Nature Quest Funds
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:12:34 -0400
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From: pick@pick.uga.edu (John Pickering)
Subject: Nature Quest Funds
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Nature Quest Team
Christi, Brian, Eric, Kitty & Lorelei,
During our Executive Committee conference call this coming Friday,
I propose to ask that Discover Life in America grants your Nature Quest
Team immediate authority to spend up to $10,000 to make the 27-31 May event
a giant success in terms of the science, education, public relations, and
fund raising for the ATBI.
If the Executive Committee and Natural History Association agrees
with this request, you will be able to spend the money as best you see fit,
covering the expenses of scientists whom you wish to participate, hosting a
get-together for those involved, etc. Jody should help you coordinate this
all.
Please do not feel compelled to spend all of whatever funds you may
receive!!! Discover Life in America has a cash flow problem, and we are
trying to stretch our money as far as possible. I propose that whatever
funds that you do not commit, and whatever funds you might raise during the
Nature Quest, you give to the Taxonomy Team coordinators for them to award
as mini grants to support individual investigators in the Park this summer.
As we did at the December meeting, please appeal to your colleagues'
conscience and generosity not to accept our support unless they really need
it. Although we had the authority to spend over $20,000 on the December
meeting, we only spent about $10,000, and raised over $3,000 in cash
donatings to boot.
I also propose to ask the Executive Committee for immediate support
for a sorting center ($35,000) and for our more active taxonomy teams
($20,000) that will be managed through our Science Committee.
Thanks for your help and enthusiasm. No promises.
Cheers,
Pick
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John Pickering
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