Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Email to J Labs about grant
Hello,
My name is Cara McCoy. I am a student at Ohio University, and am a junior online journalism major. As an extension of our related student organization, the Online Journalism Student Society, we have decided to launch a hyper-local news site so that students throughout campus can gain practical experience in the realm of online news. The site will provide campus news to the student body. We came up with our plan after we attended the Online News Association conference this past fall, and have had it in the planning stages ever since.
We recently came across this fantastic grant opportunity and are planning to apply. However, we have one question that is not answered in the FAQs. As I said earlier, this project has been in the planning stages for months. Accordingly, we have set our launch date as April 4, 2005. As you can see, we would be technically launched before funding is awarded; however, as we will turn in the application before we launch, we are not technically an already established news site.
Although we can launch the site without knowing whether we have the funding, the money would be used to buy equipment that right now we are anticipating our reporters to furnish for themselves. Additionally, we would be able to pay salary... we currently have a budget of $400 for the next three months, and as you know, that is scarcely enough to run a successful business. We have the support of our university in terms of office space and broadband access, but other than that we are on our own. The grant funding will ensure our project is sustainable.
Can we still apply for the grant although we will have launched our site by the time funding is awarded?
Thank you very much for your consideration in this matter.
My name is Cara McCoy. I am a student at Ohio University, and am a junior online journalism major. As an extension of our related student organization, the Online Journalism Student Society, we have decided to launch a hyper-local news site so that students throughout campus can gain practical experience in the realm of online news. The site will provide campus news to the student body. We came up with our plan after we attended the Online News Association conference this past fall, and have had it in the planning stages ever since.
We recently came across this fantastic grant opportunity and are planning to apply. However, we have one question that is not answered in the FAQs. As I said earlier, this project has been in the planning stages for months. Accordingly, we have set our launch date as April 4, 2005. As you can see, we would be technically launched before funding is awarded; however, as we will turn in the application before we launch, we are not technically an already established news site.
Although we can launch the site without knowing whether we have the funding, the money would be used to buy equipment that right now we are anticipating our reporters to furnish for themselves. Additionally, we would be able to pay salary... we currently have a budget of $400 for the next three months, and as you know, that is scarcely enough to run a successful business. We have the support of our university in terms of office space and broadband access, but other than that we are on our own. The grant funding will ensure our project is sustainable.
Can we still apply for the grant although we will have launched our site by the time funding is awarded?
Thank you very much for your consideration in this matter.
So... much... to do...
Well, so, we might be pushing back our launch date. I realllllly don't want to, and neither does Katie or Caren, but do to unfortunate circumstances, that might be an inevitability. We hope to get some professional advice from the Bobs, Travis and Joy to help us get over this hump. Harumph.
Staff meetings are going well... we should have t-shirt designs ready for next week.
Gotta get the grant proposal done ASAP.
Stress is fun.
Staff meetings are going well... we should have t-shirt designs ready for next week.
Gotta get the grant proposal done ASAP.
Stress is fun.
