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Use the ASHA/LEPP Partners Meeting to network and liaise to identify colleagues with similar challenges and brainstorm ideas and locate support.

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It's wonderful when the USO and the OSI can draw upon connections had and pull together to identify resources for possible funding gaps -- broadening your network as much as possible.

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There's a divide between awardees who have a USO partner to help in the complicated process of mitigating funding gaps and those who don't.

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Took out loans to address the cost difference.

VELLORE CMC/JOHN RIEHL: We've subdivided in our donor community into different groups to fill in the funding gaps.  In our context, we have an alumni group who are practicing medicine that we can reach out to.  We have ties with the FB community in the US -- we try to be strategic about who we reach out to and align our ask with the sub-group we reach out to.  It's worked very effectively and helps manage donor fatigue.

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Cost has had huge impact affecting the education of the children. Our approved funding came one-year after application and with COVID and a new tax system in-country, were not figured into our initial calculations. Cost went way up.

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We received a smaller grant than we'd requested -- had to reduce our scope.  We leaned on the Province and other organizations we're affiliated with to fill in the shortfall...it's finding new places to work with...this is true for all programs we're working on.

We work in local communities and those communities have connections with a range of businesses in the local community.  Lots of smaller amounts from a greater number of places.

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Hard to project timing of getting award and subsequently planning forward. And unsure if full funding will come through.