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Email from the Fulbright Academy

From: "Eric Howard" info@fulbrighter.org
Subject: Note to FAST Friends&Supporters
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:43:24 -0400

Dear Fulbright Academy Friends and Supporters,

The year is more than half over, so we decided this was a good time to give you an update on the Academy affairs.

Because you have expressed interest in the Academy in the past, we also are using this note as an opportunity to ask you to formally join the Fulbright Academy as a member or sponsor by making a donation to Academy. We have had an excellent response from our newsletters and mailings, and we hope that you will soon be joining. Information on making a donation can be found on our website: www.fulbrightacademy.org.

ORGANIZATIONAL NEWS

• Membership development: Membership growth has been steady over the last six months - through a combination of person-to-person contacts, direct mail solicitation, and via our newsletter. Earlier this month, we mailed our second set of membership invitations, this time to all of the US senior scholars who went overseas on a Fulbright in 1998-2003 (about 1,500 names). We will be doing more mailings to these and other scholars in the coming months. For example, about 650 people in the Boston area received postcard invitations to the program at Harvard, and we plan to make personal follow-up telephone calls to one-third of those individuals in late July and August.
• Newsletter: Our newsletter (which you should have received by email earlier this week) is currently distributed to about 3,500 people each month in the US and abroad. It is our primary means for interaction with the Fulbright community. If you have news to share or would like to make an announcement, please contact us through our website or via email at info@fulbrighter.org.
• Meetings&Programs: The July newsletter described some of our upcoming meetings and programs, such as the one at Harvard University in early September and one in Washington, DC, in February 2005. We also are co-sponsoring several conferences/programs.
• Donations: We are pleased to report that about 20% of our members made donations in addition to the $60 membership, with the largest being a $2,000 donation. As would be expected of a non-profit, all of the board members have made donations. These donations are being used to finance our newsletter, membership mailings, membership recruitment, hosting programs, and our participation at several events each year.
• Grants&contracts: The Academy recieved it's official non-profit status from the US Internal Revenue Service 14 months ago. We have applied for several grants&contracts but have not been successful yet. For example, we were one of two finalists on a contract to identify experts in North & South America to serve on review panels for a scholarship program. We also were included as a subcontractor on a grant proposal to the US EPA on creation of a network of experts on watershed management. For a start-up organization, grants and contracts are difficult to obtain, but without them we will not be effective in networking our members and achieving our mission.
• Institutional relationships: As you can see on the attached list, there are people at hundreds of instituions that think the Academy is a good idea. We are trying to build ties with these members, supporters, and institutions -- for example by promoting/co-sponsoring events at their institution (we can provide in-kind support, such as mentioning the event in our newsletter).

**** How can you help us? ****

Here is what some other members have done:

• recruitment - talk to friends who should be members
• send us the email addresses of people who should be getting our newsletter
• submit a 3-4 paragraph story for the newsletter
• distribute Academy fliers at meetings that you attend (we will provide them)
• contract to the Academy for project management services or research projects
• ask the Academy to be a co-sponsor of events and programs that you are organizing
• include the Academy as a partner/subcontractor on your grant proposals
• sponsor meetings and programs through a donation of cash or securities
• give your time - organize a meeting of Fulbrighters in your area
• serve on the welcome committee - call new members

We are excited about the future prospects and thank you for your continued interest and support. If you have any questions, please feel free to call either of us.

Sincerely,

David Nothmann, President of the Board of Directors
  Trait Licensing Manager, Monsanto Company, St. Louis

Eric Howard, Secretary of the Board of Directors
  Business&Non-profit Management Consulting, South Portland, Maine

Fulbright Academy of Science&Technology
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"Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom."

      Senator J. William Fulbright, Old Myths and New Realities (1964)