[Mesh] PLEASE RESPOND for 2018 Grant from the People’s Life Fund

[Jenny Ryan]

oh in excitement forgot to add: if anyone wants to come to the grant award
party, it'd be next sunday after byoi/node mount up at the unitarian
universalist church in berkeley (where the party for a potty wuz at, down
the street from LMI). lots of awesome local projects to learn about, i'm
sure. also potluck!

On Sat, Apr 7, 2018, 23:27 Jenny Ryan <jenny at peoplesopen.net> wrote:

> w00t!
> this is for the grant app
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bv5qjzsAPexpmIAEUj_ddQe50nsHUz9jy4paAxfjbWE>
> I wrote up last month to the People's Life Fund (No War Tax Grant) for
> funding a combo-project of disaster.radio, the laptops project, the
> hackpack project and the BYOI workshops.
>
> please reply here if you'd be interested in helping to facilitate a
> workshop on digital literacy, digital security, hardware and/or electronics
> hacking - a component of the hackpack project <http://hackpack.me> juul
> and i initiated some years ago to distribute backpacks with all the basic
> tools and equipment one needs to hack the planet ^_^ it's be great if we
> could have an equal number of participants and instructors / helpers!
>
> additionally, our check from Mozilla finally arrived!! let's order some
> gear :D
>
> --
> Jenny Ryan
> People's Open Network <https://peoplesopen.net>
> *Building a community-owned and -operated wireless network in Oakland,
> California!*
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Martha Cain <mcain7 at sbcglobal.net>
> Date: Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 7:11 PM
> Subject: PLEASE RESPOND for 2018 Grant from the People’s Life Fund
> To: "jenny at peoplesopen.net" <jenny at peoplesopen.net>
>
> On Sunday, April 1, 2018 11:38 AM, Jonathon Marley <
> marley at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Jenny,
>
> The People's Life Fund (PLF) is pleased to award Sudo Mesh a grant
> of $2,500 for your work in 2018.
>
> We request the honor of your presence at the PLF Granting Event on Sunday,
> April 15 (details below) to receive your check.  One of our priorities is
> to fund groups that include in their leadership the people impacted by the
> work of the organization.  Thus, we invite you to bring participants to
> help receive your organization’s grant award.
>
> Please *Reply All to this email by April 9* to confirm that your group
> will accept this grant and to let us know the name(s) of the person(s) who
> will attend to receive the check on behalf of your organization.  We would
> like them to make a one-minute statement about the project for which the
> grant will be used.
>
> *When:* Sunday night, April 15, 2018
>      6:00-6:30   Potluck (please bring something to share)
>      6:30-8:00   Granting ceremony
>      8:00-8:30   Dessert & Networking
>
> *Where:* Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar
> Street, Berkeley, CA
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1924+Cedar+Street,+Berkeley,+CA&entry=gmail&source=g>
> (eight blocks from North Berkeley BART station)
>
> The People’s Life Fund is a project of Northern California War Tax
> Resistance.  The funds for PLF grants come from interest earned on a pool
> of income tax dollars that activists refuse to pay to the federal
> government because they cannot in good conscience support the government’s
> use of these taxes for military purposes.  Instead they choose to re-direct
> them to community organizations through the PLF.
>
> We encourage you to spread the word that war tax resistance is happening
> in the U.S. and that the dollars not paid to the IRS are being used
> positively by groups like yours to promote social justice and peace, for
> the health of the planet, and to move our world toward a new sharing
> economy.  Specifically, we request that Sudo Mesh lists us among its
> funders as: “War Taxes Redirected by the People’s Life Fund.”
>
> Finally, *we would greatly appreciate hearing from you no later than
> December 1, 2018* regarding how your project is progressing.  Please send
> us a short report – no longer than one page, please! – describing how the
> funds were used and what impact they have made on the work you do.
>
> Feel free to call or email with any questions you might have.  We
> appreciate your commitment to justice and peace and thank you for giving us
> the opportunity to support your valuable work.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jon Marley
> People's Life Fund
> P.O. Box 2422
> Berkeley, CA 94702
> (510) 842-6124
> NoWarTax at riseup.net
>
>
>
>


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