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Dragonfly, Summer 2001 Ease Your Way Into Outreach: Mini-Awards

Outreach partnerships benefit all participants, but it is a challenge to find the time and resources needed to assure success. RML staff have often heard that network members are hesitant to "write a big grant application" or tackle a large-scale planning process. In response, this year we have initiated mini-awards, simplified online applications for training or exhibits support. There are also mini-awards for upgrading to persistent (i.e., 24/7), high-speed internet connectivity.

Ideas and opportunities for outreach may occur at any time, so applications for these mini-awards will not need to meet a specific deadline. Applications will be considered until the funds are exhausted. Each training or exhibit award will be $500, and we plan to fund five exhibit and five training projects during Year 1 (May 2001-April 2002). We hope to also make five persistent connections awards this year, at $1000 each.

The "applications" are really fill-in-the-blank templates on the web, linked from the mini-award descriptions at http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/miniaward.html. We will process your request quickly, generally within two weeks.

These mini-awards are one strategy for involving network members in fulfilling the NN/LM mission, specially targeting underserved populations and/or people suffering from poor health status (and providers and intermediaries who serve them). We hope you will use these funds to collaborate with a group, institution or community that you see as a potential outreach partner. After a successful foray into training or exhibiting with this group, you just might be motivated to apply for a larger Outreach Project Award. This year's Outreach Project Award proposals are due September 28, 2001. But, there's always next year! Questions, comments, suggestions? Please contact Linda Milgrom, Outreach Coordinator, at lmilgrom@u.washington.edu or by phone (1-800-338-7657 or 206-221-3400).

Dragonfly, Summer, 2001 -- Vol.32, Number 3
(posted on PNRNews August 13, 2001)

URL: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/news/200107/miniout.html