Marilyn Davis hosted a Leadership training course at Royal MHP in Salem on March 24.
Those in attendance were given an overview of MH/OSTA by Northern District Director Rita Loberger, who also guided them in the use of the website, the blog, how to obtain references as print outs, and how to use the 2011 version of Chapter 90. Rita works with nationwide organizations on some of our common problems, including funding. The session was so successful that Marilyn and Rita hope to offer it in other areas of the state. Contact them if you're interested.
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News on Adopt a School
We welcome news from manufactured home parks about their efforts and successes with "Adopt-a-School" projects. Just send summaries of your activities to the blog administrator, and we'll post them on the "Adopt-a-School Projects" page for others to see to help generate ideas. Please include your name and park name. Feel free to contact us as often as you wish. The more ideas we get, the better. OSTA wants to promote parks adopting schools, so the more we hear from you, the more others are going to join us to help the children.
Our Funding Request Denied
Our Funding Request Denied
Greetings, board members and friends---
I am sorry to say that I just found out from our grant officer at the Northwest Health Foundation that their board met on Monday [Dec. 5] and that we were not awarded funding.
Please, please do not take this as a "rejection of MH/OSTA"—I'm guessing that it has more to do with the match between the organization's funding criteria and what we were proposing and the extremely competitive nature of grants in this era of scarce resources. I've reviewed a lot of grant applications in my time, and I can assure you that our organization is deserving of support. We do good work, and we work hard at it. We are a viable, valuable organization providing a needed service—and sooner or later we will find a funding source that matches our profile.
I want to especially express appreciation to Rita Loberger, who was my partner in this effort. She represented the board and organization admirably and stepped up to the challenge of introducing the Northwest Health Foundation grant officer to manufactured housing community living.
So, the next step is to look ahead to another source of funding. I believe that the “Request for Proposals” goes out in January to another source with funding [expected to be] available in June. The MH/OSTA board will be discussing this possibility at their next meetings.
We will keep at it!!! —Andrée Tremoulet
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