|
College Communications Home
LCSC Today...
News Releases
Publications
Downloadable Graphics
Event Calendar
Resources
Advertising
Visitor's Center
E-mail us
|
|
Contact: Deb Snyder, Community Development and Office
of Sponsored Programs - 208/792-2323
Funders’ Forum Bursting
with Success
With all votes in, Funders’ Forum 2002, put on in mid-June
by LCSC’s Institute for Community Development & Office of Sponsored Programs
(OSP), was an outstanding success.
The 2-day workshop, formally called Developing Successful Grants for Local
Projects and Funders’ Forum 2002, was designed to bring Pacific Northwest
funders and local organizations together to talk about successful grant
writing. A visit with Deborah Snyder, who works out of OSP as one of the
primary organizers, provided details.
The numbers were excellent. Snyder said interest was so high people had to
be turned away. All told, 128 attendees and 22 funding agencies were present
at this year’s session. The last time the program was offered (three years
ago), there were 60 attendees and 8 funders benefited from the workshop.
Funders were pleased at the turnout and attendees were impressed by what
they learned. One commented: “I wish I had a week to digest all this
information!”
The diversity among attendees and funders was a big bonus. Participants
included LCSC staff and faculty, representatives from the Nez Perce Tribe,
non-profit and non-governmental organizations,
schoolteachers and administrators. And along with large, well-known funders like the Murdock Charitable Trust, Foundation Northwest, The
Idaho Community Foundation and Idaho Heritage Foundation, there
were new and different kinds of funders like A Territorial Resource,
which tends to provide monies to entities not funded in other ways.
In the spirit of helping those who most need it, major funder Foundation
Northwest gave four scholarships to local non-profit organizations that
could not afford to attend the forum.
Snyder thinks the workshop’s second day, when people from funding agencies
and in-need organizations met face to face, was an especially valuable part
of the event. “Being able discuss and ask questions lets people develop the
relationships that are an important part of grant writing.”
Asked to summarize the workshop, Snyder describes a near-perfect event and
says, “If there was a complaint, it would be that we could have used more
space.” Snyder said planning for next year's forum will address that need.
Also, Funders’ Forum 2003 will boast additional funders and advanced
workshops on getting and administering grants.
For more information, including comments and pictures from this year’s
forum, visit the website at
http://www.lcsc.edu/icd/fundersforum/02.htm.
The following funders were represented at this year's forum:
A Territory Resource, Soya Jung Harris
Avista Utilities, Debbie Simock & Terry Kolb
Governor's Lewis-Clark Trail Committee, Keith Petersen
Foundation Northwest, Candy Hanford
Idaho Children's Trust, Nancy Hausner
Idaho Commission on the Arts, Maria-Carmen Gambliel
Idaho Community Foundation, Craig Parry
Idaho Department of Commerce, Bob Ford
Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation, Brian Miller
Idaho Department of Transportation, Ken Helm
Idaho Heritage Foundation, Gaetha Pace
Idaho Humanities Council, Rick Ardinger
Latah County Community Foundation, Joanne Carr
Lewiston School District Trust Fund, Mark Havens
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Jan Kennedy
Road to Recovery: Prevention Program
Triad Publishing, Inc./Moneysaver, George Parkins
U.S. Forest Service, Margie Ewing
Washington Council for Child Prevention of Child Abuse
& Neglect, Sue Manfred
Washington Interagency Commission for Outdoor Recreation/Salmon Recovery
Funding Board, Rollie Geppert
Washington State Art Commission, Bitsy Bidwell
Washington State Commission for the Humanities, Amanda Swain Floan
####
|
