REMEMBER: Always contact your Partnership Representative well BEFORE a travel or small grant is requested to insure that there are funds available. All travel needs to be tied to program goals; check if your have questions. Include partnership resource needs in your annual plan so that the partnership and program staff can be aware of them. ... Your partnership must be recharted to access new resources. Resources are limited and competitive. Travel Grants must be submitted at least 30 days prior to desired travel date. Project Assistance Grants need to be submitted 60 days prior to date of event etc. Check Partners web site for changes, additions, or forms: www.partners.net
 
 

Agriculture and Environment
 

Priority partnerships are: U.S./Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras

and Nicaragua. Funded by U.S. Agency for International Development. The goal of the Farmer to Farmer program is to improve economic opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean by increasing food production and distribution, promoting better farm and marketing operations and conserving natural resources. This is for NORTH to SOUTH travel. Funds are available to work in other partnerships which historically have had agricultural programming. Travelers have included: environmentalists, agriculturists, apiculturists, marketing and food processing specialists, and other specialists within the general goals of the program.
 
 

Seeds for the Americas
 

The Seeds for the Americas program officially ended in December 1998. Any follow up to previous program activities should be directed to Richard Lamporte, rl@partners.poa.com
 
 

Citizen Participation
 

All partnerships are eligible. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The program goal is to strengthen the ability of civic organizations to educate the public on their rights and responsibilities as citizens. Funds are available for travel and project assistance grants to support activities such as:

-- public forums on community issues;

-- efforts to increase citizen participation in community or municipal planning;

-- voter education and election monitoring by citizens;-- promotion of philanthropy and social responsibility;

-- capacity building of civil society organizations.
 

Project assistance grants are available up to $2,500.Grant proposals will be reviewed March 31, July 31 and October 31.Current funds are available through December 1999.For more information contact Martha-Cecilia Villada: mcv@partners.poa.com or Robert Aselin: ra@partners.poa.com.
 

Women and Children's Legal Rights
 

Brazilian Partnerships only..Funded by the Alfred K. Jurzykowski Foundation. The goal of the program is to improve the quality of life for women and children by protecting their legal and human rights, with an emphasis on combating domestic violence and child abuse. Funds are available for travel and small grants to support activities such as:

-- establishing and equipping hotlines, and shelters for battered women and children;

-- local seminars and workshops to build an educated constituency that supports the need to address family violence;

-- cross cultural research into the causes of violence;

-- curricula design for university schools of law, nursing and social work;

-- programs for law enforcement personnel.
 

Current funds are available through December 1999.For more information contact Kate Raftery: kr@partners.poa.com.
 
 

Family Life Education
 

All partnerships are eligible. Funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The goal of this program is to strengthen the capacity of comm unities and institutions to address the need

for family planning information and services. Travel and project assistance project can support activities that address a wide range of family planning issues such as:

-- adolescent pregnancy prevention;

-- capacity building for non governmental organizations working in family planning and reproductive health.
 

Region-wide funding is available until June 1999. For Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, funding is available until November 2000. For more information contact Polly Donaldson: pd@partners.poa.com
 
 

Education and Culture Program
 

All partnerships are eligible. Funded by the United States Information Agency. Travel and small grant requests should be submitted to Partners of the Americas by August 15,1999. The goal of the program is to foster an appreciation for the region's diversity, educational and cultural traditions and to increase citizen participation and democratic values in community development. Partnership development can be considered for travel support. Travel funds support activities such as:

-- civic education curriculum development for schools;

-- public administration;

-- good governance and citizen involvement in local governance;

-- environmental and historic conservation education;

-- trade and economic development;

-- strengthening judicial systems and awareness of human rights;

-- art and culture;

-- university linkages and administration;

-- minority and indigenous civil rights protection

Project assistance grants are available to support activities such as:

-- youth leadership exchanges;

-- cultural presentations (art exhibit, musical group, etc.);

--training materials for related areas.
 

Project assistance grant requests will be considered for up to $2000 and must include evidence of cost sharing with co-sponsors. For more information contact Dennis Shaw, ds@partners.poa.com.
 
 

Teacher-in- Residence
 

All partnerships with bi-national centers in Latin America are eligible. Funded by the United States Information Agency. The goal of the program is to strengthen English teaching programs throughout Latin America. Programs must be carried out in collaboration with bi-national centers. Funds are available to support two types of teacher-in-residence experiences

-- English language training residency: one-month residency in the U.S. for teachers from Latin

bi-national centers; the U.S. Partners' chapter is responsible for arranging an English language training experience for the teacher at a college or university and should include an "Experience America" component with a home stay.

-- English language teaching residency: one month residency in a Latin American bi-national

center for U.S. teachers; the bi-national center will be responsible for organizing a teaching

program and seminars for the visiting teacher at the bi-national center and/or local universities or

teacher training centers and, in cooperation with the Partners chapter, provide home stays.

Funds will support international travel and up to $400 for the hosting chapter to defray program and

logistical expenses. For more information contact Dennis Shaw, ds@partners.poa.com
 
 

Reach Out to the Hispanic American Community
 

Because of limited resources during this pilot period, this program currently targets three U .S. chapters: Illinois, Southern California, and Texas. Funded through the Office of Development Education of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The project links Partners' U.S. network with affiliates of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the nation's principal constituency-based Hispanic organization, and the Hispanic Council on International Relations (HCIR) to carry out community outreach programs on local-global linkages between the U.S. and

Latin America. Partners Reach Out will collaborate with NCLR and HCIR's Ford Foundation-funded

Foreign Policy Project, designed to increase Hispanic involvement in U.S. foreign policy. The goals of the program are to: 1) develop educational programs in the U.S. that promote local/global

linkages in trade, community development, and citizen participation; and 2) promote a Hispanic perspective on U.S. engagement with the world, especially in international development. For more information contact Polly Donaldson: pd@partners.poa.com.
 
 

Leadership Seminars in Partnerships
 

Funded by the W .K. Kellogg Foundation. The purpose of the seminars is to have Fellows assist the chapter in the organization and implementation of seminars, training, and activities which will expose new people to Partners and demonstrate Partners' leadership role in the community . $750 is available to a chapter to support the above activities. There must be a Fellow (previous or current) involved in the event. We will accept and review requests throughout the year. A report on each seminar must be received before Partners can consider funding another for the same chapter. Chapters can request funding for more than one seminar, but preference will be given to those which have never received funding. For more information contact Dan Cardinale, djc@partners.poa.com.
 
 

Partners of the Americas Foundation Grants
 

Funded through the Partners of the Americas Foundation. The goal of the program is to strengthen partnerships in the area of organizational development. Resources have supported activities such as:

-- the development of newsletter;

-- materials for membership drives;

-- fundraising campaigns. Grant proposals may be received from northern chapters, southern chapters, or together. Grants awards do not exceed $2,000 per partnership. Proposals can be received all year. Selections are made in November of each year. For more information contact Donna Gebicke, dg@partners.poa.com