<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'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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