2011 Annual International Sophie Prize Award of $ 100,000 (Individuals and Orgs) working in Environment and Development

 Deadline Nov 1 2010

Nomination Guidelines



Eligible voluntary organisations, institutions and individuals worldwide, with knowledge or interest in environment and/or sustainable development are welcome to nominate candidates for the Sophie Prize.





Candidate's nominated by them selves or by their staff or by honorary officers will not be taken into consideration.
Annual deadline for nomination is November 1st.







WHO CAN BE NOMINATED 

The Sophie Prize will be awarded to an individual or an organisation that in a pioneering or a particularly creative way, has pointed to alternatives to the present development and/or put such alternatives into practice.
  • What kind of change of consciousness is needed? 
  • What is sustainable wisdom?
  • What qualities of life are the most important?
  • What important alternative measures must be implemented now?
  • What kind of mobilisation of people is needed in the “global village”?
The recipient of The Sophie Prize will have sought a challenging answer to one or several of the questions above and thus contributed to setting them on the international agenda. Concerning fair distribution of resources and global environment and development issues, we will distinguish between what is (seen to be) possible to achieve in the short run and what is truly necessary in the long run. The Sophie Prize will honour efforts to promote changes in the world that are necessary in a long-term perspective.

Visit Sophie Prize website for more details and to fill in a nomination form 




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Links to NGOs/UN International jobs and grants

Looking for a job in the NGO/UN sector? Or grants, fellowship information? 
For the latest  International Development jobs, grants and fellowships from all over the world visit the websites below

  1. Development jobs and International consultancies 
  2. Latest jobs from Eldis Website
  3. Various jobs from the network organisations of Core Group 
  4. UN and other jobs in various countries 
  5. Jobs in UNDP 
  6. NGO jobs in Kenya 
  7. South Africa development jobs 
  8. Jobs posted  at the Association for Women Rights Development (AWID) 
  9. Humanitarian, Relief and development jobs at Reliefweb
  10. International jobs at Third Sector website
  11. Charity, Voluntary and development jobs @ CharityJob UK
  12. International Jobs  listed by Catholic Relief Services 
  13. Consultancies, voluntary and development jobs @ Idealist
  14. Catholic Jobs (mostly USA) 
  15. http://www.alertnet.org/thepeople/jobs/index.htm

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Sept 29 2010- Gates and Buffett to host banquet to discuss philanthropy with Chinese super rich.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett will today discuss Philanthropy and seek to learn more about Chinese Charity at a banquet in China.  According to the Global Times, the guest list included Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin, the chairman and CEO of property developer SOHO China, and Niu Gensheng, founder of Mengniu Dairy. The two have reported that they will not pressure attendees to give out their fortunes.


Reports say there is reluctance to attend from some of the Chinese super rich as philanthropy was not popular in China.  China has 64 dollar billionaires, second  to United States which has over 400.  A few of the super rich like Chen Guangbiao,  have already  started leading by example. This month he pledged  to give his fortune which is estimated at more than $700 million to charity after he dies. 


Peter Buffett, son of Warren Buffett, told Xinhua that his father hoped the "Chinese people will come to their own conclusions about the role of philanthropy in their culture".


Jet Li,  a famous Chinese film star and a philanthropist, will meet Gates and Buffett before the banquet to chat about charity. Beijing News reported that a charity dinner for the "ordinary people"   had been organized in Beijing to run concurrently with the banquet to motivate the less wealthy to think about charity and donations too. 




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"The Social Network" a movie about Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder

At 26, Mark Zuckerberg, one of the founders of Facebook, is American's youngest billionaire with an estimated fortune of $6.9 billion.
His biggest expenditure to date has been $100 million grant that he gave as part of his philanthropy to improve public education in Newark, New Jersey.  The funds will be used to start a new foundation called  Start up: Education

A film entitled " The Social Network"  that premiered on September 24, 2010 at the New York Film Festival however shows a different persona. In the movie, he is painted as a backstabbing college student who betrayed friends and partners to assert control over Facebook.


Pre-order the CD here... The Social Network

Comments on the movie and story welcome.
Review the "The Social Scientist" here 

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40 Billionaires including Warren Buffer, Ted Turner, to Donate Half Their Money

40 Billionaires to Donate half their money to Charity


Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have convinced 38 other billionaires to give away half their wealth to charity. Gates and Buffett started "The Giving Pledge" earlier this year; it’s a campaign to get the richest people to donate to the charitable causes of their choice, either before or after their death. Others taking the pledge include Michael Bloomberg, Barry Diller, Larry Ellison, T. Boone Pickens, David Rockefeller, George Lucas, Ted Turner, and Ronald Perelman. The U.S. has about 400 billionaires; the 40 who’ve made the pledge are worth more than $230 billion combined.

source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/40-billionaires-to-donate-half-their-money/pledge-drive/

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