Next Round of Small Grant Proposals -- Due Sept. 8th, 2008

Research Bounties and Open Projects Here

This year's process was very competitive, with 46 applicants for 7 grants.  Selection was made by a mixed researcher/advocate Grants Committee, supported by external reviews.

We are pleased to announce the following seven Large Grants recipients:

• ‘Assessing for Change: A Study on Latino Media Advocacy Efforts’
  Principal Investigator: Frances Negrón-Muntaner (Columbia University)
  Collaborating Organization: National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP)
• ‘Building a Democratic Regulatory Framework for Community Radios in Thailand’
  Principal Investigator: Pirongrong Kwan Ramasoota (Chulalongkorn University)
  Collaborating Organizations: Thai Media Advocacy Center (Thai-MPAC); Campaign for Popular Media Reform (CPMR); Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA); and the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
• ‘Creating a Women’s Media Equity Collaborative: New Funding Models for Feminist Media’
  Principal Investigators: Lisa McLaughlin (Miami University) and Susan Feiner (University of Southern Maine); Collaborating Organizations: Chica Luna Productions and Making Contact/National Radio Project
• ‘Digital Inclusion: Working Both Sides of the Equation’
  Principal Investigator: Dorothy Kidd (University of San Francisco)
  Collaborating Organization: Media Alliance
• ‘From the Digital Divide to Digital Excellence: Global Best Practices for Community Wireless Networks’
  Principal Investigators: Sascha Meinrath (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Laura Forlano (Columbia University; Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project at Yale Law School)
  Collaborating Organization: New America Foundation
• ‘Hate Speech in the Media’
  Principal Investigators: Chon A. Noriega and Francisco Javier Iribarren (University of California-Los Angeles)
  Collaborating Organization: National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC)
• ‘Mobile Voices: Participatory Action Research for Mobile Community Among Immigrants in Los Angeles’
  Principal Investigators: François Bar and Sasha Costanza-Chock (University of Southern California), and Raul Añorve (IDEPSCA)
  Collaborating Organization: Mobile Voices, a collaboration between Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA) and the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication (ARNIC) at the Annenberg School for Communication, USC

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The Collaborative Grants project is part of the SSRC Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere (NKDPS) program, which is supported by funding from the Ford Foundation. Now in its third year, the program works to foster a culture of collaboration between academic and advocacy communities, both in the United States and abroad, on issues of media policy, media reform and media justice.

The Collaborative Grants project awards Small Grants of $7,500, Large Grants of $30,000, Emergency Grants (up to $30,000), and Research Bounties (up to $10,000) via an open, competitive selection process. Grant selection is conducted by an external review committee, with representation from academic and advocacy communities.

The next competition for Small Grants takes place this fall, with proposals due September 8th. For more information on the Small Grants Project, visit: http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/small-grants-project.