James H Peterson III, Louisville KY

Update on Louisville Metro External Agency Fund, for Non-profit Organizations post:

I cannot seem to get the links for the Metro External Agency Fund to work properly. I think the proublem is something I am not familar with in the pages source code. You should got to this page for the links: http://www.louisvilleky.gov/EAF/.

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The External Agency Fund is designed to provide funding for non-profit organizations that offer programs or services that advance the long-range vision and goals established by Mayor Jerry E. Abramson.

2008 -For information on the 2008 External Agency Fund (EAF) Click here.

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2008 External Agency Fund

2008 External Agency Fund (EAF)

Please select the link below for the 2008 Extenal Agency Fund information you need.

2008 EAF Handbook (PDF)
2008 EAF Grant Conditions  (PDF)
2008 EAF Timeline  (PDF)
2008 How To Apply  (PDF)
2008 Questions and Answers  (PDF)
2008 Who Can Apply  (PDF)
2008 Sample LOGIC Model (PDF)

APPLICATIONS

2008 Arts/Cultural Attractions Application (PDF)
2008 Arts/Cultural Attractions Application (DOC)
2008 Business Associations Application  (PDF)
2008 Business Associations Application  (DOC)
2008 Health Application  (PDF)
2008 Health Application  (DOC)
2008 Housing/Community Development Application  (PDF)
2008 Housing/Community Development Application  (DOC)
2008 Human Services Application  (PDF)
2008 Human Services Application  (DOC)
2008 Youth Application  (PDF)
2008 Youth Application  (DOC)

Education Information:

Graduate Schools:

* Master of Arts, English, Writing
* University of Louisville, 2004

* Master of Fine Arts, English, Writing
* Murray State KY, 2009

University:

* Bachelor of Arts, English
* University of Louisville, 2002

Upper School:

* Kentucky Country Day, 1994

Work Information:

* Louisville Creative Centre, 2007-Present
* Executive Director

Louisville Creative Centre Description:

The mission of the Louisville Creative Writing Centre is threefold. The primary purpose of the centre is to provide arts and writing workshops, classes, and lessons for all levels to interested and talented people in the Metro Louisville, Jefferson County, and Kentuckiana area. We seek to bring the personal gratification and self-actualization of the creative arts to those who cannot afford other means of education, have exhausted other means of education, or simply desire to work in communion with other writers. The second purpose is to find and identify emerging talent and pair that talent with already established writers, musicians, visual artists, and performing artists. The third purpose of the centre is to provide a focal point of social interaction for individuals in the arts community to find, socialize, and network with one another.

* United States Army & Kentucky Army National Guard, 1995-2002.

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For Isaac:
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Creative Capital, a New York City-based nonprofit organization, acts as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by supporting artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields. We are committed to working in partnership with the artists whom we fund, providing advisory services and professional development assistance along with multi-faceted financial aid and promotional support throughout the life of each Creative Capital project.

The Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. To accomplish this mission, the institute generates and communicates new knowledge, and brings together community, state, and national leaders.

At the heart of the institute's work is the framework of 40 Developmental Assets, which are positive experiences and personal qualities that young people need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.

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Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP) is a philanthropic investment organization that helps great leaders build strong, high-performing nonprofit institutions. It concentrates money, expertise, and personal contacts to improve the lives and boost the opportunities of children and youth of low-income families in the National Capital Region.

Whom We Support
We invest in high-potential nonprofit organizations that are serving the core developmental, learning, and educational needs of children from low-income families in the National Capital Region. We focus on philanthropic investment opportunities that have the greatest potential to improve the lives of children and that can help us demonstrate our strategic, engaged, and highly leveraged approach.

How We Work
When we enter into an investment partnership, we aspire to serve as a trusted advisor, helping great leaders build stronger, more effective, more enduring organizations to better serve children. Our investments are not intended to fund program costs. Instead, the focus of every VPP investment is helping leaders build the strength of the organization behind their programs, often referred to as "organizational capacity." We support our portfolio organizations through large-scale, multi-year funding; through the expertise of our in-house investment team; and through the leverage of a wide network of outside contacts, resources, and professional advisors.

Origins
In June 2000, Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP) was created. Our co-founders—Raul Fernandez, Mark Warner, and Mario Morino—recruited 26 other technology and business leaders and several foundations to join together and contribute more than $30 million to capitalize VPP’s first investment fund. The Morino Institute, led by Mario Morino, provided separate funding to create, incubate, and build the organization and its capacity. These 29 founding investors united behind a bold vision to alter the status quo for children in need of opportunity and, at the same time, create a different, innovative approach to philanthropy.

