Deadline: Ongoing

Cisco Global Impact Cash Grants are available for nonprofits and NGOs that address a significant social problem in the area of access to education, economic empowerment, and critical human needs.

Cisco is looking for programs that fit within their investment areas, serve the underserved, and leverage technology to improve the reach and efficiency of services. We accept applications year-round from eligible organizations.

Funding Information

• The maximum request amount for first-time grant recipients is US$75,000.

Social Investment Areas

Organizations and programs must focus on at least one of the social investment areas:

• Cisco Crisis Response: Provides increased capacity to access clean water, food, and shelter. Note: healthcare is not included in Cisco Crisis Response and is not a focus area for Cisco funding. However, they will consider proposals that address environmental sustainability within the crisis response sector.
  • Examples of potential crisis response investments that could qualify:
    • Innovative solutions which increase capacity, allowing the organization to deliver their products/services more effectively and/or more efficiently.
    • Tools which increase the availability of, or improve access to, to basic products and services (e.g. food, water, shelter, disaster preparedness/response).
    • An IT-enabled solution that produces more clean water with less ecological impact (ultra-efficient desalinization; zero carbon, zero waste aquaculture solution, etc.).
  • Examples of investments that would NOT qualify:
    • Buying food, shelter or other support products/services.
    • Providing general operating funds.
    • Healthcare programs
• Access to Education: Focuses on teaching and learning improvement through the use of technology with concentration in math, technology engineering, and science and/or the development of programs or tools that demonstrate applied knowledge or skills to applicable career paths within these fields. they will also specifically consider education programs that teach environmental sustainability.
  • Examples of potential investments that could qualify:
    • An IT-based educational program that helps inform and activate young people to empower them to engage in effective collaborative action around climate resilience, sustainability and ecosystem restoration
    • An IT-based solution that introduces young people to climate and sustainability careers and provides the skills and knowledge to eventually start those careers.
    • Innovative solutions which increase capacity, allowing organizations to deliver / administer / track education more effectively and/or more efficiently.
    • Tools which increase the availability of, or improve the access, to products/services for student centric engagement, performance or persistence, teacher development, parental participation.
    • Tools or solutions that map/demonstrate applied knowledge and skills to applicable career paths.
    • Innovative tools to teach students about ecological conservation and interest them in careers within that field.
  • Examples of investments that would NOT qualify:
    • Paying teachers/administrators/aids salaries.
    • Purchasing supplies, tuition, equipment i.e. hardware and/or software, recurring utilities.
• Economic Empowerment: Enables individuals to participate in the workforce via access to knowledge, capital and/or jobs. They will also specifically consider economic empowerment programs that address environmental sustainability.
  • Examples of potential investments that could qualify:
    • Social enterprises like nonprofit women-owned-and-operated solar panel business in developing regions, which create sustainable power solutions while also creating sustainable jobs.
    • Innovative solutions which increase capacity, allowing the organization to deliver their courses / products / services more effectively and/or efficiently.
    • Tools which increase the availability of, or improve access to, products/services necessary for people to enter the workforce and earn a living wage.
    • Tech-driven portal to help people identify, prepare for, and apply to green jobs.
  • Examples of investments that would NOT qualify:
    • Capital, investments, loans/loan funds, etc.
    • Scholarships and/or stipends to cover cost of training expenses and/or certifications, purchase of laptops or other materials
• Climate Impact & Regeneration: Seeks to reverse the impact of climate change, working towards a sustainable and regenerative future for all. They support programs that foster bold climate solutions as well as community education and activation.
  • Examples of potential investments that could qualify:
    • Solutions that reduce, capture, and/or sequester greenhouse gas and carbon emissions
    • Solutions that assist farmers to transition to restorative and regenerative agriculture
  • Examples of investments that would NOT qualify:
    • Direct climate policy change, advocacy, lobbying
    • Purchase of solar panels, other equipment

Eligibility Criteria

• • Global Impact Cash Grants multiply the impact of eligible organizations around the globe with national or multinational operations.
  • Organizational requirements:
    • Organizations within the United States must be recognized by the IRS as tax exempt under Internal Revenue Code Section 501 (c)(3), and classified by the IRS as a public charity.
    • Organizations from outside the U.S. must provide information and documents to determine whether the organization is the equivalent of a U.S. public charity.
    • Organizations to be funded must serve an audience greater than 65 percent economically underserved relative to the average standards of the target geography.
    • For each of these three investment areas, they will also consider proposals that address environmental sustainability within the context of that investment area. For example, they would consider funding an economic empowerment program that specifically focuses on creating green jobs.
    • A nonprofit organization’s overhead is not to exceed 25 percent. (Organizations are occasionally exempt from this requirement; however, they must be exceptionally aligned with Cisco’s values and criteria, and they must clearly explain and justify their overhead costs. Exemptions to the requirement on overhead expenses are determined on a case-by-case basis.).
    • Cisco Foundation does not tend to make grants to colleges and universities. In the case that such a grant may be made, Cisco Foundation does not support additional institutional overhead rates for colleges and universities.

