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  • Maryland based Non-Profit 501c3 Public Charity

    Call us at 410.709.UCAM (8226)

    www.ucamnet.org

    admin@ucamnet.org

    Mission

    United Community Access Media promotes the education of, training in, and access to media for the purpose of documenting the progress of our community.

    We approach our mission by creating and developing projects which are approved by our Board of Directors and supervised by a Project Coordinating Council. Each project is headed by a project coordinator who assembles the crew and staff and materiel needed to achieve the goals of the project. Each project will include a training component so that by the completion of each project’s goal, the community involved will have the means to manage projects either with or independent of UCAM in the future.

    Vision

    - We promote the education of, training in, and access to media for the purpose of documenting the progress of our community, the general public.

    - We produce and publish public service announcements for free to non profit community oriented organizations.

    - We connect professionals in the field of documentation with individuals and community organizations, providing mentoring and training services.

    - We assist community organizations in documenting their events, both for their own archives and for presentation to the public.

     

    How can we serve you?

    UCAM is a service based organization.

    We document the progress of our community...
    The big our... which includes you and your community.

    Is there something going on in your community that you wish to document?

    Are you part of a community organization? a youth group? a senior group? a non-profit? an artist collective?

     

    Board of Directors

    Officers:

    Mark Matthews (President)
    Brian R. Naughton (Vice President)
    Angelo Brooks (Treasurer)
    Richard Waddington (Secretary)

    Members of the Board of Directors

    Judith Lombardi
    Adam Milam
    Frederick I. Scott, Jr.
    Kwame O. Abayomi
    Mary O'Byrne

    Executive Director
    David Sawyer

    Project Coordinating Council

    Jared Jackson
    Project Coordinator
    Academic Media Consortium (AMC)

    Ashley Ramsey
    Project Coordinator
    Academic Media Consortium (AMC)

    Raven Black
    Project Coordinator
    Community Media Consortium (CMC)

    David Sawyer
    Project Coordinator
    Community Media Consortium (CMC)

    Ayza Maxton
    Project Coordinator
    Community Media Consortium (CMC)

    Gabriel Holden
    Project Coordinator
    Global Access Media Alliance Network (GAMA)

    Eugene Balbierz
    Project Coordinator
    Global Access Media Alliance Network (GAMA)

    Projects

    Academic Media Consortium (AMC)

    The AMC utilizes a comprehensive network of Baltimore Area colleges and universities for the purpose of sharing resources, collaborating on common tasks and assisting in the development of community media relationships.
    This consortium is a resource for many of the other ongoing projects of UCAM. The AMC is made up of principals involved in collegiate publications, journals, calendars, film, video, audio, live events (such as lectures, concerts, etc.) and appropriate meetings in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area.

    A prominent feature of the AMC is the mentoring/training aspect, which directly relates to UCAM’s mission to train the community in the skill sets pertinent to becoming independent practitioners of media development. Integral is the use of the consortium member institutions’ facilities for training, production, screening and resource development. The collegiate members of the consortium choose mentees from area high schools and community based organizations who have an interest in media development.

    Community Media Consortium (CMC)

    A production oriented project which identifies stories and events in the community and presents them in the form of newsreels and short subject documentaries for distribution to area wide screens. It also produces these programs for web casting and DVD media.

    Among the journal “beats” covered by this project are the following:
    - Neighborhood community associations and non profit organization meetings, events, fund raisers, etc.
    - The back stories behind the hard news covered by other journals
    - The education beat
    - The arts and entertainment beat
    - The community media beat.

    Global Access Media Alliance (GAMA)

    A project that retrieves and presents on a regularly scheduled basis the archival work of public access television with the permission of principals involved. These viewings are made available for the web, television and other media as approved.

