[Riverweb] [Partners] New Funding Program: "Make It Your Own"

[Kim Erndt]

The Case Foundation has just launched an exciting new grant program called
Make It Your Own. It is designed to help grassroots leaders involve their
fellow citizens in dialogue, deliberation, and action on community problems.
This is one of those rare instances where a national foundation will make
grants directly to local and neighborhood-level projects; it is even more
unusual in that the decision-making process on who gets the grants will be
made, in part, by citizens themselves (see "Foundation Lets Public Help
Award Money" in the New York Times at
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/us/26charity.html). This is a
citizen-centered funding effort that will produce citizen-centered projects.

 

I'm sure all of you know grassroots leaders who would make terrific
applicants for Make It Your Own (and some of you fit that description
yourselves). Please check out the details at
http://www.casefoundation.org/make-it-your-own and pass this email along to
anyone you think would be a good candidate. 

 

Grant Amounts: $10,000 - $35,000

Deadline: Applications will be accepted online June 26-August 8

 

 

Have a fabulous summer!

Katherine Luscher

River Network

www.rivernetwork.org

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