kcic fall2011 grantee survey

8/3/2019 KCIC Fall2011 Grantee Survey

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KCIC Fall 2011 Grantee Survey - Round 3

Introduction

Thank you for completing this annual survey for John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Community Information Challenge awardees. Your responses are an important way to

communicate how your project is developing and your overall experience in the KnightCommunity Information Challenge (KCIC).

We appreciate your thoughtful responses to the questions that follow. The survey must be

completed by 5pm EST on Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Your responses fulfill the reporting

requirement to Knight Foundation. Circuit Riders will be in touch with you separately about

providing web traffic data.

This survey includes questions intended for both implementing organizations and foundation

leadership. Please plan for up to 2 hours to complete the survey; however, additional time may

be needed to prepare your responses (see more on the next page on Tips).

How to Submit Your Responses:

You will be able to return to this survey as many times as you need to by following the unique

URL link that was sent to you by email. Please note that your responses will only be saved

when you progress from one page to the next by clicking the >>; (forward) button. When you

have completed the survey, and are ready to submit it, click on the >> (forward) button on the

last page. You should submit only one survey per project.

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Tips on Preparing Your Responses

How to Prepare Your Responses:

This survey has 28 questions that are distributed over three sections 1) Project

implementation and outcomes (14 questions), 2) Foundation engagement (8 questions), and3) Knight Foundation resources and feedback (6 questions). We encourage you to consult with

other members of your project team (e.g., program staff, implementing partners, your board

and/or senior leadership, contractors) to complete this survey.

Here are a few suggested approaches:

Send the survey Word document to stakeholders and schedule a conversation to complete

it together in person or over the phone (Word version sent in FSG email June 24)

Send relevant sections to the most appropriate stakeholders to fill out responses in a

Word document (e.g., send section one to implementing partners) and have a single

representative enter the responses online using the link

Complete the survey online, section by section, forwarding the link to others, as needed.

Additionally, you may find it useful to have relevant project documents on-hand, such as your

project budget or evaluation plan when filling out or discussing the questions. Please keep in

mind that the goal of the survey is to obtain responses that accurately reflect your knowledge

and experiences. The usefulness of the findings is dependent on the quality of information

provided by respondents. Please consider where your perspective might not be representative

of other stakeholders, and to the extent necessary, engage your colleagues in responding to

these questions.


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Please note that the survey will close at 5:00pm EST on Wednesday, July 27.

If you have any questions regarding the survey or require technical assistance, please contact

Katelyn Mack at [email protected] or by phone at (415) 689-3874.

Thank you very much for taking the time to complete this survey. We appreciate your

participation and hope you find the experience valuable for your organizations learning and

decision-making.>>

Please identify your organization (the primary KCIC grantee).

I. Project Implementation and Outcomes (14 Questions)

1. Have the goals of your project changed since you signed your contract for KCIC funding?

m Yes (please explain any changes in the space below) ____________________

m No

m Don't know

2. If you were to communicate the single most important outcome of your project this year

through Twitter, what would you tweet? (i.e., 140 characters or less)

Through live, interactive webcasts, NOWCastSA enabled hundreds of people to

participate in significant local civic events or watch later.

3. We understand that KCIC grantees are in various stages of their project development. Which

statement below best describes the current stage of your project?

m Seed/Pre-launch: Project has received funding, but has not yet launched

m Start-up: Project has recently launched and is still relatively small in terms of resources and

outputs

m Proof of concept: Project has demonstrated that it has a viable market and the capacity toserve it

m Growth: Project is growing rapidly in terms of demand for services, impact, and

resources at its disposal

m Established: Project has established itself as a part of the community's information

ecosystem

4. Please describe your progress to date toward the following anticipated milestones, outcomes,

and events as stated in your KCIC contract.

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Outcome #1 NOWCastSA/

Texas Week project will

increase the visibility and

usage of the NOWCastSA

online neighborhood

communications platform.

m m m Every week since the Texas Week

program launched in January,

2011, NOWCastSA and KLRNs

Texas Week work together to

create a brief promotional segment

about NOWCastSA. That segmentis always broadcast by KLRN

at the conclusion of the Texas

Week program. These spots

encourage television viewers to go to

NOWCastSA and engage online.

