[IAEP] fund raising opportunity

[Eduardo H. Silva]

Just wondering, what about kickstarter.com? It has recently reached 3
million dollars for the developing of a particularly niche style of
game (point and click adventure). I wonder if people would give the
same support for the development of a sugar 1.0.

Eduardo

No dia 16 de Março de 2012 13:43, Christoph Derndorfer
<e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> escreveu:
> Similarly I just stumbled across the "UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa
> Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education" which might also be of interest to
> some people/projects here:
> http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/databases/ict-in-education-database/item/article/icts-in-education-prize-call-for-nominations-6/
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Manusheel Gupta <manu at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> FYI. Might be useful.
>>
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>> The Motorola Mobility Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Motorola
>> Mobility, is accepting applications for the 2012 Empowerment Grants, a
>> funding program designed to help United States-based nonprofit organizations
>> develop mobile applications and use mobile technology that will help
>> transform and benefit the communities they serve. The program addresses four
>> areas of focus — education, health and wellness, community, and arts and
>> culture.
>> Successful applications must demonstrate the ways that digital, mobile,
>> and social technology can be used to further a nonprofit organization’s
>> mission. Examples include producing a crowd-sourcing site for community
>> resource mapping, creating a digital storytelling application that captures
>> oral histories of a community, developing a resource for social media use to
>> further engage volunteers, and using new ideas of “gamefication in
>> education” to engage students.
>>
>> The total amount of funding for the Empowerment Grants program is
>> $500,000; the program will fund approximately twenty grants. The average
>> grant size is $25,000.
>>
>> After March 1, organizations can
>> visit www.cybergrants.com/motorolamobility/empowermentgrants
>> to apply.
>> Visit the Motorola Mobility Foundation Web site for complete program
>> information and application
>> procedures: http://responsibility.motorola.com/index.php/society/emp
>>
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