OS and Funding

Chris Corrigan chris at chriscorrigan.com
Thu Nov 20 15:40:55 PST 2003


Don:

Excellent story there...really top rate.

I did something similar last year with a bunch of inner city Aboriginal
youth in Winnipeg, Canada.  The OST was sponsored by an urban youth
council that actually hands out nearly a million dollars in funding
every year, most of it through a traditional call for proposals
competition.  They noticed that many of the proposals were coming from
adult agencies, and that very few youth were involved in actually
crafting these projects.  So, naturally, they opened space.

The youth raised topics and issues in Open Space and were invited to get
little teams together to discuss these and plan next steps.  The support
for the invitation consisted of a series of workshops on the second day
offered by the youth planning council.  They had all gotten training in
proposal writing and project development, so they invited youth with
ideas to come back for day two and use their ideas in the proposal
writing workshops to actually craft submissions to the youth council.
Then the council themselves ended up with lots of projects, and because
youth are usually very efficient with resources, and have little
overhead, a lot more activity got started, with a lot more initiative
taken by youth in the community who partnered with each other and
various agencies to bring their ideas to life.

So for a while I've been looking for someone else who has done something
like this, as I think it is a fantastic practice for inviting and
supporting community initiative.

Thanks for putting it out there.

Chris

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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Bowen Island, BC, Canada
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> I thought that maybe someone on this list might be interested in the
> attached short story that captures how a small California foundation
> used a combination of Open Space and methods from the Institute for
> Cultural Affairs to allocate its funds.
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> http://placer.networkofcare.org
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