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5th PRaDSA workshop: Where the Money comes from - funding Technology and Social Action projects... June 10th and 11th at Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford
This workshop is for anyone who has to find money to develop and implement their good ideas for social action using ICT. We take as our theme the issue of fundraising, the politics of financial support for social action organisations and the wellbeing of our communities. In particular we ask:
* What is the impact of entrepreneurialism on the various sectors we represent?
* What does it take to get our projects off the drawing board?
* And how do we secure what we need with maximum efficiency and effectiveness?
We can pool our knowledge and explore new collaborations to widen our possibilities of being funded for social action ICT work. We can look at sources of funding and how to apply most effectively. And there are experts who have a greater repertoire of possible sources than most of us. So we're bringing together a mix of practitioners engaged in initiating projects to share contacts and best tips.
We'll make time to share the tricks we've learnt to extract the best from the different streams that we feel confidence with. We'll also review the best ways of keeping each other informed about sources and opportunities. And we'll consider the longer-term trends and discuss what this will mean for different sectors. So come along, discuss what we'd do with enough money to put the world to rights and then work out ways of getting it.
* Day one will start sharply at 1pm, though a bite of lunch will be available from noon.
* Day two ends at 4pm to allow for travelling.
* Chelmsford is approximately an hour from London out of Liverpool Street station.
* We have some money to pay expenses, including your stay overnight in Chelmsford (and a limited budget to cover your absence from work - be that to your organisation or to you as a freelance operator), if you wish to attend this workshop and contribute.
To register for a place, send:
1. your funding questions,
2. any ideas you want to get funded (that you would be prepared to share), and
3. any funding offers that have caught your attention (and that you may want to bid for)
to Kutoma Wakunuma at <[log in to unmask]> as soon as possible. She will also be the first port of call for any questions you have.
About PRADSA
PRADSA stands for "Practical Design for Social Action". The PRADSA project's goal is to develop and extend the capability of social action organisations to creatively design new practices by appropriating and adapting ICTs. There are three strands to the project, of which the workshop series is one. The other two are:
. To develop a new understanding of designing in social action settings, grounded in detailed contextual studies of design in practice.
. To create a collection of practical resources to support the work of practitioners (and others) including workshop materials and easy-to-use (open-source) on-line community communications systems.
PRADSA is a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as part of its Designing for the 21st Century programme. If you would like to know more about the PRADSA project, please see: http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org.
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