Currents now available// Reminder; GRANT call TONIGHT - 5/06

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- REMINDER: TONIGHT STOICA GRANT TELE-CONFERENCE CALL
- REMINDER: - DESIGN AND REFINE YOUR GRANT PROPOSALS: FREE TELE-COACHING
- CURRENTS BULLETIN - RESEARCH RESOURCES HELPFUL FOR WRITING YOUR GRANTS


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- REMINDER: TONIGHT STOICA GRANT TELE-CONFERENCE CALL

> - MARRIAGE AND FATHERHOOD GRANTS: TAPPING IN
>  
> Diane,
>  
> . . . . I am going to make one more attempt to rectify this situation.  This
> coming Wednesday evening, May 31st, from 7pm to 9pm EDT (that's 4pm to 6pm PDT
> for all my fellow West-Coasters) I will be doing a COMBINED briefing for both
> of those grants.  I strongly encourage people to tune in and learn more about
> both of these very exciting opportunities.  To register, send an email in
> advance to  Registration at CaliforniaMarriages.org (that is Registration "AT"
> CaliforniaMarriages.org) - with the following information in it - Your Name &
> Title; Organization's Name, City, State, and the Phone Number you will be
> using to access the call.
>  
> When we receive your registration email we will send you a reply email
> containing the call-in information plus attachments containing both of the
> RFP's in a format that includes page numbers - so we can all be "on the same
> page" during the call.
> 
> Dennis Stoica
> President
> California Healthy Marriages Coalition
> 

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REMINDER: - DESIGN AND REFINE YOUR GRANT PROPOSALS: FREE TELE-COACHING
> 
> Dear Diane,
> There are two necessary ingredients contained in every highly-scored grant
> application - a well-designed project, and a well-written application.
> 
> Unfortunately, few applications contain both.  In order to improve the
> quality of the marriage-related grant applications, the California Healthy
> Marriages Coalition and First Things First are teaming up to provide
> telephonic Technical Assistance to help applicants design outstanding
> projects.  
> 
> Here's how it will work.  For the next two weeks, we have scheduled five
> different 2-hour blocks of time where we will offer an "Ask the Experts"
> teleconference Q&A service.  Our three experts will be:
> - Julie Baumgardner, Executive Director of First Things First in
> Chattanooga;
> - Dennis Stoica - President of the California Healthy Marriages Coalition
> and Executive Director of the Orange County Marriage Resource Center
> - Dr. Carolyn Curtis - Executive Director of the California Healthy
> Marriages Coalition and of the Sacramento Healthy Marriage Project
>  
> Here are the times we will each be available:
> - On Thursday, June 1, have "Java with Julie" from 7pm to 9pm EDT
> - On Friday, June 2, enjoy "Coffee with Carolyn" from 1pm to 3pm EDT
> - On Tuesday, June 6, join "Dinner with Dennis" from 7pm to 9pm EDT
> - On Wednesday, June 7, have "Coffee with Carolyn" from 7pm to 9pm EDT
> - On Friday, June 9, enjoy "Java with Julie" from 3pm to 5pm EDT
>  
> Here is the access information to join any or all of the above "Ask The
> Experts" conference calls: The phone number is (605) 772-3001. When
> prompted, enter the following access code: 420703#. (Note - the only charge
> to participate is your normal long distance telephone charges).
>  
> The purpose of these conference calls is NOT to help you WRITE your grant
> application. Rather, it is to help you design/refine your project, which in
> a sense is laying the ground work for your organization for the next five
> years.  Think about it - for most of us, these 5-year grants will catapult
> us to the next size level as an organization.  So the projects we are
> proposing are, in a sense, "who we will be becoming" and "what we will be
> doing" as organizations, in the next chapter in our organization's life.
> Therefore it is very important that we all design and propose projects that
> will be highly effective, and will move our organizations, and the Marriage
> Education Movement, forward, across all levels.
>  
> The format of these teleconferences will be "open mike" "question and
> answer" periods.  So, if you have any questions about the project you are
> designing, or if you would like to hear the discussions others are having
> with our resident Experts, please join the conference calls at the above
> times.  If you would prefer to submit your questions by email, you can do so
> by sending your questions to AskTheMEExperts at gmail.com (AskTheMEExperts "at
> sign" gmail.com), either during the above times, or in advance of each call
> time.  We will do our best to answer as many questions as possible during
> the "on air" call periods.
> 
> Dennis Stoica
> President
> California Healthy Marriages Coalition
> 

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- CURRENTS BULLETIN - RESEARCH RESOURCES HELPFUL FOR WRITING YOUR GRANTS

Diane,

The Spring edition of ³Currents: Heatlhy Marriage Research Bulletin² is now
available on the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center website.
(www.heatlhymarriageinfo.org. Go to the Research & Trends page and click on
³Currents² newsletter.) ³Currents² is the NHMRC¹s quarterly electronic
newsletter for helping marriage educators and others stay informed about
important current research on forming and sustaining healthy marriages. And
there is a lot of other helpful research-based information there for all
those individuals and organizations writing demonstration grants at this
time.

Alan J. Hawkins, Ph.D., CFLE
National Healthy Marriage Resource Center‹Research Hub
Professor of Family Life
Brigham Young University


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