Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the session of micro-grant funding for new media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and take advantage of tools like blogging, video-blogging, and podcasting on their own.
Examples of potential projects given by Rising Voices include:
Purchasing an affordable digital video camera and teaching a group of rural students how to produce an ongoing video-blog documentary about the lives of their grandparents.
Organizing a regular workshop on blogging and photography at a local orphanage. Portions of the budget could be used on cheap digital cameras and internet cafe costs so that participants could describe their local neighborhoods to a global audience with text and photos.
Working with a local NGO or social entrepreneur so that their challenges, successes, and stories are told to a global audience.
Grants range from $1000 to $5000 USD. The deadline is 15 June.
For more information and to download grant information, visit: http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2...
