Islam-Western Relations: A Youth Media Project
Search for Common Ground
SummarySearch for Common Ground will provide young people an opportunity to share their perspectives on the relationship between Islam and the West in mainstream media, with an emphasis on common ground.
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $1,498 was raised for this project. |
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Common Ground News Service provides articles to over 10,000 subscribers aimed at causing a positive shift in the tone of Islamic-Western relations by influencing how leading print media outlets across this divide present and address key issues. This project gives young people from the Arab world and the West a chance to write articles about cooperation and mutual understanding. CG News has over has had over 1000 articles reprinted in major media outlets in Israel and the Arab World.
Activities
This project will produce a monthly column dedicated to the voices of youth that will be distributed to the 10,000 subscribers and reprinted in major newspapers. Many articles will be co-written by youth from the Middle East and the US.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $1,498
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $1,498 . The original project funding goal was $12,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Through their participation in this project, young people will take a lead in promoting understanding between the Muslim World and the West. Through their leadership, they will begin to transform the way that young people see one another.
Project Message
“It’s nice to realize there are some reasonable voices out there in the sea of madness and hatred.”
- Yoel Esteron, Managing Editor, Ha'aretz (Tel Aviv)
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Michael Shipler
Coordinator, SFCG Children and Youth Programs
SFCG Children and Youth Programmes
Washington, DC
United States
N/A
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Search for Common Ground
1601 Connecticut Ave, NW Suite 200
Washington,
DC
20009
United States
1-202-265-4300
http://www.sfcg.org
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Jordan
and can also be found under 
Democracy and Governance.
For more information about Jordan, read the Human Development Report on Jordan or the Wikipedia entry for Jordan.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 30, 2004