    UCAM Connections:

    The Fusion Group http://www.fusiongroup.org/

    UCAM on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=148781746645

     

    Get Involved - Documenting Progress

    If you are a:

    - Media Professional
    - Media Amateur
    - Student interested in or studying media
    - Community Organization
    - Community Leader
    - Non-Profit Organization
    - For-Profit Company looking for a Public-Private Partnership with a media based Non-Profit
    - Philanthropic Organization
    - Human being that has an idea and wants to document the progress of your community

    Then Contact Us via this online form
    or call 410.709.UCAM (8226)

    Maryland based Non-Profit 501c3 Public Charity

    Call us at 410.709.UCAM (8226)

    www.ucamnet.org

    admin@ucamnet.org

    www.publicandprivateenterprise.org

    MARYLAND** LAUNCHES NEW GRANTS PROGRAM (NEW)*

    Post Date:12.19.09
    The Division of Tourism, Film and the Arts (TFA) � through the Maryland Film
    Office � will award matching grants of $1,000 to $5,000 to new and emerging
    film festivals in the state. Impetus for the program, said Hannah Byron,
    assistant secretary for TFA, came partially from a recent National
    Governor's Association report, "Promoting Film and Media to Enhance State
    Economic Development    . " The report viewed film festivals as a significant
    factor for increasing tourism while elevating civic pride and participation
    � all elements that enhance a community's quality of life and generate
    economic activity. "These small community investments will provide seed
    funding to leverage private-sector support," said Jack Gerbes, director of
    the film office. "The awards capitalize on one of the most popular and
    accessible art forms � movies � to cultivate events that attract artists and
    visitors and promote Maryland's storied movie-making history. Go to:
    http://www.maryland film.org/

     

  • The Digital Video User Group, Baltimore and Global Community Media Networks, Video New Magazine camera shoot will be held periodically,

    Please be aware of the following Location Change to Video News Magazine   Any other speaker wishing to be interviewed at 6:15 p.m.  If you have a subject, topic, interest, expertise, viable matter to be videotaped, please communicate it.
     

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  • The Non Profit, Grant and Foundation Seekers / Documentarian Group will meet Saturdays at 5:15 at various locations within Baltimore City.
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    UNITED
    COMMUNITY
    ACCESS
    MEDIA, INC.
    of Baltimore, Maryland
     
    A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
    SERVING PUBLIC ACCESS MEDIA
     
    UNITED COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA, INC.
     
    OUR MISSION
     
    To promote the sharing of resources, content and support in service to freedom of expression via community and public access.
    To act as a clearing house and distribution service in the development of a cooperative coalition dedicated to establishing local, regional, national, and global public access media networks.
     
    WHO WE ARE
     
    We are individuals and groups organized to participate in the creation of a media co-operative dedicated to serve the public access community in its development of networks.
     
    We are based in Baltimore City and aim to serve the needs of public access television and other community based media operations (web casting, broadcast and cable radio, etc.) in the greater Baltimore area.
     
    We are a membership organization with the intent to expand throughout the State of Maryland, linking a statewide network to other such networks as a product of such expansion.
     
    UCAM GOALS
     
    Create state-of-the-art public access networks for television Submedia Network), web radio (WSMR) and web casting with streaming video, as well as establishing and maintaining a library of archival content from the aforementioned entities and publishing a quarterly trade journal (Bond Street Paper) with our network affiliates.  The following is a suggested road map by which to achieve these goals.
     
    With a focus on PEG Maryland
     
    1.    Create directory of resources listing potential sources of content, identifying individuals, groups and existent public access stations.
    2.     Send out follow-up letters to contacts requesting signed letters of interest in participation as an affiliate on the network.
    3.     Collect content from various sources, seeking news, drama, animation, cultural segments, public access history, current events, documentaries, etc. and produce a show to be sent out monthly (then bi-weekly, eventually weekly) as the Submedia Network Television Program (SNTP).
    Publish a program guide on the Submedia Network web site.
    Using this road map as a model, create start-up kits in support of potential hubs around the country as an aid to setting up statewide networks.  Join appropriate organizations which further the cause of co-operative media coalition development.
     
     
    BY LAWS OF UNITED COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
     
    ARTICLE I: NAME OF ORGANIZATION AND MISSION
    The name of this organization is United Community Access Media (UCAM).  UCAM promotes cooperative education, training, access and support in the pursuit of freedom of expression through all forms of media in service to the public.
     
    ARTICLE II: PURPOSE
    UCAM is a membership organization that produces and supports public access media co-operation in the development of community access networks.  We accept and develop for distribution content from sources meeting the standard requirement for public access in the United States of America and regularly program a presentation on our network.  Our network, for these purposes,  includes public access cable television, public television and radio, webcasting and print media.
     
