Fundraising

EPA hosts the Annual P3 (People, Prosperity, and the Planet) Award competition. EPA and its 40 partners launched the P3 Award in 2004 to respond to the challenges of the developed and developing world in moving toward sustainability. This national competition enables college students to research, develop and design scientific, technical and policy solutions to sustainability challenges. Their designs are helping to achieve the mutual goals of economic prosperity while providing a higher quality of life and protecting the planet. Students and their faculty advisors compete for EPA's P3 Award and the opportunity of up to an additional $75,000 in funding to move their designs to the marketplace or implement them in the field.

Thanks everybody for coming out on Saturday, despite the threat of rain.  It actually turned out to be perfect running weather.  I've already started planning for next year's run, and I've come up with some great ideas.  Its going to be bigger and better than ever.  Here are the results:

Place             Runner                     Time
1                  Brian Senta               19:35
2                  David Duncan            19:37

When: Apr 19 2008 - 9:30am - 12:30pm
Location: UIUC Arboretum - Click Here for Map

Contact:

runforwater [at] gmail [dot] com

Description:

Grants

Since for some projects donations alone cannot support the projects, we encourage project leaders to seek out grants that they can apply to for additional funding.

We'd like to release the results of the fundraiser held last month where EWB asked everyone to donate to their local chapter with the added bonus of earning grants for those who received the most donations. This past week, EWB-USA announced that it is officially one of the winners of the $50,000 Challenge, and our chapter succeeded in raising 48 donations, earning us a $1,000 grant on top of what you donated! This is a momentous occasion for everyone in Engineers without Borders across the country and especially for our chapter. Combined with our also very successful banquet and auction held last week, we've already almost reached our fundraising goal for the year. Thanks to everyone for making these fundraisers such a success.

The Student Sustainability Committee is soliciting applications to appropriate the $2 Clean Energy Technology Fee and the $5 Sustainability Fee.  Submit your ideas! All campus groups (students, faculty, staff, etc) are eligible to apply.  

Current projects supported in part by the fee:

• Large-scale wind turbines to be placed on the South Farms
• UIUC Biodiesel Initiative -- converting waste vegetable oil to campus biodiesel
• Union Audit and retrofits
• Ethanol tank for campus garage
• Lighting retrofits for the Waste Management Research Center
• Solar panels and green roof for Business Instructional Facility

Questions can be directed to Stephanie Bogle at bogle [at] uiuc [dot] edu.

See below for application and details.