For more information, visit https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/csr/community/nonprofits/global-impact-cash-grants.html

Deadline: 22-Aug-22

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Youth Excel, Leading Change program is seeking an experienced evaluation partner from a country receiving USAID assistance to conduct a mid-term evaluation of its global positive youth development and implementation research activities.

The evaluation partner will collaborate with IREX to conduct the mid-term evaluation, which will be a performance evaluation with the main goals of identifying Youth Excel’s progress towards its intermediate outcomes and determining key lessons learned, which will inform course-corrections and/or adaptations for the remaining years of project implementation.

Goals

• Local youth-led and youth-serving organizations will improve and sustain positive outcomes for youth
• Local youth-led and youth-serving organizations will advance local, national, and global development agendas

Funding & Duration Information

• One award is available for up to $250,000 for 6 months from October 2022 to March 2023.

Activities

To achieve goals and outcomes and subsequently elevate and sustain youth-led development, Youth Excel’s main activities include,

• co-creating a gender-responsive PYD IR toolkit;
• catalyzing youth-led, issue based networks to use IR to tackle cross-sectoral challenges while building capacity in IR and digital leadership and advocacy skills;
• strengthening youth researcher networks;
• facilitating inclusive youth-adult data summits,
• providing models for aligned intergenerational collaboration;
• deepening engagement and commitment by the public and private sector in youth-led research and learning;
• disseminating learning and evidence broadly;
• co-creating collaborative advocacy agendas; and
• linking youth to global platforms while iteratively learning and adapting our approaches

Outcomes

• Improved performance of local youth-led or youth-serving partners in implementation research to strengthen PYD programming
• Increased engagement by relevant local and national stakeholders in youth-led implementation research to support PYD outcomes
• Improved synthesis, dissemination, and integration of findings from research into programming among local YL/YSOs and other non-traditional partners.

Eligibility Criteria

• Local or locally established organizations based in countries receiving USAID assistance that meet the eligibility criteria and share Youth Excel objectives. Applicants should have capacity and experience in quantitative and qualitative research, including youth-led participatory approaches, and experience working on the Youth Excel technical areas, interventions, and targeted geographic regions. Organizations led by and serving youth, including those from marginalized groups which may include age, gender, disability, ethnicity, and other identities, are encouraged to apply.
• Legally registered, local or locally established country in an eligible country:
  • Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Eastern and Southern Caribbean, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
• Non-governmental or private organization
• Eligible to receive USAID funding:
  • Able to obtain Unique Entity ID
  • Able to sign ADS 303mav Certifications, Assurances, Representations, and Other Statements of the Recipient

For more information, visit https://www.irex.org/program/seeking-evaluation-partner-conduct-youth-excel-mid-term-evaluation?utm_campaign=Evaluation+Partner

Deadline: 31-Oct-22

The Alliance for Advancing Health Online (AAHO) is excited to launch a second Request for Proposals (RFP) for global research focusing on harnessing the power of social media to increase vaccination confidence and uptake with an emphasis on enhancing routine immunization and educating health care workers on addressing vaccine hesitancy.

The Alliance for Advancing Health Online is bringing collaborators from the technology, health, global development, and academic sectors together to advance public understanding of how social media can best be utilized to better understand and increase the health and resiliency of communities around the world.

Areas of Interest       

• The Vaccine Confidence Fund II will be funding projects that explore how social media can be leveraged to drive confidence in, and uptake of, COVID-19 vaccines and routine immunizations (i.e., childhood and adult immunizations included in the World Health Organization’s recommendations for routine immunization).
• They also encourage projects that look at how health care workers can be equipped to leverage social media and online engagement to promote vaccination confidence and uptake in their communities, or among health care workers themselves.
• Example interventions (not comprehensive) that applicants may want to consider exploring include:
  • Use of chatbots and messaging for offline health
  • How social media can be leveraged to reach priority populations
  • Social media as a platform for public health messaging
  • Online health communities and social norming interventions
• Research proposals should include the following:
  • Well-defined problem statement that articulates a key research gap and specifies the population of interest, making it clear why this research is novel and how it will add to the current body of understanding.
  • Proposed research methodology and approach. Priority will be given to causal impact studiesthat leverage experimental design (RCT) and other causal inference methods (ex: regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences). Applications should address: data collection (including sampling where applicable), bias correction, a detailed analysis plan and measurement of key outcome variables.
  • A dissemination plan, including which academic journals and other media will be targeted.
  • CVs of key project personnel and organizational information.
  • They encourage proposals that include creative teams, with partners from different sectors. Applicants should detail the expertise of the team in their proposed research method as well as track record of disseminating findings in the proposed outlets.
  • Timeline, budget and budget narrative.

