[Nfb-fundraising] Public Interest Computing Award, for "Software in the Public Interest"

[Everett Gavel]

Hello,

Know anyone who's developed some accessible software,
who could benefit from this grant/award opportunity of
$10,000 to help do even more?  Please forward this
opportunity to others who may know of someone as well.

Thanks,
Everett
www.everettgavel.com


Tides Foundation Invites Nominations for Public
Interest
Computing Award

Deadline: August 1, 2007

Nominations are now open for the 2007 Antonio Pizzigati
Prize
 for Software in the Public Interest. Administered by
the Tides
 Foundation ( http://www.tidesfoundation.org/ ), this
annual
 $10,000 award will honor a software developer whose
work has
 made an outstanding contribution to the nonprofit
community
 and ongoing efforts for social change.

Each candidate must submit a completed application.
Each candi-
 date must also be nominated by a peer within the
public interest
 computing world or a leader in the nonprofit community
who can
 speak to the personal qualities that contribute to
that individ-
 ual's leadership, as well as to the product the
nominee developed.

Complete award guidelines are available at the
program's Web
 site.

RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10007869/pizzigatiprize

For additional RFPs in Science/Technology, visit:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_science_technology.jhtml