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Fellow News

Ashoka Fellow Karl-Henrik Robert is finalist for The Globe Sustainability Research AwardSenior Ashoka Fellow Karl-Henrik Robert collaboratedwith Gran Broman to research the development of anoverarching methodology for strategic sustainabledevelopment and aligned methods and tools, and theirwork on making this widely accessible at a time when it isneeded the most, is considered excellent in all dimensions.This sustainability research is not only regarded as one of the top six in the world but also made it as a finalist forThe Globe Sustainability Research Award.

Ashoka Fellows Rebecca Onie and Madhav Chavanwin the Skoll AwardEach year The Skoll Foundation searches for top socialentrepreneurs and their organizations working in the fieldsof human rights, health, environment sustainability, peaceand security, and the economic and social equity. This yearthe Skoll award was presented to two Ashoka Fellows,Rebecca Onie for her work on health care and MadhavChavan for his work on education in India. Find out moredetails here .

Ashoka Fellow Manzoor Mirani wins the most

prestigious All Pakistan Newspapers Society Award2010 for Best ColumnistAshoka Fellow Manzoor Mirani from Hyderabad, Pakistanwon the APNS award for his column on the aftermath of last years flood devastation affecting a small city of Khairpur Nathan Shah in the Sindh province of Pakistan.

Awards/Funding

Hubert H. Humphrey FellowshipsFirst call for nominations is in April The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program providesten months of non-degree academic study and relatedprofessional experiences in the United States. HumphreyFellows are selected based on their potential for leadershipand their commitment to public service. The HumphreyProgram fosters a mutual exchange of knowledge andunderstanding about issues of common concern in theUnited States and the Fellows home countries.To apply, please contact the Public Affairs Section of theU.S. Embassy or Binational Fulbright Commission in yourcountry for more information about applicationprocedures and deadlines. Click here for a list of eligiblecountries and in-country contact information. Embassiesand Commissions must submit their nominations to theInstitute of International Education office in Washington,DC by October 1. The deadlines for applicants vary bycountry. For more details, click here .

Atlas Service Corps FellowshipDeadline: April 15 for Fall classes and October 15 for Spring classTo address critical social issues, Atlas Corps develops

leaders, strengthens organizations and promotesinnovation through an overseas fellowship program forskilled professionals. If you are interested in applying,please view more details at http://www.atlascorps.org

Lola Kenya Screen 2011 Film AwardsDeadline: April 15, 2011The Lola Kenya Screen is an annual international

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audiovisual event that seeks to place production tools inthe hands of children and youth for the advancement of literacy, gender equity, self-expression, and democracy intheir world. For more information, please visithttp://comminit.com/en/node/306792/38

2011 Mary Fran Myers Gender and Disaster AwardDeadline: April 18, 2011The Gender and Disaster Network and the NaturalHazards Center invite nominations for women and menwho should be recognized for their efforts to advancegender-sensitive policy, practice or research in the areas of disaster risk reduction. This award recognizes thatvulnerability to disasters and mass emergencies isinfluenced by social, cultural and economic structures thatmarginalize women and girls and may also expose boys andmen to harm. Click here for more information.

The Goldman Environmental Prize Deadline: April 22, 2011The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largestprize program honoring grassroots environmentalists. ThePrize awards $125,000 annually to six environmentalheroes from each of the inhabited continental regions.Recipients are chosen for their sustained and importantenvironmental achievements. There is no application for

the Goldman Prize, and unsolicited nominations are notaccepted. Contact Cat Jaffee if you would like to benominated. For more details, go tohttp://www.goldmanprize.org .

Reinventing Maternal Health: Win 10K via ABCNews' Be the Change/Duke Innovation ChallengeDeadline: April 29, 2011In celebration of International Womens Day, ABC NewsBe the Change: Save a life and Duke Global Health Instituteare pleased to announce an opportunity for universitystudents undergraduate, graduate, and professionalstudents to share their big ideas and emerginginnovations in maternal health care. The ReinventingMaternal Health Challenge is looking for universitystudents from around the world to submit a five-minutevideo explaining their big idea for improving maternalhealth. The prize: $10,000 and the opportunity to deploythose ideas, or early prototypes, into the world. To apply,click here .

Grand Challenges Canada: Saving Lives at BirthDeadline: April 29, 2011With the help of USAID, Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation, The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,and The World Bank, Grand Challenges Canada islaunching a new multi-million dollar funding program,Saving Lives at Birth, to improve maternal and newbornhealth in the developing world. The goal of this program isto leapfrog conventional approaches by stimulatinginnovation that can improve prevention and treatmentservices to women and newborns in poor, ruralcommunities. To find out more information about thisopportunity, click here .

International ReSource Award for SustainableWatershed ManagementDeadline: April 30, 2011Swiss Re invites entry in the annual International ReSourceAward for Sustainable Watershed Management,acknowledging leadership in the implementation of theprinciples of sustainability in watershed management. It isworth US$150,000 in total and is granted to one or severalprojects selected by an international jury. For moreinformation, click here .

The Ivy Humanitarian Prize

Deadline: May 1, 2011The Ivy Humanitarian Prize was established in 1996 torecognize those individuals who have made outstandinghumanitarian contributions toward improving the lives of children and their communities in the Americas over aperiod of more than five years.The purpose of the Ivy Humanitarian Prize is to raisepublic awareness of the plight of over 50 million childrenwho are orphaned, abandoned, or living in extremepoverty in Latin America. The award also aims to creategoodwill and encourage cooperation throughout theAmericas.

