This month the International Development Council for Academic Studies (IDCAS) has generously released a significant amount of additional funding to a number of non-profit organisations. These organisations include the International Health Research Institute (IHRI) and the 3D Grid Association. Today the 3D Grid Association has issued a press release stating that a portion of these funds will be allocated to the maintenance of technical infrastructural required to operate the following grids over the next two months; AtMeeting (grid.atmeeting.com, operated under contract by Littlehall Corporation), Education 3D Grid/Edu3DGrid (www.edu3dgrid.com), IDCAS 3D Services (now operated under contract by the European Technology Development Association) and Virtual 3D IHRI (virtual.ihri.org). All services supplied by these grids are vital to the continued sucessful development of advanced teaching tools and on behalf of IHRI I would like to thank IDCAS for the provision of this funding.