Funding Information

• The range of awards will vary based on the scope of the research, but award amounts will range between $250,000 and $450,000. Please note this Fund is willing to consider proposals up to $500,000 provided there is strong justification for why additional funding is needed.

The Fund’s Principles

In addition to the requirements, they also expect that successful proposals will demonstrate how they are in-line with the Fund’s guiding principles as listed:

• Equity: Given the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on historically marginalized or excluded communities globally, the Fund is committed to ensuring that equity is core to the work they support, and they prioritize equity as an essential principle. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines equity as the absence of avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically.
• Community Engagement: From research design through to research implementation and dissemination of findings, they highly encourage all applicants to engage proactively and authentically with the communities they are seeking to serve. This engagement would include seeking to understand the obstacles, potential solutions, and assets to build on, from the perspective of the community – ensuring that their voices and experiences are centered in the work.
• Cross-Sectoral Collaboration: This Fund highly encourages cross-sectoral collaboration and crossfertilization of ideas from outside traditional disciplines. While not exhaustive, disciplines that this Fund would be interested in seeing further integrated and supported include behavioral sciences, communications (including marketing), data science, technology, and public health.
• Scalable: Challenges and solutions to increasing vaccination confidence and uptake can often be context specific. While this Fund seeks to support historically excluded or marginalized communities globally, this Fund’s priority is also to surface insights that are generalizable and potentially scalable, at least within focus communities globally.
• Actionable: Research should be immediately actionable and valuable for the global health community, rather than highly theoretical. The Fund is looking for empirical research findings that hold the potential to improve and contribute to practical learning and implementation science in the public health community.
• Information Sharing: The Fund views information sharing as critical, as it will enable the global health community to collaborate effectively and efficiently to solve the toughest challenges around increasing vaccination confidence and uptake. To that end, this Fund is interested in supporting proposals that are committed to disseminating insights, data, and learnings from their work as public goods for implementers to utilize in the design and execution of their vaccine campaigns and to continue to advance the global agenda around vaccination confidence and uptake.

Eligibility Criteria

• Research that takes place in any country is eligible. The goal of the RFP is to ensure diversity of research globally – both high-income and low-income countries.

For more information, visit Vaccine Confidence Fund.

Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity

The Pulitzer Center invites journalists who are working on projects related to tropical rainforests to submit a proposal to the Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF).

Themes

The supported journalism projects will focus on the following themes:

• The tropical forests’ role in the overall climate equation and weather patterns globally, regionally and locally, and the resulting consequences for human life and living conditions (in broad terms) caused by deforestation.
• Deforestation drivers (in broad terms)
• Solutions to halt deforestation (in broad terms)

Types of Grants

There are two types of grants available:

• Grants for journalists reporting for major American and European news outlets on tropical rainforests in any part of the world. Applications must be in English.
• Grants for journalists based in and reporting for local and regional outlets in the Congo Basin region.

Funding Information

The amount of individual travel grants will depend on the specific project and detailed budget planning. Most awards fall in the range of $2,500 to $7,500 but depending on project specifics may be higher.

Eligibility Criteria

Grants are open to all journalists, writers, photographers, radio producers or filmmakers; staff journalists as well as freelancers of any nationality are eligible to apply.

For more information, visit https://rainforestjournalismfund.org/grants/grants-congo-basin

Deadline: 31-Aug-22

Nominations are now open for the “Lombardia è Ricerca International Award.

The Prize awards a fundamental discovery, research, or invention with long-lived effects in the broad field of Computer Science for Safety, Wellbeing, and Sustainable Growth.

Objectives

• Each year, the Lombardia è Ricerca international award assigns 1 million euros for a discovery / research that has a significant impact on the lives of citizens in various areas (as established from time to time by the Regulations regarding each edition) of the Life Sciences sector.
• The award ceremony is held every year on 8 November – the anniversary of the death of the oncologist and researcher Umberto Veronesi – during the Research Day, which was also established by the Lombardy Region to enhance the potential and impact of innovation and scientific research in the area.

