On your first question about dissemination, we already are disseminating, but we do it passively through our agreements. In most of the project descriptions and for the work done in them, since the proponents are very proud when they reach the point that they have a pamphlet or fact sheet or video, they have a dissemination plan. Most projects are working very actively; we close most of them in March.
I would also add that we met with our agreement holders in January 2011. We were quite pleased at how many accepted our invitation. We had a day, and I think that if I had my time back, I would have made it a day and a half. The energy in the room to exchange information about what they had done in itself created a network. What we could see happening that day was that people were saying, “I'll call you”, and they were taking home materials. Hopefully one of the things we've learned is that we may be able to reduce the amount of overlap and duplication, because people are coming up the curve.
The second thing we learned that day was that there is an immense desire to start working on community response initiatives, whereby they start to work outside the silos a little, because they can't do it all on their own. It's fine to have a pamphlet, but if you have to go to another service provider to work on a solution or response, you have to figure out the dynamic to come together.
That's one of the things we're hoping to do in our next call for proposals: to see whether community groups and larger-scale projects can start to push the envelope a little bit on those types of protocols and see how you bring those pieces together to form a holistic, seamless solution.