Anita Borg Award for Social ImpactDeadline: May 2, 2011This award identifies achievements by an individual or teamwho has increased the positive impact of technology onthe lives of women. For more information, click here .

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Anita Borg Institute Change Agent AwardsDeadline: May 2, 2011The Anita Borg Change Agent Awards celebrate theaccomplishments of technical women from emergingcountries. These awards are designed to recognize up-and-coming leaders that impact or advance womensparticipation in technology.For more information, click here .

The Awards for Excellence in Inter-AmericanPublic HealthDeadline: May 13, 2011These awards honor dedicated professionals who led theway in advancing health conditions in the Americas duringthe last century. The awards stimulate the growth of thenext and rising generation of leaders working together toimprove health and health care in the Americas. Forfurther details, click here .

Grand Challenges ExplorationsRound 7 now open (until May 19, 2011)This $100 million initiative of the Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation is intended to help scientists across the globepursue ideas that have never before been tested for solvingmajor health problems. For example one topic is CreateLow-Cost Diagnostics for Priority Global Health

Conditions. For full list of topics and applicationinstructions, click here .

The Aga Khan FoundationDeadline: rolling The Aga Khan Foundation has a sharply defined fundingstrategy. Grants are normally given to local organizationsinterested in testing new solutions, learning from

experience and in being agents of lasting change. Theseorganizations must share the Foundation's goals in thefields of health, education, rural development andstrengthening of civil society. With few exceptions, theFoundation funds programs in countries where it hasoffices and local professional staff to monitorimplementation (South and Central Asia, Sub-SaharanAfrica and the Middle East). For more information aboutthis opportunity, click here .

African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)Small Grants Program (SGP)Deadline: Rolling The Small Grants Program (SGP) supports small,community/rural-based grassroots women's groups thatwould otherwise not be able to access AWDF's mainfunding program. The SGP also supports emerging oremergency issues, i.e. community disasters, activities thatrequire a rapid response, etc. It is working in Ghana,Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria.

The AWDF funds work in six thematic areas: WomensHuman Rights, Political Participation, Peace Building,Health, Reproductive Rights, HIV/AIDS, and EconomicEmpowerment.

The AWDF makes grants in three cycles: March, August,and November. Applications can be sent in at any time. Forfurther details, click here .

Contact the Ivy Inter-American Foundation for theapplication form or visit the webpage by clicking here .

Conferences

There are no new conferences to tell you about right now but keep checking ashoka.org/advantage for updates.

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Information for Fellows

Peace Corps and Ashoka: Celebrating Anniversaries and CollaborationsThe Ashoka and Peace Corps communities share many powerful points of intersection throughout our history: Volunteers

have trained Fellows during their early professional development (Badara Jobe), worked with Fellows organizations(Halidou Ouedraogo) and have become Fellows after building on their Peace Corps experience to launch systemchanging ventures (Greg Van Kirk and Elisabeth Stock). In Burkina Faso, Ashoka Fellows and Peace Corps Volunteersare collaborating to build mutual capacity and maximize impact for the communities they serve. Read more here. If youve collaborated with the Peace Corps, please share your story at [email protected]

Bioenergy and Food Security Criteria and Indicators (BEFSCI) project of FAOBEFSCI is reaching out to producers to catalogue and showcase innovative approaches that have been used in sustainable

bioenergy initiatives. We want to hear stories, experiences, lessons learned about what made these pioneeringactivities a success both for the producers and for the local communities. For more details, click here .

Networking & Communication Tools

Check out pictures from the recent Orientation of our new India fellows as well as photos from our Rural Innovation andFarming event in Bangalore, India. Those and pictures from other Ashoka events, including Globalizer available here .

Changemakers

Vote: Sustainable Urban Housing - Collaborating for Livable and Inclusive CitiesVoting Ends April 6, 2011You can vote for the winning solutions for sustainable urban housing that will each win US $10,000 in the Sustainable UrbanHousing: Collaborating for Livable and Inclusive Cities competition, hosted by Ashokas Changemakers, with support fromthe Rockefeller Foundation. The most competitive entrants will be showcased and reviewed at an event that closes thecompetition in June 2011 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. where they will be viewed by the public andprivate partners, including prospective funders.

Enter a solutions competition: Powering Economic Opportunity: Create a World that WorksBeginning: Early April, 2011Enter this competition hosted by Ashokas Changemakers and The Opportunity Project, an initiative of the eBayFoundation, to find the worlds most innovative market-based solutions that create economic opportunity and generateemployment for disadvantaged populations. The competition launches early April, 2011. Submit your solutions, or nominatea project to create tomorrows job markets today. Five winners will each receive a cash prize of US $50,000. Be sure tofollow us on Twitter and Facebook to receive regular updates and to give us your feedback.

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Volunteers, Interns, Partners

VolunteersNeed help with Strategic Planning? Fundraising?Translation? Volunteers can help! In-person assistance?Virtual help? Volunteer teams? Let us know what youneed, and well help you find what youre looking for!Please give specific details regarding your plans for using avolunteer and information about what type of work theyllbe doing, special skills required, time-frame,accommodations available, etc. Email Beth Inabinett [email protected]

Interns Would you like to advertise for an intern on the AshokaVolunteer website? Many capable undergraduate andgraduate students are visiting the website looking for a wayto get involved and gain experience in their field of study,especially over the summer. Contact Beth Inabinett for anIntern Request Form at [email protected]

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