Indigenous Mapping Network
Maps Help Identify Grants
Newsflash
Last Updated (Mon Aug 25 2008 00:54) 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.
Geothermal's Distributed Indigenous Nature
Last Updated (Mon Aug 25 2008 00:53) Written by Rosemarie McKeon
On Tuesday, 8/19/08, Google.org announced a $10 million investment to develop funding for research on next-generation geothermal energy technology. Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) includes resource mapping, EGS information tools, and a policy agenda for geothermal energy. The funding is distributed between two companies (AltaRock Energy, Inc and Potter Drilling, Inc), and a university (Southern Methodist University Geothermal Lab).
U.S. Geothermal Resource
Clicking on the image above leads to a series of eight videos discussing the potential of EGS (a EGS 101, electrical transportation, utilities companies, response by two senators, and media). it also has information about the three organization investments and ends with three G-rated SketchUp 3D models - a EGS system, a drilling and a power plant available to download.
Geothermal energy has been used by Indigenous people for cooking, heating, and bathing for thousands of years. It is also capable of providing enormous supplies of electricity for homes and businesses on reservations. According to an article this month in Energy Current, several tribes "...the Northwest Alaska Native Association Regional Corporation of
Alaska and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe have (geothermal) projects in development."
"Other tribes like the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs in
Oregon, Fort Bidwell in California and the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in
Oklahoma are also exploring district heating and ground source heat
pump possibilities."
Google.org, a philanthropic arm of Google, invests 1% of Google's equity and profits into projects that ".. use the power of information and technology to address the
global challenges of our age: climate change, poverty and emerging
disease."
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