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Funding: Global Catalyst Initiative

Global Agents

Deadline: August 15^th 2011

The Deal: Global Agents is searching for high impact ideas to tackle global poverty. Through the Global Catalyst Initiative (GCI), at least two early stage projects will receive $40,000 in funding and support from the GCI network. Want to take your project from pilot to proof of concept, or know someone that should? Apply to the Global Catalyst Initiative.

+ More information / apply here

Funding: Summer Company

Ministry of Economic Development and Trade

Deadline: May 9

The Deal: Create your dream job this summer and get up to $3,000 to run it!

This is an exciting opportunity for students, 15 to 29 years old, who want to start and run their own summer businesses. With hands-on business coaching, training and mentoring, Summer Company helps turn ambitious students into entrepreneurs. Check out our success stories.

If your application is accepted, you’ll be eligible to receive up to $1,500 to put toward start-up costs and up to $1,500 upon successful completion of the program. But space is limited, so apply today!

+ More information / apply here

Award: Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship

Skoll Foundation 

Deadline: April 27 2011

The Deal: Each year the Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship to a small number of social entrepreneurs who are solving the world’s most pressing problems.  The Skoll Award includes a core support grant to the organization to be paid over three years and a noncash award to the social entrepreneur that is presented at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. The Skoll Foundation has an open application process for Awards consideration.  However, to be considered for the Award, organizations must meet very specific Awards criteria: winners have a tested and proven social innovation that addresses an issue of critical importance and is positioned for large-scale impact.

To find out if you’re eligible, take the quiz here.

+ More information / apply here

Grant: Vital Youth 2011

Toronto Community Foundation

Deadline: March 30^th 2011

The Deal: The Toronto Community Foundation's Vital Youth grant program supports charitable organizations in the City of Toronto that are working to increase access to high quality recreation activities for youth aged 12-18 years.

Grants support high-quality recreation activities including structured sports, fitness, outdoor education, arts and cultural activities. Priority is given to those programs which increase access, encourage diversity, and develop youth leadership. 

Funding of up to $15,000 is available for programs that meet the Vital Youth priorities, are offered to youth over the course of the year, and start in September 2011.

+ More information / apply here 

Fellowship: Bike Tour for Environmental Sustainability

The Otesha Project

Deadline: Before your tour begins (varies from May-September)

The Deal: Can you picture yourself cycling across a chunk of Canada as part of a sustainable mobile community, offering performances and workshops about environmental and social justice issues along the way?

If you like that sound of that, you’re 18 or older, and you love fundraising, check out one of the Otesha Project’s Bike Tours. You may just have the time of your life.

+ More information here + apply here

Funding: Global Catalyst Grants

Global Agents for Change

Deadline: September 8th 

The Deal: Global Agents for Change works to address global poverty. They coordinate bike tours throughout North America and Europe and each year they choose different groups to fundraise for. This year that process of choosing a group is being opened up into a competition.  They are offering two grants of up to $40,000 dollars. You have to be under 30  and be seeking a sustainable solution to poverty. Read more on their site.

+Dreamnow: Global Agents for Change have been friends with us since the beginning and we are big supporters of their work. We most definitely give them a stamp of approval and encourage you to apply if you have an idea you think is going to make a difference. 

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Funding: Refresh Everything

 

Pepsi + Good Magazine
Deadline: Now

The Deal:  Pepsi in partnership with Good Magazine is giving out over a million dollars over the next eight months to any idea, individual, organization or business that does good. The first chance to apply just opened so apply at refresheverything.ca in Canada and refresheverything.com in the United States. 

+ DreamNow: DreamNow through Dev Aujla is one of the ambassadors for the project and we are both working with grant recipients to make sure their projects are successful and telling people to apply--- so get out there and apply. 

Scholarship: Social Justice Campus Scholarships

Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund

Deadline: April 1st, 2010

The Deal - The Davis-Putter scholarship fund provides grants to students working for peace and justice. If you are active on your campus in the United States running, advocating or generally standing up for issues then this is a chance to get some money to pay for schooling. Grants are for both graduate and undergraduate students with the maximum grant being $8000.

More Information Apply Here

Funding: UN-HABITAT Urban Youth Fund

UN-HABITAT

Deadline: April 15th, 2010

The Deal - The UN-HABITAT Urban Youth Fund is now accepting applications. The fund specifically promotes the aims of the Millennium Development Goals and promotes UN-HABITAT's agenda to build more sustainable and equitable cities throughout the developing world. They give out one million dollars in small grants that range from 5-25 thousand dollars to initiatives run by 15-32 year olds. Last year, 33 different countries received money. 

More Information and Application

Funding: Refresh Project

Pepsi

Deadline: Rolling 

The Deal:  Although this is a well publicized opportunity and another 'get your friends to vote to win' site it is still worth mentioning. Pepsi instead of showcasing a new Super Bowl ad decided to do something different-- this is it. They hired Good Magazine to help them structure, create and publicize the Refresh Project which awards five, twenty-five and fifty thousand to individuals, groups, and organizations with good ideas. If you had success rallying your own friends around competitions like Chase or Aviva then you might as well try for this.