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Special Projects Fund home - formerly Eligible Fund
In 2007 the IBA’s Management Board took the decision to place, on an annual basis, part of any year-end surplus which may arise into a special projects fund. The monies in this fund can be used to augment the Association’s work, over and above those items contained in its usual expenditure budgets.
The Management Board has established a committee to assess any requests made for deployment of these monies. This committee works within the pre-defined criteria which can be downloaded below. The committee is made up of the IBA Vice-President, the Vice-Chair and Treasurer of the LPD, the Secretary-Treasurer of the SPPI, the Chair of the BIC, the Co-Chair of the IBAHRI and the Executive Director. The committee is authorised to approve requests of up to £50,000 without further consultation of the Management Board. Requests above this amount will be preliminarily reviewed by the committee for recommendation, but will be referred t
International-bar-associationManagement-boardSpecial-projects-fundசர்வதேச-மதுக்கூடம்-சங்கம்மேலாண்மை-பலகைசிறப்பு-ப்ராஜெக்ட்ஸ்-நிதிNewly restored stone steps leading up into the Canoe Hill Cemetery. Credit: Michael Dinan
Perched on a hill off of the east side of Laurel not far from the intersection of Canoe Hill Road, the final resting place of 200-plus New Canaanites including the town’s (and possibly Connecticut’s) last living slave had fallen into disrepair over the years. With little dedicated parking and difficult to access even by foot, given a steep hill and crumbling stone staircase, the .69-acre cemetery grounds were largely covered in weeds and fallen branches, with broken and illegible gravestones scattered about.
Kristen Pace (R) with two of her daughters, Kayleigh and Ashlyn. The family took up a pandemic project in restoring the Canoe Hill Cemetery. Contributed
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