[Sviannouncements] Fwd: Wild Gift Fellowship Opportunity

[ashley ironwood]

> hi all
this seemed like it may be useful to someone connected to svi at  
moonshadow - feel free to pass it on!
- asha

>
>
> <-----Original Message----->
>
> Hello!
>
> It's time for my annual reminder about Wild Gift -- a fellowship  
> program
> for environmental leaders and entrepreneurs, ages 21-30.
>
> Wild Gift recipients are given grants (up to $12,500 each) to support
> projects that benefit the natural environment and human communities.  
> Wild
> Gift recipients are also awarded a three-week trek in Idaho's Frank  
> Church
> River of No Return Wilderness, where they refine their projects by  
> working
> with mentors and classmates. At the end of the funding year, each  
> class of
> recipients reunites with other Wild Gift alumni for a whitewater  
> kayaking
> trip on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River.
>
> Past recipients have used Wild Gift funding to launch a solar design  
> firm
> in India, a nature-writing program for urban youth in San Diego, a
> sustainable
> chicken farm in Arkansas, and a green real estate development  
> company in
> Boston (just to name a few).
>
> The application is due April 1 and can be found at the Wild Gift  
> website
> (http://www.wildgift.org/). You'll also find an interactive map of  
> past
> recipients and their projects, as well as a new video with footage  
> from
> last year’s trips.
>
> If you have questions, feel free to contact me (pete at wildgift.org).
> I'm a past Wild Gift recipient and I would call it the most  
> significant
> experience of my life. The program is now in its fifth full year and  
> we
> are still trying to get the word out, so please forward this to anyone
> you think might be interested!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete Land
> Wild Gift Board Member and Alumnus (Class of 2003)
>
>
>
>
> tamarack media
> environmental communication specialists
> ***
> email: pete at tamarackmedia.com
> phone: (802) 238-5938
> web: www.tamarackmedia.com
> .




please note my new email address

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ashley "asha" ironwood
sequatchie valley institute
1233 cartwright loop
whitwell, tn  37397
423-949-5922
ashley at svionline.org
www.svionline.org

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lessens.  you're able to live with uncertainty - even enjoy it.  when  
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desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.'   
if uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear.  if it's  
perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and  
creativity."
eckhart tolle - chapter 9 of "a new earth"



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