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- Application Form (revised October 2004)
- Procedure for Requesting CPL Funds
- Samples of Projects Suitable for Funding
- CPL Grants Approved (updated April 2004)
Procedure for Requesting CPL Funds
After downloading a copy of the Application Form, follow the following procedures:
- Requests for CPL funds are submitted to the State Vice President first.
- The State Vice President confirms that the grant applicant is a member of CAMWS and then recommends whether the request should be approved or denied (usually providing a justification in the latter case).
- The State Vice President submits the form to his or her Regional Vice President. (This should be done on the same day that the request is received!)
- The Regional Vice President then approves or refuses the request.
- The Regional Vice President submits the form to the Chair of the CPL for final consideration.
- If approved by the Chair of the CPL, the form is sent to the Secretary-Treasurer, who in turn, issues the necessary checks.
- If not approved, the Chair of the CPL informs the person submitting the original request that it has not be approved. The Chair may suggest possible ways to amend the request so that its acceptance might be granted when resubmitted. Copies of this correspondence are sent to the appropriate State and Regional Vice Presidents, as well.
While the members of the CPL try to act upon request quickly, as much time as possible should be allowed for this process. It sometimes takes a while for the final decision/check to reach the party making the request for funds.
Sample Projects Suitable for Funding
MAILINGS This is a very effective tool often used to introduce programs into schools or even school districts. Flyers extolling the virtues of Latin, reprints of data showing the benefits of Latin, and open letters extolling the classics have all been mailed to parents, teachers, principals, and even administrators at the state and local levels. CPL can help with duplicating costs and postage.
POSTAGE AND TELEPHONE USE CPL regularly pays for all postage, telephone and photocopying costs incurred by its State and Regional Vice Presidents and members of the CPL Committee. A special budget line item [Vice Presidents' Expenses] is set up to handle these requests.
FESTIVALS Where appropriate, funds can be used to sponsor Latin festivals or participation in foreign language festivals.
SPEAKERS On certain occasions, speakers can be brought in to address well-attended meetings, rallies, and the like for students of classics. CPL can contribute a maximum of $300.00 for such speakers. Priority is given, in this and in all activities, to those initiatives which show local funding which supplements the grant from CPL. Know in advance whom you are inviting: Regional Vice Presidents and the Chair of CPL are, in most cases, the best speakers to help increase local interest and to talk about ways of promoting Latin. It should be noted, however, that even in these cases speakers are considered a "low priority" in the awarding of CPL funds.
DEMONSTRATIONS Various sorts of demonstrations ranging from production of Latin plays at meetings to displays in malls, schools, and PTA Meetings have all been funded. Film can also be rented in situations where showing them would encourage the study of Latin. Funds to offset the video production of plays and events which could be offered in turn for use by classicists throughout the CAMWS territory have been granted in recent years.
CONTESTS CPL Funds can help organize and support state-wide contests which will encourage the study of Latin. These contests can be in translation, creative writing, or essay writing.
NEWSLETTERS In states where it would otherwise be impossible, CPL sometimes subvents the costs of a newsletter for a year or two. After that time, it is expected that the state classical association or some other local group will fund the continuation of the newsletter.
ADVERTISING Advertisements may be purchased to promote any of the activities listed above.
FLIGHTS OF FANCY CPL has funded Roman car washed, 10K toga runs, displays of Roman cooking in shopping malls, production of placemats with a Latin theme, and brochures for new classics programs at the college and university level. Any activity which brings Latin to the attention of a larger audience is at least eligible for consideration.
CPL Grants Approved
The following are grants approved for the 2003-2004 year so far. I greatly encourage you to apply for grants for things that are specifically and unquestionably promotional projects, something that makes Latin more visible to the community at large. I have, however, made several partial grants for certamen machines and even for JCL travel (though this was an unusual circumstance) because I am fully aware that to keep a Latin program in the public eye, even if that public eye is only the administrators and school board.- Elizabeth Heintzelman, certamen machine: $150
- Vicky Pagan, Togaman: $200
- Sterg Lazos, awards for participants at the first annual Latin Poetry Recital: $150
- West Virginia JCL, certamen machine for state JCL event: $505.50
- Michelle Vitt, Ludi Romani event: $232.00
- Amy McElroy, support for JCL students to travel to WVJCL: $150
- Elizabeth Heintzelman, Legion XIIII: $205.50
- Vicki Wine, speaker Ken Kitchell: $300
- Shuhei Fujiwara & Marisa Lowe, design work on CPL Online: $200