Groundwaters

The Groundwaters Magazine Project

February 16, 2009 on 4:50 pm | In This 'n That | No Comments

Hooray! We did it! Our sincere thanks go out to the Oregon Country Fair Endowment Committee for awarding Groundwaters a $1,500 grant. We also want to thank those of you who took time to write letters of support. We appreciate the trust that you’ve placed in us.

This grant will allow us to keep printing the magazine while we work to find ways of reaching as many contributors and readers as possible. We hope to encourage new and/or unpublished writers and artists to submit samples of their work to Groundwaters for publication. In the meantime, we plan to apply to other foundations for support in realizing our visions of sponsoring writing and art contests for our contributors and expanding our distribution into more areas around rural Lane County.

We still need community support… your support…, however. This grant award will pay for the printing of two and a half issues of the magazine, but we now have an additional expense to cover. We are having to buy our own printer since the one on loan from the Hays-Eberts is not going to be available after April. For now, we are paying for the new printer out of our own personal pockets, but eventually, we hope to have the funds from the magazine to reimburse our costs. The $2,000 printer is needed to print the large 11″ x 17″ paper used for the magazine as well as some other fund-raising projects we have.

So, your help and support in the way of donations, subscriptions and advertisements will be welcome and extremely appreciated in the days to come. Donations made to the Groundwaters Magazine Project will now be tax-deductible, too.

Thanks again for all of your support in helping us to maintain the quality and increase the availability of Groundwaters, free of charge, to Lane County communities.