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The creeks ... are an active mystery, fresh every minute. Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection. The mountains ... are a passive mystery, the oldest of all. Theirs is the one simple mystery of creation from nothing, of matter itself, anything at all, the given. Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
—Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974 |
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The Sockeye Arts, Education & Science Fund
Back in 1998 I attempted to create a nonprofit organization, The Sockeye Arts, Education & Science Fund. I pursued many funding opportunities and made application to the IRS for 501c3 status. I received over 50 rejection letters from organizations and the IRS denied my application. I hope one day to bring this idea back to reality, possibly with assistance from others. Following are the objectives and mission statement I initially established for the organization.
OBJECTIVES
To support artists whose work deals with issues about the environment, and the philosophy of biological diversity.
To support scientists whose work deals with issues about the environment, and biological diversity.
To support educational programs; i.e., providing stipends for artists and scientists to go into the school system to share their work with students and encourage them to develop their own ideas.
To support projects that encourage collaboration between artists and scientists.
To support ideas dedicated to the arts and sciences as a way to promote environmental awareness and the philosophy of biological diversity.
To collaborate with grantees and other organizations in sharing administrative support, fund raising resources and ideas.
To seek projects that are innovative in their approach to the problem.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Sockeye Arts, Education and Science Fund encourages the use of art as a forum to create consensus. The organization is dedicated to the support of individuals and groups whose work promotes the communication of environmental ideas and biological diversity through the arts in collaboration with science. |
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