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Interested in helping ACS-LA give out our 2nd Research Grant in 2024?

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For 2024, our Board voted to increase our cetacean research grant award to one $3,000 award instead of two $1,000 awards. It has been an incredible year and we’ve received more applications for our research grant this year than we have in the past five years combined! With so many worthy cetacean research projects out there, we would love to be able to give out our second $3,000 research grant this year.

 
We have two benevolent donors who will each match $1,000 if we are able to come up with $1,000 through fund-raising efforts. If you would like to be a part of this $1,000 donation (which will complete the $3,000 grant with the $2,000 in matched funds), please go to our home page and click on the ‘Donate’ button at the top right and label your donation “William S. Samaras ACS-LA 2024 Research Grant”. (Please note that the comments box may not be on the first page where you enter the donation amount,  but you will see it before you complete the donation.) Or you can mail your check with that label in the comments to:
 
ACS-LA
P.O. Box 1208
San Pedro, CA 90733-1208
 
100% of your donation will go directly to the grant!
 

If we raise more than $1,000, the excess will be automatically rolled over to 2025 to allow for two $3,000 research grants to be given next year.

We announce our winner on April 25th, and we would love nothing more than to announce 2 winners: one for the John E. Heyning Research Grant and one for the William S. Samaras Research Grant. The Board will be looking at ways we can reinstate that 2nd award at the higher level for next year and beyond, but for this year we are inviting anyone interested in playing a role to help make this happen.

 
Feel free to contact us if you are interested, or send your checks/payments using the methods outlined above, and thank you so much for your consideration.
 
Go whales!

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Patty Farrell
President
American Cetacean Society
Los Angeles Chapter
acs-la.org