• Competitive and discretionary funding issues for substance abuse prevention programs.
• Demonstration and competitive funding issues for juvenile justice and law school programs.
• Discretionary and competitive funding issues for service learning initiatives.
• Surface transportation reauthorization bill (for CY2009): potential highway and transit projects.
• Commerce/Justice/Science Appropriations FY2009: juvenile justice and legal education projects. Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations FY2009: higher education service learning project. Interior & Environment Appropriations FY2009: ecosystem restoration project.
• Discretionary and competitive funding issues for research and river conservation ecosystem restoration projects. Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit network participation.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008

General Issues: Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Education, Transportation, Budget/Appropriations, Natural Resources, Environmental/Superfund

Spending: about $120,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2008: Natl Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAA), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), House of Representatives, Corporation for Natl & Community Service, U.S. Senate, Natl Park Service (NPS), Natl Science Foundation (NSF), Energy - Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Justice Dept of (DOJ), Education Dept of, Natl Endowment for the Humanities