2004 AmeriCorps Rulemaking -
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And then I want to ask -- I've got Bruce Esterline, can you come down here to the front row, please?
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MR. ESTERLINE: Line up here?
MS. VAN DER VEER: No.Bruce, go ahead and sit down and you can go first and then the other two women who are volunteering to speak today, go ahead and make sure you state your name and affiliation for the record because I don't think I have you on our sign-in sheet, so ...
MR. ESTERLINE: My name is Bruce Esterline, vice president for grants at the Meadows Foundation based here in Dallas.
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MR. ESTERLINE: One more minute?
MS. VAN DER VEER: Right, you have one more minute.
MR. ESTERLINE: One more minute.
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MS. VAN DER VEER: Thank you, Bruce.
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MR. ESTERLINE: It's a trick question, isn't it?
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MR. ESTERLINE: You said there'd be trick questions.
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MR. ESTERLINE: It's a trick answer.
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MR. ESTERLINE: I -- I think -- I must also first confess that we at the Meadows Foundation and most of our foundation colleagues do not fund programs in perpetuity, so I'm -- I'm pointing the finger at you and -- and avoiding that responsibility on our end.
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Let me use some of what we heard from Francine that sort of challenged you, Bruce.Challenging in a good way -- in a good way.Clearly the Meadows Foundation has stepped up to the plate.I guess the question I'd ask you is: Do you think that in general the private sector has and are there other things that we in the Corporation or the other supports could be doing to -- on the support side -- we heard earlier a person testifying saying that the state -- their state commission -- I think it was Oklahoma, but I'm not for sure -- said that they provide increasing matching requirements and that they also -- they also provide increasing assistance for organizations to achieve those matches.Are there other -- do you think we're tapped out here as far as the funding community or are there other things we can do to get the funding community to provide greater assistance to programs?
MR. ESTERLINE: Well, I think -- I guess, again, the short answer is there -- there is more work to be done.