(Here is a link to a video we compiled

of the first 17 promo spots: http://

youtu.be/emO63aeY6so)

The traffic that comes to

NOWCastSA from the klrn.orgwebsite has an 8 percent lower

bounce rate than our average,

engages viewers for 8 percent more

pages per visit than our average

and, most importantly, 70.73 percent

are new visitors, meaning KLRN is

raising awareness amongst people

who have not been to NOWCastSA

before through our partnership.
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increase awareness about

hyperlocal news and

information to citizens of

San Antonio and South

Texas

m m Each weeks promotional spot

includes descriptions and images of

one or more news articles, videos or

interactive webcasts on NOWCastSA

about hyperlocal issues.

The positioning on KLRNs TexasWeek program, and subsequently on

the on-demand video of that program

on KLRNs website gives prominence

to the issues and increases public

awareness.

As you can see in the video we

compiled of the first 17 promo spots

(http://youtu.be/emO63aeY6so)

, the promo segments encourage

viewers to go to NOWCastSA for the

kind of hyperlocal issues coverage

they can get nowhere else: full-

length webcasts of candidate forums,

planning workshops, public hearings,

trials; complete archived video of

all eight San Antonio Independent

School Districts 2011 high school

graduations; mini documentaries on

education efforts of the East Side

Promise Neighborhood project, tothe immigration reform efforts of

university students across the city

who campaigned for the DREAM Act

by going on a six-week hunger strike;

photo and video stories by volunteers

in the community on issues such as

the childhood obesity epidemic

Anticipated Outcome #3

is embedded from KCICcontract

m m m

5. We understand that grantees are at various stages of implementation and some projects

have not yet launched. However, we are interested in knowing more about the outcomes you

are seeing among the groups your project aims to reach and the communities that you are

serving. In the past year, we have seen KCIC grantees and projects having impact in their


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communities in different ways, as described in the figure below.

Which of the following outcomes do you think your project has achieved? Please provide

supporting evidence for your response on the following page. Select all that apply.

a We have increasingly reached our target audience(s)

b We are increasingly engaging our target audience(s)c We have created a more informed community

d Our community is more civically engaged

q There is greater media attention to local issues

q Community organizations are collaborating more

q Media capacity among nonprofits in our community has increased

e We have contributed to changes in public policy

f We have contributed to changes in individual behavior

q We have achieved a different outcome (please explain): ____________________

q It is too soon to see outcomes for our project

6a-j. Please briefly describe what evidence you have of The more detail you provide in

your responses, the richer the synthesis of grantee responses can be for peer learning and

information sharing [NOTE: YOU WILL BE ASKED THIS QUESTION FOR EACH OF THE

OUTCOMES YOU SELECT IN THE QUESTION ABOVE].

a We have increasingly reached our target audience(s):

We can tell through views and time on site metrics that we are increasingly reaching

the target audience of people who want more hyperlocal data and information about

their community. Two outstanding examples are the Google map we created of local

Farmers Markets, which has earned almost 24,000 pageviews, and our back-to-school

story that mapped free immunization clinics and also illustrated San Antonios childhood

immunization rate by Zip code, which earned 483 unique views in August 2010, withusers spending an average 04:23 minutes on the page.

b We are increasingly engaging our target audience(s): We know through pageviews,video views and thousands of online chat conversations that we are engaging onetarget audience of people who want to participate more in the democratic process.The best example of this is our special section on the SA2020 envisioning projectincludes transcripts of the real-time conversation (http://www.nowcastsa.com/sa2020/

conversation) during which people in the community thanked us for making it possiblefor them to participate online when they could not be physically present in the room. Ouronline community has become so robust that they have asked for their own facilitatorduring workshops, insisted on having online conversations with community leaders whoare in the room, or piped up with smart questions during candidates forums.c We have created a more informed community: We can tell through pageviews, video

views and time on site that what resonates most with our community are pieces heavy

with information, for example hours long webcasts of forums on community health data


