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SEVEN (Social Equity Venture Fund) Call for proposals: Foreign economic aid and government programs have spent billions of dollars during the past five decades to alleviate the high number of people living in poverty. No country has been lifted out of poverty as a result of these efforts, but the mindset remains the same: aid programs are the key to poverty alleviation. The aim of SEVEN Fund sponsored research is to challenge the prevailing state of mind in this field. We want to answer the question of whether wealth-creation may be the most effective solution to alleviate poverty. We invest our efforts and resources to find, research, and document examples where entrepreneurial success is shown to have led to poverty alleviation. In the process, we will seek to inspire entrepreneurs in developing countries with advice, investments, role models, and services. Read more: http://cambodiajobs.blogspot.com/2010/04/seven-fund-call-for-proposal.html Endeavour Awards for Research, Postgradu...

Friday May 14, 7:00-9:00 NPO/NGO Networking Happy Hour: Open to nonprofit NGO volunteers and staff and anyone who wants to get involved in community service. Meet people from different organizations, share information about volunteering, and events. Bring your fliers and brochures! Location: JamRock Restaurant Café in Harajuku Cost: 4000yen per person includes Jamaican food (served tapas style) + 2 drinks Access info: http://www.jamrockcafeonline.com/ RSVP by May 10 to guarantee you can get in (max is 40 people) Contact skillsbuild@gmail.com for more information.

May 2010 FEW Community Service Clothing Drive The FEW Clothing Drive in support of Living Dreams affiliated children’s homes Drop off period: May 18-21 Send to: J. Maeda, Daizawa 3-22-21, Setagaya-ku. Tokyo 150 0032 You can also bring items to the May members meeting on Thursday May 13. If you have any questions, please contact fewcommunity@gmail.com Please send only the following items – others will be returned. Children’s clothing for boys and girls ages 2-12 Types: Mostly play clothes such as shorts, t-shirt, and skirts, and fleeces are very popular as well. Sizes: All sizes: small, medium, large, extra large. Teen clothing for youth ages 13-18 Types: All types of clothing, including but not limited to: pants skirts, shirts and dresses Sizes: all sizes are needed, including petite and larger sizes Except for small children’s items we will not accept undergarments All items should be new or nearly new and dry-cleaned. Clothes will be distributed to children living in the Living Dream...

UPDATES AND NEWS: New courses starting after Golden week! * Temple University Japan Continuing Education Dept May 10, 10:00-12:00 => Open House (in English) Location and Venue access: TUJ Azabu Hall http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/maps/index.html Temple University Japan Continuing Education Dept. NGO certificate program, NGO courses on offer: MDGs and Global issues , Community Organizing and Grant Proposal Writing (all on Saturdays) Deadline for applications: May 15 For more information contact: Tel: 03-5441-9864, E-mail: conted@tuj.ac.jp To register or for more information visit their website: https://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/cont-ed/courses/schedules.html Tsuda International Training Program: Project Management (Tuesdays) and International Development Issues course (Thursdays) Open house/information sessions (in English and Japanese)Friday April 23, 7:00-9:00pm (All courses are run in English but information on program is in Japanese only.) Deadline for applications: Wednesd...

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tsuda International Training Program　 「International Development Skillsコース」-プロジェクト・マネージメント 受講生募集のご案内　　　　　　　　　　　　　 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 関連HP: http://osc.tsuda.ac.jp/course/kd/ids.html ◆研修期間：　平成22年5月11日〜7月13日（火曜日） 19:00-21:00 　10回 ◆研修場所：津田塾大学オープンスクール（最寄駅：ＪＲ中央・総武線千駄ヶ谷駅、都営大江戸線国立競技場駅Ａ４出口） (地図：http://osc.tsuda.ac.jp/access.html) ◆インストラクター　セラジーン・ロシート　津田塾大学オープンスクールインストラクター、 組織とプロジェクト能力開発コンサルタントhttp://sarajeanr.wordpress.com/jp/ 注記:授業は英語で行われますが、講師は日本語も堪能です。 ◆定員：　１５名 ◆申込〆切：平成２２年４月２８日（水） 受講料　５５，０００円 ◆申込方法：新規の方は説明会にご参加ください。 お申込はこちらから https://secure.chat-jp.com/users/osctsuda/titp.html 参加できない方は別途行われるインタビューを電話でご予約ください。お申込の際はプレイスメント後にお渡しするおすすめクラス入りの申込書を必ず使用して、次の要領でお申込ください。http://osc.tsuda.ac.jp/rule.html ◆お問合せ ：津田塾大学オープンスクール事務室 　　　　〒151-0051　東京都渋谷区千駄ヶ谷１－１８－２４ 　　　　TEL　03-3402-7333　　FAX　03-3402-7688 E-mail:info@osc.tsuda.ac.jp

