Early Starlight Fund and Prize Proposal
Records how “identify—support—record” extended to a fund and prize; without a current publication decision, it creates no present commitment.
Preserves an early proposal for the fund and prize as project history. It does not represent a commitment currently being carried out.
The early fund and prize proposal explored how assessment might become resource support and public memory. It proposed milestone support, separation of authority among ranking, prize, and fund, and the rule that being ranked does not automatically mean receiving a prize or funding.
The proposed starting scale, amounts, selection season, and public commitments have not received a current publication decision, so they are only institutional source material and evolution history. Any real fund, prize, grant, or application route takes effect only after separate formal rules are published.