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NET Grant to Joslyn Institute promotes strategic communication design for sustainability

The Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities will receive a grant for $125,000 from the Nebraska Environmental Trust.

W. Cecil Steward, President and CEO of the Joslyn Institute, says the funds will be used to extend and expand the reach of financial resources in community work. 

Steward says this happens three ways: the first is to help the program succeed in its original proposal, second is bringing in matching funds for the project from other third party sources. 

He says the third is transferring information on successful projects to other sites and locations. 

Steward says the Joslyn Institute proposed heading back to the archives of the trust, looking at a large number of projects and evaluating them for potential influence.

"We started with the screening of about 30 projects and we’ve boiled that down to 20 projects at the moment.  And our effort for this second year of the funding is to dig deeply into the process used by the original proposers and describe it in a handbook sort of fashion so that other communities could reference that success and apply it for themselves.”

Steward says the Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities was established in 1996 to promote an integrated approach to issues of sustainability and to facilitate this process.  

He says the grant from the trust will allow them to extend their reach across the state.

For more information, the website is joslyninstitute.org.