At Yum! Brands, we believe in giving back to the community and in making a difference in the lives of our customers and their families. One way we accomplish that is through the Yum! Brands Foundation, which supports charities working in the areas of hunger relief, youth, education, and the arts.

Through the Foundation Grant Program, Yum! has contributed millions of dollars to organizations in the Louisville area. One example of that giving is our partnership with the Dare to Care Food Bank, the largest hunger relief organization in Kentucky.

In June of 2002, Yum! Brands Foundation became a major corporate sponsor of Dare to Care Food Bank by committing $1 million annually to end hunger in the Kentuckiana area. The funding has enabled Dare to Care to expand the Kids Café network from nine locations to 19, serving over 100,000 nutritious meals to children in need each year. The partnership has also enabled Dare to Care to improve food delivery to its 29 distribution centers and initiate Patrol Against Hunger, a program where police officers deliver Dare to Care food boxes to homebound seniors in need. The program is the first of its kind in the nation and has expanded citywide to all eight Louisville Metro Police districts, providing about 10,000 meals each month to the elderly.

Through the Foundation Employee Matching Gift Program, Yum! supports and encourages employees to contribute financially to non-profit organizations by matching their gifts dollar-for-dollar.

Finally, through the Foundation Board Support Program, Yum! supports employees who choose to volunteer time and expertise by serving on the boards of non-profit organizations. Under this program, when a Yum employee commits to serving on the board of a qualified non-profit organization, the Yum! Brands Foundation will provide financial support to that organization.

Vision of the Gheens Foundation, Inc.

The vision of the Gheens Foundation, Inc. is to represent Edwin and Mary Jo Gheens in a manner that brings credit to their legacy. We will be mindful of the responsibilities to our communities as the area's second largest foundation. We will be distinguished by addressing the ongoing needs of Louisville, Kentucky and Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes, Louisiana while pro-actively seeking new and creative ways to have profound and long-term impact on a few selected projects in chosen fields of focus. This will be done while managing the foundation's assets in such a manner to assure long term viability.

Introducing: GivingNet - Proud Legacy, New Name

Earlier this year we changed our name to GivingNet, Inc. (we were formerly known as Community Foundations of America, Inc.) We believe our new name transmits a fresh message and better reflects the range of organizations that increasingly work with us and through us to enhance the impact of giving (our new mission).

Founded in March 2000 by a group of top community foundations, GivingNet provides products, services, capacity building and R&D to a network of organizations engaged in bringing more and better giving to communities, locally, nationally and globally.

Since 1984, The Community Foundation of Louisville, through its donors, has built a charitable endowment to support the nonprofits that make our region a vital and secure place in which to live and work.

With more than 1,100 charitable funds set up by individuals, families, businesses and other organizations, we made grants in 2007 totaling $28 million.

We help donors with their giving today and enable their generosity to continue after their lifetimes, supporting the causes they cared about and solving problems we can’t imagine today.

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A legacy of DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace, creators of The Reader’s Digest Association, The Wallace Foundation has grown to become among the top 40 private foundations in the United States, with assets of more than $1.5 billion. Through an integrated, team-based approach involving research and communications, in addition to grant-making, the Foundation extends its influence beyond its direct grantees. This is a recognition that significant and sustainable change in our education and cultural systems requires information and insight, and the Foundation had set as its strategy to be a “knowledge center” for policy-makers and practitioners in its areas of focus.

We have a new Cluster Map. Not much change in world activity. Some shifting in Europe, and mostly changes in the US New England and US southwest.

Pax Tibi,

James H. Peterson III

Neil Gaiman on Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Crowley and Aziraphale's 2006 New Year's resolutions

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett present New Year's resolutions of the demon Crowley and the angelic Aziraphale — characters in Good Omens, publishing in February 2006...

Crowley:

Resolution #1: I must accept that Super-Gluing valuable coins to the sidewalk and then watching events from a nearby café is not proper demonic activity.

Resolution #2: The same applies to rearranging the letters on wayside pulpits.

Resolution #3: Try to come up with something as good as cell phone ringtones, following one last stab at convincing Downstairs that cell phone ringtones are right up there in the whole Human Misery stakes. And iPods. Has anybody Down There even said thank you for iPods? Or "Googling yourself?" Frankly, I deserve some kind of award for "Googling yourself."