Focus Areas

• Nominations for the Award can be put forward by all scientists who have an H-Index equal to or greater than 10 in the areas of research related to the topic of the Award, such as:
  • Information & Communication Technology;
  • Engineering;
  • Physics;
  • Biomedical Research;
  • Clinical Medicine;
  • Psychology & Cognitive Sciences;
  • Public Health & Health Services;
  • Economics & Business.
• Strategic Area
  • Improving the quality of people’s life with a positive impact at the economic and social level.

Funding Information

The Prize is worth 1 million euros and is covered entirely by the Lombardy Regional Government.

Specific Eligible Topics

• Intelligent systems to support the decisions in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sectors
• Artificial Intelligence and Computational Models for Neuroscience
• Intelligent analysis of biomedical data (radiomics, genomics, and proteomics) to support personalized medicine for rare diseases
• Cyber ​​security models and systems to protect sensitive information for the health and life of citizens
• Humanoid and assistive robotics to support fragile subjects
• Innovative systems and technologies to improve the quality of life

Eligibility Criteria

• Scientists and Researchers from all over the world can propose nominations for the Award, provided they have an h-index greater or equal to10.
• The nominators may submit one single proposal related to a specific scientific discovery, for which they can list up to three names of contributing authors.
• Please remember that Self-nominations are not allowed. Furthermore, nominations cannot be presented by those convicted of crimes against the Public Administration.

For more information, visit https://openinnovation.regione.lombardia.it/it/news/news/6720/lombardia-ricerca-award-the-deadline-for-nominations-is-31-august

Deadline: 30-Aug-22

The Chatham House is pleased to announce the Common Futures Conversations, an online community of young people from Africa and Europe who want to make government better.

Most young people feel cut off from the leaders and governments who shape society. That’s why Chatham House created Common Futures Conversations

Their platform lets you speak directly online with presidents, prime ministers and other policy makers from Africa and Europe. It’s your chance to help them understand your views and tell them how they could do things better.

What is involved?

• Joining Common Futures gives you access to their online platform, which works like a social media site. It’s designed to let you:
  • Develop policy solutions and pitch them to people in government;
  • Connect with experts to discuss vital issues;
  • Inform people in government about the challenges you face;
  • Discover Chatham House research, and tell them what they could do better;
  • Share your experiences with others from Africa and Europe.

Benefits

• Joining Common Futures gives you access to great career-building benefits:
  • Contribute to articles and podcasts published on their website;
  • Take part in their events;
  • Learn about international affairs careers from Chatham House experts;
  • Meet other young people from Africa and Europe who are interested in international affairs;
  • Get your ideas heard by key people in African and European governments;
  • Develop your writing, speaking and research skills.

Eligibility Criteria

• To apply for Common Futures you must be:
  • Aged 18-30;
  • Based in a European or African country;
  • Interested in developing real solutions to global challenges like climate change, inequality and security.
  • You will also need a working knowledge of English.
  • You do not have to have a degree or set experience to apply. They want to hear how you would help build a better world.

For more information, visit https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/communications-and-publishing-department/common-futures-conversations

Deadline: 30-Aug-22

The Chatham House is pleased to announce the Common Futures Conversations, an online community of young people from Africa and Europe who want to make government better.

Most young people feel cut off from the leaders and governments who shape society. That’s why Chatham House created Common Futures Conversations

Their platform lets you speak directly online with presidents, prime ministers and other policy makers from Africa and Europe. It’s your chance to help them understand your views and tell them how they could do things better.

What is involved?

• Joining Common Futures gives you access to their online platform, which works like a social media site. It’s designed to let you:
  • Develop policy solutions and pitch them to people in government;
  • Connect with experts to discuss vital issues;
  • Inform people in government about the challenges you face;
  • Discover Chatham House research, and tell them what they could do better;
  • Share your experiences with others from Africa and Europe.

Benefits

• Joining Common Futures gives you access to great career-building benefits:
  • Contribute to articles and podcasts published on their website;
  • Take part in their events;
  • Learn about international affairs careers from Chatham House experts;
  • Meet other young people from Africa and Europe who are interested in international affairs;
  • Get your ideas heard by key people in African and European governments;
  • Develop your writing, speaking and research skills.

Eligibility Criteria

• To apply for Common Futures you must be:
  • Aged 18-30;
  • Based in a European or African country;
  • Interested in developing real solutions to global challenges like climate change, inequality and security.
  • You will also need a working knowledge of English.
  • You do not have to have a degree or set experience to apply. They want to hear how you would help build a better world.

For more information, visit https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/communications-and-publishing-department/common-futures-conversations