***This is a message from a member of Friends of Students for 60,000*** a lovely gift for the holidays!! ill be in touch when i return mc----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter White" <pedro831@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <fsf60K@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:01 PM Subject: [fsf60k] good news and website info
***This is a message from a member of Friends of Students for 60,000*** Greetings, or Hola for those of you who speak Spanish, As many know from last week's meeting and from reading a recent freelist message or two, we applied for a grant from a company called Liquidnet in NYC. A member of their staff is a nephew of Millie and Morty Willen who pointed us in Liquidnet's direction. They are making $150000 available forlocal groups like ours. Criteria was that employees of Liquidnet (in thiscase, Brian Foley, Willen nephew) had to recommend the applicant/not for profit group. Brian Foley recommended us, mostly because of his Aunt Millie's involvement with Friends and other groups, and we applied. Of 24 such applications, we were happy last week to be named among the ten finalists. Those selected would receive a grant for their project work ofsomewhere between $25000 for the "winner" to something in between, to $5000for the rest. After a great deal of deliberation among the 300 members of Liquidnet, who ran a democratic process and voted, we were selected to beamong those "in between," meaning we didn't get the top prize of $25000, butwe will be receiving $12500! which causes us mas alegre, to coin a phrasefrom Nicaragua. We are awaiting guidelines on how the money will pass to us,and how it may/must be used. We think there will be no strings attached tothis grant, in which case I and I'm sure many of you have many ideas. Eitherway, perhaps sometime before Christmas a committee of us could meet todiscuss this and form a plan on the best use for the grant, or at least partof it just to get some money going. In spirit, the grant is called the"local impact grant" so my guess is that the donor (Liquidnet) wants to seeall/most/some of the money going locally. But I also received word thatthere are no strings, so we will await a more definite statement from them.But the news is good either way, locally or internationally. Its nice to have some good news to celebrate despite Patchogue, Mumbai, Iraq and the tanking economy. Also, at the last meeting we discussed moving forward with our Friends of Students for 60000, Inc. web site. George Pardo had taken certain steps to do so, so had Jen Brady Cotter and Adam Kantrowitz. Since all live in different communities, Jen volunteered at the last meeting to head up thecommittee for final web site planning and implementation. We all agreed. So all those involved in web site plans please consult/pass things through Jenas she is the web chair. Her contact info is: jjjellybean7@xxxxxxxxxxx or Jen Cotter Brady, 174 Ave. A, Holbrook, NY 11741 or 631 676 7557, or 631 588 4766 Best wishes for good grant use and a terrific web site. PW ***You can unsubscribe from this list by sending an email to fsf60k-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. An archive of messages is available at //www.freelists.org/archives/fsf60k.FAQ'are available at //www.freelists.org/help/faq.html***__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3679 (20081209) __________The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
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