Historical April 1980 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
On March 10 First National Bank of St. Louis awarded a grant of $750 to The Paper to be applied to the printing costs of the Art Fair/House Tour issue. This grant is one of 15 totaling $15,500 given various not-for-profit organizations for city neighborhood promotional programs.
In February of this year notices were sent to non-profit neighborhood groups soliciting proposals for awards up to $2,000 or “in kind” assistance. Skip Coburn, executive director of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council. brought the program to the attention of the SDCC board. At their February 11 meeting the council approved the submission of a proposal requesting funding for the Art Fair and the Art Fair/House Tour issue of The Paper. Rich Lake. co- chairman of the Art Fair/House Tour. assisted Coburn in the development of the proposal. Early in March the Council was notified that the part of the proposal benefiting The Paper had been funded.
Most of the proposals which received grants were for newspapers. newsletters or marketing brochures and directories. Forty-one proposals were received from all over the city.
All of the applications were reviewed by two committees an internal committee composed of bank employees and an external committee of community representatives. Al Nerviani of the 6100 block of Kingsbury served on the external committee but did not influence the consideration of the SDCC proposal in order to avoid a conflict of interest.
The original intent of First National Bank was to offer up to $10,000 to be divided among the competing proposals. Bank President Richard Ford said that the calibre of the proposals submitted influenced the bank to relax the upward limit so that they might fund more of them. He suggested that in light of the enthusiastic response on the part of the city neighborhood non-profit groups the bank anticipates a repeat of the grant program next year.
Originally published in The Paper, April 1980.
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