Resolution #4: I must encourage greedy people to use the term, "Low-hanging fruit," because that's just like old times.

Resolution #5: This year, I will get a desk near the window.

Resolution #6: I will try to understand why Hell is a no-smoking area. I just think it's ridiculous having to stand around outside the gates, that's all.

Resolution #7: On the orders of Head Office I will encourage the belief in Intelligent Design, because it upsets everyone.

Resolution #8: Stop Googling myself.

Aziraphale:

Resolution #1: Spread peace and love and glad tidings of great joy throughout the world. Also try to get out more.

Resolution #2: I will be charitable to people who use the term "core values," however difficult this may be.

Resolution #3: Notwithstanding Resolution #2 (above), I will redouble my efforts to have the utterance of the phrase "core values" classified as a deadly sin. I believe Himself is with me on this one.

Resolution #4: I will try to be nicer to the customers. They want to buy books; I want to sell them. It can't be that hard. (Memo to self: Regular opening hours? Mark prices on books?)

Resolution #5: I will try to be polite to Gabriel, no matter what the provocation.

Resolution #6: Find out exactly what an "Internet" is.

Resolution #7: Really must resume dancing lessons. Learn the "Galloping Major," the "Gay Gordons," the "Mashed Potatoes." Possibly even the "Twist"?

Resolution #8: Thwart Infernal Wiles (ongoing).

Resolution #9: I will try to understand why Heaven is a non-smoking area.

Resolution #10: On the orders of Head Office I will encourage the belief in Intelligent Design – despite the fact that the human airway crosses the digestive tract. Who thought that was intelligent?

Resolution #11: Feed the ducks.

The site listed below was recommended to me by the authors Dr. Mary Hall, PhD, and Susan Howlett, in their book Getting Funded, The Complete Guide to Writing Grants Proposals. Looking over the site, I believe it will indeed be indispensable in finding solicited grant announcements.

Philanthropy News Digest publishes RFPs and notices of awards as a free service for grant-making organizations and nonprofits. To have your RFP considered for publication, please email pndrfp@foundationcenter.org with a Word document, text-only file, or link to a Web site explaining the program scope, grantee qualifications, application instructions, and deadlines. We require notice of funding opportunities five weeks in advance of their deadlines.

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Words & Music arts festival:

Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans is the result of our dream. It includes sessions for writers conducted by literary masters, who also hold forth on timely theme material of interest to the general reading public. Words & Music is a feast for the ears, the eyes, the soul with its examination of fiction, non fiction, and new phenomena within the literary and communications arena and its photographic art exhibitions, film sessions, drama, poetry readings at the cocktail hour, great music, dancing, and the renowned cuisine of New Orleans. The festival annually features 75 to 100 new and established authors, scholars, editors, publishers, and performing artists. Words & Music serves three primary audiences each year: the reading public, aspiring authors, and our prestigious faculty of well known authors, critics, scholars, editors, publishers, literary agents, and performing artists, who enjoy an opportunity to exchange ideas in the relaxed atmosphere of New Orleans hospitality. Programming for the festival reflects this audience diversity.

An annual theme series of discussions by faculty members features provocative topics bearing on contemporary life and literature. Each session affords the audience an opportunity to interact with the authors. Aspiring authors, talented men and women seeking to improve their work and get it published. Each year, established masters of the literary arts share their experience and wisdom in sessions on the art of writing, designed primarily for developing writers but also open to the reading public.

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The programs of Words & Music, 2007, for instance, revolved around recognition of the war in Iraq, the controversy over immigration, spirituality, and other issues impacting our lives today. The 2007 theme of discussions for the general reading public was:

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The Grant Institute's Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, February 20 - 22, 2008. Interested development professionals, researchers, faculty, and graduate students should register as soon as possible, as demand means that seats will fill up quickly. Please forward, post, and distribute this e-mail to your colleagues and listservs.

All participants will receive certification in professional grant writing from the Institute. For more information call (888) 824 - 4424 or visit The Grant Institute at www.thegrantinstitute.com.