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or water-rate hearings, candidate forums and workshops on public transportation or

development have garnered significant attention and interaction.

d Our community is more civically engaged: We have done 51 live webcasts ofpublic meetings and significant civic events since April 2010, (map here: http://www.nowcastsa.com/content/nowcastsa-webcasts) In almost every instance, the onlineaudience was bigger than the audience in the room, and our pageviews often doubledor tripled after-the-fact with people who would not have been able to participate in thedemocratic process had NOWCastSA not expanded the room to include them.

e We have contributed to changes in public policy: After seeing how so many additionalpeople have been able to participate in civic events via NOWCastSAs live, interactivewebcasts, there has been a shift in public policy toward more transparency ingovernment. NOWCastSA is sought out by everyone from neighborhood associationsto utility executives and the city council and mayors office to use our live interactivewebcasts to expand the room to more participants, and also because we archive theentire event so people can see the video for themselves on their own timetable.

(See video of Rackspace Chairman Graham Weston describing the impact here: http://www.nowcastsa.com/sa2020 )

fWe have contributed to changes in individual behavior: NOWCastSAs live webcasts ofpublic events have received, in the aggregate, more than 55,000 video views from peoplewho otherwise would not have been able to watch and participate in these significantcommunity events. In addition, we received thousands of chat comments from peoplewhose voice would not otherwise have been heard or incorporated in the democraticprocess. People did things they could never do before: From a distance, they askedquestions of candidates and community leaders online. Sometimes they demanded theirown online facilitator at workshops. And significantly, during our live webcast of eightSan Antonio High School graduations heres who joined the 2,000 online visitors in San

Antonio: A mom deployed in Iraq got to watch her son sing the National Anthem, anuncle in Germany got to watch his nephew graduate, in Rome, the son of a school boardmember got to watch his mom deliver the commencement address. And 22 people in thetiny Mexican town of Aguascalientes watched and shared the most important day of theirrelatives lives.

7. Please tell us which external organizations and individuals have contributed to your project

this year (e.g., close partners, financial contributors, technical or evaluation support). Please do

not include Circuit Riders or Knight Foundation staff in your response.

Partner 1: CI:NOW (Ongoing support with grant applications, in-kind support of facilities throughNOW:Tech and NOW:Data, technical support, marketing)

Partner 2: San Antonio Area Foundation: ($50,000 in underwriting support in 2011 countstoward matching funds. NOWCastSA also paid SAAF $12,000 for back office support.)Partner 3: KLRN (in-kind on-air promotion and marketing)

Partner 4: United Way of San Antonio (grants=$75,000 + $15,000 Promise, $10,000 counts

toward matching funds)

Partner 5: San Antonio Public Library (in-kind free office space and utilities)
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Partner 6: Methodist Health Ministries (grants to NOWCastSA through CI:NOW/United Way and

through the Ecumenical Center for Religion and Health.)

Partner 7: Rackspace Hosting (in-kind and underwriting $8,400 of Luminaria event, along with

promotion and marketing.)

Partner 8: Kit Digital (discounted video hosting services = $6,000)

Partner 9: San Antonio Independent School District (in-kind technical support during numerouswebcasting events)

Partner 10: UTSA Downtown (in-kind technical support during significant webcasting eventsl)

Partner 11: San Antonio Housing Authority (Future contracts through Dept. of Education Choice

Neighborhood grant in 2011 and 2012)

Partner 12: Gen TX: (partner in the process of inspiring community engagement)

Partner 13: Time Warner Cable: (in-kind = $4,500 + technical and marketing support by

providing high-speed Internet during significant events including Lumanaria.)

Partner 14: City of San Antonio (SA2020 promotion, in-kind technical support at all SA2020

events)

Partner 15: Online Media Legal Network: free legal referal services

8. Please identify the type of organization for each partner and complete the table below:

- Please provide a brief explanation of this organizations contribution (20 words or less)

- How many dollars has this partner contributed to your project since receiving the Knight grant?

