I already forwarded this to the fundraising committee list, but
thought that it's very relevant to this list as well. The Mellon
Foundation is offering $25,000 and $100,000 grants to non-profit
organizations that are advancing the development and use of open
source software.
This grant is somewhat limited to software that benefits Mellon's
traditional constituencies:
... "higher education, with a special emphasis on the arts and
humanities; libraries and scholarly communications; performing arts;
conservation and the environment; or museums and art conservation."
You can find more information on their website:
http://rit.mellon.org/awards/ (Note that it is a Plone site! :)
If you are planning to submit a nomination, please let everyone on
the NGO list know so that we can coordinate to some degree the number
of "Plone" submissions.
thanks,
Nate
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http://www.jazkarta.com
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From: Adam Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 26, 2006 3:33:38 PM EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [NOSI discussion] money for OSS
Dunno if everyone else already knows about this, but it looks great --
$25-$100K awards!
ab
14) Mellon Foundation Announces Awards for Open Source Software
Deadline: August 15, 2006
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced a Call for
Nominations for the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology
Collaboration. These awards, to be bestowed for the first time
at an international technology conference in the fall of 2006,
will recognize notprofit organizations that have demonstrated
exceptional leadership in the collaborative development of open-
source software through the contribution of substantial, self-
funded organizational resources to the open-source project for
which they are nominated.
MATC awards will be made at two levels -- $25,000 and $100,000
-- for significant contributions to collaborative, open-source
software development that serves one of the foundation's
traditional constituencies. The level of the award will depend
on the scale and significance of the nominated project.
Any U.S. or foreign organization that meets the foundation's
legal criteria for receiving grants and its strict standards for
excellence is eligible for consideration. The board of trustees
of the Mellon Foundation has authorized multiple awards at each
level.
Visit the Mellon Foundation Web site for the complete Call for
Nominations.
RFP Link: http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10002728/mellon
For additional RFPs in Science/Technology, visit:
http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10002729/science
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