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The Grant Institute
Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop
will be held in
Louisville, Kentucky
February 20 - 22, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Grant Institute's Grants 101 course is an intensive and detailed introduction to the process, structure, and skill of professional proposal writing. This course is characterized by its ability to act as a thorough overview, introduction, and refresher at the same time. In this course, participants will learn the entire proposal writing process and complete the course with a solid understanding of not only the ideal proposal structure, but a holistic understanding of the essential factors, which determine whether or not a program gets funded. Through the completion of interactive exercises and activities, participants will complement expert lectures by putting proven techniques into practice. This course is designed for both the beginner looking for a thorough introduction and the intermediate looking for a refresher course that will strengthen their grant acquisition skills. This class, simply put, is designed to get results by creating professional grant proposal writers.

Participants will become competent program planning and proposal writing professionals after successful completion of the Grants 101 course. In three active and informative days, students will be exposed to the art of successful grant writing practices, and led on a journey that ends with a masterful grant proposal.

Grants 101 consists of three (3) courses that will be completed during the three-day workshop.

(1) Fundamentals of Program Planning

This course is centered on the belief that "it's all about the program." This intensive course will teach professional program development essentials and program evaluation. While most grant writing "workshops" treat program development and evaluation as separate from the writing of a proposal, this class will teach students the relationship between overall program planning and grant writing.

(2) Professional Grant Writing

Designed for both the novice and experienced grant writer, this course will make each student an overall proposal writing specialist. In addition to teaching the basic components of a grant proposal, successful approaches, and the do's and don'ts of grant writing, this course is infused with expert principles that will lead to a mastery of the process. Strategy resides at the forefront of this course's intent to illustrate grant writing as an integrated, multidimensional, and dynamic endeavor. Each student will learn to stop writing the grant and to start writing the story. Ultimately, this class will illustrate how each component of the grant proposal represents an opportunity to use proven techniques for generating support.

(3) Grant Research

At its foundation, this course will address the basics of foundation, corporation, and government grant research. However, this course will teach a strategic funding research approach that encourages students to see research not as something they do before they write a proposal, but as an integrated part of the grant seeking process. Students will be exposed to online and database research tools, as well as publications and directories that contain information about foundation, corporation, and government grant opportunities. Focusing on funding sources and basic social science research, this course teaches students how to use research as part of a strategic grant acquisition effort.

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$597.00 tuition includes all materials and certificates.

Each student will receive:
*The Grant Institute Certificate in Professional Grant Writing
*The Grant Institute's Guide to Successful Grant Writing
*The Grant Institute Grant Writer's Workbook with sample proposals, forms, and outlines

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Abort, Retry, Ignore?
by Anonymous

Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets.
Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer,
I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store,
Only this and nothing more.

Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing,
Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more.
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.
"Save!" I said, "You cursed mother! Save my data from before!"
One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more,
Just, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

Was this some occult illusion, some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices undesired, ones I'd never faced before.
Carefully I weighed the choices as the disk made impish noises.
The cursor flashed, insistent, waiting, baiting me to type some more.
Clearly I must press a key, choosing one and nothing more,
From "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

With fingers pale and trembling, slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,
Praying for some guarantee, timidly, I pressed a key.
But on the screen there still persisted words appearing as before.
Ghastly grim they blinked and taunted, haunted, as my patience wore,
Saying "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

I tried to catch the chips off guard, and pressed again, but twice as hard.
I pleaded with the cursed machine: I begged and cried and then I swore.
Now in mighty desperation, trying random combinations,
Still there came the incantation, just as senseless as before.
Cursor blinking, angrily winking, blinking nonsense as before.
Reading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted.
Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor.
And then I saw a dreadful sight: a lightning bolt cut through the night.
A gasp of horror overtook me, shook me to my very core.
The lightning zapped my previous data, lost and gone forevermore.
Not even, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

To this day I do not know the place to which lost data go.
What demonic nether world us wrought where lost data will be stored,
Beyond the reach of mortal souls, beyond the ether, into black holes?
But sure as there's C, Pascal, Lotus, Ashton-Tate and more,
You will be one day be left to wander, lost on some Plutonian shore,
Pleading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"

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Here are the latest market additions and updates, as well as some upcoming themed publication deadlines.

Paying Markets Added (since last newsletter):

1: Another Sky Horror Anthology. Payscale for Short Fiction: Non-paying Plus Royalties. From the publisher: "Horror! Be it surreal, suspense, splatterpunk or just plain scary."

2: Another Sky Romance Anthology. Payscale for Short Fiction: Non-paying Plus Royalties. From the publisher: "Romance! But not romance as in romance novel, but romance as in life - love, heartbreak, and everything in between. Edgy. Real."

3: Another Sky Sci-fi Anthology. Payscale for Short Fiction: Non-paying Plus Royalties. From the publisher: "Sci-fi! Cyberpunk and other tales of the future, now."

