October 2008

Spring 2009 Meeting—Your Response Needed

Thank you to those of you who responded to my first note about the proposed date for our next meeting. Several of you said you would be unable to attend a late-March meeting, so we looked for an alternative date.

Please REPLY TO THIS EMAIL to let me know your availability for each of these dates: April 18-20, Saturday-Monday, and March 27-29, Friday-Sunday so that we can see which date accommodates the most people. These are the only available dates this spring!

The meeting will take place in Princeton, at the same conference center where some of you met during the first year of the grant. It looks very comfortable, and we anticipate another excellent gathering. Again, please reply with your availability for BOTH dates so that we can select the one that works for as many of us as possible.

I’ll be checking in with those of you who volunteered for the planning group very soon.

Spending Projection for the Remainder of your Sub-Grant

To plan the best use of our remaining grant funds, we need to determine the status of each sub-grant. We are working with the Corporation/Learn & Serve to extend the grant for another academic year (with no additional funds). The original grant end date was August 31, 2009—the end of this year—but we expect to add two additional semesters. This means you have the current semester plus three others, and this summer, to complete all of your grant-funded activities. Please send me a brief plan for your use of remaining funds (Your grant amount times # of years awarded, minus funds requested to date)

Let me know if you anticipate not spending all of your award or if you have questions about this process.

NEW CBR Networking Initiative Website

Check out the new website (wiki) at: http://cbrnet.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

(There are still a few small bugs, but this will be cleaned up very soon. Meanwhile, check out all the sample documents and other resources submitted by you and your colleagues—mostly under CBR Courses & Projects). And please send electronic versions of new materials at any time so we can add to our collection.

Scroll down to the Grant Management section to find reporting documents and a link to the NEW BLOG.