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Lindsay Redifer, Rising Voices

Hi all.

I just got a message about a new set of small grants from USAID for anyone
working overseas. Check it out.

Grant info:

To help address the financial challenges facing a number of skilled
Americans interested in short-term international service, USAID's Office of
Volunteers for Prosperity <http://www.volunteersforprosperity.gov/>
and the Global
Giving Foundation <http://www.globalgiving.com/>, an Internet-based service
for international philanthropy, have teamed to create the Volunteers for
Prosperity Service Incentive Program or
VFPServ<http://www.globalgiving.com/cb/vfpserv>
.

As a public-private partnership, "VfPServ will provide matching grants
ranging from $500 to $1000 to volunteers who demonstrate the need for
support. The grant will be used to offset travel, insurance and local living
expenses associated with donating their time and talent overseas," said
Henrietta Fore, USAID administrator.

The program works by allowing Americans with at least 3 years of
professional experience to select an NGO from a list of partners (which
includes groups like United Planet <http://www.unitedplanet.org/>,
Cross-Cultural
Solutions <http://www.crossculturalsolutions.org/>, and Globe
Aware<http://www.globeaware.org/>,
and to which the VFPServe is regularly adding new organizations) , submit
their skills and interests, work out a project with their host NGO,
fundraise on their own behalf, and then get up to $1000 matched.

It's that simple and they're trying to give grants away as fast as they can.
(There's a sentence we wish we could write more often!)

Where would you go? How would you serve? Start the process today:
<http://www.globalgiving.com/cb/vfpserv>http://www.globalgi ving.com/
cb/vfpserv <http://www.globalgiving.com/cb/vfpserv>.
Best of luck,
Lindsay Redifer