Calling all successful grant recipients - 10/12/06

Thu Oct 12 15:42:20 EDT 2006

I offered to "decode" the list of grant recipients. That turns out to be a
daunting task, especially given that it's the same time I'm being buried
under conference submissions (THANK YOU, BTW, for all the submissions.)
Daunting or not, many of you are really eager that I get this out.  Here
comes Power of Two with a wonderful tool to the rescue.  If you get these
forms back to me I will do the next step and get them up on the website.  -
diane 

> Hello Dianne--
> We loved your offer to compile a list of grant recipients that "decodes" the
> list and it sounds like it's going to take ACF a while to get this out. What
> if you sent out an e-mail with a form for any grant recipients on your list
> to fill in that asks for contact information, abstract of the Proposal, and
> anything they are looking for or providing.
> 
> You could make a web-page so everyone could have the info. We've created a
> sample of what people would fill below.  We've also filled in our info as an
> example.  
> --Abigail, Jesse and Susan Heitler

FORM: 

Organization Name:

Also Known As/Names of Founders/Directors:

Contact Information:
Name:
Position:
E-mail:
Phone:

Proposal Abstract:

Networking needs: 
(people, resources etc that you have to offer or are looking to find)

------------------------------------------
Example: 

Organization Name: Therapy Help Inc.

Also Known As: Power of Two, Dr. Susan Heitler

Contact Information:
Name:  Abigail Hirsch
Position: Director
E-mail: ahirsch at po2.com
Phone:  303 388 1973
Web site:  www.po2.com

Proposal Abstract:
In today¹s dot.com world, communities congregate in cyber-space as well as
in person. We propose strategies for bringing marriage education into online
communities. We will develop and place episodes of our innovative internet
learning game onto a raft of community websites likely to be viewed by
individuals who are unmarried and expecting a child.  Each episode of our
fun game presents typical conflicts while teaching specific communication
and collaborative conflict resolution skills. By making these game episodes
available for free to websites to integrate into their sites, we will
demonstrate that delivering marriage skills is appealing to members and good
for business.

Power of Two, the brand-name for materials produced or sold by TherapyHelp
Inc., is a small business with over a decade of experience providing quality
resources for teaching the skills for marriage success. This grant is to
demonstrate the potential of our newest innovation, an interactive internet
game platform. Specifically, building on the software that we have developed
and beta tested, we will:

1.     Create a library of free on-line marriage, relationship and related
skills game episodes.

2.     Market strategically to place these episodes onto existing sites that
reach both small (e.g., a church website) and broad (e.g., magazine
websites) communities of users.

3.     Assess how best to attract maximum users to play the games.

4.     Evaluate the skills-learning impact of this exciting new
skills-teaching modality.

By working with community leaders‹heads of organizations, web editors, and
business managers ‹we aim to create a climate where dynamic web-based
marriage skills education becomes an expectation not an exception.

Networking needs: 
(people, resources etc that you have to offer or are looking to find)

We are looking to meet unwed expectant parents who would like to participate
in focus groups.

We also are looking for organizations who would like to learn about adding
the games to their sites.

We are able to provide custom game-episodes for organizations looking to
enhance their web-offerings.

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