FUNDING, CLIMATE: Google.org Geo Challenge Grants

Google.org believes maps are a powerful tool for non-profits of all kinds to communicate issues, understand needs, and create more effective implementation plans. Many of you have come to Google.org with compelling ways that maps can help you and your organisation increase impact, and Google.org wants to help you make your mapping ideas a reality. They’re offering a pilot program of Geo Challenge Grants to organisations working in areas related to their core initiatives, which are: Develop Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal, RechargeIT, Predict and Prevent, Inform and Empower to Improve Public Services, and Fuel the Growth of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.

Geo Challenge Grants proposals must be submitted by 22 December 2008. However, Google.org intends to have future submission rounds in the coming year, so if you miss this deadline, stay tuned for details of the next round.

Google.org aspires to use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges of our age: climate change, poverty and emerging disease.