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Limited funding is one of the most common barriers facing small, medium, and large-scale solar cooking projects in many countries. Although raising funds can be challenging, there are a few steps to take to increase the likelihood of receiving funding support.
As with most fundraising initiatives, it is important to:
- Create a focused project with well-defined and specific aims
- Develop a comprehensive budget which includes all potential costs
- Frame your ask for funds in a way that your prospective grantors and donors are able to understand and support
- Partner with individuals and groups with similar goals and complimentary skills/resources
With solar cooking projects specifically, it is critical to determine if solar cooking is feasible in the area where you are planning to implement your project. In addition, personal experience with solar cooking can give you an understanding of the cultural variables to consider as well as the health, economic, and environmental benefits.
For a more in-depth discussion of this topic, refer to the Solar Cookers International's "Field Guide—Spreading Solar Cooking." This booklet includes information on evaluating potential support for solar cooking in your target area, partnerships, long-term planning, and many other topics related to promoting solar cooking.
- 20 October 2017: The Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship is accepting applications for their mentor program through 20 October, 2017. https://www.scu-social-entrepreneurship.org/apply-to-the-gsbi
- 31 December 2017: The deadline for funding applications to The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is accepting applications from social enterprises that are between one and three years old, with scalable business models, that work to affect policy, public opinion, and economies. Grantees will receive USD $300,000. Applications are accepted year-round. Apply at: http://www.tfaforms.com/337241
- July 21st, 2017: Deadline for qualified organizations to submit project concepts for funding to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
- February 2015: Nominations sought for Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal - The University of Delaware invites nominations for the medal, which also carries a cash award of $60,000. Applications are due September 17, 2014. The medal will be awarded to an individual who has made significant pioneering contributions in solar energy, wind energy, or other forms of renewable energy as an alternate source of energy through research, development, or economic enterprise. For more information, visit: http://www.energy.udel.edu/boer.html
- Apply for the SEED Award - The SEED Awards recognize "the most promising, innovative and locally-led start-up social and environmental enterprises in countries with developing and emerging economies. The independent SEED International Jury of experts selects enterprises which have the potential to make real improvements in poverty eradication and environmental sustainability while contributing to a greener economy." Apply by March 31, 2015. Read more...
- July 2014: Susan Kinne of Grupo Fenix and Jagadeeswara Reddy spoke at the recent SCInet Solar Cooking Conference in Sacramento about their success at raising money to support their work by promoting ecotourism.
- August 2013: One Earth Designs successfully concluded its Kickstarter campaign to promote the SolSource solar cooker, raising a total of $142,413 out of a goal of $43,000 (331% of the goal) and meeting three stretch goals, with 507 people backing the project. Delivery of the cookers will happen in October 2013. Visit the SolSource Kickstarter page.
- December 2012: Alternative energy funding groups offer options for technology promoters - The International Renewable Energy Agency(IRENA) is welcoming online applications with project summaries for concessional loans worth USD 50 million from the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) to facilitate renewable energy projects in developing countries, in the first of seven funding cycles totalling USD 350 million. Renewable energy projects must be government-led or government-guaranteed. Online applications close on 12 January 2013, 17:00 (Abu Dhabi local time). More information... The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is also offering funding possibilities for new businesses. The Alliance's Spark Fund (Fund) launches its first round of funding with this Request for Proposal (RFP) as part of the strategy to strengthen supply and enhance demand in the cookstove and fuels sector through innovation and tailored entrepreneurial capacity development. Unfortunately the final submission date is January 10, 2013. More information...
Some ideas for getting donations
The first step is to have a good, realistic plan and to know what the funds are needed for. You must be able to explain clearly and persuasively why promoting solar cookers in your area is worthwhile.
The second step is to directly ask people to help. More people will give you donations if you ask for donations than if you don't ask. People are also more likely to donate if they know and respect the person who is asking for donations.
The third step is to keep track of the people who might give you money—perhaps people who attend one of your solar cooker demonstrations or people working to prevent deforestation or to promote public health measures. At SCI, we keep track of the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of people who donate to SCI, people who are interested, and people we think we can get interested. We keep this information so that we can get back in touch with them, tell them why they should support us again, and ask for money. Even if you can't mail out letters or make telephone calls to your potential supporters, you can keep a list of them and make sure you know where to find them and talk to them when you need to ask for their help.
A related step is to ask every one who does support your project to suggest other people who might support it. Better yet, get the people who suggest possible supporters to introduce you to these new people. The more you get everyone you know to think about who might support your project, the more suggestions you will get. Even if only 3 out of every 100 suggestions are useful, you will gradually make some progress.
It may be true that it makes sense to ask people who have more money to be the ones to donate. It is helpful to have someone work with you who has friends and contacts among people with money. However, an interesting fact in the United States is that poorer people donate a greater percentage of their income to charities and good projects than richer people do.
It is helpful to pay special attention to people who may be particularly interested in the good results that solar cooking can bring. In some cultures, churches, and the leading people in churches, are interested in easing the suffering of the poor—and churches and their leaders may have access to people with more money than the people you know. In some cultures, relations of family, clan and tribe may suggest that a wealthy relative who cares about his or her poorer relatives may be willing to help a solar cooker project.
