<div dir="ltr">Dear Nancy,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for this welcome news! We look forward to the excellent ground level support. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Joel Okomoli</div><div><br></div><div>ISOC Kenya Chapter. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Nancy Quiros <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quiros@isoc.org" target="_blank">quiros@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14pt">Dear Chapter Leaders,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><span>           
</span>To support the organization of mission related activities and projects Internet Society is currently providing project funding for our Chapters through the <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/grants-awards/beyond-net-funding-programme" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6b006d">Beyond
 the Net Programme</span></a>. We understood however that for a number of Chapters the funding of day-to-day operational costs is a challenge.  We are therefore pleased to announce the launch of a new funding programme that will allow Chapters to apply for
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">            The Chapter Admin Funding provides an annual contribution to help Chapters manage day-to-day activities. Those areas can range from registrations of the Chapter as a
 local entity, legal and accounting costs, liability insurance for the Officers of the Chapters, membership management, invoice processing, organization of the general assembly, or even general admin support. <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/chapter-admin-funding" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6b006d">http://www.<wbr>internetsociety.org/chapter-<wbr>admin-funding</span></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">            The Chapter eligibility to get the funds and the amount assigned to each Chapter will be determined by the Chapter Evaluation Report. The criteria that are used to evaluate
 the Chapter are in line with the minimum criteria as outlined in the Chapter Charter letter. In order to provide you with your individual information, the details about the funding and to validate the data we have about your Chapter,
<b>each of your Chapter Development Managers will contact you before the launch of the programme. </b>Failure to provide information on time, may result in unfavorable evaluations, and therefore a lower fund allocation.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">           <b> The funds assigned to each of your Chapters will be provided via email to your respective board members on Oct 31</b></span><b>^{<span style="font-family:Calibri">st</span>}<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">,
 after this date, each Chapter can apply via Zoom Grants for 2016 funds.  Deadline to apply for 2016 funds is Dec 15</span>^{<span style="font-family:Calibri">th</span>}</b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>,
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">SIGs and New Chapters are part of the program and can apply under the same conditions .<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">For any questions, please contact <a href="mailto:chapter-support@isoc.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6b006d">Chapter-support@isoc.<wbr>org</span></a> .<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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