[Bookstoprisoners] let's get some grant money!

[Jay Schubert]

I think this would be AWESOME if we could pull this off. I also think that
if it's going to happen, it will take more than an informal "side meeting"
during our regular meeting time on Saturday. We'll probably need a committee
to meet separately and people willing to put some extra effort into this.

Would anyone else be willing to participate in this process, starting this
weekend with a brief meeting (perhaps before our regular satruday
gathering)?

thanks,
Jay

On 11/18/05, Sandra Ahten <spiritofsandra at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I think I have found a likely grant that we might have a good chance of
> getting... to help us buy legal books for inmates.
>
> We'll need a team to do this as the grant deadline is Dec 15. !!!
> Grant amounts are $1000 - $15,000
>
> You can read about the grant from Columbia Law School Public Interest Law
> Foundation here:
> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pilf/grants.html
>
> We will need a data compiler. Someone to go through all of our files ASAP
> and find and make copies of letters where there are requests for law
> books.
>
> We will need someone (preferrably two- four people) to do data entry so
> that
> we can get all of our past records in the database... so we have hard
> numbers as to what services (#of books, # of prisoners) we have provided
> in
> the past.
>
> We will need someone to research how law libraries in jails work so that
> we
> can prove we are not duplicating efforts. (including how much access
> prisoners actually have to law libraries in places like Pontiac).
>
> We will need someone to research what the best legal books would be for
> the
> inmates that we serve and what the costs are.
>
> We need someone to write the grant... by coordinating all of this
> information.
>
> What do you think? Can we do it???
>
> Sandra
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> See my art at www.spiritofsandra.com <http://www.spiritofsandra.com>
>
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Jay
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