In many places, a group of people who have contacts that could be useful to you are people who have contacts with people in the richer parts of the world. For example, there may be a branch office near you of a large, international environmental organization or development organization. The people who work there may know people from wealthier countries who would be interested in what solar cooking can do to help people. People from wealthier countries who become interested in your project may be able to help you find some sources of donations from their home countries. They may be able to give you good advice or put you in touch with other people who might help. Churches in your community with active links to churches in richer communities may help you to make useful contacts. Offices of international agencies like the United Nations may be good places to find people with good contacts that will help you. Universities, technical schools, agricultural schools, etc. may also be good sources for people with an interest in what you are doing and the means to help you or to find good contacts for you. Many of the wealthier countries support many kinds of technical or health aid programs to developing countries or send service volunteers to developing countries. Perhaps there are workers from the United States Peace Corps—or another country's volunteer organization—in your area who might help you find some funds. There also may be scientific or environmental research projects going on in your area where there may be pools of people with above average income, good contacts and possibly a willingness to support a believable solar cooker project after it was explained to them. Many of your local, district, provincial or national government offices may have people in them with above average incomes and good contacts.
As you can see, there is no shortage of ideas of where to look for donations. The hard part is asking over and over again, being turned down 50 times for every time someone says yes. It takes patience and hard work, but there may be no better way.
You can earn funds from your solar cooker project if the following statement is true:
"It is easy to save more money from the fuel savings achieved with a solar cooker than it costs to make or buy the solar cooker."
If this statement is not true in your area, then a solar cooking project will probably fail.
If it is true, then you should think of ways to tap part of the money being saved to help fund your project.
The most basic way to do this is to make cookers and sell them for more than they cost you to make. I know of someone in Kenya who has a small business making and selling things, and one of the things he sells is solar cookers, and he earns some of his money this way. Your project could earn money for itself the same way.
Even if your goal is to give cookers to poor people (which may not be a very good idea—it may just make them think that cookers are worth nothing), if you make cookers and sell them at a profit to people who can afford to pay, you can use some of those profits to help the poor.
You could also consider charging a small fee for solar cooking lessons for those who can afford to buy solar cookers and pay for lessons.
But there is no reason why poor people who now have to pay for cooking fuel should not help support your project. Here is an example, based on reality in one country in Africa.
An average family spends $4 per week for cooking fuel—about $200 per year. If they use the solar cooker for just 10% of their cooking during the year, they will save $20. In the process, they may use $1 or $2 worth of plastic cooking bags. If it is $2 for bags, the family could still save $18 per year with the solar cooker. So, if the price of the solar cooker to the family is $8, the family saves $10 per year in the first year—a good deal for them.
If the cookers cost only $2 for you to make, selling them for $8 gives you a gross profit of $6 per cooker. This money can be used to help pay your project's expenses.
(The above example and later examples are based on US dollars which are similar in value, but not always equal, to Euros. In the US system, 100 cents equals 1 dollar.)
Before you proceed very far in your project, you should figure out what it costs to make a solar cooker where you are, how much the bags cost and how long they last, how much a family spends on cooking fuel where you are, and how much they can save in 6 months or a year by using a solar cooker on most sunny days. Then you'll have a better idea of how much you can earn—if anything--by this approach.
Of course, there is a question about whether a family will be able to spend the $8.00 for the cooker and the 25 cents for the bag. Here are two ideas that I have thought of, although I don't know of cases where they have been tried.
One idea is to sell the Cooker and the first bag for a small deposit and the agreement that once a week or once every two weeks, the buyer will have to pay their next payment. Their payments can be based on a percentage of their expected savings from using the cookers. So if you think a new solar cooker user can reasonably expect to save 50 cents per week, you might make their payments 40 cents for the first deposit and then 20 cents per week for the next 38 weeks. They could buy new bags from you when needed during your weekly collection. Whether this scheme can work depends a lot on your culture. If people would be likely to keep to the agreement and pay you the 20 cents every week, it could work. If people would be likely to damage the cooker because they hadn't spent much money on it, and then refuse to pay you because the cooker no longer worked, this plan probably would not work in your area.
Another approach would be to rent the cookers to people. For example, if a person could expect to save 15 cents worth of fuel if you solar cooked their fish or their beans for them, then you could charge them 10 cents and they still would save money. It would be a lot of work, however, to make the rounds of a large area each morning to see who wanted to rent solar cookers that day. It would be easier in a compact area like a town than in a sparsely populated rural area. It would be easier still if the renters would bring their pots of food to you in one central place. With 10 or 20 cookers—because there is so little work in solar cooking—one person could cook 10 or 20 meals, and at a price of 10 cents a meal, that could be as much as $2 per day of income for your project.
Whether people are using cookers by renting them and taking them home, coming to you to rent cookers at a central location, or buying cookers by payments over many weeks, you will have some great opportunities. Each time you make contact with these beginners in solar cooking, you will be able to give them additional advice, guidance and encouragement in solar cooking. For example, if someone is paying 20 cents a week for 38 weeks, you'll have 38 opportunities to visit with them, ask them if they have any problems and help them get the most out of their solar cookers.
Remember, people who learn to use their solar cookers well will also be likely to buy additional cookers in the future and tell their friends—so it is good for your business to make sure people learn to use the cookers well.
Another idea for making solar cookers available where funds are scarce is to see if it is possible to organize a small group of families to share cookers. Perhaps four families could buy a cooker and each would get to use it one day out of every four. Each family could keep part of their savings and contribute part of their savings to a fund to buy another cooker. When they had two cookers, each family could use one every second day, so all the families would begin saving twice as much as before. Eventually, they would have saved enough to have four cookers, one for each. Meanwhile, you would have sold four more cookers at a slight profit. In this way, your project gains, but each of the four families have gained as well.
Perhaps there will be a feeling of gratitude among families who have reaped some savings from solar cookers, have paid off their solar cooker and have begun a savings fund for their next solar cooker. Perhaps in their gratitude, some of these people can be persuaded to continue giving your project a small portion of the money they save by using solar cookers—a gift of gratitude that can help others the way you helped them. I am very uncertain about this—perhaps people would not donate to your project, if you have given them a lot of help in learning solar cooking.
