From: "jeffrey E." <[email protected]> To: Lisa New Subject: Re: poetry Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:10:20 +0000 On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Lisa New < > wrote: Jefffrey, Two categories of need, 1) to make the best use of the next year -December 2016 2)to put myself on solid footing for 2017-2018, continuing to develop the large and growing archive of footage I have and to continue to build my institution 1) We are funded and working at capacity on current projects -December 2016.. Poetry of the City (Graduate School of Education)—(Leon Black is paying for a bit of this ) will launch in Feb and run in three modules. We are beginning marketing to large urban school districts now and will offer this course through 2016 and into 2017 Poetry in America with WGBH-- the first season of TV (by the way, by co-producing with WGBH, I've gotten the costs down from 150 per episode to around 90 per episode!) is in production and funded. Hoping to launch in 2017 with broad distribution. Have applied for funds for a second season and have a major donor who will renew funds if the series does well in season one PBSLearningMedia. We are creating a big collection of free content on poetry for teachers and students on PBS Learning Media (Leon Black is paying for all of this) to launch sometime in 2016 This is all the work my current team (4) plus assorted graduate students and interns embedded with me (part of how I keep Harvard happy and it gets me free labor) can manage. They are working very hard. They are all paid half by a Harvard division where I've put funds and half by funds deposited in my 501 c3. This is a good arrangement, as it gives me control, freedom and spares me paying Harvard fringe for all of them.. 'Vital 1 need now (for 2016) Another 200-250 now would allow me to hire the personnel to do one more major project, and the logical one to do now is the Poetry of Character Development. Had I gotten the Templeton grant I'd have hired 2-2/12