Cool social change news and opportunities from around the web:

From CSRWire.com: International mining company Rio Tinto Alcan has opened applications for the fifth year of its $1million prize for sustainability. One of a growing number of groups to use prizes to induce “crowd-sourced” solutions to global problems, “the Rio Tinto Alcan Prize is open to all not-for-profit, non-governmental, and civil society organizations based anywhere [...]

Apply for the second annual Youth Leadership in Connective Philanthropy program

Each year, the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University (another of my gigs) and the Chicago Global Donors Network get together to give 25 Chicagoland undergrads and high school students the chance to learn about philanthropy by allocating $5,000 to youth-led development projects around the world.
Last year’s students learned about the history of philanthropy, [...]