Of course, these ideas will take a lot of work to bring in small amounts of money. However, they offer a way to get started. In time, the money may grow faster than the work does, as solar cooking becomes better known and popular in your area. The experience in working with a lot of users of solar cookers will be helpful for you, and by achieving success in this way you make your project more attractive to those who might want to donate or to foundations that might consider giving you grants.
Another way of making money with solar cookers is to use them to cook. For example, in places where baked goods such as rolls, small cakes or small loaves of bread are rare and appreciated treats, people have made money by using their solar cookers to bake. Because the fuel is free, these people can sell baked goods at a profit. The people who buy may be poor, but the roll or cake can be sold in small pieces that make an affordable treat for people.
Both you and the buyers of the baked goods would gain. The buyers gain a nice thing to eat at a price that is hard to find without solar cooking. Your project earns a small profit.
I have also heard of people using solar cookers to make jams and jellies or to make soy milk, then selling these products at a profit. In places where cooking fuel is very expensive, people are cutting down on the amount of beans and pulses they eat, because beans and pulses take longer to cook and require more fuel. Therefore, people may be happy to go to a buy a bowl of hot, cooked beans in the late afternoon. So, perhaps a small solar cooker business specializing in selling hot, cooked beans could make a small profit. There are probably other products that can be made cheaply in a solar cooker that people in your area would pay for.
The search for grant money
I've saved "Grants" for the last of this 3 part series, because getting grants is probably the hardest way to get funds, it takes a lot of time, and it requires that your organization already be fairly strong and stable.
Most grant applications in the world are rejected. Only one in every ten grant applications are accepted. Most grant dollars go to groups that have already received some grant dollars before. It is rare for an organization to be able to get even half of its budget by grants. Therefore, even with grants, organizations must rely on other sources of support as well. Having other sources of support also helps you to convince grant givers that you are worthy of their support.
Here are some basic comments about how to get grants from "Grantmakers Without Borders":
Few foundations will respond to grant requests made by e-mail.
Before seeking a foundation grant, first, look over the foundation's website, grantmaking guidelines, and other related materials to see if there is a fit between the foundation's grantmaking priorities and your programs.
If there is a good match, then follow the proposal submission instructions outlined by the foundation in their grantmaking guidelines.
Typically, you will first submit a "letter of inquiry," which is a short document describing the nature of your work and the purpose of the grant request.
"Funders on Line" has studied hundreds of foundations to see what types of information is usually required in writing a grant proposal. See their full guide here: Project Proposal Basics. Here is a shorter summary of their report about what is usually needed:
Cover Letter
The cover letter is the first document the funder will read and it is often the basis for either consideration or rejection. The cover letter should state the type of support requested, the goals of the project and how it fits into the guidelines of the funder, the total budget and the names of other funders contributing to the project, if available.
Other elements often required are:
Title Page and Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Needs Statement The needs statement should be a concise, yet convincing overview of the needs your organisation wants to address with the project
Goals & Objectives Goals represent concepts or ideal situations that are not necessarily measurable. Objectives are specific, tangible and measurable outcomes that should be achieved within a specified period of time.
Methodology & Timetable How & when are the project's objectives going to be achieved? By whom? Be very clear, specific and realistic -with regard to the methods, the timetable and the human resources – as this will help convince the reader of your expertise and credibility.
Evaluation How are you going to measure your success or failure in reaching the stated objectives? In this section, you should provide an outline of the instruments that will be used for the evaluation, define who will conduct the evaluation and when they will conduct it, and state how the reporting will be done.
Budget Summary
Detailed Budget
Future Funding Plans This section should describe the financial resources you will need to continue the project, once the support requested has ended, and how your organisation will obtain these resources.
You should be careful that you don't give the funder material to read that the funder says in their guidelines they don't want to receive.)
Grant seeking
There are many different people and organizations that give grants—each with their own opinions about what is important. In general, the purpose of giving grants is to put money to good use to create real benefits. Therefore, in general, your job is to convince the grant giver that giving a grant to your project will be very likely to produce good results that they can measure and evaluate and brag about to their supporters.
For the people deciding who gets grants, it would be easiest and safest to give grants to organizations that they already know and trust for projects that are similar to projects that have already succeeded.
This makes it difficult for us in the solar cooking field. First, solar cooking groups are not well known among grant-giving organizations. Second, there have not been a lot of solar cooker projects that have already succeeded, so there is no clear, proven formula for success—although the world solar cooking movement is gaining experience in order to find formulas for success.
So, one of your tasks is to convince the grant giver that solar cooking is a good idea. You will have to explain in a clear manner the main reasons why you think it is a good idea and give some evidence to support your belief.
You also have to convince the grantor that your plan to spread solar cooking is a good plan. You will have to explain carefully what your plan is and why it will work. To do this, you probably will have to have gained a lot of practical experience in solar cooking before you write your first grant proposal. That's why you may want to start with the other funding ideas suggested in the two other funding essays in this series--so you get the experience you need to make a good plan and to be able to explain—based on your experience—why the plan will work.
The third main task is to convince the grant-giver that your organization is the right one to do the project--that you have the skills to do it, the stability to carry through the project to completion, and the honesty to fulfill the agreements you make when you apply for the grant.
Most organizations take several years, at least, to grow to the point where they have the skills, stability and reputation necessary to get even a small grant.
Convincing a grant giver that your organization is worthy of a grant can be greatly affected by your reputation. If you have done several small projects through funds raised locally, that could help convince a grantor that you would be able to do even more good things with more money. But that may not be enough.
