Want to experience success like Barefoot Power? (see here http://iypf.tigblog.org/post/65455)?

The IYPF offers a free advice and support service to IYPF members to assist them in getting their idea from conception to reality. As part of this, we link them to funding programs – like we did with Barefoot Power and BiD – and assist where necessary with the application forms and process. If you are interested in taking advantage of this, start with checking the IYPF website (www.iypf.org). Go to the Member Projects section. Verify that your project can meet the approval criteria. Then apply for IYPF membership (if you haven’t done so already). Start writing your project proposal, using the template on the website. If you have any questions, contact us at memberprojects@iypf.org.

Note the following annual funding opportunities for your ideas!

Development Marketplace 2007
Deadline: 17 November 2006

The World Bank’s Development Marketplace (DM) is a competitive grant program that identifies and supports emerging development ideas. Since its inception in 1998, DM has awarded roughly US$40 million to more than 1,100 projects through Global and Country-level Marketplaces. These small-scale projects not only deliver results, but many have the potential to be expanded or replicated elsewhere.

The 2007 Global Development Marketplace (DM2007) will be held in collaboration with the Health, Nutrition and Population team of the World Bank. The objective of DM2007 is to recognize and support innovative approaches for achieving better health outcomes for poor people.

Proposals are welcome from all development innovators—civil society groups, social entrepreneurs, private foundations, government agencies, academia, the private sector, as well as staff from the World Bank and other donor organizations. The deadline for all proposals is November 17, 2006.

More information is available here:
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/OPPORTUNITIES/GRANTS/DEVMARKETPLACE/0,,contentMDK:21059278~menuPK:2895744~pagePK:180691~piPK:174492~theSitePK:205098,00.html


Echoing Green Accepting Applications for Fellowship Program
Deadline: December 1, 2006

Echoing Green (http://www.echoinggreen.org/) provides first-stage funding and support to visionary leaders with bold ideas for social change. Echoing Green seeks to identify, fund, and support the world's most exceptional emerging leaders and the organizations they launch. Through a two-year fellowship program, Echoing Green helps social entrepreneurs develop new solutions to some of society's most difficult problems.

Echoing Green has an open application process for its fellowship program. Anyone who meets the program's eligibility requirements and has a compelling and innovative idea for social change is welcome to apply. Applicants must be 18 years of age or older. Projects must be the original idea of the applicant and must be independent and autonomous. The applicant must be the primary decision maker for the program's development and management. Projects must be in a start-up phase. To be considered a "start-up," the applicant may have been running the organization full-time for up to two years, and Echoing Green's financial support should qualify it as a major/primary early funder. Applicants must make a full-time commitment to the project's development. Partnerships (no more than two individuals) may apply.

Applicants do not need to be U.S. citizens. However, if the applicant is not a U.S. citizen and does not have legal status to work in the U.S., no services in connection with their fellowship may be performed in the United States.

It is strongly recommended that potential applicants complete the fellowship program's online Pre-Application Questionnaire before beginning the application process. The questionnaire is designed to help potential applicants decide whether their idea is a good match for Echoing Green. The Echoing Green Web site also provides background information on the fellowship, profiles of fellows, and complete application instructions, and an FAQ.

http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10005014/echoinggreen