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Tony Wood Meeting 2/19/10 (with Annie)
Ittleson Foundation
Grant Application Brainstorm
• Ittleson grants given for 3 years max – what can be done in this time frame?
- Need compelling narrative, with quantifiable & attainable objectives
• Ittleson wants something left behind, they offer in-and-out funding
- At the end of the grant period, what milestone will have been reached?
- Cannot look like “more of the same” in proposal…rather, what’s happening/needed presently, and where can/will we go with funding?
Outputs – easier, tangible and quantifiable productions
Outcomes – harder to identify, anticipate
• Ittleson expects orgs will go other places for supplemental funding
- want other funders engaged: validity to initiative
• Letter of Intent
- get in a “best shot” early (late May/early June) – Tony will give feedback for revision (final due in Sept.)
- 2.5 pgs to get board interested enough for full proposal (additional 2.5 pgs)
- generate excitement and curiosity for full proposal
- power of idea, transformative possibilities
- less about the details (unless prison campaign – then need more details)
- less HOW, more WHAT
- 1 month after letter of intent, full application due:
o budget, basic info, support letters (3 external people who provide vantage points about need for TIP/project, uniqueness of project, and why TIP is the group to execute this project
• NARRATIVES: focus on Community? or Prison (as subcommunity of sorts)?
- separate or tie together? probably just one, as a stand-alone, would be more appealing to funder - risky and unclear to wed together
- PRISON
o intriguing, but the burden is we may not be as far along yet gathering deeper knowledge about thresholds, how prisons function, how we’d access; need some level of “buy-in”, how to interface – establish before seeking funding for this specific campaign
* Look into Ittleson history of funding/applications related to prisons and mental health
- AUTONOMOUS GROUP MOVEMENT
o there’s an increasing demand, and has been ongoing organic organization
o “Open Source” mentality (ie: autonomous local groups) – appealing, frontline, unique
o now, ask for grant support for:
§ national strategic collaboration with local groups
§ one in every region of the country? need measurement, and reason for quantity selected
§ national strategy
§ tools
§ bolstering existing groups
- Third/additional narrative: NETWORK
o knit autonomous groups together: expanding community and linking
o facilitating linkage; need the groups and individual members to see the value of linkage
o creating system for Icarus to one day be self-sustaining; local groups linked so collective could, in theory, dissolve
Best narratives on the table (EITHER/BOTH):
1. Icarus movement that will live beyond Icarus structure
2. X # of strong local groups