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Needle
Exchange
Funding:
Grant
info
for
large,
small
and
start-up
needle
exchange
programs
10/3/97
Issue #10 of The Activist Guide reported that billionaire George Soros
has donated $1,000,000 to the San Francisco- based Tides Foundation to
fund needle exchange programs (http://www.drcnet.org/guide8-97/needlewars.html).
The George Williams Fund will make grants to needle exchange programs with
annual budgets of $50,000 or more. PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY OCTOBER
17, 1997. Do not fax or e-mail applications. Grant recipients will be announced
on or before December 19, 1997. For a copy of the RFP, call the Tides Foundation
at (415) 561-6323.
Smaller programs may be eligible for funding from the North American
Syringe Exchange Network during their next grant cycle. To be added to
the mailing list for their 1998-99 RFP, contact: NASEN, 535 Dock Street,
Suite 112, Tacoma, WA 98402, (206) 272 4857, [email protected].
(Visit NASEN's web site at http://www.nasen.org.
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Issue #14, 10/3/97
Web Magazine Rates Drug Library a Perfect Five | DPF Conference This Month: The 11th International Conference on Drug Policy taking place in New Orleans | Swiss Vote Overwhelmingly Against Zero-Tolerance | House Judiciary Committee holds hearings on medical marijuana | Needle Exchange Funding: Grant info for large, small and start-up needle exchange programs | Substance Abuse Research Grants: Call for proposals from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | McCaffrey and Methadone | British Newspaper Launches Campaign to Legalize Cannabis | Rash of Overdoses in Australia | Colombian President Defends His Drug War Record | Link of the Week: Monitoring the Colombia situation | Quote of the Week: An about face by ex-general McCaffrey on the public's ability to decide the medical marijuana issue | Editorial: The Swiss opt out of another war
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