(If not applicable, select 0)

- Does this contribution count toward the matching requirement? (Yes/No/Not Sure)

9. Please identify your target audience and describe the strategies that you are using to reach

and engage these groups.

The specific

audience(s) weare trying to inform

through the project

are:

What strategies you

are using to reachand engage this

audience online and/

or offline?

Which strategies

have worked well?

10 words or less 150 words or less 150 words or less

Target audience 1: people who want to

engage more in the

democratic process

We have turned

the newsroom

inside out and

gone on location

to about 50 places

to broadcastlive interactive

webcasts from the

event, publishing

simultaneously on

multiple platforms

- video, social

The webcastshave workedvery well. Wevegotten 55,000video views and

thousands of chatcomments. Werealso implementinga Groups functionto allow peopleto participate inand subscribe toa group about anissue.


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media and our

website. We make

it easy for people

to comment online

during events and

then engage witheach other about

the issues later.

Target audience 2: people who want

hyperlocal data and

information about

their community

In cooperationwith our partnersCI:NOW, NOW:Dataand NOW:Techwe do communityoutreach in-person withgroups of people

to connect themwith the hyperlocaldata and withNOWCastSA. Werealso implementinga Groups functionin our CMS toallow people toparticipate inand subscribeto a group abouta particular data

collection or issue.

We know the in-person meetupsand speakingengagements areeffective becauseafterward, we cansee that peoplesign up for the

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Target audience 3: people and

communities who

are underserved by

mainstream media

We use printedflyers to bringpeople toNOWCastSA, wereach out throughlocal televisionthrough the TexasWeek program onKLRN, we do in-person meetupsand speak to localgroups and we usea variety of socialmedia channelsincluding Twitter,

YouTube andFacebook.Were also putting

an emphasison mobile. Wetrain people tocontribute contentvia mobile onfeature phonesand we alsopush contentout via SMS thatis optimized formobile.

While we have notyet measured thenumber of referralsfrom flyers andlocal television,we think it issuccessful becausewe get a great dealof direct traffic,meaning peopletype NOWCastSAinto their browserto reach the site.We know themobile push isworking becauseof the tremendousvideo views on our

mobile videos.

Amanda -- drawing on older NOWCastSA documents and also from the boards strategicplanning meeting in January, I put this together:Our targeted audiences are 1) people who want to be civically engaged and to participatein the democratic process; 2) people who want more hyperlocal data and informationabout their local community; 3) people who want to know about or publicize hyperlocalevents in their community and 4) people and communities who are underserved bymainstream media.

10. What have been your three biggest challenges this year? Please describe how youovercame this challenge or what you tried to do that may or may not have been successful.

Give us a sense of why your tactics did or did not work as expected. (3000 characters or less)

1) Corporate structure: Unbeknownst to board members and the managing director,

NOWCastSA was incorporated as a 509(a)(3) supporting organization to the San Antonio Area

Foundation in September 2009. This raises questions about journalistic independence and

also impedes fundraising because we are not an independent 501(c)(3) with the accompanying

transparency of Forms 990. The NOWCastSA board is adopting more appropriate bylaws,


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correcting the mission statement in the articles of incorporation and is in the process of

becoming an independent 501(c)(3). We also are filing pro-forma Forms 990 and will make

them public on NOWCastSA.com and guidestar.org for the benefit of donors.

2) Raising the visibility of the NOWCastSA website and its content: We focused on

Search Engine Optimization strategies and also on a website redesign with improved taxonomy

categories and tagging. We also focused on pushing content out in an email newsletter. Thosetactics worked very well, showing enormous increases in our being found through search

engines, and quality traffic being referred to the site via the newsletter.

3) Better connecting people with data from our partner CI:NOW: We directed some web

development resources to improving the CMS behind CI:NOW and NOW:Data so it would

integrate more easily with NOWCastSA. That work is nearly finished and should allow better

integration of data on NOWCastSA and better integration of NOWCastSA content at NOW:Data.

