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News

Men want facts, women seek relations on Web, according to survey
Dec 29, 2005 - By Eric Auchard. "SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Internet users
share many common interests, but men are heavier consumers of news,
stocks, sports and pornography while more women look for health and
religious guidance, a broad survey of U.S. Web usage has found."
URL: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsChannel.aspx?type=internetNews

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Funding

J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism Invites Applications for
New Voices Community News Program
"J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism invites U.S. nonprofit groups
and education organizations to apply for funding to launch new community
news ventures and to cooperate with J-Lab in spotlighting best practices
and lessons learned. Under the New Voices project, funded by the John S.
and James L. Knight Foundation, J-Lab will select ten projects a year for two
years to receive as much as $17,000. Grant funds may be used for equipment,
software, rent, phones, training, marketing, production, stipends, freelance
payments, and contracted services."
URL: http://www.j-newvoices.org/index.php/site/story/2005rfp
Referred by: Foundation Center

Grants for In-school Music Projects
"The Mockingbird Foundation is offering grants for in-school music projects
that promote creative expression through music, encouraging applications
associated with diverse or unusual musical styles, genres, forms, and
philosophies. Maximum Award: $5,000. Eligibility: non-profit organizations,
public schools. Deadline: February 1, 2006."
URL: http://www.mockingbirdfoundation.org/funding/guidelines.html
Referred by: PEN Weekly NewsBlast

Coming Up Taller Awards to Honor Arts and Humanities Programs for
Young People
"Each year the Coming Up Taller Awards recognize and reward outstanding
after-school and out-of-school arts and humanities programs for underserved
children and youth. Award recipients receive $10,000 each, an individualized
plaque, and an invitation to attend the annual Coming Up Taller Leadership
Enhancement Conference. Programs initiated by museums, libraries,
performing arts organizations, universities, colleges, arts centers, community
service organizations, schools, businesses, and eligible government entities
are encouraged to participate."
URL: http://www.cominguptaller.org/
Referred by: Foundation Center

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Resources

The Freechild Project's Youth Movement Mapping Project
Included are "several categories of action in the international youth movement.
This movement, which is leaderless and diverse, is complex. It is obvious to say
that young people everywhere are complex with broad needs and interests,
and that young people everywhere are responding to their situations uniquely.
This page represents our first deliberate effort to paint a clear picture of the
diaspora of activity under the common umbrella of connecting young people
and social change."
URL: http://www.freechild.org/movementmap.htm
Referred by: The Freechild Project

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Research

Voices Study: Survey of youth ages 10 to 17
"Four in ten young people have doubts about whether they will be able to
realize the American Dream because they are stressed, concerned about
their personal safety and confused about what choices to make to protect
their health and well being, according to a survey from America's Promise."
URL: http://www.americaspromise.org/media/speakout.cfm
Referred by: Afterschool Alliance

The new www: whatever, whenever and wherever
"In an age of instant media gratification, learning must be real, rich and
relevant. The new www -- offering us whatever we want, whenever and
wherever we want it -- may seem like just an extension of our already
technology enhanced contemporary life. The latest Educational Leadership
examines how such a wireless stream of media gratification is actually
creating great challenges for our children."
URL: http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.a4dbd0f2c4f9b94cdeb3ffdb62108a0c/
Referred by: Educational Leadership

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Activities

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