OSI/USA: invitation for funding proposals for WOSonOS 08 in San Francisco

[Tree Fitzpatrick]

The Open Space Institute/USA has a happy mission. We hold space for open
space.

Today I have the wonderful task of announcing to the Open Space listserv
that one of the ways the Open Space Institute/USA holds space for open space
is giving financial support to  help a few people attend a WOSonOS event.  I
love this work, the work of helping to make it possible for someone to
travel internationally, to join in a circle of OS colleagues from all around
the world and to experience OS.  Right now, each person reading this letter
has now joined our circle, now each person reading this is also holding
space to fund some colleagues to attend WOSonOS in San Francisco this July.

If you are reading this letter and find yourself wishing that you could
attend WOSonOS in San Francisco this July, 2008, but you are hesitating
because you don't see how you can fund it, please read on.

To revisit our  funding criteria:
::: 1 - Projects that serve underserved areas of the world
::: 2 - Leveraged efforts that reach multiple people, especially in training
or other sustaining sorts of ways
::: 3 - Situations wherein other groups or individuals have already made
investments so that OSI-USA augments rather than initiates projects
::: 4 - Project sponsors and facilitators who will do good work and bring
the story back to the larger OS community
::: 5.. We ask that you please wait 3 years or more before you make another
request for funding from us, so that others may also have a chance to use
these resources.  This is a flexible criteria. We are sitting in inquiry
about how to best manage our resources.

If you wish to submit a proposal to the Open Space Institute/USA for partial
funding to WOSonOs 08, which will be in San Francisco in July, the deadline
for proposals is May 6, 2008. Please send the proposals to me, at my email
address:  tree.fitzpatrick#gmail.com. I will circulate them to all the
members of this board.  We will decide which proposals, if any, we can fund
this year at our May board meeting and notify the parties involved
immediately.

Very truly yours,

Tree Fitzpatrick, for the OSI/USA board

Gabriel Shirley, Karen Davis, Doug Germann, John Engle, Peggy Holman, Lisa
Heft, Christine Whitney Sanchez, Phelim McDermott, Ed Laboy

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