Woah grant $

     This past week has been utterly ridiculous & just unfathomable.-lol (wait let me spell check .……..ok I'm good). The premiere partnership inner city high school for The Media Aid Center just received a big grant from the desk of Arnold "the Governator". This is all allocated to their arts & film/media departments. The school in turn asked us to allocate the funds for them being that we're now heading those classes in their school. The scary part is that as u may know, government grants tend to expire, and so we received this news with 3 DAYS TO SPARE ! We had to crack open the catalogs and get to ordering pronto.  All of this came just a few days after the school received another grant. How crazy is that! 

     My boss Martin Cheesborough or Mr. C. aka Cheesy as we call him , now call me & Ramon his 2 good luck charms.-lol My first month has been a blast. Hard work & triumph.

Comment from Mike Moore on February 19, 2007 - 12:51pm

hmmmm...

continued...best of luck???

"good luck charms" ehh?

Didn't know you were part Irish.

:-)

Comment from Jessica McCoy on February 21, 2007 - 5:03pm

Hey Mike,

Wow, that's totally crazy and totally awesome! So glad to hear that your media program actually has funding. Would love to talk more about your organization and the classes you manage. I'm working at Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, also focused on media stuff, trying hard to develop our youth program. Would love to get big $$$ from Arnold!

--Jess

Comment from danielle martin on February 21, 2007 - 5:46pm

Hey Mike,

Yeah that's awesome. Nothing like getting to buy some actual working equipment for nonprofit media projects. You're making all the rest of VISTAs jealous ;).

Did your org release a formal announcement of the funding? We'd love to include it in the next Project newsletter...

Also, where's that video blog you/Ramon kept promising me at the PSO?

-Danielle

Comment from Mike Matthews on February 21, 2007 - 9:22pm

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