[ARRL-OK] Grant Continued

[Lloyd Colston]

ARRL GETS SECOND-YEAR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS TRAINING GRANT
 
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
<http://www.cns.gov/> has renewed funding to subsidize the cost of ARRL
Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level I training for another year.
The federal grant of nearly $180,000 covers the second year of a
three-year award. The goal of the second-year grant--which runs September
1, 2003, through August 31, 2004--is to provide basic training for about
1700 more Amateur Radio emergency communicators.
 
"This is a validation of our performance during Year 1 of the grant,"
said
ARRL Chief Development Officer Mary Hobart, K1MMH. As a result of the
first-year grant, ARRL was able to provide emergency communications
training to 1699 volunteers. This year, CNCS will be looking not only at
the course completion rate but also the "outcomes that quantify and
qualify the impact Amateur Radio has on communities nationwide," Hobart
added.
 
"The true measure of the grant's success will be in how well these
volunteers serve their communities when all else fails," Hobart said. The
second-year grant also places renewed emphasis on recruiting senior
volunteers--those 55 and older.
 
"In Year 2," she said, "CNCS wants to know how certified hams have become
actively involved in their communities in drills, in practices and in
actual disasters--how they've aided communities when citizens, their
homes
and businesses are in harm's way."
 
Hobart called the success of the Year 1 grant "as much a testament to
ARRL
as to the hams who have taken the emergency communications course and who
serve when called upon to do so."
 
A $150,000 grant from United Technologies (UTC) in large part has gone to
sponsor nationwide Level II <http://www.arrl.org/cce/courses.html#ec002>
and Level III <http://www.arrl.org/cce/courses.html#ec003>
"leadership-level" emergency communications training. The UTC grant is
for
three years.
 
Students who take advantage of the grant-provided emergency
communications
training through the ARRL will be reimbursed for the tuition cost once
they have successfully completed the course. Certified volunteers then
are
expected to take an active role as part of their local Amateur Radio
Emergency Service (ARES) team.
 
To learn more about the ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Communications
courses, visit the ARRL Certification and Continuing Education (C-CE)
<http://www.arrl.org/cce/> Web page and the C-CE Links found there. For
more information, contact Emergency Communications Course Manager Dan
Miller, K3UFG, dmiller@arrl.org, 860-594-0340.


Lloyd Colston             Mayes County Emergency Management
Pryor, OK USA           http://www.geocities.com/mccem
        Homeland Security begins at HOME.

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