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z. ~, ~oms ~Tm~, ~sC. ~ E C E I V E D 101 Reynokla Village Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27106-5199 (919) 725-7541 o~eof Co~Ma~agtr ~ to: OFF Stage Oae County Representatives ~ fr~n: ~oe Kilpat_rick l~te; 'December 11, 1990 ~closed is a li~t of the 16 ce.tory OF~ proj~::ts which were chosen to receiv8 the $20,000 planning and development grants. Eighty-three counties (including 4 ccr~sortia of counties) s,,~.,itted phase one prcposals in response to the Fc~uzlation's OFF Request for Protx~als. T~is response was far greater than we expected; ami the larg.e number of applicants added to the difficulty selecting the planning grant recipients. The "promi-~e" of each pr~l was one of several factors the Trustee cc~mlttee to in the selection of the 16 winners, the nature weigh But, given of the phase one proposal -- a statement of intentions or a "plan to plan" for each county, it proved to he rather difficult to assess the real promise of each proposal without having the benefit of the results of the planning process each county was asked to describe. ~herefore, other factors had a major influence upo~ the selection of the 16 -- factors such as need, size, geographic diversity, evidence of the cca~mitment of local leadership, and evidence of co.~itment to meaningfully involve clients or "consumers" in the bFF planning and implementation process. We -- the Fou~lati~'s staff -- are in the prccess of hiring a person to work as the part-time coordinator of the OFF initiative. Our intention is to select this person by the end of the y,ar. (~r plan is to organize a meeting in 3enuary with representatives frcm the 16 projects chosen to receive the OFF planning grants. We will int~cduce ycu to the OFF coordinator at that time. ~is person will serve as the primary liaison between the OFF projects and the Foundation. (~e of the goals of the January meeting will be to explore what further assistance wa -- thrcugh the OFF coordinator -- can provide, directly or indirectly, to each of the 16 projects during the next phase of the OFF initiative. At least one county which applied for the OFF planning grant and was not selected has reclnes~ed the oidxxtunity to review the prq~osals of those cmnties which were selected "for the purpose of learning from their ideas." This raises the question: do you have any objectio, to the Fonedation sharing parts or all of your Stage ~e OFF proposal with o~hers? Our initial feeling is that it wo_,~a further the "de,~nstration" go~_!s of the OFF initiative to provide such information upon request, provided the purpose of the request appears to be constructive. But we di4 not want to act ~ this inclination withcut co~sulting with yo~ and the other rePresentatives from the 16 OFF planning projects. If y~u have any reservations about the R~u~tation sharing the content of ~ planning prcposal with interested parties, please let me knc~ within the next week.