NEW DPF GRANTS SCHEDULE

The DPF Grant Program completed its third round of awards this fall. To date, DPF has awarded $1.1 million to 65 grantees during its first year. So far, DPF's New York office has received requests for over $8.5 million from more than 200 applicants. The program is one of the nation's largest donors both to harm reduction services— including needle exchange programs — and advocacy projects that combat the injustices of the drug war.

The grant committee will now consider unsolicited proposals on a semiannual schedule. The next proposal deadline is Wednesday, May 1, 1996.

For a copy of the grant guidelines or to confirm proposal deadlines, contact Eric Columbus at DPF's NewYork office: 888 Seventh Ave., Suite 2900, NewYork, NY 10106; phone: (212) 307-5630; E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

'96 CONFERENCE 8c AWARDS DEADLINES

DPF welcomes ideas for papers and workshops for next year's conference in Washington, D.C. One-page proposals are due May 31, 1996 (see inside back cover).
Nominations for DPF awards are due June 15, 1996. Contact Pam Griffin in the Washington, D.C., office.

SPEAR MEMORIAL HELD

Arnold Trebach traveled to London to deliver a eulogy for H.B. "Bing" Spear on November 8. The service was held at St. Botolph's Church before an audience that included leading academic addiction experts, drug treatment physicians, government officials and heroin addicts.

Father Kenneth Leech, a friend of Spear's and the vicar at St. Botolph's, led the service. Both Father Leech and Professor Trebach told of how Bing Spear was that unique government official who enforced the law with such compassion and balance that his friends included both frontline police officers and injecting addicts.

Spear lectured at every one of the nine American University drug policy institutes that Trebach presented in England during the 1970s and 1980s, and was a source of inspiration to the students. As readers of The Drug Policy Letter know, Spear was also a source of inspiration to drug policy experts around the world.

The Drug Policy Foundation named one of its first annual awards after Spear in 1988. The H.B. Spear Award for Achievement in Law Enforcement and Control is presented to a police official whose work epitomizes Spear's combination of efficiency and compassion.

CONFERENCE CALENDAR

FEBRUARY 15-17, 1996
Crime and Politics in the 1990s: Creating Demand for New Policies Washington, D.C.
Sponsor: Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy, the Sentencing Project Info: (202) 628-1903

MARCH 3-7, 1996
7th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm Hobart, Australia — Wrest Point Hotel Conference Center
Sponsor: Australian Drug Foundation Info: Caroline Thompson, +6 I (3) 9690 6000; fax: +6 I (3) 9690 3271; E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

MARCH 22-23, 1996
First Southeast Harm Reduction Conference
Atlanta, Georgia
Sponsors: Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, Harm Reduction Coalition (Nat'l) Info: Ariane Kraus, (404) 616-7633; Sara Kershnar, (510) 444-6969

APRIL 14- I 7, 1996
10th International Conference on Alcohol
Liverpool, U.K.
Sponsor: Merseyside and Cheshire Alcohol Services
Info: Confce Secretariat, +44 ( I 51) 707-104 I , fax: +44 ( I 5 I ) 709-49 I 6

APRIL 26-28, 1996
Sixth North American Syringe Exchange Convention Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Sponsor: North American Syringe Exchange Network Info: Al Smith, (206) 272-4857

DPF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Arnold S. Trebach, J. D., Ph.D., President

David C. Condliffe, Esq., Executive Director

Marjorie A. Rosner, Secretary-Treasurer

Geraldine Barrett, Washington, DC

Robert E. Field, Lancaster, PA

Ira Glasser, Executive Director, ACLU, New York

Joseph D. McNamara, Ph.D., Hoover Inst., Stanford Univ.

Ethan Nadelmann, J .D., Ph .D., Lindesmitb Center, NewYork

Nicholas Pastore, Chief of Police, New Haven, CT

WesleyA. Pomeroy, Esq., I ndep. Review Panel, Dade Cty, FL

Hon. Kurt L. Schmoke, Mayor, Baltimore

Joanne Sgro, Esq., Washington, DC

Ronald Sinoway, Esq., Phillipsville, CA

Hon. Robert W. Sweet, U.S. District Court, New York