With a membership of some 1,900 foundations, ASF works to provide information and assistance related to quality philanthropy to foundations having five or fewer persons and a portfolio that includes all aspects of foundation work, including public relations, writing letters, cutting checks, mailing and processing grant applications, working with trustees and grantees, doing site visits and evaluations, and managing assets.

The National Network of Grantmakers is an organization of 400 individual donors, foundation staff and board members, and grantmaking committee members involved in funding social and economic justice by supporting organizations working for change.

November is Celebrating Philanthropy month at the Foundation Center, and in honor of the occasion we've put together a collection of annotated links to some of the best general philanthropy resources on the Web.

We are recruiting for a Visiting Professor for our spring semester beginning January 2002, as well as two Engaged Scholars for residencies of 6-weeks each between January and May 2002.

The Institute for Human Rights & Development in Africa is a pan-African human rights organisation with its headquarters in Banjul, the Gambia. The Institute specialises in the African regional human rights system, including impact litigation in national and international fora based on African human rights treaties, and training in the procedures of African treaty mechanisms.

Details are emerging about a clash between police and students in Lubumbashi in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Two students were killed on Saturday when police opened fire on a demonstration involving an estimated 500 university students.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has drawn up a five-year programme to boost girls' education in six Nigerian states starting next year, Maman Sidikou, head of UNICEF's education unit in the country has said.

The Information Technology Association of Nigeria (ITAN) has launched a US $4.3 million-project whose goal is to increase the use of computers and other IT equipment in the country's schools.

For the second year running, an under-resourced, rural school in Northern Province has produced the winner of the Maths and Science Teacher of the Year Award.

A British landmine-clearing group launched a multimedia project Monday to throw a global spotlight on how a community in Angola copes with daily life around fields littered with unexploded weapons.

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