Maps Help Identify Grants
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Last Updated on Sunday, 14 September 2008 18:46 Written by Rosemarie McKeon
Foundation Center announces an interactive map for locating funding information from more than 92,000 foundations, 1.2 million grants, and 441,000+ 990s. You can search for donors who focus on tribal philanthropy as well as Native controlled philanthropic organizations including Native foundations, nonprofit organizations, tribal funds for technology and education, etc.
You can zoom from country to zip code through "the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers."
Free access to resources can be found at five regional library/learning centers and 340+ Cooperating Collections in its national network.
Professional memberships can be purchased as well, and include the geospatial searching capability.
Maps can be copied, downloaded as PDFs and its information exported for use in Excel.
Additionally, the Foundation Center offers several free locational and online courses in fundraising, proposal writing, establishing and running nonprofits, and grantseeking basics.
Free the Airways - Bring High Speed Wireless Internet to Indian Country
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Written by Rosemarie McKeon Monday, 18 August 2008 22:06
PLEASE consider signing or customizing a petition on Freetheairways.com to the FCC that you want open FREE access to the predominately unused radio waves of analogue TV (the static when you channel surf) so as to convert it to high speed Internet access to Indian country!
High Speed Internet has a profound impact on the growth of GIS products and access to online and mobile GIS resources has become a standard for developing locational intelligent applications. GIS on the Internet allows a wide range of applications to tribal governments and increases the accessibility of these products to their associated communities.
For more information, here is a video of Matthew R. Rantanen, Director of Technology for the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association. Listen to what he says about what wireless Internet access has meant to San Diego County Native American tribes and 3 tribes in Riverside County. He talks about how opening up the unused TV signal radio waves could greatly expand those benefits.
For review, recycle or re-customization, here is a customized petition, identifying how Native American tribes could put the radio waves to good use.
An explanatory article on ars tecnica about Google launches white space offensive with new web site
Finally, explore the Wireless Innovation Alliance at http://www.wirelessinnovationalliance.org/ and see what all the fuss is about and the amazing list of collaborating partners.
Map Overlaps Oil And Gas, Biodiversity, and Indigenous People
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Written by Rosemarie McKeon Monday, 18 August 2008 00:12
According to "Save America's Forests", "Land Is Life" and Duke University scientists, their comprehensive map of oil and gas activities across the western Amazon reveals "oil and gas blocks overlap perfectly with the most biodiverse part of the Amazon for birds, mammals, and amphibians".
Read about the alarming assessment of the threats to the biodiversity and indigenous peoples of the region.
NAGPRA Report: +118,000 Native Americans Left In Storage
Written by Rosemarie McKeon Sunday, 17 August 2008 01:40
According to the NATHPO (National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers) report on NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, released on 8/14/08, researchers determined that about 3 Million of NAGPRA funds were diverted to other things besides grants and +118,000 Native American remains are in libraries or museums.
The full article, in pdf format, can be found on the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) website:
http://www.nathpo.org/PDF/NAGPRA%20Report/Nagpra_Report_Press_release.pdf
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