It is also good to find other organizations in your area that have connections with grantors. If an organization known to a grant giver recommends you, that will help you get a grant. Even if the grant giver does not know the other organizations, if you get several well-respected local groups or prominent people to endorse your grant, that may help convince the grant giver that you are worthy of their support, too.
Other resources.
The best resources are those close to you—people who can give you specific advice based on your local situation. In the first part of this 3 part series on funding, I talked about the importance of finding people who can help you. Look in many of the same places for people who can help you learn about planning grants, writing grants and finding grant-givers. Some of those places may be colleges, universities, technical schools, large or international non-governmental organizations operating in your area, scientific or research institutes, churches, government offices and eco-tourism facilities. Ask about other organizations in your area that have received grants, and then talk to the grants experts at that organization for advice on how you can get grants.
Many sources of advice, as well as lists of foundations, are available on the Internet. If you do not have access to the Internet, it would be useful to find someone in your area, or perhaps a relative, who does have access to the Internet, and get that person to help you for a few hours.
Below are some internet resources. In some cases, I also give information on how to contact these organization by regular mail (postal service) to ask for advice, help, or literature about fundraising.
- August 2013: One Earth Designs successfully concluded its Kickstarter campaign to promote the SolSource solar cooker, raising a total of $142,413 out of a goal of $43,000 (331% of the goal) and meeting three stretch goals, with 507 people backing the project. Delivery of the cookers will happen in October 2013. Visit the SolSource Kickstarter page.
Kiva matches individuals in poor countries with individuals in richer countries who are willing to loan them money.
- Web site: http://kiva.org
- List of Kiva's field partners in each country: https://www.kiva.org/about/where-kiva-works
GEF Small Grants Programme
The Resource Alliance
It is the publisher of The Worldwide Grantmakers Handbook. It describes itself as: "…an international network working to build the fundraising and resource mobilization capacity of the voluntary sector, non-governmental and community based organizations. We are passionate in our commitment to help organizations to effectively mobilize support for their causes. We achieve this through training, knowledge sharing and networking activities in Africa, Asia, Pacific, Europe, South Asia and Latin America. The Resource Alliance does not operate as a donor agency and therefore cannot address individual requests for delegate sponsorship." Contact Information: internet site: http://www.resource-alliance.org/ Head Office—London 295 Kennington Road London SE11 4QE United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 207 587 0287 Fax: +44 (0) 207 582 4335
General inquiries by email: email@example.com
East & Southern Africa Regional Office Ms. Wangui Kibe, Programme Officer Resource Alliance Representative P.O. Box 4932 Nairobi 00200 Kenya Tel: 254-20 4450656 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Charities Aid Foundation(CAF)
This is a little bit about what they say about themselves:
"Charities use a wealth of exciting materials and media to build relationships with their audiences and to raise the funds needed for their work. Today, those methods include electronic media from CDs to email and the Internet. CAF has been working since 1995 to help charities to understand and seize the opportunities that new media can present in a manner which complements their more traditional fundraising.
CAF's own fundraising schemes bring charities and donors together in order to encourage regular communication and committed financial support using tax-effective giving. In the UK, over 200,000 employees help charities through their payroll, with the first international pilot commencing this year in India. On the Internet, literally thousands of charities can now benefit from a secure online gift.
So how can we help?
- You can fundraise in print and online easily and effectively
- You can access a wide range of donors offering regular gifts at a high conversion
- You can build lasting relationships with individuals and access corporate networking
CAF has been helping to increase the financial health of charities across the world for over 75 years. By combining an intimate knowledge of the voluntary sector with extensive financial expertise, CAF provides an unusually diverse range of services. Today we manage more than UK £1.4 billion on behalf of charities in over 20 countries. Whether you are a large international non-governmental organisation or a local community project, CAF can help you give your voluntary income a significant boost." Contact Info: Internet: http://www.cafonline.org/ Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4TA Tel +44 (0)1732 520000 Fax +44 (0)1732 520001 Email: email@example.com
Grantmakers Without Borders
PO Box 18182
Boston, MA 02118 USA
Phone 617.794.2253 Fax 617.266.0497 http://www.internationaldonors.org/index.htm
This is a useful internet site, especially the "Advice for Grantseekers" page.
The Grantsmanship Center
Internet page: http://www.tgci.com/
Sells "how to get grant" booklets for about $3 to $4. On website, lists of foundations that fund projects internationally.
Address: The Grantsmanship Center, P.O. Box 17220, Los Angeles, CA 90017 USA Telephone: 213-482-9860
Funders Online
Funders Online operates from the European Foundation Centre: 51 rue de la Concorde B-1050 Brussels tel.: +32.2.512.8938 fax: +32.2.512.3265 e-mail: email@example.com http://www.fundersonline.org (English version) It has many on-line resources—advice as well as information sources about where to find grants.
The Foundation Center
Internet site: http://fdncenter.org/ The Foundation Center 79 Fifth Avenue/16th Street New York, NY 10003-3076 Tel: (212) 620-4230 or (800) 424-9836 Fax: (212) 807-3677
Many on-line resources. Publishes directories of foundations.
Internet site: http://www.wings-cf.org
WINGS has contact information for foundation centers in many countries.
