The last few hours the President of
Growcology and our CFO were going over a $250,000
Urban Greening proposal for the Strategic Growth Council. We're perfectly situated to get it, but we need to do alot of work to prepare ourselves for such a large project. We'd either be submitting a proposal for networking gardeners and organizations around a food culture for just our city, or a statewide plan starting at home and scaling across city and county lines from Mexico to Oregon.
I keep being struck by the parallels between the projects we've been
working on for over a year now and the ideas floating around Evoke. Everyone is talking about Urban Farming, and we've got a proposal we've pitched to the city, the universities, the churches, and the hospitals that does that and more.
Its weird to me to be preparing something like this, it just seems unreal that we've reached this point. Our ideas are good, but there's so much work still to be done. And we don't have any money committed to the project yet. We made sure to include revenue streams into each facet, but in the end we'll need grants to make it happen.
I wonder when I see these
pepsi challenges and
huge foundations if I'm dropping the ball by not applying for them as well. Am I wasting time here on Evoke that could be better spent somewhere else? Is the World Bank even going to bother helping with a program in a rich country like USA that will cost many times more than one in Africa, South America, or Asia?
I love the possibilities for Evoke, but I may not be able to be on here as much as I'd like. There are things I need to do to get my company up and running, to make sure that we don't have to scrimp and scrounge for every seed packet or sprinkler head.
I'll try to keep giving people feedback, but the real world is beckoning...
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