From: Lisa New To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: a budget Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:38:50 +0000 Attachments: Draft_Project_Budget_--_Poetry_of Character Development_v1J3).xlsx Dear Jeffrey, As promised, attached is a draft budget I've worked on with the finance director and director of EdLabs, the Harvard research center with which Poetry in America is now affiliated and from which I'm applying for the Templeton. I met some Templeton people this weekend, and they are being very kind and receptive. Pm meeting with John Seel of Templeton on the 21st to talk about this project. As EdLabs gets millions of dollars a year in grants, they were very strict with me, going through the project multiple times to help me arrive at the right number to ask for. I am not being asked for a budget at this point (and what I'm sending you is not in any way final) but it makes me say what I say with confidence. It's based on 18th months work of a fairly small team (some harvard employees who get benefits etc, some minimal Edlabs admin support, and some contractors when we can get away with it) and it presumes that Pm not paid except for some summer salary. I have not been paid anything for any of this work. I am using lots of younger film crew who cost a third of what WGBH costs. This team would be working to produce a for- credit graduate course for teachers for nationwide distribution. But I do think that the whole project needs 2 TV quality classroom-ready episodes for students to anchor the many shorter video pieces. Templeton could probably help me to get the WGBH costs down by raising questions about them.. As you'll see, this budget is roughly 750,000 for basic production and distribution, but then it adds 750,000 as a research component (another 750,000 to test and refine the materials in two large school systems with control groups of kids) plus the WGBH episodes. With those, it's up to 2 mill. Pm asking Templeton for 1.5, having asked