Call for IU Project Submissions – by JUNE 10th 2010
Posted by admin on May 17, 2010 · 4 Comments
Thank you for your support and attendance at our recent Global Conference held last week in London.
During our recent Global Conference in the Executive Committee meeting held on Wednesday the 28th April a resolution was passed appointing a Sub-Committee (to be chaired and its members appointed by the President), with the purpose of studying the proposals of the IU members in relation to new strategies to promote our ideas.
The Committee comprises Fernando Scornik Gerstein, Ed Dodson, Dave Wetzel and Francis Peddle.
The Sub-Committee have decided to extend until the 10th of June the deadline for members to suggest new strategies for the IU.
There is no guarantee that bids for funding will be automatically met but nevertheless members who file proposals should enclose a budget for them.
The main purpose is to exchange ideas with the members and discuss their feasibility, subject to further decisions of the Executive Committee.
The proposals should be addressed to Francis K Peddle and to his e-mail: francis.peddle@collegedominicain.ca or to his addresses:
College Universitaire Dominicain
96 Avenue Empress
Ottawa, Ontario
K1R7G3
Canada
Please do not hesitate to the IU office (megan@theIU.org) if you would like any further details about the submission process.
The IU Project Proposal Format (maximum length five pages)
1. General Outline of Project and Area of Focus.
Example – academic/research, activist/outreach, multimedia/book/video, etc.
2. Design and Methodology
Example – historical, conceptual, political, pedagogical, etc.
3. Originality/Value
Example – is this something Georgists have not tried before, is the timing right for such a project?
4. Target Audience
Example – geographically limited, universities, general public, politicians, gatekeepers, etc.
5. Time-line
Example – one year, three months, multi-year
6. Budget
Please be as detailed and itemized as possible. Also include the funding request and requested payment intervals (eg 100% upfront, or staggered payments). Please also indicate if you are requesting further grants from other organisations to complete the project.
7. Report to the I.U.
Projects updates are to be provided at intervals determined with the IU. A written report must be submitted to the I.U. within two months of project completion.
People who visit the IU site might find it useful to have a link to ours. We have one to yours.
Thanks.
In connection with the request for ideas about how to attract more public attention by means of new Georgist projects I wish to add the following remarks:
I have suggested two “informal” ways that new Georgist projects might be used to get more attention, but it seems to me that there is a big difference between what a group of Georgists migh manage together as a co-ordinating body and what a (contracted) individual with limited office/management resources and a budget can do. In the later case, which is what is being requested here, I find that the formality of preparing such a budget distracts from the subjective need for the particular activity being proposed.
How can I (for example) estimate how much it would cost to prepare a legal case against the British Government that as signatories to the UN Declaration of Human Rights this government has never attempted to provide its citizens with the degree of equality of opportunity, that this document requires? It would need several meetings with lawyers and their baristers plus an series of preliminary hearings before the total budget could possibly be estimated.
Similarly my second proposal for the setting up a autonomous region which operates its taxation along Georgist lines, to be one that is imposible to prepare a budget for, prior to the choice and agreement of a suitable place.
With best wishes, David Chester.
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I’m surprised that ‘Tax Justice Network’ Doesn’t appear in your list of links. Although their main purpose is the abolition of Tax Havens, they have considerable sympathy towards the ideas of Land Value Taxation, and if one perseveres with their website one can find a link to Labour Land Campaign.
Also ‘Centre for Cities’ , have advocated the american system of Tax Increment Financing, which, although limited to local projects, recognises that this can be financed from the returns on increased land values. They might well be open to more Georgist ideas.
Thanks Ian. We have added the link. We are hoping to partner with them on future projects.