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Grassroots Exchange Discretionary Grants 2009

Neighborhoods,
USA (NUSA).
 Little Rock,
AR  
Japan Association for Community Policy (JACP) and NUSA Grassroots Counterpart
Exchange 

Project Director: Elton Gatewood
$9,700
The objective of this proposal is to invite two representatives from the JACP
to visit the US as a continuation and follow-up to the “Japan Exchange and
Symposium on Japan-US Relationship, Civic Society, Roots of Global
Governance” held in Japan in 2009. This program would further strengthen
the relationship between JACP and NUSA by allowing the Japan counterparts to visit
the US to share the experiences and findings from the previous
workshop/symposium.

Calvert Foundation.
 Bethesda, MD
History & Development of Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Investing
Project Director: Jed Emerson
$9,714

The proposed project is to invite a cognoscente to
conduct a public symposium and closed workshops to share the experiences of
Social Investment and Assessment of Social Impact with the Japanese audience in
order to encourage Japan to promote venture philanthropy by private equity,
venture capitals, and grant-making foundations. It is aimed to: 1) promote
understandings about the social investment among donors, grant makers,
inventors and entrepreneurs, 2) understand capacity building offering financial
and technical support, and 3) introduce the practical methodology to measure
social return.