[NGO] Fwd: [NOSI discussion] money for OSS

[Nate Aune]

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

--
Nate Aune - natea at jazkarta.com
http://www.jazkarta.com


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Adam Bernstein <adam at amberbug.org>
> Date: May 26, 2006 3:33:38 PM EDT
> To: nosi-discussion at nosi.net
> 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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