European Grants Index
Published by European Foundation Center this index lists over 1,750 grants and programmes supported by 78 foundations and corporate funders active in Europe. Grant listings are arranged alphabetically by funder, and indexes are provided by funder country and recipient country, as well as by grant subject focus, population focus, geographic focus and type of support awarded. Also includes a statistical analysis of this data. Price: 45 ECU
Internet site for European Foundation Center: http://www.efc.be/
Brussels office: European Foundation Centre 51 rue de la Concorde Brussels Belgium tel.: +32.2.512.8938 fax: +32.2.512.3265 e-mail: efc
The Global Work-Ethic Fund
1521-16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036 USA
Tel 202-232-1600 Fax 202-318-0876 Email: mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com Internet site: http://globalfund.org
What they say they do:
"Vibrant and dedicated civil societies are strengthening democracy in developing and transition countries. But, to prosper in the long run, civil society--including what the US calls non-profits, NGOs, etc.--needs a huge increase in local financial contributions. There are two sides to the coin of solidarity. On the one hand, potential donors should rise to a new level of generosity, collaborating with the many groups trying to improve their societies. In most of these countries, people have traditionally channeled their generosity to their family and business circles. On the other hand, civil society organizations need to show that they are worthy of support. In particular, they need to be thoughtful and professional in the way they raise funds. The Global Work-Ethic Fund specializes in this aspect of solidarity, by offering training on how to diversify sources of income--which leads to financial self-sufficiency--and by offering hands-on advisory services for financial campaigns and projects. Promoting solidarity within a country, and professionalizing fund development within an organization, we strengthen the work-ethic, the sense that individuals and groups should look first to themselves to solve their own problems, doing their jobs with attention to detail, persistence, and ambition. The work-ethic rests on two points of honor:
- Self-sufficiency: people try to solve their own problems.
- Solidarity: everyone pitches in to solve common problems and help the needy."
They publish and sell:
Más Dinero Para Su Causa
Más Dinero Para Su Causa (More Money For Your Cause) is a book on fundraising and philanthropy in Spanish particularly for the Latin American CSO. Written by Daniel Kelley, a veteran international fund raiser, the book opens the door to contributions from individuals, companies, foundations and governments. This 187 page handbook guides civil society organizations along the path to local and international money while addressing the "whys" and the "hows" of the business: planning a fund raising strategy, working with an effective Board of Directors, organizing campaigns, writing proposals and budgets, and thinking like your donors as you do so.
Kelley presents a sound understanding of Latin American realities, a business-like point of view, a logical presentation, clear prose, incisive commentaries and a sense of humor. A sequel to the 1995 best-selling book, Dinero Para Su Causa, Más Dinero is twice as big as its predecessor, and has up to date information on corporate sponsorships and the Internet.
US National Council for Science
Supporters and Funders of the US National Council for Science and the Environment may include some foundations that would be of interest to you. Visit their website and look at the list of their supporters and funders: www.ncseonline.org
Both Ends
An organization in the Netherlands called Both Ends has an internet site which describes the organization as being helpful to development groups from the developing countries. Their internet address is www.bothends.org. At this site, if you click on "Services and Resources" you will see options that relate to fundraising. Both Ends' internet site also indicates that it can provide advice to groups through other channels besides their internet page. Their contact information is:
Both Ends
Keizersgracht 45
1018 VC Amsterdam
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Telephone: 31-20-623 0823
Fax: 31-20-620-8049
They offer some "one to one" assistance. In their own words:
"Environmental organizations in the South and CEE countries may apply for individual assistance in:
- project formulation, fund-raising and information gathering
- support in lobbying and campaigning
Eligble are environment NGOs?CBOs and networks in the South and CEE countries working on initiatives which:
- are strategically important
- show a clear vision on sustainable development
- are embedded in a local agenda"
They also offer fact sheets on various environmental issues and contacts and on fundraising.
Rotary International
Rotary International has provided funds to a few solar cooker projects. To proceed with this plan, you have to find a Rotary Club in your area that is interested in supporting a solar cooker project. I would say that you need to make sure that the Rotary Club is VERY INTERESTED and agrees with you about the basic approaches to carrying out the project. It must be very interested, because to get grants from Rotary International, your local Rotary Club will have to do a lot of work and may have to provide some funds itself. If you find a Rotary Club that is willing to work on this, they should contact Rotary International to find out the procedure for getting grants. Usually, Rotary International prefers to fund projects where a Rotary Club in a developing country is also getting funds from a Rotary Club or District in a wealthy country.
Be prepared to wait 2 to 3 years for the money to actually arrive.
Other international service clubs, such as Lions International or Kiwanis International may also have ways of helping. If you know of local chapters of these groups in your area, you could ask them if they know of ways to help you get funding.
Fondation Ensemble
Fondation Ensemble is interested in many of the issues that solar cooking addresses. Their focus appears to be a good match for many solar cooker groups. One difficult part of Fondation Ensemble's guidelines may be that the country where the project will be implemented must be relatively free of corruption. They are involved in these countries: Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Chile, China, France, India, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marocco, Peru, Romania, Senegal, and Ukraine. Contact info: http://www.fondationensemble.org/index.php/en - firstname.lastname@example.com
Audio and video
- January 2017:
July 2014:
- January 2017: Diaspora Financing, Developing a Strong Solar Cooking Industry in the Region - Ignacio R. Smith and Sherry McMillan
External links
See also
- Business development
- Microcredit
- The Clean Development Mechanism offers a way for solar cooking projects to be paid for by carbon credit offsets.
- Solar restaurants and bakeries
- Solar food processing


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LIVE! | Jetblack & Crashdiet
by Emma Jenkins
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April 26, 2013 at Rock City in Nottingham, U.K.
JettBlack kicked off its co-headlining set to thunderous applause. These guys have built a loyal following, and, after having watched their set, I can see why. The band was tight. JettBlack took to the stage at 8:02 p.m., and the place went mental. Kicking off with "Two Hot Girls," the chorus of " … save me, save me …" instantly echoed out around the room. It was an excellent start. The band continued with "Less Torque, More Thrust" and kept the pace going all the way through to the raucous "Get your hands dirty." The crowd loved it, lapping up every second. JettBlack utilized all its 50 minutes with a highly charged performance, encouraging the audience to participate with a lot of air-punching and some very robust singing. The set was rounded off with "Mother Fucker," before the final crescendo of "Raining Rock," and, at that point, it most certainly was.
