> For US based organizations (and a their partners).
>
>
> Collaborative Grants in Media and Communications Proposals Due April 4,
> 2007
> Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere Program
> http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media
>
> WHAT
> The SSRC is pleased to announce its small grants project for academic-advocacy
> collaboration in the media and communications field. This project will provide
> grants of up to $7,500 for research that supports efforts to change the media
> / telecommunications infrastructure, practices, policies or content. The
> grants are intended for short-term work, completable and usable by advocacy
> partners within the next 4-12 months. Proposals for this round must be
> submitted by April 4, 2007 by 5PM EST in order to be eligible for funding.
> Grant recipients will be announced on April 20, 2007.
>
> WHO
> Proposals must be:
> (1) Submitted by a US-based nonprofit advocacy, organizing or community
> group working on media and/or telecommunications issues. Groups with nonprofit
> fiscal sponsorship are also eligible. (A limited number of international
> non-profit organizations will be solicited by invitation only.)
> (2) Structured as a partnership with an academic researcher based at a
> university, college or other research institution. This can include advanced
> graduate students.
>
> There are no citizenship requirements for participants in these projects.
>
> CRITERIA
> Please review the attached list of criteria carefully before preparing your
> proposal.
>
> All projects must: Be strategically useful in their proposed advocacy
> and/or organizing context.
> Produce scholarship that meets academic
> standards.
> Have a realistic workflow and timeframe.
>
> The selection committee will also favor proposals that:
> ˇ Have a clear plan for the application of the findings of the
> research in policy-making processes or advocacy campaigns to change the media
> / telecommunications infrastructure, practices, policies or content.
> Scholarship that facilitates field-building (i.e. curriculum development,
> tool-building, analysis of best practice) will also be considered.
> ˇ Be useful for organizations, communities, and advocacy efforts
> beyond the applicant organization.
> ˇ Address issues of disparate impact on communities on the basis
> of race, class, gender, ethnicity, age or other identity/status category.
> ˇ Build capacityskills, tools, experience, access to data
> setswithin the "user" organization and/or community.
> ˇ Use methods or models of research that have proved effective
> in similar contexts.
> ˇ Reflect diversity in the staff or group involved with the
> project.
> ˇ The committee will seek to fund a diverse mix of projects,
> including consideration of regional diversity, issue-area, scope (local,
> state-wide, national, etc), type of organization (national lobbying,
> grassroots community, transnational, etc.) and goals and methods (e.g.,
> capacity-building, policy interventions, project or movement analysis, surveys
> and/or data collection, etc.)
>
> Bonus points for proposals that:
> ˇ Involve collaboration between two or more advocacy/community
> groups in the project design and the plan of use for the research.
> ˇ Use participatory methods to engage community and/or advocacy
> group members in framing the questions, data collection, and/or analysis.
> ˇ Are related to issues of telephony, publishing, privacy,
> intellectual property, independent media, or spectrum.
>
>
>
> PROPOSAL STRUCTURE
> Please submit proposals via email to [log in to unmask] Please send a project
> outline of no more than 5 pages including:
> * A short description (max. 100 words) of how the research will be used to
> advance public-interest change in the media/communications arena.
> * A description of the research project (max. 1000 words). This should cover
> both process and outcomes, and address the criteria above. Describe the final
> product you will deliver to the SSRC upon completion of the study and how you
> see other organizations potentially using the findings and products of the
> research project.
> * A description of the proposing organization (max. 200 words), including
> mission, constituency, geographical scope of work, and annual budget.
> * The name, institutional affiliation(s) and research experience of the
> academic partner.
> * A project timeline.
>
> Plus:
> * The researcheršs CV.
> * A budget of up to $7500, with itemized major expenditures. If the project
> draws on other resources or financing, please indicate them.
>
> SAMPLE PROJECT TOPICS
>
> Proposals might seek to:
> * Measure the success or failure of mainstream media in advancing different
> public interest goals or values.
> * Measure the impact of existing ŗalternative˛/ community media systems on
> communities, public discourse, or democratic processes.
> * Develop better, actionable accounts of the role of new mediaš in peoplešs
> lives.
> * Analyze policymaking and/or regulatory systems.
> * Analyze emerging systems, frameworks, or models of media and communications
> that transcend the current regulatory framework.
> * Analyze economic models, industry structure, markets, or audiences for
> different kinds of media
> * Create analytical tools or research resources for use by advocates,
> communities, or the public.
> * Document or evaluate advocacy or organizing strategies around
> communications and media issues.
>
>
> BACKGROUND
> The Collaborative Grants project is part of the Necessary Knowledge for a
> Democratic Public Sphere (NKDPS) Program of the Social Science Research
> Council, working in partnership with CIMA: Center for International Media
> Action and the McGannon Center for Communications Research at Fordham
> University. The program is funded by the Media, Arts and Culture program of
> the Ford Foundation.
> The NKDPS program is launching a series of funding opportunities to help
> increase the production, use and capacity for research to serve
> public-interest advocacy and organizing around media and communications. These
> mini-grants for collaborative advocacy- academic partnerships have been
> initiated to meet the short-term research needs of advocacy and policy actors.
> Past submissions that were approved in previous rounds can be viewed online
> at: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media/collaborative_grants/ . Note that new
> applications do not have to work within the exact same range of topics as we
> encourage a diversity of issues that relate to the media and communications
> field.
> Several other funding projects will be launched in the next months, including
> a "Research Bounties" project that place prizes on advocacy-defined research
> and a larger program to support longer-term advocacy-academic research
> partnerships and training.
> For more information on the program, see http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media.
> For all program-related inquiries, please write to [log in to unmask] .
> Subscribe to MediaResearchHub-News for program updates, research funding
> opportunities, and conference information at
> http://listserve.ssrc.org/mailman/listinfo/mediaresearchhub-news
>
>
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