    ARTICLE III: MEMBERSHIP
    Membership in UCAM consists of individuals and groups who pay annual membership fees and accept the mission and purpose of the organization.
    A) Terms Of Membership
    1.   Annual dues to be determined by bylaws as constituted or amended at annual membership meeting.
    2.   Membership shall be for one year beginning on July 1 and ending on June 30.  People who join between these dates will have a pro-rated fee.
    B) Attributes Of Membership
    1.    Members shall meet annually and nominate Board of Directors and vote into and out of office members of the Board.
     Each member shall have one vote and there will be no proxy voting.  All elections shall be announced, with nominations for Board members and bylaw recommendations, in writing at least forty-five (45) days prior to membership meeting date.
     
    ARTICLE IV: BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    UCAM's Board of Directors shall consist of not fewer than four (4) and not more than sixteen (16) members.  The Board of Directors shall reflect the diversity of the community it is in service to.  The Board will meet annually on a date announced with at least ninety (90) days prior notice.
     
    A) Terms Of Board Membership
    1.    Terms of Office: A member of the Board shall serve no more than three consecutive two year terms.
    2.    Each member shall have the right to vote for Executive officers of the board.
    B) Terms Of Membership
    1.    Annual dues to be determined by bylaws as constituted or amended at annual membership meeting.
    2.    Membership shall be for one year beginning on July 1 and ending on June 30.  Members who join between these dates will have a pro-rated fee.
    C)  Attributes Of Membership
    1.    Members shall meet annually to nominate and elect Board of Directors.
    2.   Each member shall have one vote and there will be no proxy voting.  All elections shall be announced, with nominations for Board members and bylaw recommendations, in writing at least forty-five (45) days prior to membership meeting date.
    D)Terms Of Board Membership
    1.    Terms of Office:  A member of the Board shall serve no more than three consecutive two year terms.
    2.    Each member shall have the right to vote for Executive officers of the Board.
    3.    Executive Officers shall be President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer.
    4.    Each executive member shall serve no more than three consecutive one year terms.
    5.    Executive Board shall consist of Officers of the Board and a member of the Coordinating Council, a full individual member elected by general membership, and an organizational designated member elected by general membership.
    E) Duties of Board of Directors
    1.    Reviews and hires salaried workers on the Coordinating Council.
    2.    Raises funds and determines annual operations budget of UCAM.
    3.    Elect Officers of the Board.
    4.    Calls annual meeting of general membership.
    5.    Calls board meetings determined by Executive Board quorum as needed.
     
    ARTICLE V:  COORDINATING COUNCIL
    The Coordinating Council of UCAM is the hired working group which runs the day-to-day operations of UCAM and its Submedia Network.  It is subject to review and hired by Board of Directors.
     
    ARTICLE VI: THE SUBMEDIA NETWORK
    The Submedia Network is the production component of UCAM, serving local, statewide, regional, national, and continental content providers, consumers, audiences and sponsors.
     
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    $100 (Annual Revenues <$500,000
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  • FUNDING/OTHER RESOURCES

    FUNDING FOR VISUAL ARTISTS THROUGH THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
    Post Date: June 8
    The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will consider need on the part of an applicant for all legitimate expenditures relating to his or her professional work and personal living, including medical expenses. The size and length of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Grants range from $1,000 to $30,000. for more info: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc. t: 212.288.2836 or grants@pkf.org http://www.pkf.org

    FUNDING FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
    Post Date: April 27
    The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will consider need on the part of an applicant for all legitimate expenditures relating to his or her professional work and personal living, including medical expenses. The size and length of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Grants range from $1,000 to $30,000. For more info contact the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc at 212.288.2836 or grants@pkf.org
    http://www.pkf.org

  • PUBLIC ART BUILDING COMMUNITIES GRANT - DC (NEW!)
    Deadline: June 27
    The Public Art Building Communities grant program offers funds to eligible artists and nonprofit organizations for the creation and installation of permanent public art projects with a life span of at least five (5) years. Projects must be installed in the District of Columbia and should encourage the growth of quality public art throughout the city, support local artists and nonprofit organizations, and make public art accessible to District residents. Projects must provide exposure of public art to the broader community or to persons traditionally underserved or separated from the cultural mainstream due to geographic location, economic constraints, or disability. Eligible, projects include, but are not limited to: sculpture, mosaics, murals, paving patterns, custom benches, stained glass windows, artistic gates and railing, etc. Funding is available for all fees associated with the design, fabrication and installation of the artwork(s) including: artist fees, materials, insurance, engineering, shipping, installation services, permit fees, and photographic documentation. Please follow the link for the details regarding the grant: http://www.dcarts.dc.gov/dcarts/cwp/view,A,3,Q,638599.asp

