Aluminum and packaging company offers prize for sustainability
The aluminum and packaging company, Alcan, Inc. and the International Business Leaders Forum have announced a call for entries for the 2006 $1 million Alcan Prize for Sustainability.
The Alcan Prize is open to all nonprofit, non-governmental, and civil-society organizations based anywhere in the world that are working to advance the goals of economic, environmental, and social sustainability. The Alcan Prize was created to recognize the nonprofit sector for its contributions to global sustainability and to underline the belief that all sectors of society must work together to achieve sustainable development.
Last year's Alcan Prize winner was the Aga Khan Planning and Building Services in Pakistan. In addition, the program's adjudication panel named five other NGOs as recipients of grants worth $15,000 each; those grants allow a suitably qualified senior member of staff to participate in the one-year, part-time postgraduate certificate in Cross Sector Partnership accredited by the University of Cambridge.
Information on eligibility criteria and entry procedures for the 2006 Alcan Prize is available at the program's Web site http://www.alcanprizeforsustainability.com/2006/index.html.