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CIMA PROJECTS
(updated January 2009)

*NEW!* "Process Is Powerful: planning and evaluation for media activists. A practical guide to methods and tools that can help strengthen the movement to advance media justice." Includes tools, case studies, checklists and tips for how to do planning and evaluation in ways that build power and strategy.

The Boston Action Tank is an experimental "think tank" for social justice advocates to develop strategies and tools for shaping the media/communications future.

The Necessary Knowledge Program, produced by the Social Science Research Council in partnership with CIMA, has supported 40 media/communications research collaborations between academics and advocates. Read about these amazing projects here.

For more on these and other current CIMA projects, click here

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discover upcoming events and opportunities; post your announcements

Opportunities:

(deadline Feb 12) New Voices Grants for community news ventures

Upcoming Events:

Jan 28-Feb 1, National Conference on LGBT Equity (Denver,CO)

Jan 5, Reforming the FCC (Washington, DC)

Feb 12-13, Making Your Media Matter: Ethics, Money and Mission (Washington, DC)

Feb 20, The United Nations World Day of Social Justice (everywhere!!)

March 21, Local Media for Social Change (Los Angeles, CA)

July 16-19, 11th Allied Media Conference- Save the Date! (Detroit, MI)

a collaborative library for sharing ideas, recommending readings, building on history and learning from other movements

Recent highlights

Global Information Society Watch 2008: How do we ensure access to the internet is a human right enjoyed by everyone? A 40-nation report.

Report: The Dark Side of Sirius Satellite Radio: Women making Sirius Satellite Radios are attacked and beaten when they ask for their legal rights.

The Global Alternative Media Project: A multilingual, global collaborative site devoted to research on and connections with alternative, radical, citizens, community, independent, militant, autonomous, media.

Technology Transforming Education: The Horizon Report: The 2008 report seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression.

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find and post tools, guides, books and other materials to help make your work more effective

Recent highlights

Fundraising in Times of Financial Crisis: Tips from the Center for Community Change.

Re:Imagining Change – Guide and Tools for Story-based Strategy: SmartMeme's ideas, analyses, case studies, and strategies to change your campaign, your community and your world.

Message In A Box: Tactical Communications Toolkit: Tools and tactics for using media & tech to advance a cause.

Help your community face the February 2009 "DTV Transition" when old televisions will stop working and people have to buy new tech.

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