-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:30:13 -0500 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ami Dar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Ideas in Action for December 2nd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear friends, This is the newsletter of Idealist and Action Without Borders, which currently has 30,000 subscribers. To see previous issues, or to subscribe or unsubscribe, please go to http://www.idealist.org/newsletter.html As always, our goal is to share with you some of the most useful news and resources we have found in the last few weeks. Let's start with two prizes: 1. The Conrad Hilton Foundation is inviting nominations for the 2000 Hilton Humanitarian Prize. In their words: "The $US 1 million prize, the world's largest humanita- rian award, is presented annually to an established nonprofit organization that has made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering anywhere in the world. The prize is not a grant based on future goals, but an award for recent and historic accomplishments." Nomination packets are available now, and nominations must be received by January 15, 2000. Contact: Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Hilton Humanitarian Prize, 10100 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 1000, Los Angeles, CA 90067-4011, US telephone: (310) 556-4694 Fax:(310) 556-8130 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is launching the Betinho Prize, "in an effort to recognize and to document outstanding examples of how the Internet is being used to make a real difference." The $US 7,500 prize is open to nonprofit organizations, community-based groups, coalitions or social movements anywhere in the world that have successfully used information and communication technologies as an essential ingredient in their work. The deadline for nominations is January 31, 2000. For more information, please see http://www.apc.org/english/betinho 3. At http://fdncenter.org/onlib/lnps/index.html the US Foundation Center has put together a very large database of literature on philanthropy (articles, books, etc.). The database incorporates the contents of the Foundation Center's five libraries, and contains over 17,000 bibliographic citations, 11,000 of which have descriptive abstracts. The site also has a useful list, with full contact information, of dozens of periodicals in the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors. 4. At http://www.aviva.org/tree.htm you will find a great directory of women's organizations, resources and events around the world. (After the page loads, scroll down to the bottom, and start by clicking on 'Groups' or 'Resources' on any continent.) 5. At http://www.westernjustice.org/orgs.cfm the Western Justice Center has developed an online database of 1,400 organizations and educational institutions that provide resources and training in community-based mediation, crosscultural collaboration and other conflict resolution skills. These organizations are mostly in the US, but at http://www.westernjustice.org/CF/internat.cfm they also have a directory of such organizations around the world. 6. Break Away is a nonprofit organization that serves as a resource for planning and running effective break programs for schools and community organizations. These programs send teams of college or high school students into diverse communities to engage in volunteer service and experiential learning during their school vacations. Break Away's programs include training and special events, publications and networking. Nonprofit organiza- tions can access hundreds of student volunteers by listing themselves in the Break Away SiteBank Catalog, a directory of community organizations that host alternative break programs across the US. For more information on how you, your school or organization can get involved in this program, see the Break Away website at http://www.alternativebreaks.com 7. Finally, we are now making a special effort to invite nonprofits everywhere to list their job openings in Idealist, and reach the 12,000 people who receive these listings every morning. If you work for an organization that has a person in charge of Human Resources, it would be a great help if you could refer him or her to http://www.idealist.org That's all for now. We hope that you and yours have a great weekend. 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