ECON 324 - Economics of Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector - Fall 2006
ANNOUNCING
UMWPEO $10,000 Nonprofit Philanthropic Grant
(UMWPEO = University of Mary Washington Philanthropic Education Organization)
Thanks to the generosity of the Sunshine Lady Foundation, the ECON 324 - Economics of Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector class at the University of Mary Washington has been given $10,000 which it will use to make grants to local nonprofit organizations.
MISSION STATEMENT of UMWPEO
(posted 9/26/2006)
It is the mission of the University of Mary Washington Philanthropic Education Organization (UMWPEO) to provide financial contributions to nonprofit organizations in the City of Fredericksburg, Town of Culpeper and the Counties of Spotsylvania, Stafford, King George, Caroline, Orange, Culpeper, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Lancaster, and Richmond devoted to educational and/or job training programs for underprivileged individuals.
Furthermore, the UMWPEO advocates programs which create long-lasting and beneficial effects on their region's communities by imparting positive social values.
Application Form
(application form may be downloaded by clicking on the link)
NOTIFICATION TO LOCAL AREA NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
(posted August 2006)
To Local Area Nonprofit
Organizations:
The purpose of this message is
to give local area nonprofit organizations a "heads-up" on a funding
opportunity that will be available later this Fall (2006).
The Department of Economics at
the University of Mary Washington is
offering a course entitled ECON 324-Economics of Philanthropy and the Nonprofit
Sector. The aspect of the course of most interest to you is the
semester-long class project. Thanks to
the generosity of Doris Buffett's Sunshine
Lady Foundation, the class has been given $10,000 which it will use to make
grants to local nonprofit organizations.
At this stage, none of the
details of the project have been finalized. Students will create a
foundation, write a mission statement, solicit applications for funds, and
select recipients. The class starts on August 29. The mission
statement and application form should be available on or about October 1.
The application deadline will be on or about November 1. The grant (or
grants) will be announced at a public ceremony on Tuesday, December 5.
Additional details will be posted as they become known at the project web page
at http://people.umw.edu/~rrycroft/philanthropy2006.
This
is the second year the course has been offered.
To maximize the educational value of the project, the project will be
student-directed as much as possible. While
we will use what we learned from our experience last year to improve the
grant-making process (in particular, last year's infamous application form will
be considerably shortened!), this year's course is not simply a continuation of
last year's. I am working with an
entirely new group of students who will bring with them their own ideas. The mission statement may be similar or wholly
different from last year's. We
anticipate this course to be an annual offering at UMW for quite some time in
the future.
Please
feel free to circulate this message among your associates.
I
will be happy to answer your questions about the project. Please contact me by e-mail at rrycroft@umw.edu
or by phone at 540-654-1500.
Yours truly,
Robert S Rycroft
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
540-654-1500