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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please visit <a href="http://www.cleancookstoves.org/funding-opportunities/rfp-pilot-innovation-fund-iii.html">
http://www.cleancookstoves.org/funding-opportunities/rfp-pilot-innovation-fund-iii.html</a> for more information about the Global Alliance’s 3<sup>rd</sup> round of the Pilot Innovation Fund. You may find this Request for Proposals of Interest. Or if you
know colleagues who may be interested in applying, please help us to pass on this information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>The Pilot Innovation Fund Round III</b> <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Pilot Innovation Fund (PIF) seeks to catalyze game-changing innovations that can overcome existing barriers to scaling adoption of clean cooking solutions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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The Alliance’s Pilot Innovation Fund is a grant facility that aims to provide funding and capacity development assistance to organizations and entrepreneurs to pilot radically game-changing ideas for the clean cooking sector, be it through technological or
business model innovation. Technology innovations include (but are not limited to) new developments in cookstoves, fuels, or other improved cooking solutions. Business model innovations include (but are not limited to) payment mechanisms, distribution, and
supply chain models. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The application deadline is October 31, 2014.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ranyee<o:p></o:p></p>
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