| 24 | | For one month, five organizations in Palestine will meet to receive training in the development of a Drupal website for blogging. Technologists from Stop the Wall (STW), Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA), Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC), the Alternative Information Center (AIC), and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) will attend the trainings. The trainings will be conducted by a technologist from May First/People Link in the in-depth, administrative use of modern content management systems as well as independent media production. The project will bring together these five organizations for 40 hours per week for 4 weeks for the training in how to install, configure, design, and write content for their website. Rather than encouraging outsourcing of technology work, we believe that supporting in-house experts will increase the production and quality of website content for these five organizations. |
| | 24 | For three months, four organizations in Palestine will meet to receive training in the development of a Drupal website for blogging. Technologists from Stop the Wall (STW), Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA), Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC), the Alternative Information Center (AIC), and the Teacher Creativity Center (TCC) will participate in the trainings. The trainings will be conducted by a technologist from May First/People Link in the in-depth, administrative use of modern content management systems as well as independent media production. The project will bring together these five organizations for 40 hours per week for 4 weeks for the training in how to install, configure, design, and write content for their website. Rather than encouraging outsourcing of technology work, we believe that supporting in-house experts will increase the production and quality of website content for these five organizations. |
| 55 | | The total time given to each organization will be one week, or approximately 40 hours. With five organizations, the project will last five weeks. These five weeks can be completed at any time during 2011, with adequate coordination and administration. We have identified three time periods in which the project can take place: |
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| 57 | | June 15 - July 20 |
| 58 | | September 15 - October 20 |
| 59 | | }}} |
| 60 | | At the end of the project's training period in Palestine, an ongoing relationship will continue between Rising Voices, MF/PL, STW, UPWC, MECA, and AIC through the creation of a monthly newsletter which highlights blogs produced on the new websites, the first issue of which can be expected approximately one month from the end date: May, July, or November. |
| | 58 | The total time given to each organization will be approximately one month, with overlapping trainings, for an estimated total of 40 hours per week. The project will last twelve weeks, although some of the hours have already been committed. Our trainer is present in the West Bank and hopes to finish the full project by the end of October. |
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| | 60 | At the end of the project's training period in Palestine, an ongoing relationship will continue between Rising Voices, MF/PL, STW, UPWC, MECA, TCC, and AIC through the creation of a monthly newsletter which highlights blogs produced on the new websites, the first issue of which can be expected approximately one month from the end date: in November 2011. |
| 71 | | ||''$200/year for 4 organizations''|||| |
| 72 | | ||'''TOTAL'''||'''$3920.00'''|| |
| | 71 | ||''$200/year for 5 organizations''|||| |
| | 72 | ||''TOTAL COSTS''||''$8560''|| |
| | 73 | |
| | 74 | Other Funding Sources |
| | 75 | ||STW Hosting||$200|| |
| | 76 | ||''Pledged membership July 2011''|| |
| | 77 | ||Travel||$1800.00|| |
| | 78 | ||''In-kind donation from Stop the Wall''|| |
| | 79 | ||Other||$1400.00|| |
| | 80 | ||''$900 pledge from STW and $500 from MECA''|| |
| | 81 | ||''TOTAL RAISED''||''$3400.00''|| |
| | 82 | |
| | 83 | ||'''TOTAL NEEDED'''||'''$5160.00'''|| |