    COMMUNITY ARTS DEVELOPMENT GRANTS AVAILABLE
    Deadline: June 22 at 3pm
    Community Arts Development (CAD) Grants area available to support non-profit organizations presenting arts and cultural activities in Carroll County. The CAD Grants are designed to help strengthen local arts organizations and enhance cultural opportunities for Carroll County residents. Applicants must be based in Carroll County and must conduct their regular operations, performances or activities in locations that are in full compliance with all Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations. Commercial businesses, individuals, programs within the public school system, and for-profit ventures are not eligible to apply. Projects must take place between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008. Awards are in the range of $500 - $4,000 and are based on the size of the organizations, artistic quality and total amount available for distribution. Last year a total of $23,000 was distributed. Applications are reviewed by an independent committee of artists, educators, arts patrons, and Arts Council Board Members. The funds are provided by the Maryland State Arts Council and are earmarked for local distribution. For more information call 410.848.7272. Applications are available at the Carroll Arts Center or they can be downloaded from their website http://www.carr.org/arts

    FREE FALL BALTIMORE IS BACK!!
    June 29
    Offering free arts and cultural programming in October! Mayor Sheila Dixon and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts announce the anticipated return of Free Fall Baltimore, an arts initiative and cultural tourism program created in 2006 to make art and culture more accessible to area residents and visitors. Free Fall Baltimore is presented by Mayor Sheila Dixon and coordinated by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts in partnership with the Baltimore Area Convention & Visitors Association, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum and other public and private organizations. Cultural organizations can apply for a grant by going to
    http://www.promotionandarts.com/resources/up311.aspx

    FUNDING FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
    Post Date: April 27
    The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. The Foundation will consider need on the part of an applicant for all legitimate expenditures relating to his or her professional work and personal living, including medical expenses. The size and length of the grant is determined by the individual circumstances of the artist. Grants range from $1,000 to $30,000. For more info contact the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc at 212.288.2836 or grants@pkf.org
    http://www.pkf.org

    Click HERE for ongoing 'Funding/Other Resources' listings


  • Google Groups Beta
    Documentarians
    Visit this group
     
    Each of us looked at a Google Search list with key words foundation, grant, Maryland, health, education, youth, which gave possible regional foundations to write to and receive their applications.  We would seek to be umbrellaed under a nonprofit such as ADMProject, Baltimore Grassroots Media, or other organization.  Short listing of area foundations are:
    1.    Ludwick Family Foundation – www.amsa.org/cph/healtheducation.cfm The projects range from health education, research on issues chosen by the tribal...Grants Focus on Children and Youth Services; Ludwick Foundation...
    2.    PND – Requests for Proposals – Grants of up to $20000 will be awarded to schools and youth partner...www.foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp
    3.    Grants and Contracts/ The Center for Health and Health in Schools – Quality Health Foundation – Quality Healthcare Grants (Maryland and DC area)... Tiger Woods Foundation – Youth Education and Development Grants www.healthinschools.org/grants/alerts.asp
    4.    The Annenberg Foundation – Health, Education & Youth Grants (Deadline:Rolling) www.healthinschools.org/insider/enews022106.htm
    5.    The Abell Foundation, Inc. 111 S. Calvert St., Ste. 2300... Purpose and activities: The foundation supports organizations involved with arts and culture, education, health, human services, children and youth .... www.naccho.org/topics/fundingguide/documents/jan_2007/Maryland.pdf
    6.    Baltimore Community Foundation – Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative Education Fund, Inc. was awarded a $15000 grant... Advocates for Children and Youth, Inc., received a $15000 grant... www.bcf.org/pressroom/news_detail.aspx?nid=50
    7.    The Annie E. Casey Foundation – The 2006 National Convening on Youth Permanence was hosted by the Annie E. Casey...information on child health, education, and family economic conditions...  www.aecf.org
    8.    Monthly Funding Opportunities Announcement – The foundation supports a wide range of education and community service/health grants. Info: www.medtronic.com/foundation/ . Youth. MetLife Foundation... www.aap.org/commpeds/Monthly_Funding_Announcement.pdf
    9.    Grants and Fundraising Portal: Foundations Online – Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Grant programs in the fields of community affairs, education, health, human services, neighborhood development, ... www.fundsnetservices.com/foundg.htm
    10.              Youth Development Grants – Grants for Disadvantaged Youths in Emerging Markets. Www.EMpowerweb.org
    11.              The Rouse Company Foundation – THE ROUSE COMPANY FOUNDATION Partners and Supporters
    12.              The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation – The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc
    The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland.
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    Additional notes:
     
