[Fundraising] A.W. Mellon Foundation funding

[Gary Lang]

Yes 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Mitchell (External) 
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:27 PM
To: fundraising at fundraising.osgeo.org
Subject: [Fundraising] A.W. Mellon Foundation funding

Hi all,
At OSCON, staff from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation talked to
volunteers at the OSGeo booth.  They indicated that that we could apply
for research funding.  Their program [1] and criteria [2] could easily
fit with one of our projects - in particular, the education and geodata
projects.  But likely also in software projects that  
could be, for example, adapted into more of an educational context.   
That is based on my assumptions reading their documents.

I will try to get more information from someone who was at OSCON and met
the foundation reps (I was already corresponding with one of them).  But
in the meantime, I want to pass it over to the fundraising committee to
consider.

Is this something you can or likely will pursue?

Tyler

[1] http://rit.mellon.org/
[2] http://rit.mellon.org/criteria