source: USAID
Limited Excess Property Program
USAID’s Office of Innovation and Development Alliances, Division of Local Sustainability manages the Agency’s Limited Excess Property Program (LEPP). This program was set out under sections 607 and 608 of the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) and gives USAID special authority to give approved Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs) access to government excess property under the U.S. General Services Administration and the Defense Logistics Agency’s Disposition Services’ excess property programs. The LEPP PVO partners in turn use the property to build the capacity and the speed and efficiency …

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USAID – Development Food Aid Programs for Haiti.
This Request for Applications (RFA) for Haiti, specifically, provides information on funding opportunities for multi-year, development food aid programs. Food security is the cornerstone of the Title II program because “…enhancing food security in the developing world through the use of agricultural commodities…” is a policy of the United States as stated in the Food for Peace Act, which authorizes Title II food aid. Thus, FFP’s goal for multi-year development programming is to reduce risks and vulnerabilities to food insecurity and increase …

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source: USAID
USAID/Ethiopia – Innovation Fund for Ethiopian Agriculture.
USAID/Ethiopia seeks to develop innovative projects and investment opportunities that diversify the agriculture sector production and markets, promote enterprise development along entire value-chains, and increase the livelihoods of Ethiopians involved in the agriculture sector. Additionally, USAID/Ethiopia is seeking innovative approaches that address nutrition and/or climate change issues as they relate to our target population and geography. The closing date for this announcement is March 30, 2012. For more information, click here.

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Source: Faith Based and Community Initiatives (USAID)
Friends:
On Thursday, February 16th at 2:30 p.m. EST, please join Joshua DuBois, Executive Director of The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships; John Kelly, Senior Policy Advisor for the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships; Jonathan Greenblatt, Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation; and Paul Monteiro, Associate Director in the Office of Public Engagement for a conference call to discuss President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013 Budget. This call will highlight the Obama Administration’s budget priorities and provide …

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source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
January 15, 2012
Nonprofit workers are growing increasingly frustrated, and many would leave their jobs if the economy were stronger, according a new study conducted by The Chronicle.
How can you make sure your workers aren’t among the dissatisfied? What are the smartest ways to motivate staff members? What can you learn from nonprofits that have created work environments that stimulate and engage their employees?
Join The Chronicle on Tuesday, January 17, at noon U.S. Eastern time for a live online discussion that addresses these and other questions about …

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The White House Office of Public Engagement and the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships invites you to join a teleconference with
Dr. Jill Biden
*
USAID Administrator Dr. Raj Shah
*
Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Development and Democracy
and
Senator William Frist, M.D.
to discuss their recent trip to Dadaab, Kenya and ways that faith-based and community organizations can further mobilize to support relief efforts in the Horn.
DATE: Wednesday, August 17th
TIME: 2:00PM Eastern
DIAL: (800)707-9573 United States or (651)291-1246 International
CODE: Horn of Africa Relief (please …

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Source: The Washington Post
July 31, 2011
By Susan Svrluga,
COROMA, Costa Rica — By the time Odily Sanchez Segura saw her bike for the first time, it had crossed a sea, sped through cities and mountains, and jolted over rough dirt roads deep into a reserve for an isolated tribe of native Costa Ricans. It had floated 40 minutes in a canoe along a river lined with plantain trees, and then, with several other bikes donated in suburban Washington, bounced miles over a jungle path to Coroma, a small village of …

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Source: Addis Fortune
July 12, 2011
The Exim Bank of South Korea has concluded an agreement with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED)in order to support Ethiopian agriculture, infrastructure and manufacturing investment sector.
The signing ceremony was held on Friday, July 8, 2011, at the Jubilee Palace, on Menilik II Avenue, in the presence of the South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
In addition, an agreement on scientific and technological cooperation has been concluded between the two governments, including two other economic cooperation accords.
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Source: examiner.com
William Lambers
This Sunday, July 10 is the birthday of one of America’s great treasures, the Food for Peace program. President Dwight Eisenhower, or Ike, signed into law what was originally known as public law 480 on July 10, 1954.
The idea was to send U.S. surplus food overseas to fight hunger, and what better way to build a peaceful world than to defeat the cause of so much desperation and instability: hunger. Eisenhower said, “food can be a powerful instrument for all the free world in building a durable …

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Source: The Lancet, Volume 377, Issue 9781, Pages 1907 – 1908, 4 June 2011
Ethiopia has been widely lauded for introducing health reforms that have transformed primary health care in the country. Now it is embarking on two new initiatives. John Donnelly reports.
For more than 5 years, Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health has relentlessly followed a vision of supporting community-based health care. The idea was that the only way for one of the poorest countries in the world to improve health services would be to build an operation up from the …

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