Wednesday, April 7, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
page 7
Service provides fund raising help
By Jeff Goodwin
Community groups wanting funding for their pro
jects may be able to find it with the help of a service
offered by Lincoln's Urban Development Department.
The program, Funding Resource Assistance, at
tempts to raise funds from private foundations, chur
ches and companies.
Kurt Buser, project chairman, said the response
from community groups has been good so far.
"At the present time I'm working with about 15 dif
ferent organizations," Buser said.
The project also attempts to assist groups to do
their own fund raising, Buser said.
"We're putting together a fund raising guide to help
community groups do some fund raising on their
own," Buser said.
The project is even more important now because of
reduced federal aid, he said.
"Federal money has gotten pretty tight," Buser
said. "More and more groups arc having to look to
other sources of funding."
Companies also are becoming more tightfisted, he
said. "The (Lincoln) business sector is almost totally
dry for the rest of the year" because of fund raising for
Comhusker Square, Buser said. "But it is sometimes
still possible to get funding. If you know someone in
an organization can sometimes be the key."
The type of project often determines who he will
approach for funding, he said.
"If you're working on a local project, the chances
are you will go to a local source," Buser said. "If
you're trying to get funds for a neighborhood park,
you're not going to go to the Ford Foundation."
Ironically, the project itself may be a victim of a
budget cut.
Buser said money for the project is scheduled to be
used by September,, and so far his position has not
been renewed.
He said the Lincoln City Council may decide to
create another department, which would have approxi
mately the same duties, and Buser could apply for a
position there, he said.
"It would have largely the same functions and a few
additional ones," Buser said.
Shorts
The Christian Science Organization will meet Thurs
day at 6 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. Room will be posted.
Hyde Memorial Observatory will be open to the public,
free of charge, each Saturday night in April from 7 p.m.
to 10 p.m.
William LeoGrande, a political science professor at the
American University in Washington, D.C., will speak
about "U.S. Policy in Central America" Thursday at 7:30
p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
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