David Ekstrom Award-winning, conservation-minded landowners will soon be sharing their knowledge by serving as mentors for historically underserved farmers and ranchers. A $250,000 Conservation Collaboration Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will fund Sand County Foundation’s two-year pilot project to promote conservation outreach by its award recipients. “Leopold Conservation Award recipients are ambassadors who regularly discuss the importance of agricultural conservation with their peers and the general public. This project will empower our network of award recipients to share a range of knowledge, from how to apply for an NRCS conservation program to technical assistance, with an important audience,” says Heidi Peterson, Sand County Foundation’s vice president of agricultural research and conservation.
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Sharing lessons learned by UK enterprises has helped Indonesian women start and develop their own social and creative enterprises including a co-operative bakery, therapy for survivors of domestic violence and orchid farming.
Women make up half of Indonesia’s population of around 260m people, but account for less than half the country’s workforce. Economic and social development requires more female employment and female entrepreneurship. A programme called Perempuan Maju Dengan Digital, which can be translated as ‘Women Advance in Digital’, aims to support women to set up and run their own businesses. In fact, judging by the number of women who have attended workshops in six key cities, taken part in webinars and engaged with social media, more than 1,000 of them have begun an online journey that will help establish new or strengthen existing female-led social and creative enterprises. As part of the process, ten diverse enterprises, ranging from eco-t
The grants and deadlines include the following:
⢠Action Grant: up to $3,000. Offered on a rolling basis, with applications due the last day of each month. Supports a broad array of projects that help people learn new information, consider different perspectives, share ideas and understand one another better.
⢠Historic Preservation Education Grant, in partnership with Indiana Landmarks: up to $2,500. Applications due Feb. 28 (round 1) and Sept. 30 (round 2). Supports programs that educate the community about historic places and properties â and particularly about the need to preserve and protect them.
⢠INcommon Grant, in partnership with the Central Indiana Community Foundation: up to $5,000. Applications due Feb. 28 (round 1) and Aug. 31 (round 2). Supports programs that use humanities ideas, readings and scholars to spark in-depth thinking and conversation around the persistent social, economic, cultural and racial issues that divide communities.
Staff Report Tuesday, January 19, 2021 5:38 PM INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Humanities will offer more than $215,000 in grants in 2021, continuing to provide opportunities for smaller rapid-response funding and larger grants that support innovative and collaborative public humanities programs.
The statewide nonprofit has a webinar online about its offerings and anticipates holding in-person grant workshops later in the year around the state to provide additional information about the grant guidelines and application instructions.
The slate of grants and deadlines include: Action Grant, up to $3,000, offered on a rolling basis, with applications due the last day of each month, supports a broad array of projects that help people learn new information, consider different perspectives, share ideas and understand one another better; Historic Preservation Education Grant, in partnership with Indiana Landmarks, up to $2,500, applications due Feb. 28 (round 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology The discovery can help to cure bacterial infections without inducing resistance or causing harm to good bacteria. SMART AMR researchers Boon Chong Goh (left) and Linh Chi Dam evaluate bacterial cells after treatment with lysins. Photo courtesy of SMART.
Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have developed a method to produce customizable engineered lysins that can be used to selectively kill bacteria of interest while leaving others unharmed. The discovery presents a promising alternative to antibiotics for treating existing drug-resistant bacteria and bacterial infections without the risk of causing resistance.