Co-headliners CrashDiet obviously was going to have a difficult gig, given the fact that the band's manager, Michael Sunden, tragically died just a week ago at the same venue in which the band had played. The band would have liked to cancel this gig, but, as very succinctly put by singer Simon Cruz, "… let this night continue in the name of Rock 'n' Roll … let this be a celebration of Michael and not be a sad evening."
So the set began with the powerful "Breakin' the Chains." In the beginning, they seemed a little disconnected, which was understandable. But CrashDiet soon pulled it together. By the time the band performed "Miracle," everybody was singing along. The pace kept up with "California" but seemed to wander off the tracks with "Garden of Babylon." Maybe it was slightly too instrumental and musically indulgent for my personal tastes. The energy level of the crowd did seem to dip a little at this point; however, the band turned this around as soon as CrashDiet launched into "Riot in Everyone," followed by "Generation Wild."
The band was in full swing, and, at this point, Simon Cruz, with his bright-blue Mohawk, climbed up the speaker stack and dove into the crowd. It was thrilling for most but heart stopping for others. The band was in a powerful flow at this point, and the audience was in the palm of the band's hand. There was nothing that they couldn't do. Unfortunately, the set had to come to an end, and what an end it was; CrashDiet played the foot-stomping, air-punching, audience-jumping "Cocaine Cowboys." Those boys did well. In fact, they did more than well; they were excellent, and, in spirit, Michael Sunden would have been foot stomping, air punching and jumping along with the rest of the audience.
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Olympians for hope
As we approach the opening ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia on Friday, we take a look back at the summer games of 2012 in London, and our friend and supporter Lopez Lomong who competed in the Men's 5,000 Meter.
This photo series and video show Lomong running this past summer with Team World Vision in the Hood to Coast relay event in Oregon.
In 2012, we told the story of Lopez Lomong, a long-distance runner who competed with Team USA in London, and carried the flag for the U.S. team in Beijing. Every Olympic athlete has an amazing journey that brings them to the games, but Lomong's is even more so … born in South Sudan, he was abducted by rebels at the age of 6.
Our blog series from 2012 shared Lopez Lomong's journey – from life as a lost boy in Sudan, to finding a new home in America, to his rise as an Olympic athlete.
But his journey is far from over.
As a World Vision supporter, Lomong runs with Team World Vision, raising money for clean water in Africa. And this past summer, he ran with our relay team in Hood to Coast – a 12-person, 195-mile relay race from the top of Mount Hood in Oregon to the Pacific Ocean – raising money for hope in South Sudan.
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TALIP will primarily consist of research and survey papers and shorter concise research papers. The latter will provide a quick means for dissemination of information related to leading edge research in Asian language information processing, while the former is meant for publication of substantial research findings. Papers describing reproducible techniques and theory for systems and applications will also be considered. However, descriptions of specific products in the field with no proof of reproducibility will not be accepted. TALIP will cover issues in NLP for Asian languages broadly. Aspects including theory, systems design, evaluation, and applications in the fields will be covered. Emphasis will be placed on the originality and the "re-use" value of theory, technology, and applications in the field.
A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage published on behalf of the American Dialect Society. American Speech has been one of the foremost publications in its field since its founding in 1925. The journal is concerned principally with the English language in the Western Hemisphere, although articles dealing with English in other parts of the world, the influence of other languages by or on English, and linguistic theory are also published. The journal is not committed to any particular theoretical framework, and issues often contain contributions that appeal to a readership wider than the linguistic studies community. Regular features include a book review section and a "Miscellany" section devoted to brief essays and notes.
Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the native peoples of the Americas. Embracing the field of language and culture broadly defined, the editors welcome articles and research reports addressing cultural, historical, and philological aspects of linguistic study, including analyses of texts and discourse; studies of semantic systems and cultural classifications; onomastic studies; ethnohistorical papers that draw significantly on linguistic data; studies of linguistic prehistory and genetic classification, both methodological and substantive; discussions and interpretations of archival material; edited historical documents; and contributions to the history of the field. Anthropological Linguistics (ISSN 0003-5483) (USPS 026980) is published quarterly by the American Indian Studies Research Institute and the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
Anthropos is one of the ten largest and most important journals in the world devoted to Cultural Anthropology. Its international character and its pluralistic approach have always been distinguishing marks of the journal. Discussions on the theory and method of Cultural Anthropology find their place in the journal as well as extensive ethnographic descriptions and other documentation. The different specialities in Anthropology are also well represented (Anthropology of Religion, Economic and Social Anthropology, Culture History, Linguistics, etc.). All else being equal, preference is given to articles that deal, in however broad a sense, with religious materials. Every issue has about 700 pages to which roughly 125 authors typically contributed. Each issue of Anthropos has a distribution of 900 copies to 60 countries. Anthropos is published twice a year totalling ca. 700 pages. Subscription rate per year: sfr 190,-/ €125 (postage not included)
Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real-world problems. The journal is keen to help make connections between fields, theories, research methods, and scholarly discourses, and welcomes contributions which critically reflect on current practices in applied linguistic research. It promotes scholarly and scientific discussion of issues that unite or divide scholars in applied linguistics. It is less interested in the ad hoc solution of particular problems and more interested in the handling of problems in a principled way by reference to theoretical studies. Applied linguistics is viewed not only as the relation between theory and practice, but also as the study of language and language-related problems in specific situations in which people use and learn languages. Within this framework the journal welcomes contributions in such areas of current enquiry as: bilingualism and multilingualism; computer-mediated communication; conversation analysis; deaf linguistics; discourse analysis and pragmatics; corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; first and additional language learning, teaching, and use; forensic linguistics; language assessment; language planning and policies; language for special purposes; literacies; multimodal communication; rhetoric and stylistics; and translation. The journal welcomes both reports of original research and conceptual articles.