Friday May 14, 7:00-9:00 NPO/NGO Networking Happy Hour: Open to nonprofit NGO volunteers and staff and anyone who wants to get involved in community service. Meet people from different organizations, share information about volunteering, and events. Bring your fliers and brochures! Location: JamRock Restaurant Café in Harajuku Cost: 4000yen per person includes Jamaican food (served tapas style) + 2 drinks Access info: http://www.jamrockcafeonline.com/ RSVP by May 10 to guarantee you can get in (max is 40 people) Contact rose.ito@gmail.com skillsbuild@gmail.com to reserve you place!

Black Stripe Theater will present Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman , directed by Timothy Harris and Graig Russell and featuring Kevin Hand and Chris Parham Friday April 16 (7.30 pm), Saturday April 17 (2.00 pm & 7pm), Sunday April 18 (2 pm & 7.30 pm). The nearest station is Ushigome-kagurazaka (Exit A3) on the Oedo Line. Tickets:¥2,500 advance purchase (by April 10), ¥2,500 for students and ¥3000 for all other tickets. For tickets, contact Walter Roberts by e-mail blackstripetheater@yahoo.com or visit www.blackstripetheater.com

sorry but this is postponed! Thursday, April 15, 7:00pm-8:30pm Nonprofit TAX and legal issues FEW will co-sponsor a talk on nonprofit tax and incorporation issues with the TAC Women’s Club Guest speaker: Takeshi Hayasaka, Nonprofit tax specialist and accountant Location: TAC Access: http://www.tokyoamericanclub.org/careers-a-contact/map-parking.html a 10- to 15-minute walk from Shinagawa 1500yen per person Limited to 30 people RSVP by April 13 fewcommunity@gmail.com

Wednesday April 7, 7:00-9:00pm Tsuda International Training Program: Open house/information sessions (in English and Japanese) Classes in international development writing, project mgt and issues All courses are run in English but information on program is in Japanese only. Get information about the 2 classes i am teaching here: International Development Skills => project management http://sarajeanworkshophub.wordpress.com/ids2/ International development issues => MDGs http://sarajeanworkshophub.wordpress.com/idi2/ Deadline for applications: April 29 Find out more at http://osc.tsuda.ac.jp/course/titp.html or contact info@osc.tsuda.ac.jp

It’s the 40th anniversary of Earthday! Earth Day 40 is a pivotal opportunity for people, corporations, and governments to join together to create a global green economy. Our coordinated efforts now will be recognized by future generations as a turning point. Earth day was designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in 1970 and is celebrated in many countries every year. The first Earth Day was in 1970. The United Nations celebrates Earth Day each year on the March equinox - founded by peace activist John McConnell in 1969. The United Nations first celebrated Earth Day on the March equinox in 1971. This was also the first time ever that the United Nations celebrated Earth Day. The Earth Day on the March equinox was also in 1970. Each year more than 100,000 people join earth day Tokyo events. This years the organizers aim to make it the biggest Earth day ever! Join NGOs and youth groups and in...

fliers and more details about the show: Black Strip Theater presents: Kiss of the Spider Woman

Rockin’ Your Career On Any Stage At Any Age Sunday, March 28th 9.00am – 6.00pm, Location: Azabu Hall, Temple University Access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/about/access/index.html This all-day event open to FEW members and non-members is going to be packed with opportunities for women at all stages of their careers to connect, learn and inspire each other to truly make their lives here in Japan stand out and shine. This action-packed event will feature Yukiko Ogasawara, the President of The Japan Times as Keynote Speaker, followed by the first set of workshops for the day-all of which are guaranteed to inspire and motivate you. There is no better day for making valuable connections with other like-minded women. advanced registration: (Friday March 26) FEW Members & students: 10,000 yen Non-members: 12,000 yen *As long as you register by Friday 5pm you can pay the early bird price at the door on Sunday. (If you pre-register but are unable to attend, please be prepared to pay the prepaid am...

