Mois : avril 2008

building on partnerships to change the world

Linked with Colin Greer – USA.

Since 1954, The New World Foundation’s grant making has supported organizations working to strengthen and expand civil rights and the active participation of citizens in American democracy. Our commitment to this work remains firm. Our strategy is to support the building of social movements by supporting organizing, which builds a sustainable mass base of activists in viable organizations. We do this on a range of issues and among constituencies all over the country. Because we give long term support to projects we do not accept uninvited proposals. (Homepage).

Affirmative Action Statement;
grantmaking philosophy;
grant programs;
donor and foundation services;
Address: The New World Foundation, 666 West End Ave, New York NY 10025, Tel (212) 497-3470, Fax (212) 472-0508, e-mail;
Contact on the website.

Who we are: New World Foundation completed its fifth decade of grant making in the year 2004. As we continue our work, we expect the new millennium to be a time of continuing significant transition for America, a search for new directions, a battle between the past and future, between the politics of fear and hope. We see the strengths of progressive ideals and committed activists, who every day are inventing democracy and extending its boundaries.

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The Society is a nonprofit scientific, educational, and non-partisan organization with the following purposes:

• To establish a community of scholars and concerned individuals in universities, government, the communications media, and elsewhere, who have scientific and practical interests in examining the relationship between political and psychological phenomena;
• To facilitate communication of scientific research, theory, and practice across disciplinary, national, and ideological boundaries, both among members of the Society and those outside the Society;
• To increase the theoretical and practical significance of political psychology both inside and outside academia;
• To provide mutual support among members of their freedom to generate and disseminate their findings and ideas.

(Homepage).

Announcements;
Constitution:
Our 2008 Annual Meeting, July 9 to July 12, 2008;
Select Bibliographies in Political Psychology;
Colleges and Universities with Comprehensive Political Psychology Programs;
Colleges and Universities offering Political Psychology Courses;
Newsletter;
Archives;
Contact.

About: ISPP is an interdisciplinary organization representing all fields of inquiry concerned with exploring the relationships between political and psychological processes. Members include psychologists, political scientists, psychiatrists, historians, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, as well as journalists, government officials and others. The Society is also international, with members from all regions of the world: the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa … (full text).

Society for the peoples of the rainforest (aussi en français, auch auf deutsch).

Linked with Bruno Manser – Switzerland.

Bruno-Manser-Fund (BMF), association for the peoples of the rainforest, is an environmental and human rights organization with its headquarters in Basel / Switzerland. Its aim is to support the Penan people in Sarawak (East Malaysia) as well as other indigenous peoples in their struggle to protect tropical rainforests from destruction. Special emphasis is put on informing consumers in the west about tropical timber and illegal logging practices. (Mission).

Press releases on the disappearance of Bruno Manser;
Tong Tana, January 2004;
Activities in Switzerland;
Sarawak News;
Archive;
If you would like to have the newest journal, please call us (+41 61 261 94 73) or send us an email;
Newsletters (1993-2005);
links;
Address: Bruno-Manser-Fonds, Heuberg 25, CH-4051 Basel, Tel. +41 61 261 94 74, Fax +41 61 261 94 73;
Contact.

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Linked with Bruno Manser – Switzerland.

Supporting indigenous communities protecting ancestral rainforests and human rights. The Borneo Project Board covers our administration expenses, so 100% of your donations go to help urgent initiatives in Borneo … (Homepage).

(watch also on every page the left column for relevant links).

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crafts;
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Our Work (see also the links in the left column): Over the past 17 years we have coordinated trainings, equipment, volunteers and small grants for the following programs.

1) Indigenous Lands Protection:

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Ford Foundation’s Governance and Civil Society Unit – The 21st Century Trust is a Registered Charity, No. 295676

Linked with Michael Edwards – USA.

… In an age of “small” government and privatisation of increasing areas of state activity, NGOs need to understand and influence the private sector more than they have in the past. There are signs that some large firms are becoming increasingly aware of the need, in their own corporate interest, to take civic and environmental interests into account in their activities. There are some of course who take a more pessimistic view that the exploitative nature of free-market economics was by no means balanced by a general obligation to societies in the developing world. Both sides are agreed, however, that NGOs would do well to spend more time trying to understand and enlist the efforts of the private sector in support of their causes … (excerpt one of long text of « Global Civil Society »).

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Address: 21st Century Trust, 25 Museum Street, London WC1A 1JT, United Kingdom, Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 2099, Fax: +44 (0)870 056 7163;
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More a out the 21st Century Trust;

« Global Civil Society »: In recent years, NGOs have had a major impact on world politics by, for example:

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