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Nominate Your People for the Year 2009, Deadline: ASAP
Nominations are now open for OneWorld’s People of 2009. OneWorld.net’s annual award honors those making a difference in people’s lives anywhere and everywhere on the planet. Finalists get unparalleled exposure through OneWorld’s global publications and networks. Our readers get a serious dose of inspiration. You can nominate someone you know, or someone you just know about. It can be a person, a group of people, an organization, a corporation… you get the point. Past nominees have included the heralded and the unheralded — from Al Gore and Burma’s monks to the women of the DRC, Iran’s women’s rights campaigners, and the town of Kinsale, Ireland, which is working to wean itself entirely off of fossil fuels.
Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life ; Nominate / Propose a candidate: Last Date 31 March 2009
ELIGIBILITY
- Nominees should be women and women’s groups currently active in rural life whose efforts have not yet been acknowledged by other awards. They may not nominate themselves.
- The nominating organization or individual must have direct experience of the nominee’s work. The nominator may not nominate a family member, be a member of the nominated organization, nor can an organization nominate its senior officer (i.e. founder, president etc.). No more than 3 nominees may be presented by the same person/organization in the same year. The nominator commits to organize an award ceremony if the candidate is selected for the Prize and invite the media.
NOMINATIONS MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING ITEMS:
- Original signed letter of nomination indicating how the nominator knows the nominee and for how long.
- Biographical data on the nominee (full name, age, education, place of work, background) and a detailed history of the nominee’s creative project (written by the nominator) including her motivation, innovative aspects, any obstacles overcome, and the impact in the community. Nominations must specify whether the nominee has received or is currently being nominated for other awards.
- Two original and signed endorsement letters from organizations or individuals other than the nominator and, if possible, additional supporting materials such as newspaper articles or publications.
- A few labeled photographs clearly showing the nominee(s) for possible publication.
Call for nominations for Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Award 2010, Nominate / Propose a candidate, Deadline: 01 March 2010
Candidates eligible for the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights are nominated by other individuals or organizations. An individual cannot nominate himself or herself.
Core criteria:
1) An outstanding person or group who is active in the promotion and advocacy of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights.
2) A person or group working for the reunification of Korea.
The Right Livelihood Award; Nominate / Propose a candidate, Deadline: 01 March 2010
Anyone – except Right Livelihood Award Jury and staff members – can propose anyone (individuals or organisations), except themselves, close relatives or their own organisations, to be considered for a Right Livelihood Award. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation reserves the right to refuse clearly unsuitable proposals. Proposals must not be publicised, except to the candidate and possible referees. Failure to observe this invalidates a proposal. In this way, the Foundation receives proposals from all around the world. Projects from “Third World” Countries and grassroots activists have the same chance of being proposed as, for example, a First World scholar or entrepreneur. Through this open nomination process, the Foundation gets a sense of what people around the world perceive as the most urgent problems – and who develops ways to solve them. In any year, there are some 70-100 proposals for the Right Livelihood Award. After careful research by the Foundation’s research team, reports on all current proposals are submitted to the international Jury. The Jury meets annually at the end of September to select the Recipients. The year’s Awards are announced at a press conference in Stockholm ten days later. The next deadline to receive the proposals for the award is 1 March 2010.
Ashoka and the Lemelson Foundation invite bloggers covering the intersection of technology, invention and social change to be the official blogger at the upcoming Tech 4 Society conference in Hyderabad, India where 100 Ashoka-Lemelson Fellows will be attending, in addition to other changemakers, to share ideas and projects that are changing the world through technology and invention.
The winning blogger, as chosen by Ashoka staff and prominent social entrepreneurs, writers and bloggers, will be sent all-expenses-paid to the event, where they will be the official blogger – maintaining a live blog and twitter feed throughout the event, meeting and interviewing inspiring social and business entrepreneurs and generally capturing the fantastic presentations and conversations taking place.
The Ideal Competition Winner will be someone who:
- Is passionate about social change, social entrepreneurship and technology
- Can articulate the importance of invention, technology, and entrepreneurship in creating social change
- Is clever and thoughtful in their writing, providing potential solutions to any big questions they pose in the piece; no sarcasm please
- Is comfortable writing both analytical stories and news stories
- Writes posts that give non-conference attendees an insider feel for the atmosphere and experience of the event
- Has a plan for providing optimal coverage of the multi-track event
- Feels comfortable asking for and conducting interviews with busy and/or distracted people
- Is willing to work hard, stay up late and rise early to report on the action of the event
- Can produce concise and interesting blog posts even up to 3-5 per day
- Can use Twitter effectively to provide hour by hour coverage of the event for those who aren’t present.
Nominations are sought for UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2010, Nominate/Propose a Candidate, Deadline 15 February 2010
UNESCO invites Member States, regional and international organizations, professional and non-governmental organizations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression to nominate candidates for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2010.
The purpose of the Prize, supported by the Guillermo Cano Foundation, the Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation and JP/Politiken Newspapers LTD, is to honour a person, organization or institution that has made a notable contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially if this involved risk.
The prize is intended to reward journalists who have shown dedication in the name of freedom of expression and information and to afford them the international recognition they deserve. Awarded annually, the Prize is marked by a ceremony and the winner is presented with the sum of US$25,000. |
Excellence in Media Award for Global Health, Deadline : 01 February 2010
| The Excellence in Media Award for Global Health is dedicated to drawing attention to health issues that have a global impact. The award honors those who have in the prior year most effectively captured the essence of a major issue in global health and conveyed it to a broad audience.
The Global Health Council recognizes the vital role played by the media in informing the public as well as decision-makers, and seeks through this award to highlight the important contributions to understanding and action made by the winner of the award. |
The Council welcomes Media Award submissions in the following four categories:
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DEADLINE: JANUARY 2010
Nominate for the Louis MALASSIS International Scientific Prize in Agriculture, Deadline: 20 January 2010
Louis Malassis Young Promising Scientist Prize is given to an individual, or a group of young scientists, who has carried out original and promising work in the field covered by the Prize. The awardee should be no more than 40 years old by 01 January 2010, have a PhD degree and should have at least five years of professional experience in the field covered by the Prize. The recipient of the award will receive € 20 000 and a trophy.”
The Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Right, Deadline: 15 January 2010
Nominate / Propose a Candidate
The award will be bestowed to individuals with the following criteria:
- Practical work in the field and in difficult circumstances.
- Actual relevance to the linkage of health with human rights.
- Predominant activities in developing countries and with marginalized people.
- Evidence of serious and long-term commitment.
- Potential for award strengthening nominees work.
- Potential for receipt of this award raising the profile of the Mann Award itself.
- Funding will enhance visibility and public awareness of issue or project person/organization is addressing.
- Potential for attracting additional resources towards resolution of the issue.
The award not only provides international recognition, but also carries substantial funding which can be used by the winner to work further in the area of health and human rights freely and creatively. The winner will be announced and honored in Washington, D.C. at a special Awards Ceremony during the Global Health Council’s 37th Annual International Conference, June 14-18, 2010. Nominations can be submitted online. The deadline to submit the nominations is 15 January 2010.
Oxfam International Youth Partnership, Deadline: 31 December 2009
Oxfam International Youth Partnerships (OIYP) is now launching recruitment for the 2010 – 2013 Program. Through the next 3 years, Oxfam Australia will provide opportunities and support for 300 young people to become Action Partners in order to demonstrate leadership and expand the influence of youth for positive changes locally, nationally and globally. To be eligible to apply to become an Action Partner, applicants must be aged 18-25, able to speak English or Spanish conversationally and available to attend an 8 day event in November 2010, in New Delhi, India. [More]
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