<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Dear DDI community,</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">Each year, the DDI Executive Board considers funding requests to support Alliance activities.  Funding requests typically come from DDI working groups and committees to support their activities.  </div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">Any member may submit a funding request for the Executive Board to consider.  If you have a funding request for the next fiscal year (FY2021, July 2020 through June 2021), please email the request to <a href="mailto:secretariat@ddialliance.org">secretariat@ddialliance.org</a> by April 17, 2020.</div><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">The Alliance&#39;s membership dues are used to fund these requests.  The budget for the current 2020 fiscal year was finalized in June 2019 and is described in the Executive Board minutes: <a href="https://ddialliance.org/sites/default/files/20190625_Executive_Board.pdf" target="_blank">https://<span id="m_793812643462602948:7lw.2">ddialliance</span>.org/sites/default/files/20190625_Executive_Board.<span id="m_793812643462602948:7lw.3">pdf</span></a>.  The FY2019 financial report is part of the 2019 Annual Meeting minutes

 (see Appendix 3): <a href="https://ddialliance.org/sites/default/files/20190601_DDI_Alliance_Meeting_Minutes_0.pdf" target="_blank">https://<span id="m_793812643462602948:7lw.4">ddialliance</span>.org/sites/default/files/20190601_<span id="m_793812643462602948:7lw.5">DDI</span>_Alliance_Meeting_Minutes_0.<span id="m_793812643462602948:7lw.6">pdf</span></a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Feel free to contact me with questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Jared<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH"><font color="#000000">Jared Lyle<br>Executive Director, <a href="https://ddialliance.org/" target="_blank">DDI Alliance</a><br><a href="https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/" target="_blank">ICPSR</a>, University of Michigan<br><a href="mailto:lyle@umich.edu" target="_blank">lyle@umich.edu</a></font><br></span></p><div><font color="#999999"><br></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE-CH"></span></p><div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Follow the DDI Alliance on <a href="https://www.twitter.com/ddialliance" target="_blank">Twitter</a></i></font></div></div></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div><img src="cid:ii_k8jlypv80" alt="DDI-tagline2.png" width="200" height="71" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div></div></div>
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