We also are launching Organic Groups, first on NOWCastSA and then on NOW:Data to better

capture the conversations around issues and data and to allow people to easily subscribe to

areas of interest - such as teen pregnancy or education - and to interact with others who share

that interest.

11. Do you have any suggestions for how Knight Foundation staff, Circuit Riders, or FSG might

be able to help you overcome these challenges in the future? (2000 characters or less)

If others are incorporating as nonprofit organizations, they may need some guidelines

for the 501(c)(3) process and also some help with bylaws and board development. (Those

are available at the Hub, of course http://www.npjhub.org/

12. Reflecting on both your challenges and successes, what three pieces of advice would you

offer to community and place-based foundations interested in participating in a community

information project? (3000 characters or less)1) In order to succeed, community information projects need to do things differently -

they must try new approaches. From a practical standpoint, that means the projects

goals must be tightly focused, but the projects means cannot be so proscribed that it

cannot innovate and evolve.

2) Dont be afraid to fail. It may be belaboring the obvious, but we learn more from failing

than from success.

3) Attitude is everything. Make sure that everyone from staff to board members are

passionate about the vision. Those who are who are not should go find something else

to do.

13. To what extent are you concerned with the ongoing sustainability of your project?

>5 - Not at all

concerned

4 3 - Somewhat

concerned

2 1 - Very

concerned

Level of

concern:

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14. Which of the following steps are you taking to generate income to support your projects

operations?

q Attracting foundation or government support (e.g., grants) $128,000

q Increasing individual donor support

q Securing sponsors or online advertisingq Syndicating content for a fee

q Fee-for-service activities or events

q Other contributed or earned income activity (please describe) ____________________

14a. Please describe the income generating activities that your project is using in the table

below.

- How much money has been secured to date through this income stream? (Enter dollar

value) $39,175

- To what extent do you see this as contributing to the project's ongoing sustainability?

(Major contributor i.e., 1/3 or more of income; Minor contributor i.e., 1/3 or less of income;

Too soon to tell) Amanda -- put the slices of revenue here from your plan

II. Foundation Engagement (8 Questions)

We are interested in knowing more about your foundations interest in addressing community

information needs more broadly. Please respond to the following questions from the perspective

of the foundation.

15. Please indicate the degree to which you would agree or disagree with the following

statements about your foundations attitudes and activities regarding your communitys

information needs at this point in time.

Stronglyagree

Agree Neither Agree nor

Disagree

Disagree StronglyDisagree

Dontknow

We are very aware

of our communitys

information needs

m m m m m m

We strongly believe

our foundation

should be a leader

in addressing

our communityinformation needs

m m m m m m

We have made

a multi-year

commitment

to supporting

information needs

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beyond our KCIC

project

We are supporting

a lot of different

information and

media-related

projects in our

community

m m m m m m

Our boards support

for addressing

community

information

needs has greatly

increased in the last

3 years

m m m m m m

We are greatly

concerned about

building our own

capacity to better

address community

information needs

m m m m m m

We are constantly

talking to/engaging

with other

funders about

the importance

of addressing

community

information needs

m m m m m m

Our key community

stakeholders seeus as a leader

in and resource

for addressing

community

information needs

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16. In what ways, if any, have your foundations attitudes and activities changed with regard to

community information, media and communications since beginning your project?

The Foundation has become more aware of the value and importance of

communications role to the mission, especially in training nonprofits, communicating

community issues and bringing community awareness to Foundation Communityinitiatives.

17. From June 2010 to June 2011, how many dollars did your foundation contribute to your

KCIC project and any other foundation efforts to address community information needs?

Please enter the dollar amount only under each category: unrestricted, restricted, and donor

advised funds. Please put "0" (zero) in the spaces, where your foundation has not contributed

funds. Note: you will not be able to progress in the survey if any fields are left blank.

