BW )(: Where the Money comes from - funding Technology and Social Action projects (10th / 11th June, Anglia Ruskin Uni)

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From: Dearden, Andrew M <A.M.Dearden at shu.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM
Subject: [ukriders] Where the Money comes from - funding Technology
and Social Action projects (10th / 11th June, Anglia Ruskin Uni)
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The 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 picks up a theme close to the hearts of participants in
previous PRaDSA events and anyone who has to find the money to develop
and implement their good ideas.
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?
* Which way is the wind blowing?
* 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?

There is little doubt more money exists for technology and social
action projects than most of us have an idea of. Our domains of
experience give us access to particular pots and a sense of what can
be achieved in certain arenas. We can pool our knowledge and explore
new collaborations to widen our possibilities. And there are experts
who have a greater repertoire of possible sources than most of us. So
we're bringing together practitioners engaged in initiating projects
that rely on inspiration and bidding skills with a couple of experts
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:
* your funding questions,
* any ideas you want to get funded (that you would be prepared to share), and
* any funding offers that have caught your attention (and that you may
want to bid for)

to Kutoma Wakunuma at <K.J.Wakunuma at shu.ac.uk> 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.

Andy Dearden
Reader in e-SocialAction
Communication and Computing Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University
Harmer Building
Sheffield
S1 1WB
T: 0114 225 2916
F: 0114 225 3161
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