4: Blu Phi'er Zombie Anthology. Payscale for Short Fiction: Token to Semi-Pro. From the publisher: "Looking for great horror, the visceral the better. Sex, and true gore very welcome: We want the most disgusting brutality you can think of. Vampires and werewolves can be a part of the story, as long as Zombies are the main force of the story, with a work place theme. And no erotic vampires. We want scary monsters. That's correct, the theme.is a book about Zombies in the work place. An Anthology of the best horror authors out there. Use some of the bad jobs you had in the past as a motive."

5: Epic Literature. Payscale for Short Fiction: Pays occasionally. From the publisher: "This site is for any aspiring writers or anyone who just wants to read a good story. We encourage all people to submit their original stories via email and we will post it. We do not reject anyone and we accept all genres. We do not mind if the story has been featured in any other publications as long as there is no plagiarism."

6: Serpentarius Magazine. Payscale for Short Fiction: Professional. Payscale for Poetry: Semi-pro. From the publisher: "Welcome to Serpentarius Magazine. We are a Speculative Fiction market. Speculative means genres like Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Fear, Steampunk, Alternate Worlds, Sword and Sorcery, and any other similar trope. [They do not pay for flash fiction, under 1,000 words.]"

7: Shroud Bleeding Desert Anthology, The. Payscale for Short Fiction: Semi-pro. From the publisher: "The Shroud Magazine short fiction anthology to benefit Nevada Literacy. Bleeding Desert will feature thirteen bone-chilling tales of mysterious ghost towns, strange desert landscapes, and a host of other horrifying denizens of the dry places. Shroud Publishing will donate a generous portion of the profits from this collection to Nevada literacy efforts. Bleeding Desert will go on sale in the Winter of 2008 in a limited edition trade paperback edition."

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Greetings from Duotrope's Digest, Duotrope's Digest Weekly Wire, Novel/Collection Edition

We wish all of you who are participating in NaNoWriMo this year the best success! For those of you not familiar with NaNoWriMo, the participants set out to write the first draft of a novel during the month of November.

Here are the latest market additions and updates, as well as some upcoming themed publication deadlines.

Paying Markets Added (since last newsletter):

1: BeachSide Press. Payscale for Novels/Collections: Pays semi-pro advance & > 15% royalties. From the publisher: "BeachSide Press is a small, independent publisher of satire, romance, and historical fiction. We are looking for well written, wholesome manuscripts by credible, promotable authors."

2: Children of Atlantis. Payscale for Short Fiction: Non-paying Plus Royalties. Payscale for Novels/Collections: Pays no advance & > 15% royalties. From the publisher: "Premise: Plato wrote that Atlantis sank "in a single day and night of misfortune." Survivors of the sinking of Atlantis found refuge elsewhere in the world. As an advanced society, Atlantis possessed knowledge far beyond that of the rest of the world. How did their knowledge affect their new lives? What secrets were passed down through the generations? Just how different were Atlanteans from other humans? Were they human at all? You get the idea. Now run with it."

3: Cobblestone Press. Payscale for Short Fiction: Non-paying Plus Royalties. Payscale for Novels/Collections: Pays no advance & > 15% royalties. From the publisher: "We are an electronic publisher of sensual and erotic romance seeking creative storytelling and original style. Because we at Cobblestone Press are selective about what we accept, we are looking for authors to set the standard of writing for this new press; authors that show extraordinary ability to weave tales of romance through strong, unforgettable characters, plots that twist and turn with layers of conflict and emotion, and a style that sets them apart from other writers in the market. We accept all levels of sensual to erotic romance. While we want our authors to feel free to be creative as possible we do insist on strong plots, fully developed characters, and a Happily Ever After ending. All sexually active characters in the manuscript must be at least 18 no matter the time period."

4: Drollerie Press. Payscale for Short Fiction: Non-paying Plus Royalties. Payscale for Poetry: Non-paying Plus Royalties. Payscale for Novels/Collections: Pays no advance & > 15% royalties. From the publisher: "Drollerie Press publishes transformative fiction focused on myths, fairy tales, and legends in print and electronic format. You might characterize some of our stories as, at least in part, speculative fiction, mythic fiction, slipstream, new weird, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, paranormal, magical realism, mystery, science fiction, literary fiction, erotica, historical, or horror. Our authors use one or more of the tools of these genres to provide stories with mythic themes."