Social Equity Venture Fund Announces Second Annual Open Enterprise Solutions to Poverty Request for Proposals

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Two grants of up to $100,000 will be awarded for research in economics, government policy, or business strategy that bears directly on the potential of enterprise-based solutions to poverty.


Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Invites Applications for Access to Learning Award


Deadline: October 31, 2009

An award of $1 million will be given to libraries outside the U.S. working to create new ways to offer free public access to computers and the internet in disadvantaged communities.

Entries Invited for Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability


Deadline: October 6, 2009

An award of $100,000 will be given to U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have created or redesigned a product, process, or material that improves quality of life pertaining to the ecosystem or human environment as a whole.

Think Tank Initiative Invites Expressions of Interest From Institutions in Latin America and South Asia


Deadline: September 28, 2009 

Grants will be awarded to successful think tanks utilizing research on social and economic policy to increase growth and equity and reduce poverty in countries in East and West Africa, South Asia, and Latin America.