Any ideas?
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Cyrus Reed reed_c@grandecom.net 1/17/2008 3:46 PM >>>
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Paula -- can you give us a deadline on the two grant categories?
On Jan 17, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Paula Carrell wrote:
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Fredsters:
Once again this year, the State Program has a modest pot of c(3) funds available to chapters for Public Education work related to our priority campaigns At The State Govt Level -- Energy/Global Warming, Lands/Habitat Protection (particularly if you can make a connection between a particular lands protection goal and global warming), Water Quality/Supply Protection.
There are two basic Grant Types:
I. Education Project Grants: There's not enough in the kitty to hire additional staff, but small grants of, say, $2,000, $5,000 or maybe a bit more are available for a piece of existing staff time or for materials or for a public education event . . . designed to help your chapter educate and energize the public behind progress in one of these three issue areas in your state.
The work you propose has to meet some basic organizing tenets:
- It is designed to reach beyond our members and base supporters
into the community of people who share our values but are not, without our urging, engaged in civic life.
- It builds face-to-face/one-on-one connections between Club people
and this broader public around the issue at hand. It strives to build lasting community connections that will sustain our positions by informing and empowering people to secure meaningful environmental victories.
II. Regional Chapter Staff Meetings Most of you have heard about the regular 2-day/2-night "Southern Caucus" meeting held annually in early June. At the meeting, the southeastern states lobby corps members gather to share information and strategize on their priority issues as they are playing out in the unique southern political climate. I continue to be entirely open to others among you organizing similar regional gatherings to focus on particular issue/s and the unique qualities of how the issue is playing out and might best be addressed in your region. If you have an idea -- and have convinced several of your neighboring state colleagues to join with you -- pitch me on your meeting proposal. These must be low-budget affairs -- inexpensive location, meals/ drinks covered by the participants, travel covered by the grant. Summer months timing tends to make the most sense, although I'm open to other ideas.
For Both Types of Grants: If you think you've got a fundable need and idea, here's what you should tell me about it, as concisely *and specifically* as possible:
- Your ultimate goal -- specific policy you seek to address or
enact or rule or permit decision you seek to influence.
Your timeline.
The specific activities/event or product/materials you are
asking us to fund OR, for the meeting option, a proposed agenda focus
- The specific audience you are targeting (define & justify
geographically or demographically or politically or all three) OR, for the meeting option, a list of states that wish/need to participate.
- A proposed budget.
If you can outline it in two pages, all the better.
Remember, these are c(3) funds. BE CREATIVE.
Questions to me if you want to test your idea before bothering to write it up. paula - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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