Donate your old textbooks at Carleton!
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is a social enterprise and B Corp that provides affordable and accessible educational materials to students both locally and aboard.We work collaboratively with over 25 campuses, including Carleton, and community partners to create both social and environmental impact.We collect post-secondary textbooks in dropboxes around Ontario that are donated by students, faculty and community partners. 50% of these textbooks are donated to our partner universities in East Africa . To fund our initiative, 20% of textbooks are sold online at affordable prices to students across North America. 30% of remaining textbooks are efficiently recycled.We launched in late March at Carleton and with the help of students at your campus, we collected 145 textbooks, sent 68 of those to East Africa, sold 64 online for affordable prices and recycled 13. In Ontario, between 2015 and 2016, we collected 86,454 textbooks, donated 41,589, re-sold 22,110 and recycled 22, 755. What can you do to help? If you are a student or faculty member check out the dropboxes on the Carleton Campus located in the Discovery Centre and River Building. If you are a student group who wants to fundraise via a textbook drive, please reach out to us at info@textbooksforchange.ca. |
Opportunity for African Writers: Apply for the Morland Writing Scholarship
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Do you need time to finish up a fiction manuscript or to do research for a non-fiction project? Then this award is for you. The Miles Morland Foundation awards African writers a one-year stipend that allows them to make out time to finish a piece of work. Last year, the winners in the fiction category received ₤18,000 while non-fiction writers were awarded £27,000.One of the 2015 recipients of the award, Akwaeke Emezi , recently announced a book deal with a high-profile publishing house [read here if you missed it]. These kinds of financial awards go a long way towards helping writers make progress with their work.Deadline is October 31st. |
Call for Pre-Proposals: 10 African research projects on the Energy-Health-Natural Disasters nexus in African cities
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This is the first call of the 5-year “Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa ” programme funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The programme seeks to increase the production of high-quality, integrated, solutions-oriented research on global sustainability by early-career scientists in Africa. Funded projects are expected to generate new solutions-oriented knowledge that will help develop new urban paradigms in Africa and make African cities more resilient, adaptable and healthier.The call for pre-proposals aims to identify collaborative research projects in Africa interested to explore inter-relationships across at least two domains of the nexus. Successful applicants will be invited to join a training workshop on integrated research in Nairobi, Kenya, on 3-7 October 2016. Applicants should have no more than 10 years’ work experience following their PhDs or equivalent research experience. Submission of pre-proposals and relevant documents may only be made using the online form available . Please carefully read the call for pre-proposals with key requirements before submitting your pre-proposal.The deadline for pre-proposal submission is August 15, 2016 (18:00 CET). |