    A project mentioned was Team for Better Tommorow – to transfer gangs to a responsible team.  Robert Kaufman wants to transfer youth skills to usefulness.
    David Sawyer's Mission Statement Proposal. March 31, 2007.  Team Tomorrow Mission Statement – It is our mission to develop a project which assists the youth in Baltimore in an attempt to transform the potential for group behavior from gangs into teams; from crime into safe economics; in service to collective endeavors matching need to resource without waste.
     
    We intend to demonstrate the collective power potential of the 95% of the population that has historically been socially, economically and politically manipulated by the 5% of the population which has, through social convention, legislation and unregulated wealth, controlled the destiny of our society.
     
    We acknowledge that it is incumbent upon our mission to identify and utilize all resources that serve the purpose of making it possible for our youth to participate in the creation of the world in which they live, safely, progressively and collectively.
     
    documentary
     
    SYLLABICATION:doc·u·men·ta·ry
    PRONUNCIATION:  dky-mnt-r
    ADJECTIVE:1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents. 2. Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film.
    NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. doc·u·men·ta·ries
    A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration.
    documentarian

    SYLLABICATION:doc·u·men·tar·i·an
    PRONUNCIATION:  dky-mn-târ-n, -mn-
    VARIANT FORMS:also doc·u·men·ta·rist (dky-mntr-st)
    NOUN:One that makes documentaries or a documentary.
    A documentarian is a person who will record the real time history of an event, a person, group, or organization as it really happens.  It shows the actual experience, activities, of a group event.
    documentalist
     
    SYLLABICATION:doc·u·ment·al·ist
    PRONUNCIATION:  dky-mntl-st
    NOUN:A specialist in documentation.
    documentable
     
    SYLLABICATION:doc·u·ment·a·ble
    PRONUNCIATION:  dky-mnt-bl
    ADJECTIVE:Being such that documenting is possible: a documentable medical emergency.
     
    http://www.charityfinders.com/
     Other Possible Partners and Supporters (others to be added later):
    Abell Foundation
    Annie E. Casey Foundation
    Anonymous Contributors
    Catholic Campaign for Human Development
    Community Foundation of Baltimore
    Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development
    Baltimore Community Development Financing Corporation
    Baltimore Gas Electric
    Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
    Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle
    Community Capital of Maryland
    Enterprise Foundation and Enterprise Loan Fund
    Federal Home Loan Bank’s Affordable Housing Program
    First Union Bank
    Fund for Change
    Housing Authority of Baltimore City
    Jews for Justice
    Jim and Patty Rouse Family Foundation
    Lockhart-Vaughn Foundation/Clayton Baker Trust
    Marianist Sharing Fund
    Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Foundatio
    Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development
    Mayor Martin O’Malley and the Citizens of Baltimore
    McAuley Institute
    Mercantile Bank and Trust Company
    Morris Goldseker Foundation
    Neighborhood Design Center
    Presbyterian Church USA’s Self-Development of Peoples Fund
    Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundaiton
    School Sisters of Notre Dame
    Society of St. Sulpice
    SunTrust Bank
    Unitarian Universalist Affordable Housing Corporation
    United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
    William C. Baker Memorial Trust
    Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund
    Jim and Patty Rouse Family Foundation Lockhart-Vaughn Foundation/Clayton Baker Trust Marianist Sharing Fund Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Foundatio ...
    www.phghouse.org/aboutphg/partners.htm Jim and Patty Rouse Family Foundation


  • Time:noon-8pm
  • Presentation:Lenox Dingle, Jr. 5pm-6pm
  • Book Signing: Dr. Chika Onyeani 6pm-8pm
  • Enjoy Authentic Ethnic Food, Drink & Music
  • African Art & Jewelry for Sale
  • Silent Auction

    Links:

    Welcome to The African Diaspora Medical Project

    The African Diaspora Medical Project is a charitable medical relief organization whose main objective is to respond to the health care needs of the people in Africa and of the nations of the Diaspora, educate the public, and increase overall giving. Purpose

    Vision

    Health care and health care delivery will be improved in Africa and the Diaspora and the health crisis among African peoples will be eliminated.