Unrestricted Restricted Donor Advised

Enter $ value Enter $ value Enter $ value

KCIC Project $100,000 0 0

Other efforts to

address community

information needs

18. Did your foundation begin funding information and media projects within the past three

years?

m Yes, we started funding information and media in the past three years (2008 or later)

m No, we were funding information and media more than three years ago (before 2008)

m Dont know

19. In the next three years, do you anticipate that the proportion of your foundations funding

dedicated to community information needs will increase, decrease, or remain the same?

m Will increase

m Will stay the same

m Will decrease

m Don't know

20. To what extent has your involvement in your KCIC project helped your foundation to

broaden its pool of donors?5 - To

a great

extent

4 3 -

Somewhat

2 1 - Not at

all

Don't

know

Extent of

help

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21. When thinking about the different initiatives and projects that your foundation is involved in,

where does your KCIC project rank in terms of value and importance to the foundations overall

strategy and mission?

m This is currently the foundations most important project

m This is one of the foundations most important projectsm The project is as important as other projects in our grantmaking portfolio

m This project is of somewhat lesser importance than much of the foundations other work

m This project is of little or no importance relative to our foundations overall strategy or mission

22. When your KCIC grant period ends, how does your foundation plan to be involved with this

KCIC project? (1000 characters or less)

The projects impact is growing daily in meeting the goal of becoming a dependable

source of information relevant to all. When fully implemented, the community will

recognize its value and relevance to all sectors of our City and we anticipate it becoming

self sustaining thru grants, city funding, underwriting/sponsorships etc. The SAAF has

pledged $50,000 per the next three years and in collaboration with other funders will

meet the match and project budget.

III. Knight Foundation Resources and Feedback (6 Questions)

23. In the past 12 months, what Knight resources have you, your board and staff, or

implementing partners used? Select all that apply.

q Boot Camp

q Media Learning Seminar

q 1-on-1 technical assistance from Circuit Riders on how to design/implement your

projectq Circuit Rider conference calls and webinars

q 1-on-1 technical assistance from FSG on how to evaluate your project

q Knight-sponsored applicant webinar

q FSG evaluation webinar

q Knight Foundation website (www.knightfoundation.org)

q Information needs website (www.informationneeds.org)

q Community Information Toolkit (www.infotoolkit.org)

q Practical Guide to Evaluating Community Information Projects

q Other (please describe) ____________________

q We have not used any Knight resources in the past 12 months

23a. How helpful was the following with...

- 2 Connecting you with other grantees (scale from 1-3)

- 3 Accessing external resources (scale from 1-3)

- 3 Building your capacity to implement or evaluate your project (scale from 1-3)

24. Is there is anything else that you would like Knight Foundation to know that we havent

asked you about, please tell us in the space below.


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(Amanda -- can you excerpts from contest entries)

25. Do you have any recommendations for how we might improve this survey to make it more

useful to Knight and grantees next year?

26. In completing this survey, what process did you use, and whom did you involve? Pleaseprovide position in organization and role in the project.

Charlotte-Anne Lucas, Managing Director, NOWCastSA

Amanda Evrard, Director of Development, NOWCastSA

Reggie Williams, CEO of the San Antonio Area Foundation

Jeff Sauter, CFO of the San Antonio Area Foundation

NOWCastSA Board Members: Pilar Oates, Bill Israel, Steve Blanchard

27. TheKnight Community Information Challenge website includes descriptions of each grantee

project. Please provide us with an updated description in the space provided or note in the box

below that the original description is still accurate and appropriate for external communications

purposes.

The original description is still accurate, however it would be nice to include a link to the

site along with the mission:

NOWCastSA's mission is to promote and facilitate an inclusive civic conversation

by empowering neighbors to identify common issues and share information through

education, training, community news, events and multimedia.

28. Please provide a brief (1-2 paragraph) update on what has been happening with your

project that can be shared with others on the InformationNeeds.org website. (1000 characters or

less)

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Thank you for completing this survey!

Please remember to send documentation of matching funds and a completed financial

report to [email protected] by Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Please note that your

grant financial report should cover actual contributions and expenditures from July 1, 2010

June 30, 2011. If you need to make changes to the financial report after the July deadline,

please send those to [email protected].

Click here (link to email) to send documentation of matching funds and a completed financial

report right now.

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