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Virtual Virtuous Circle

Challenges Entered: 
Through its website SPF will showcase leaders transforming rural communities using community organizing to break through isolation, improve economic infrastructure, clean up environments and overcome racial inequities endemic to the region.

The Virtual Virtous Circle is a platform for social change leaders of rural Southeastern U.S. communities to tell their stories of organizing for change, promote the preservation of rural culture, and inform others of techniques for organizng their local communities against poverty and marginalization.  The deepened knowlege gain by interacting with the website will help Southern Partners Fund members and board to better assess trends in rural areas and common obstacles to social change in these communities.  The platform promotes a virtuous circle of knowledge and change making in areas that are slow to receive such knowlege and even slower to act on it with SPF's support.

WHAT WE NEED:

 The primary resources needed are funds, and some technical assistance with our website.

Project Details
Project url: 
http://www.spfund.org
Supporting organization: 
Southern Partners Fund
Project Assessment
Sustainability Model: 
Southern Partners Fund has given away almost $7 million dollars over its eight years of existence to rural social change organizations.  It will seek the necessary resources to update and upgrade its exisiting website and continue to support the digital stories project now in its third year in the South.  We have a proven track record of success in our grantseeking and we are developing new approaches to outreach to new donors and wider giving through donor circles in the South.
Project goals: 
I. uploading of current digital storiesII.  Continued production of new storiesIII.  SPF Grants committee influenced by trends displayed through stories.IV. New donors and activists drawn to the causes of rural communitiesV. Continual improvement in the website. 
Identified Obstacles: 
Amongst the obstacles to this project are "internalized racism" that convinces rural residences in the Black Belt and Appalachian regions where we are active that their stories are worth telling and nothing will ever change the extractive industries and large land owners who run their lives.  Second to this is the lack of technology for producing the videos without our support and finally the lack of funds to currently update and upgrade SPF's website.

Location

Atlanta, GA
United States
See map: Google Maps
Submitted by SPF2007 on April 6, 2007 - 8:09am

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