    Mission Statement

    The African Diaspora Medical Project is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit medical relief organization that will identify and/or develop health-related projects that can be supported with technical, personnel and materiel assistance. These projects will be implemented in response to, and in collaboration with, our medical colleagues throughout Africa and the Diaspora.

    Philosophy and Core Values

    The medical project is the focal point for improving health and the delivery of health services to the neediest in Africa and the nations of the Diaspora. Program The ADMProject is designed to provide assistance through a formal application process referred to as a RFA - Request for Assistance. The RFA application will start the __________. The ADMProject team will evaluate the legitimacy of the request and develop a project design. These projects are implemented in response to, and in collaboration with, our medical colleagues in the subject areas. Our projects are undertaken by a team of specialists and technical assistance providers who will work with health professionals, community members, businesses, institutions, and other entities to respond to health care problems by conducting extensive, in-depth investigations and analyses and following through with planned action.


    • May 9, 2007
    Dear Reader,

    On May 18, 2007 six members of the African Diaspora Medical Project (ADMProject), including 4 student research assistants, will travel to Yaounde, Cameroon for 10 days to assist an organization there - the Sainté Trinité Foundation - in their efforts to care for orphans affected by AIDS.
    Travel Objectives

     As you may know, the care of children in sub-Sahara Africa orphaned by the deaths of their parents from AIDS has presented a significant challenge to communities that do not have the resources to meet many of their specialized needs. The ADMProject will collaborate with them in their efforts to increase their capacity and ability to care for these displaced children. On this trip we hope to accomplish two broad objectives:

    1.   Complete a site and needs assessment and begin the planning of the Project concept and design.

    2.    Document and record conditions that will support our efforts to illuminate the problem affecting many communities in sub-Sahara Africa and generate a positive response from donors in the form of funding for the Project.

    In addition, we will donate school supplies and clothing, and we would like to make a cash contribution that will help meet the day-to-day needs of the children.


    How you can help

    The ADMProject is accepting donations of school supplies (small items - pens, pencils, markers, rulers, erasers, etc) and clothing (new or excellent condition used, ages 2 - 16 years, boy/girl). These can be dropped by our office at 2510 St. Paul Street, 1st Floor, Baltimore, MD 21218. Cash donations are also greatly needed and appreciated and can be mailed to the same address or may be donated on-line through our website, www.admproject.org. All contributions are tax-deductible.
     
    I hope that you will consider supporting our effort. Help us help others help themselves. The ADMProject and the children of Yaounde thank you for considering them as beneficiaries of your charitable spirit.
     
    Sincerely,
    Lenox S. Dingle, Jr., M.D.
    The African Diaspora Medical Project, Inc.

     

    PRODUCTION GRANTS

    Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Production Grants, The
    The Brown Foundation offers grants to production companies to offset
    expenses in producing theatrical works (plays, musicals, operas, choral
    works, orchestral works with text), film and video. All works must be based
    on, or inspired by, history and present the gay and lesbian life in a
    positive manner. Grants, usually of $1,000.00, are available through 2007
    and may be used toward any aspect of a production. (Please allow 60 to 90
    days for a response as our jury is nationwide).

    For complete information about the production grants, visit
    http://www.aabbfoun dation.org/ productioncos. htm    Funding Opportunities from the Fund for Women Artists

    Starbucks Foundation Giving Voice Program – Grants of $5,000 to
    $20,000 for programs for youth (ages 6-18) that integrate literacy
    with personal and civic action, including by means of the arts (with
    particular mention of audio/video media and/or spoken word
    performance). www.starbucks.com/foundation/.
    Deadline: September 1 and March 1 annually (for letters of inquiry)

    John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships for Scholars and
    Artists – Fellowships awarded to scholars and artists who have
    demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or
    exceptional creative ability in the arts. www.gf.org. Deadline:
    October 1, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), December 1, 2006 (Latin America and
    Caribbean)

    Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership Education Program –
    Providing grants of up to $5,000 for small-scale education initiatives
    (teacher training and related programs that address the needs of the
    K-12 student and teacher community) in Southern and Midwestern U.S.
    states, in order to increase awareness and understanding of Japan.
    www.cgp.org.
    Deadline: Rolling

    Other funding notices are listed on their website, www.womenarts.org


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