The Canadian Modern Language Review publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of language learning and teaching -- linguistics, language skills, curriculum, program design, psychology, methodology -- making this a great tool for teachers, researchers, professors and policy makers who deal with the realities of second language learning. Article topics range from ESL, to French immersion, to international languages, to native languages. The journal's quarterly issues include reviews of relevant books and software, along with research-based articles dealing with second language teaching in the "Focus on the Classroom" section.
Computational Linguistics is the only publication devoted exclusively to the design and analysis of natural language processing systems. From this unique quarterly, university and industry linguists, computational linguists, artificial intelligence (AI) investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and philosophers get information about computational aspects of research on language, linguistics, and the psychology of language processing and performance. Computational Linguistics is the official journal of The Association for Computational Linguistics.
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is an intercontinental and interdisciplinary journal which leads the field in its dedication to all matters associated with the use of computers in language learning (L1 and L2), teaching and testing. It provides a forum to discuss the discoveries in the field and to exchange experience and information about existing techniques. The scope of the journal is intentionally wide-ranging and embraces a multitude of disciplines. Submitted articles may focus on CALL and: Research Methodologies; Language Learning and Teaching Methods; Language Testing Systems and Models; The Four Skills; SLA; HCI; Language Courseware Design; Language Courseware Development; Curriculum Integration; Evaluation; Teacher Training; Intelligent Tutoring; New Technologies; The Sociocultural Context; and Learning Management Systems.
Discourse Studies is a multidisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk. Publishing outstanding work on the structures and strategies of written and spoken discourse, special attention is given to cross-disciplinary studies of text and talk in linguistics, anthropology, ethnomethodology, cognitive and social psychology, communication studies and law.
ELT Journal is a quarterly publication for all those involved in the field of teaching English as a second or foreign language. The journal links the everyday concerns of practitioners with insights gained from related academic disciplines such as applied linguistics, education, psychology, and sociology. ELT Journal provides a medium for informed discussion of the principles and practice which determine the ways in which the English language is taught and learnt around the world. It is also a forum for the exchange of information among members of the profession worldwide.
English Education is the official journal of the Conference On English Education of the National Council of Teachers of English. The Conference on English Education (CEE) is an organization concerned with the process of educating teachers of English and language arts. That education involves both the preservice and the inservice development of teachers. Recognizing the reciprocity of teaching and learning, the CEE addresses pertinent theory and research as they inform curriculum, methodology, and certification. Included in the constituency of the CEE are college and university teacher-educators; inservice leaders and consultants; supervisors at local, district, regional, and state levels; mentor teachers; teacher consultants curriculum coordinators and developers; teacher-researchers; and classroom teachers who work with student teachers. Published quarterly, English Education contains articles that focus on issues related to the nature of the discipline, especially as it spans all levels of instruction, and the education and development of teachers of English at all levels
English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools. EJ presents information on the teaching of writing and reading, literature, and language. Each issue examines the relationship of theory and research to classroom practice and reviews current materials of interest to English teachers, including books and electronic media. Published bimonthly, September, November, January, March, May, and July by the National Council of Teachers of English (NTCE).
English Quarterly, the official refereed journal of the CCTELA, publishes original contributions on all facets of English language arts at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. The Editor welcomes a wide range of genres: debates, interviews, narrative explorations, poetry, point and counterpoint, research investigations, position papers, reviews, works-in-progress, and so on. The Editor especially welcomes papers from classroom practitioners as well as students, education teacher candidates, along with college and university instructors. Furthermore, the Editor is looking for material that is written in a lively accessible style and which links teaching or learning with reflection on that practice.
Essential Teacher is a magazine for language teachers and administrators in varied ESL and EFL workplaces, including pre-K-12, 2- and 4-year institutions of higher learning, and adult education. Each of these arenas has teachers with varied experience and expertise, making for a broad and diverse readership. Essential Teacher also offers guidance to mainstream teachers who work with students for whom English is an additional language. Essential Teacher is a publication of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.).
Foreign Language Annals (FLA) is the official journal of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). The first volume of FLA was published in 1967. FLA is a refereed journal published four times per year. There are approximately 10 articles per issue. Dedicated to the advancement of language teaching and learning, the journal seeks to serve the professional interests of classroom instructors, researchers, and administrators concerned with the learning and teaching of languages at all levels of instruction. The journal welcomes submissions of the highest quality that report empirical or theoretical research on language learning or teaching, that describe innovative and successful practice and methods, and/or that are relevant to the concerns and issues of the profession. All submissions must be written in English and must be previously unpublished. Foreign Language Annals focuses primarily on language education for languages other than English. The journal welcomes manuscripts on a wide variety of topics including cross-disciplinary submissions that provide clear implications for teaching, learning, and/or research in the language field. Authors must be members of ACTFL. FLA accepts from 10% to 20% of manuscripts submitted for publication. More than 300 manuscripts are submitted to FLA per year.
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching is devoted to problems of general and applied linguistics in their various forms. The present Editors wish to maintain IRAL's long-term interest in areas of research which concern first- and second-language acquisition (including sign language and gestural systems). We do not believe in narrow specialization, but envisage a journal whose contributions will continue to speak to a wide audience of scholars, practitioners and students. We therefore welcome contributions on naturalistic and instructed language learning, language loss, bilingualism, language contact, pidgins and creoles, language for specific purposes, language technology, mother-tongue education, terminology and translation. It is our intention that one issue per year will be thematically organized. Whatever the topic, our first criterion for selection is that papers should be theoretically grounded and based on careful research and method. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope.
