Today I attended three different grant proposals, Laila Ward’s indigenous language mapping project for CIELO, Jackson Stimmler and Juliette Hawley’s SANAH project for Miry’s List, and Maggie Grether and Katie Huntsman’s librito series and cancer screening on behalf of the Lily Project. All three of them received most of the funding they requested and clearly were very passionate about their projects. Some takeaways from the event were the level of connectedness that every group had with their organization and how involved they were with getting their funding to follow the path they wanted. Laila talked about her CIELO mentors, Odilia and Luis, and how impactful she believed her project would be on the recognition of Latinx indigenous peoples by creating a geographical Information Systems map that would trace Latinx Indigenous people across the U.S. with the funding she secured. Jackson and Juliette covered how their project and collaboration with the SANAH project would benefit new Americans by providing them laptops. Lastly, Maggie and Katie talked about how their project with the Lily Project would
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