[BARC-List] Fwd: ARLB043 ARRL receives homeland security training grant

[Arthur N1NHZ]

>Subject: ARLB043 ARRL receives homeland security training grant
>Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:45:53 -0400
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>ARLB043 ARRL receives homeland security training grant
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>ARRL Bulletin 43  ARLB043
> From ARRL Headquarters
>Newington CT  July 19, 2002
>To all radio amateurs
>
>SB QST ARL ARLB043
>ARLB043 ARRL receives homeland security training grant
>
>The ARRL will receive a $181,900 homeland security grant from the US
>government to train Amateur Radio operators in emergency
>communication. The League was among several dozen nonprofit
>organizations designated to receive some $10.3 million in federal
>money to boost homeland defense volunteer programs. The grant, from
>the Corporation for National and Community Service special volunteer
>program, will provide free ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency
>Communications Course training to 5200 volunteers nationwide,
>starting in 2003.
>
>''ARRL is the national association for Amateur Radio and is the
>national leader in emergency communications by volunteers who
>operate their own equipment on their time at no cost to any
>government, organization, or corporation,'' said the announcement
>July 18 from Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. The ARRL plans to
>revise and update the emergency communications curriculum to
>incorporate additional elements of emergency preparedness and
>homeland security.
>
>ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, said he was extremely pleased by
>the news. ''This adds legitimacy to the public service work Amateur
>Radio has been doing for years,'' he said.
>
>ARRL Chief Development Officer Mary Hobart, K1MMH, applied for the
>funding in May. ''I think this is an extraordinarily exciting day for
>Amateur Radio that the role of Amateur Radio in homeland security is
>recognized at the highest levels of government,'' Hobart said upon
>learning of the grant.
>
>Citing Amateur Radio's response in the aftermath of the September 11
>terrorist attacks, Hobart said the federal grant ''will help continue
>our work in providing public service and to protect lives, homes,
>businesses and our frequencies, as we have for decades.''
>
>ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, said he was pleased
>that the League would be able to extend its Amateur Radio Emergency
>Communications program to thousands of amateurs who might otherwise
>not be able to afford the program. ''We hope all who are interested
>will get on board,'' he said.
>
>The grant announcement said that ''expanding the opportunities for
>Americans to participate in meaningful volunteer service'' is at the
>heart of President George Bush's USA Freedom Corps, of which the
>Corporation for National and Community Service is a part.
>
>''We are deeply grateful to Tom Ridge and to the Corporation for
>National and Community Service for providing Amateur Radio with a
>unique opportunity to serve our country,'' Hobart said.
>
>In June, the ARRL and United Technologies Corporation announced a
>partnership to provide free ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency
>Communications Course training for up to 250 Connecticut amateurs.
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de Arthur  N1NHZ, 73
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