All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD)
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD) has launched its second round of competition to unearth and champion solutions to improve child literacy. Through both a grant competition and a software-themed prize competition, ACR GCD aims to catalyze the creation and expansion of innovations and programs that leverage the transformative power of technology to leapfrog existing challenges and empower children to read.
In Round 2, the All Children Reading Partners seek strategies that employ technology in three focus areas: mother tongue instruction and reading materials, family and community engagement, and children with disabilities. Approximately three awards per focus area will be made, with a total of $900,000 available under each focus area, and with the flexibility to make more or less awards.
Along with the grant competition, ACR GCD is hosting Enabling Writers, a $100,000 prize competition aimed at finding technological solutions to improve reading skills for children in developing countries. Enabling Writers seeks to spur the development of software that easily allows authors to write and publish materials to help primary school children in developing countries learn to read in mother tongue languages. In the first round of the prize, three finalists will be awarded $12,000 each and offered feedback to improve their submissions for field testing. The technological solution that best enables local writers to quickly and easily create appropriate and interesting texts that follow tested reading instruction methodologies, and provide the optimum reading and learning experience for early primary school children, will win the $100,000 grand prize.
To learn more about the Challenge and to apply, go to AllChildrenReading.org or follow them at @ReadingGCD on Twitter.
Deadline: May 2, 2014
In Round 2, the All Children Reading Partners seek strategies that employ technology in three focus areas: mother tongue instruction and reading materials, family and community engagement, and children with disabilities. Approximately three awards per focus area will be made, with a total of $900,000 available under each focus area, and with the flexibility to make more or less awards.
Along with the grant competition, ACR GCD is hosting Enabling Writers, a $100,000 prize competition aimed at finding technological solutions to improve reading skills for children in developing countries. Enabling Writers seeks to spur the development of software that easily allows authors to write and publish materials to help primary school children in developing countries learn to read in mother tongue languages. In the first round of the prize, three finalists will be awarded $12,000 each and offered feedback to improve their submissions for field testing. The technological solution that best enables local writers to quickly and easily create appropriate and interesting texts that follow tested reading instruction methodologies, and provide the optimum reading and learning experience for early primary school children, will win the $100,000 grand prize.
To learn more about the Challenge and to apply, go to AllChildrenReading.org or follow them at @ReadingGCD on Twitter.
Deadline: May 2, 2014
Student Media Grants Program - Conflict and Development at Texas A&M (open to all students)
The Student Media Grants Program is an annual photojournalism grant awarded to students interested in using innovative methods to research and chronicle issues facing fragile and conflict-affected nations. Interested students should submit a proposal by May 14, 2014, that outlines their intended use of grant funds, with details about locations to be visited, issues to be studied, how the funds will be used and any special needs. They should choose an international development area that reflects issues of food insecurity, health, education, land tenure, poverty, and other issues faced by people in fragile and conflict-affected nations. Students can earn up to $5000.
During their experience, students will be required to accomplish the following:
- Show three-month engagement (minimum) with international development issues through Extension activities, internships, student research, etc.
- Write a series of blog postings for the ConDev Blog during their experience, and document their chosen subjects through photo and/or video journalism that draws attention to conflict and development issues.
- Publish or exhibit the results of their work in a form of refereed media with the possibility of publishing with Texas A&M University Press.
To learn more and apply, visit: http://condevcenter.org/smgp-2014-open-for-proposals/
Deadline: May 14, 2014
During their experience, students will be required to accomplish the following:
- Show three-month engagement (minimum) with international development issues through Extension activities, internships, student research, etc.
- Write a series of blog postings for the ConDev Blog during their experience, and document their chosen subjects through photo and/or video journalism that draws attention to conflict and development issues.
- Publish or exhibit the results of their work in a form of refereed media with the possibility of publishing with Texas A&M University Press.
To learn more and apply, visit: http://condevcenter.org/smgp-2014-open-for-proposals/
Deadline: May 14, 2014
Innovation in the Global Food System - Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI) at Michigan State University (open to all students)
Michigan State University's Global Center for Food Systems Innovation intends to issue a Request for Application (RFA) in April, 2014. The goal of this RFA will be to create innovation in the global food system by finding, incubating and evaluating new and potentially disruptive knowledge and technology based solutions to development challenges, with an emphasis on problems deriving from population growth, climate change and urbanization. GCFSI will provide funding of up to $2,050,000 through three levels of grants in one RFA.
To learn more, visit: http://www.crdfglobal.org/grants-and-grantees/current-funding-opportunities/2014/03/06/advance-notice-for-rfa--msu-gcfsi-food-systems-innovation-grants-2014
Deadline: June 25, 2014
To learn more, visit: http://www.crdfglobal.org/grants-and-grantees/current-funding-opportunities/2014/03/06/advance-notice-for-rfa--msu-gcfsi-food-systems-innovation-grants-2014
Deadline: June 25, 2014
The Desal Prize- Securing Water for Food Grand Challenge for Development
What technological innovations are required to make brackish water desalination more efficient and less expensive in rural and remote settings? What are the key barriers to small-scale innovation in this space? How do you ensure innovations meet the needs of smallholder farmers? We’re challenging private industry, entrepreneurs, academics, other donors, NGOs, and you to weigh in and improve the design for the next call for the Securing Water for Food Grand Challenge for Development: The Desal Prize.
The Desal Prize, the second "call" under the Securing Water for Food, aims to develop cost-effective, energy efficient, and environmentally sustainable small-scale desalination technology that provides potable water for humans, as well as water appropriate for livestock and crops in developing countries. Up to $500,000 in prize money and $75,000 in seed money will be awarded to individuals or organizations through the Desal Prize.
Currently, exciting discussions about the prize criteria regarding the size of the prize purse, the competition design, the technology performance and specifications, and what to do with brine waste discharge are taking place on our website. Join us and your feedback will help us create a prize seeking innovative, accessible desalination technologies in developing and emerging countries.
Application opens later this year. Learn more at www.thedesalprize.org and by following @securingwater on Twitter.
The Desal Prize, the second "call" under the Securing Water for Food, aims to develop cost-effective, energy efficient, and environmentally sustainable small-scale desalination technology that provides potable water for humans, as well as water appropriate for livestock and crops in developing countries. Up to $500,000 in prize money and $75,000 in seed money will be awarded to individuals or organizations through the Desal Prize.
Currently, exciting discussions about the prize criteria regarding the size of the prize purse, the competition design, the technology performance and specifications, and what to do with brine waste discharge are taking place on our website. Join us and your feedback will help us create a prize seeking innovative, accessible desalination technologies in developing and emerging countries.
Application opens later this year. Learn more at www.thedesalprize.org and by following @securingwater on Twitter.
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