If you’re focused on connecting people by sharing knowledge, consider applying for CARE’s new Knowledge Sharing Funds! Funds will be awarded in amounts of up to $5,000 per initiative to support all staff in their efforts to promote innovative organizational learning and sharing. The Funds will contribute to overcoming some of our challenges and barriers to help CARE become a better learning organization. There are two funds:

1. Global Knowledge Sharing Fund: For any knowledge sharing initiative throughout CARE that will be completed within the next six months.
2. Signature FY07 Fund: Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH) Knowledge Sharing Fund: For knowledge sharing activities specific to SRH that will be completed within the next six months.

For your convenience, you may submit your proposal in either English, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic, and applying is fast and easy! The application deadline for both funds is December 10, 2006.

Call for Proposals – FY07
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Application

Global Knowledge Sharing Fund

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Submit to Mare Fort

Signature FY07 Fund: Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH) Knowledge Sharing Fund
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Submit to Jaime Stewart

Recommended Resources
We encourage you to learn more about knowledge sharing tools and processes by reviewing the following links:

Tools for Knowledge and Learning: A guide for development and humanitarian organizations, RAPID, Overseas Development Institute. London, July 2006 Author: Ben Ramalingam. The handbook contains 30 tools organized into five categories of Strategy Development, Management Approaches, Collaboration Mechanisms, Knowledge Sharing and Learning and Knowledge Capture and Storage.

Managing Knowledge to Improve Reproductive Health Programs A useful resource for reproductive health program managers to help them systematically increase the creativity and empowerment of staff members and therefore lead to better health for clients.

A Tool for Sharing Internal Best Practices. INFO project, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs. Washington DC, 2005. Author: Margaret D’Adamo and Adrienne Kols. This tool, developed by the INFO Project, includes a step-by-step process, tips, case studies and links to additional resources that explain how an organization can more effectively share its own best practices internally. 

KM for Development (KM4Dev) is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches.

CARE Academy Knowledge Sharing resources. This section of CARE Academy’s web site offers you an overview of knowledge sharing at CARE, along with other knowledge sharing resources.