- Journal of English Linguistics
- Journal of Language and Social Psychology
- Journal of Literary Research
- Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
The Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages is designed to be part of an international effort to bring together scholarly treatments of all aspects of pidginization and creolization. Special emphasis is laid on the presentation of the results of current research in theory and description of pidgin and creole languages, and application of this knowledge to language planning, education, and social reform in creole-speaking societies.
The Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) is published bimonthly (February, April, June, August, October, and December) and pertains broadly to studies of the processes and disorders of hearing, language, and speech and to the diagnosis and treatment of such disorders. Articles may take any of the following forms: reports of original research, including single-study experiments; theoretical, tutorial, or review pieces; research notes; and letters to the editor. Prior to 1991, ASHA published the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research and the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders. These titles were merged in 1991 under the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research title. Later, the word Language was added to more accurately reflect the areas of research in the discipline
- Journal of Technical Writing & Communication
- Language
LANGUAGE is published quarterly by the Linguistic Society of America. Subscription to LANGUAGE is a benefit solely available to members of the LSA. Subscriptions are not sold without membership. LANGUAGE consists of major articles and shorter reports of original research, as well as review articles and book reviews. Journal articles cover all areas of the field and from all theoretical frameworks. LANGUAGE is viewed as a prestigious publication and receives far more submissions than it can possibly publish.
The research published in this journal makes a clear contribution to linguistic theory by increasing our understanding of how language is acquired. The journal focuses on the acquisition of syntax, semantics, phonology and morphology, and considers theoretical, experimental and computational perspectives. Coverage includes solutions to the logical problem of language acquisition, as it arises for particular grammatical proposals; discussion of acquisition data relevant to current linguistic questions; and perspectives derived from theory-driven studies of second language acquisition, language-impaired speakers, and other domains of cognition. Audience: Researchers and professionals in linguistics and psycholinguistics, and developmentalists.
Language & Education provides a forum for the discussion of recent topics and issues in the language disciplines which have an immediate bearing upon thought and practice in education. Articles draw from their subject matter important and well-communicated implications for one or more of the following: curriculum, pedagogy or evaluation in education. The task of the Journal is to encourage language specialists and language in education researchers to organise and present their material in such a way as to highlight its educational implications, thereby influencing educational theorists and practitioners and therefore educational outcomes for individual children. Articles are welcomed concerning all aspects of mother tongue and second language education. The remit of Language in Education, however, does not extend to modern foreign language teaching or English as a foreign language.
Language and Speech provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of the production, perception, processing, learning, use, and disorders of speech and language. The journal accepts reports of original research in all these areas. Interdisciplinary submissions are encouraged. Corpus-based, experimental, and observational research bringing spoken or written language within the domain of linguistic, psychological, or computational models are particularly welcome. Purely clinical, linguistic, philosophical, or technological offerings should be sent elsewhere. The journal may commission book reviews, theoretically motivated literature reviews, conference reports, and brief tutorial introductions to new areas of research. Language and Speech is published quarterly (March, June, September, and December), one volume per annum. Papers are published in English only.
- Language Arts
- The Language Educator
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is proud to offer The Language Educator, the latest publication for ACTFL members that serves educators of all languages at all levels as a single, comprehensive source of news and information. As the professional association serving this broad education community, ACTFL has the breadth of resources necessary to assure complete and timely coverage. This is the only publication devoted exclusively to offering comprehensive coverage of foreign language teaching and administration. From the newest teachers in the field to those with years of experience, The Language Educator has quickly become recognized as the most knowledgeable resource focusing on their careers and their profession. The magazine is published in January, February, April, August, October and November. Of course, all ACTFL members also will continue to enjoy receiving the quarterly Foreign Language Annals.
Language Resources and Evaluation is the first publication devoted to the acquisition, creation, annotation, and use of language resources, together with methods for evaluation of resources, technologies, and applications. Language resources include language data and descriptions in machine readable form used to assist and augment language processing applications, such as written or spoken corpora and lexica, multimodal resources, grammars, terminology or domain specific databases and dictionaries, ontologies, multimedia databases, etc., as well as basic software tools for their acquisition, preparation, annotation, management, customization, and use. Evaluation of language resources concerns assessing the state-of-the-art for a given technology, comparing different approaches to a given problem, assessing the availability of resources and technologies for a given application, benchmarking, and assessing system usability and user satisfaction.
- Language Teaching: Surveys & Studies
- Language Testing
- Linguistic Inquiry
- META (Translator's Journal)
- Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
- Oceanic Linguistics
- Perspectives: Studies in Translatology
- PROBVS (International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics)
- Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal
- Reading and Writing Quarterly
- Reading Psychology: An International Journal
- Reading Research Quarterly
- Reading Teacher
- Research on Language and Social Interaction
- Russian Language Journal
- Russian Linguistics
- Scientific Studies of Reading
- Second Language Research
- Semiotica
- TESOL Quarterly (Journal of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.)
- TARGET (International Journal of Translation Studies)
- TEXT: The Journal of Computer Text Processing
- Visible Language
Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
- ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
- ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing
- Computational Linguistics
- Computer Speech & Language
- Corpora
- Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
- International Journal of Translation
- Journal of Logic, Language and Information
- Language Resources and Evaluation
- Linguistic Issues in Language Technology
- Machine Translation
- Natural Language Engineering
- Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics
- Research on Language and Computation
- Speech Communication


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