By Samia Burridge, Sponsor Scientific.

The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) unites women scientists from the developing and developed worlds. With a rapidly growing membership, OWSD strengthens its members’ roles in development and promotes their representation in leadership. The OWSD supports women through fellowships, awards, training, career development and networking at all career stages. OWSD’s work matters because it is well known that science drives solutions to the world’s problems. If women are not directly involved, we lose their knowledge and specific experiences. But when women are participants as well as beneficiaries this improves effectiveness and contributes to local economies, alleviating problems such as poverty. A program unit of UNESCO, OWSD’s funding comes mostly from Sweden’s Sida and Canada’s IDRC. It accepts funding from its membership, research and development organisations, and corporates (Elsevier Foundation supports an Award). Funders can opt to sponsor a fellowship grant, or contribute to funds for ongoing programme development, including OWSD National Chapters.

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TMI is an academic research project collecting gut microbe samples from people across the globe. The research question is, what lifestyle and health factors are associated with differences among people? This is important because the field of gut health is moving rapidly, revealing the key role of nutrition and lifestyle in health and disease. TMI is a Citizen Science initiative with projects based at UC San Diego (The American Gut) and King’s College London (The British Gut). Participants donate through Fundrazr to receive a testing kit*. Participants receive a “snapshot” of their microbes while contributing to high quality data for anyone to reuse. Donations can also be made directly through UC San Diego. Corporate partnerships and collaborations form part of the initiative and are acknowledged on the TMI website.

*at the time of writing there is a delay sending kits

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Tech for good is a movement that gets increasingly talked about. So what does it mean? Put simply, tech for good is the potential for tech innovations (like automation, communication, robotics, or AI) to do good across sectors like healthcare, education and the environment. It involves tech companies, consultants, investors, policymakers and non-profits. In the context of charities, it means funding projects where tech is used to tackle problems. A good place for potential funders to learn more is the UK based Tech for Good Hub. Funded 50:50 by Comic Relief and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the website lists around 30 smaller charities that it has funded through a competitive grant giving process. The intention is that each charity will deliver more effective services, improve access, and improve outcomes for those they are trying to help. The 2021 program has been adapted following the COVID-19 pandemic: “Charities urgently need to adapt their online services”, states an announcement. Charities looking for funding can sign up to hear about future funding calls, while funders or investors are invited to contact the Hub for advice.

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Founded nearly 40 years ago, TWAS’s mission includes supporting research excellence; young scientists; international co-operation; and solving challenges facing the developing world. Headquartered in Italy and legally part of UNESCO, each year TWAS funds 600 PhD and postdoctoral researchers, awards prizes, and provides $1M in grants.
According to its website, TWAS is “recognized globally for its positive impact and influence”. But despite progress made, TWAS says that its work remains essential for “advancing science in the countries that need to produce more food, provide clean water, develop energy sources and build scientific infrastructure”.
TWAS receives funding from a small group of governments, foundations and corporates. Individuals can donate through the website, where they are asked to choose whether funds directly support scientists or help assure the Academy’s long-term strength. Funders can be acknowledged on the website or in publications.

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Directed by philanthropy expert Caroline Fiennes, Giving Evidence encourages and enables charitable giving based on sound evidence. With an extensive track record of helping donors and funders, Giving Evidence offers consulting advice, and conducts research and analysis on issues that affect the whole sector. Giving Evidence’s work matters because charities vary hugely in their effectiveness, so donors’ choices about what to fund greatly affect how much difference they make. The same is true of donors’ choices about how to fund, because some ways of giving are much better than others. Giving Evidence’s reports, media articles and online talks are regularly published on its website. Giving Evidence is seeking funding for projects that could benefit the whole charity sector. These include: pulling together all the available information, insight and advice about “how to fund” to help donors with those decisions; reducing the expenditure that charities (are forced to) waste on bad evaluations or funder-imposed administrative processes; and optimising funders’ decisions. To find out more, visit Giving Evidence’s website.

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Prostate Cancer Research (PCR) funds scientific research on two themes which can be summarized as: classifying cancers and predicting patients’ response to different treatments; and finding new treatments for advanced cancers. Prostate cancer recently became the most common cancer in England. Yet according to PCR’s Chairman, “research continues to be underfunded” receiving only 5% of all cancer research spend. PCR’s mission by 2023 is to “scale up the amount of our research grants to £5m and projects to at least 23 per year, seed-funding scientists with great ideas to accelerate progress”. Their research strategy also talks about working with younger researchers and supporting efforts to bring down the cost of treatment. Founded in 1988, PCR is still a relatively young charity operating in a field (basic research) where advances are unpredictable and may not reach patients for many years. But it has grown significantly in recent years. It now wants to further expand the funding it provides to excellent science. For this it needs to raise income from individual donors (among other things, through its “Snowdonia for Science” challenge) and corporate partnerships.

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Each year, In2science puts around 500 low-income young people into STEM work placements. The majority go on to study STEM degrees. Students need not be “gifted”. This work matters because STEM careers pay better than most, driving social mobility. It also expands and diversifies the STEM workforce (economic benefits) and equips more people to understand complex information and reject misinformation. The charity was selected for the BBC Radio 4 appeal, a competitive process which looks at a charity’s effectiveness. An external evaluation showed statistically significant increases in key indicators related to skills and progression. Funding is now needed to achieve their goals by 2023: They want to expand to support 1,000 students and to boost progression of their alumni onto PhD level qualifications. To achieve this, they are seeking more partnerships with learned societies, universities and science-focused companies as well as donations from the public.

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Philanthropic giving is at the heart of the success of Cambridge University – the fourth oldest University in the world. As a response to the pandemic in 2020, it announced the Cambridge Covid-19 Research Fund (to better diagnose, treat and stop the virus) plus a hardship fund (for students impacted by the pandemic). Their appeal pages explain that while funds will be directed to where they are needed most, this will include using funds to accelerate research including immunology, epidemiology and “communicating to assist public understanding”. They are seeking donations of any size from the public and alumni.

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The BSA’s mission is to transform the diversity and inclusivity of science; to reach under-served audiences; and increase the number of people who are actively engaged and involved in science. This is important because “science is under-valued in education, government, journalism, culture, finance, and elsewhere” leading to poor decision making in the face of society’s biggest challenges and opportunities. It seeks to “take science out of its cultural ghetto and make it something that belongs to a wider community…”. The BSA’s work engages the general public, youth, leaders, researchers, politicians and media through training, funding, forums, and science festivals. Reporting shows it reaches over half a million under 18s per year. It also tracks how well it reaches the least engaged/interested groups. It regularly influences policy. It seeks donations, grants and sponsorship; Many projects (such as Science Week and CREST) are particularly suited to corporate sponsorship.

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded in 1848 and is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society with members in 91 countries. It is the publisher of leading journal Science which has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world. AAAS fulfils its mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives in science policy, diplomacy, education, career support, public engagement, and more. It now runs a growing number of programs to support diversity, equality and inclusion. AAAS and Science run numerous fellowships, awards and prizes often in partnership with other organisations. AAAS is funded through its memberships and publishing income but also seeks philanthropic support and partnerships. Its annual meeting and Science family of publications can be supported by corporate sponsors.

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