nuffic format, must be endorsed in the statement;
  • One must have a government statement that meets the requirements of the country in which the employer is established (if applicable);
  • One must have an official passport valid at least three months after the submission date of the registration form by the candidate.

How to apply
Before you apply, make sure you review the eligibility criteria carefully and check
whether your employer is willing to nominate you for the scholarship. When you are certain that you are eligible for a OKP scholarship, you can start making the necessary preparations for your application.
Follow these steps to apply:
1. If you want to apply for a OKP scholarship for a short course or Master’s in the
The Netherlands, you need to first find a course that is eligible for the scholarship.
You can find the eligible courses in our study programme database, specifying
in the search criteria: ‘NFP qualified – Yes’.
2. Contact the Dutch higher education institution that is offering the course for
information on:
 course content
 the application deadline (deadlines can differ per Dutch institution)
 the application and selection procedures
 the online application form and the supporting documents

3. Prepare your application and the supporting documents
4. Submit your online application via the Dutch institution offering the course
For any questions on the application -and selection procedures please contact the
Dutch institution directly.
Selection procedure
If your application meets all the course admission requirements and the OKP eligibility
criteria, you can be nominated by the Dutch institution for a scholarship. If your
application is nominated by a Dutch institution; the steps are as follows:
 The Dutch institution will submit a grant request to Nuffic requesting funding for
eligible applications.
 The Netherlands Embassy will check the applications on their eligibility, and will
assess the applications based on the eligibility criteria and the Embassy country
focus areas.

 Only eligible applications will be taken in to further consideration. Applications
that do not meet the eligibility criteria will be rejected.
 The selection will be determined by the available deadline budget, the number
of applicants and the quality and suitability of the applications.
 The scholarships are awarded in a competitive selection to highly motivated professionals who are in a position to introduce the newly-acquired skills and knowledge into their employing organization.
 Candidates who have been nominated will be informed of the outcome of
the selection by the Dutch institution.

Click here to apply

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CcHub 2018 Incubation Program Application

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The incubation program is opened to founder anywhere in the world that is looking to grow business in Africa, particularly Nigeria. However, it is important to note that start-ups will have to be based in CcHUB incubation space in Lagos, Nigeria for the duration of the program.

GOAL:

To help the entrepreneur(s) properly structure their business, ensure consistent growth and access funding to build a lasting global entity.

DURATION:  12 months

BENEFITS:

Startups that are accepted into the program will receive the following:

  • Funding of up to $25,000 to run your operations during the program. In addition, startups will get direct access to possible follow-on capital between $100,000 – $250,000 from the Growth Capital fund by CcHUB.
  • Office space for up to 6 team members, high-speed internet, meeting rooms & more.
  • Hands-on support:  Business strategy, financial management, recruitment, product development (advisory)
  • Access to experienced entrepreneurs and industry experts via mentorship
  • Access to the network of corporate partners.
  • Access to investors for funding post-incubation.
  • $15,000 Amazon Web Services Promotional credit and more products from partners.

Note: CcHUB takes 7 – 10% equity in startups that are accepted into the program.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:

To be eligible to attend the program, startups must meet the following criteria:

  • Have a revenue model and be generating revenue.
  • Have a functional product (web or mobile).
  • Have gained Users/customers.
  • Been in operations (since launch date) for at least 6 months.
  • Have a management team consisting of up to 3 members which include a technical lead and founder(s) that are fully committed to the business.
  • Have the potential to scale.

DEADLINE: March 16th,2018

 

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