$40k prize offered for intercultural dialogue and understanding
Howard Lake | 2 September 2015 | News
Organisations that are encouraging intercultural dialogue and which are in a position to scale-up and replicate are invited to apply for the Intercultural Innovation Award.
A partnership between the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the BMW Group, the award offers a first prize of $40,000. Nine other organisations judged to have the potential for expansion and replication will also be awarded funding and strategic support.
To be eligible organisations, which can be anywhere in the world, must be running innovative and sustainable projects that promote intercultural dialogue and understanding. They should also be working in the fields of:
– migration and integration;
– intercultural awareness;
– education for intercultural citizenship;
– and/or be organisations addressing the needs of specific groups in promoting intercultural understanding (e.g. faith-based, youth, women, media, etc.)
The deadline to apply for the Intercultural Innovation Award is 30 September 2015 at 5pm EST.
Past winners
Receiving the #iiaward opened many doors to More Than One Story to partner organizations around the world. pic.twitter.com/MjHcT5UpAt
— Intercultural Innovation Hub (@InterInnovHub) July 8, 2015
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As a result of winning #iiaward, the number of people who downloaded @alltognow app tripled within a month! pic.twitter.com/XtbFeWshpX
— Intercultural Innovation Hub (@InterInnovHub) July 4, 2015
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.