Welcome to the Commonwealth Foundation’s update for Civil Society Organisations!
This is a pilot email, which I will be using for the next few weeks to keep you up to date with the Commonwealth Foundation and Commonwealth organisation activities. I am hoping to formalise this with a more professional (and colourful!) email in the coming months, perhaps linked with information for wider Commonwealth stakeholders, which will hopefully be circulated once a month.
In the meantime, please let me know if you have anything you would like me to circulate to other organisations. If you do not want to receive this email, please let me know.
Please note: This is information on external opportunities only. For further information, please click on the links below. Do not contact the Commonwealth Foundation of myself for queries on any of these issues, unless otherwise stated.
Events
- The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation: Cyber Security Forum
The CTO are holding a Cyber Security Forum in London on the 17th and 18th Junewhich is free for non-profit organisation delegates.
Key Topics:
The State under threat
Individuals and children under threat
Appropriate legal frameworks for Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity through International cooperation
Organisational structures for effective Cybersecurity
Technical responses to Cybersecurity
For more information on this event and their Connecting Rural Communities: Africa Forum 2010 to be held in Accra, Ghana on 17thth August, please see their website.
- The Commonwealth Countries League: Conference on Diabetes
The CCL are holding a one day conference on diabetes in London on the Friday 25thJune 2010 at 9.30am.
Learn about diabetes from professionals, enjoy a healthy eating demo, and enjoy lunch amongst other activities.
For more information, please see
- RCS: “Managing migration” a presentation by Andrew Metcalfe, 10.30am 2nd July at the Commonwealth Club
Friday 2nd July 2010, 10:30am – 12:00noon at the Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Ave, WC2N 5AP
The event is open to Royal Commonwealth Society Members and non-members and is FREE to attend. To register for this event go to www.thercs.org/events
- Commonwealth Countries League Education Fund: A Good Summer Read
A fundraising Bring and Buy book fair in aid of the CCLEF. Saturday 3rd July
35 Elsworthy Road, London NW3 3BT
- 2010 CAPAM Biennial Conference, Building a Common Future: Global Challenges, Local Responses
Malta, October 18, 2010
In partnership with the Government of Malta, CAPAM is pleased to announce the 2010 Biennial Conference, Building a Common Future: Global Challenges, Local Reponses, to be held October 18-20, 2010 in Malta.
We live in an interconnected world where social, political, economic and ecological changes are not restricted by national borders. In response to these global forces, Public Service reforms are also interconnected. While there are strong competitive forces between nations, there are also important reasons for collaboration, coordination and sharing. Our interconnected world has a significant impact, both positive and negative, on the discipline and practice of public administration at the local, national, regional, and international levels.
For more information, please see here: http://www.capam.org/events/conferences/
Funding Opportunities
International Planned Parenthood Federation: Call for proposals for Advocacy on Sexual Rights
The <acronym>Advocacy</acronym> Flexi Fund (AFF) provides small grants to support civil society organizations.
Apply now for up to $10,000 funding for <acronym>advocacy</acronym> work.
Call for applications for <acronym>advocacy</acronym>Declaration of Sexual Rights.
The deadline for applications is 30 June 2010.
Advocacy/Advocacy+flexi+fund.htm
Resources Available
I have just purchased a dozen books on Fundraising, Finance, Governance and other Organisation Development Issues, which I hope to make available to as many Commonwealth CSOs as possible. This includes copies of:
The Essential Management Set:
– Managing without Profit
– Voluntary but not Amateur
– The Pleasure and the Pain
– The General Starter Pack:
– Effective Fundraising
– Charitable Status
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The Essential Fundraising Set:
– Complete Fundraising Handbook
– Find the Funds
– The Porcupine Principle
– Writing Better Fundraising Applications
The Worldwide Fundraisers Handbook
And Finally:
Congratulations to the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association on their 40thBirthday!
Rose Longhurst
Grants Officer – CAs & Capacity Building
Commonwealth Foundation
+44 (0) 20 7747 6141