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International Food Relief Partnership (IFRP) — USAID Offers New Opportunity for FY2011
The International Food Relief Partnership (IFRP) is a program of the United States’ Agency for International Development (USAID) intended to support the production, stockpiling, transportation, delivery, and distribution of shelf-stable, prepackaged foods by U.S. non-profit and Public International Organizations.
USAID has recently issued its Request for Applications for FY2011. A re-cap of this notice is provided below:
Eligibility.
To be considered eligible for a grant under the IFRP, an organization must be a U.S. non-profit organization (as described in section 501(c)(3) …
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Source: American Shipper Magazine
Wed, Dec 22, 2010
The Texas Aid Network, a program developed by nonprofit NPower Texas, has launched a new website to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ where Texas nonprofits can search for donated goods and transportation providers to ship these goods to needed destinations.
The network hopes to move 8 million pounds of donated goods by the end of 2011, while connecting more than 2,000 Texas nonprofits, such as food banks and disaster relief organizations, with transporters. The redesigned site also hopes to benefit transportation partners by providing a …
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People. Partners. Possibilities.
It’s not often that one of our posts covers all three categories — but this one does.
Irene Abdou is a travel and humanitarian photographer.
She comes to this career choice armed not just with a camera and a good eye (although both are certainly a requisite) but with fifteen years experience in the international public health and development arenas. Volunteering and living overseas with the U.S. Peace Corps, and being employed by both Population Services International , and Counterpart International (overseas and in …
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Conference Call Announcement!
Highlights of USAID Forward: Procurement Reform & Development Innovation Ventures
Procurement reform, a top priority for USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah, is intended to make it easier to do business with USAID by increasing competition, strengthening the capacity of local organizations, and expanding partnerships with a larger number of NGOs. Likewise, as a part of President Obama’s and Dr. Shah’s commitments to increase investments in game-changing innovations, USAID has announced the launch of Development Innovation Ventures (DIV). Through DIV, USAID seeks to work with a variety of partners to …
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Quenching thirst with sunshine.
“Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink.” That could have been the case in Haiti, but one company is making a difference with their solar powered water purifying system.
Innovative Water Technologies, (based in Dumont, Colorado) has developed the Sunspring. A portable, self-contained, solar-powered water purification system the Sunspring can process water from remote rivers, creeks, lakes, wells and recycled rainwater. The system physically removes bacteria, virus, cysts, particulates and turbidity from the water source and, according to its inventor Jack Barker, …
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USAID Offers New Opportunity - Limited Excess Property Program
Every day brings with it a chance to make a difference in the world – to affect change in the lives of the needy by providing access to food, clean water, medical care, shelter, and educational materials.
Charitable organizations strive to do this every day, in every corner of the world. Yet many times an organization will miss out on an opportunity to further its relief efforts. Why do they fail? Often it comes down to a lack of timely information …