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How to Apply to SustainFloyd for Assistance with Your Project

Our mission: To preserve, enhance and support a resilient local economy

SustainFloyd actively seeks community partners in line with our mission. Our Programs Committeescreens all requests seeking SustainFloyds involvement and all programs are approved by the board of directors. Please use this guideline when proposing programs for SustainFloyds participation.

As a 501 (3) non-profit corporation, SustainFloyd furthers our mission primarily through research, education and outreach. This can includedemonstration projects to show how certain sustainable businesses canthrive in a rural community such as Floyd and provide models for similar communities. We are particularly interested in asset-based enterprises,those that utilize our local assets while not exploiting them and thereby

preserving those assets for future generations.

Successful applicants may be eligible for assistance. We are developingresources to provide aid in: locating funding sources, technical educationand grant writing. Sustain Floyd is also willing to assist with: developingconnections with appropriate governmental, professional, educational and municipal contacts;community outreach; potential direct funding; and people-power through our core of volunteers.

While open to all projects in line with our mission, the following sectors have been identified asSustainFloyd priorities:

Encouragement of local green businesses. Local sustainable agriculture and food infrastructure development; Energy resource development and conservation; Waste management improvement; Watershed protection; Land use education.

Please provide a brief narrative description of your project or program. Suggested topics to beaddressed include:

Explain how the project integrates with SustainFloyds priorities and mission; Introduce the people involved in this project in summary form; Propose how SustainFloyd can assist the project; How might this proposal encourage creative economic growth? Project time frames for initiation, significant events in the development, final

implementation and duration of the project; Progress made in networking and generating support; Budget or cash flow analysis. Statement as to the viability of the project and its expected impact. Are there valid reasons to protect the confidentiality of this proposal for a given period

of time?

Please contact Mike Burton, Director, with any questions. (540) 250-0111