Black Stripe Theater will present Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, directed by Timothy Harris and Graig Russell and featuring Kevin Hand and Chris Parham Friday April 16 (7.30 pm), Saturday April 17 (2.30 pm & 7pm), Sunday April 18 (2 pm & 7.30 pm). Venue: Theatre Iwato, Iwato-cho, Shinjuku-ku The nearest station is Ushigome-kagurazaka (Exit A3) on the Oedo Line. Other close stations are Kagurazaka (Exit 1) and JR Iidabashi (West Exit). Tickets: ¥2,500 advance purchase (by April 10), ¥2,500 for students and ¥3000 for all other tickets. For tickets, contact Walter Roberts by e-mail blackstripetheater@yahoo.com or visit www.blackstripetheater.com

Volunteer opportunity: Living Dreams a volunteer-run non-profit organization focusing its efforts on improving the lives of kids who live in children’s homes/orphanages in the Tokyo area needs your help! If you are interested in helping Living Dreams with their LAST (Learning, Arts, Sports, and Technology) programs, or can help with communicating/coordinating with the children’s homes, please contact them to set up an interview. Find out more livingdreams.jp or contact Amy for more information: amy.moyers@gmail.com Living Dreams is 100% volunteer-run non-profit organization. It focuses its efforts on improving the lives of kids who live in children’s homes/orphanages in the Tokyo area. With constant and personal communication across a network of 24 children’s homes, Living Dreams strives to deliver effective and enriching opportunities to as many children as possible by conducting needs assessment at all of the homes to find out what the exact needs are, by forming a partnership with...

Field Coordinator Position in Japan With the support of the US-Japan Foundation, we are excited about expanding our ArtLink exchange program to include twelve full partnerships between American and Japanese classes in the 2010-11 school year. We are looking to bring on board a bilingual field coordinator in Japan to help support this program. While we are non-profit organization, we can offer the exchange coordinator a stipend of $1200 ($100 per class) to: o help recruit the 12 classes in Japan o help translate in the teacher training session we will run in May o make sure all teachers receive and understand the guideline materials o in September and October, keep in touch with the Japanese art teachers to make sure they will be able to meet the deadline. o help with translating the artist description sheets into English or Japanese o in November, coordinate the shipping of the 12 art packets to Creative Connections o in F...

Recent disaster information: data and donation info Updates on the Feb Earthquake in Chile http://www.alertnet.org/db/crisisprofiles/CL_QUAKE.htm The following organizations are accepting cash and in-kind donations: AmeriCares, Oxfam, Save the Children, World Vision, Un techo para Chile, the Chilean Red Cross, KSAR Chile, SOS Children’s Villages, Global Giving, ShelterBox, Habitat for Humanity, Operation USA, International Medical Corps. Donate to Japanese organizations supporting efforts in Chile: http://www.ekokoro.jp/urgency/urg-7.html March 4 Earthquake in Taiwan http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/TOE62302V.htm March 8 Earthquake in Turkey http://alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/218590/126806126560.htm

WANTED: JAPAN Youth Venture Director Ashoka (www.ashoka.org) is the world’s largest association of social entrepreneurs — men and women who are creating new institutions and system-changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1980, Ashoka has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, electing and connecting more than 2,000 individuals with system-changing ideas in over 70 countries. Ashoka’s Youth Initiative has harnessed the innovations and efforts of Ashoka’s social entrepreneurs in the field of youth development to create the Youth Venture program that is building a movement of young social entrepreneurs. (See www.youthventure.org) Ashoka believes that young people globally are key to Ashoka’s overall vision of developing a productive, innovative and engaged civil society. By investing in and building a movement of young social “Venturers” around the world, Ashoka aims to change fundamentally the role of young people in society and to foster in young...

notes and photos from the Feb 11 talk on DV held at GRIPS Featuring Sachi Nakajima from Resilience

interesting article by PSC member Damion The Japan Times, THE ZEIT GIST By DAMION MANNINGS and BEN STUBBINGS http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20100216zg.html

Saturday, February 20 th , 1.00pm - 5.00pm, Keep warm on a February afternoon with cup of hot cocoa while sharing your favorite book or movie and contribute to a good cause! Bring & swap unwanted books, DVDs & CDs. Minimum donation per person: 1,000 yen for a beverage, homemade brownies Location: TELL community center, Minami-Aoyama Directions: www.telljp.com/images/uploads/TELL.map.pdf Bookoff will take most Japanese books, art or picture books, manga, language study books and recent travel guides and novels in English. Bookoff! will only accept region 2 DVDs and most CDs. DVDs and CDS should be in their proper cases. All other items can be swapped or taken home with you - including periodicals and journals. Bookoff sells CDs, DVDs and books with the proceeds going to a particular NGO project. To date they have raised more than 11.5 million yen for JEN’s education programs in Sudan and Afghanistan. For more informa...