NJ Civic Info Consortium public info session #2 (17FEB22)
JJoe AmditisFeb 18, 2022 at 6:33 pm55min
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00:06Stefanie Murray
Hi, thanks, start again. Hi, I'm Stefanie Murray, I'm with the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. And we are helping to host today's session about grants from the New Jersey civic information Consortium. So if that's what you're here for, you're in the right spot. We are going to have a fairly relaxed session today, we have a couple board members from the consortium. We just finished up their February board meeting and will be joining us to answer your questions. And to talk about the grants process for the 2022 grants that they will be giving out. We are recording the session, as you might have just seen, all of these sessions will be made available the recordings to you so you can watch them again. And they will also be posted on the Civic information consortiums website as well. So if you have any colleagues or anyone else you want to refer to, or if you want to go back and watch the first info session, which we hosted a couple weeks ago, you can do that at NJ civic info.org. So I will turn it over to Joe Amditis, my colleague who will give you a couple tech overview questions guiders guidelines pointers before we jump in.
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01:11Joe Amditis
Okay, everybody. So just a quick a few little notes here about the tech stuff, we do have a chat. Obviously every zoom chat, every Zoom meeting has a chat, just make sure that when you are typing you select the correct recipient next to the to their you click the little drop down to make sure I'm gonna go ahead and mute you to make sure that it's going to the right person. If you have any tech issues, you can DM me, you can send me a private message and I'll do my best to help you out.
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01:36Joe Amditis
One of the things is, you know, we are going to be answering questions. We're going to be fielding questions this whole time. So put them in the chat if you'd like to just type your question. But if you want to ask your question out loud, I think we can accommodate that as well, you can use the little, click the reaction button at the bottom and you can raise your hand. And we'll try to get to you in a reasonable order. I am also going to enable the auto transcription, you should see the button down there, you can turn that off or you know if it's distracting or whatever. Go ahead and do that. That's fine. I think that's about it. I'll go ahead and shut up now. And I'll turn that over to Stephanie on our board members. Thanks, Joe. We are going to take questions from the chat like Joe mentioned and toss them to the board members. So put them there and do use that raise hand function. With that. I will turn it over to our board members. Today. We have with us, John C. Locke and Teresa Edwards. John, I think you're going to talk a little bit about the grant opportunity, right and give an overview to everyone. Yes, I think Chris is also on here. And Chris is here too. They are Chris. So Chris, do you want to say anything before I do the overview. You're welcome to jump in, John. Thanks. Hey, Joe, are you putting up the screen?
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02:49John Celock
So good afternoon, everyone. My name is John C. Locke. I'm a board member of the Civic information Consortium. Glad to be joined by my colleagues, Chris Daggett and Teresa Edwards. So just want to give a brief overview of the grants process and the grant guidelines for the second round of grants before we jump into your questions, because I think that's the more important portion of the questions. So that's our second round of grants, we have about $150,000 to give out in this round.
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04:36John Celock
training for all age groups, but also for a projects that are with middle and high school journalism programs. nonpartisan civic voter information election reporting election related projects, combating disinformation. Obviously, this has been a huge issue in the country over the last couple of years. So we're looking at different projects that will try to
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