Hi all,<div><br> </div><div>One of our PMs at Viget is heavily involved in the non-profit community, so I asked her what she might suggest. Here's what she replied:</div><div><br> </div><div>-----</div><div><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">
Check out this list of projects that were submitted for Netsquared grants a couple of months ago:</span></div><div><p><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/projects/n2y2-featured-projects" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.netsquared.org/projects/n2y2-featured -projects</a></span></font></p><p><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Essentially, a bunch of non-profs wrote up proposals and people voted on which ones deserved funding. The top 3 projects got decent grants ($10-25,000), but the others got around $3,000 each. There's a section where they describe what help they still need. The full list of proposals is here:
</span></font></p><p><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/projects/proposals" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.netsquared.org/projects/proposals</a></span></font></p><p><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">As far as the projects go, I know Ivan Boothe at the Genocide Intervention Network would be a great person to work with (
<a href="http://www.netsquared.org/projects/proposals/anti-genocide-community-building-political-will-end-genocide" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.netsquared.org/projects/proposals/anti -genocide-community-building -political-will-end-genocide
</a>). Mickey Panayiotakis, who works with <a href="http://Grassroots.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Grassroots.org</a> , would be a good contact for this one: <a href="http://www.netsquared.org/projects/proposals/grassroots-org-toolbox" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.netsquared.org/projects/proposals/grassroots -org-toolbox</a> .</span></font></p><p><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">If you don't see anything there, I can ask my listserv to pitch projects.
<span style="font-family: arial; "></span></span></font></p><p><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family: arial; ">-----</span></span></font></p><p><font face="Tahoma">
<span style="font-family: arial; "><div>She's actually coming down here (to Durham) this weekend, and we're planning on talking about this in greater depth, so if anyone has anything they'd like me to bring up with her feel free to drop me an email.
</div><div><br> </div><div>Ben</div></span></font></p></div>