Missing - Public Debate on Social-Economic Issues
A lack of critical and coherent public social economic discourse has created a social-economic policy in Israel which has led over the past 20 years to a growing rate of poverty. One of the painful examples is the rising number of working people living under the poverty line (40%). The Social Economic Academy (SEA) offers knowledge and tools needed to pressure the government to change current policy.
The Missing - Public Debate on Social-Economic Issues Project offers critical discourse on social economic issues creating an alternative public debate on these issues. As a result of these debates all alternatives will be considered in the decision making process of social economic policies. The public debate following these platforms is a layer in the process for social change.
To fulfill these goals, SEA will hold 4 main activities:
5 seminars open to the public, will be held nationwide, with focal points that will attract media attention, with the expected participation of 250 people in each seminar. These seminars will be conducted by SEA’s leading lecturers who have critical points of views regarding the existing social economic policies in Israel.
SEA will publish a weekly column in a leading internet media outlet which will publicize 52 lectures on critical social economic issues yearly.
At least 10 of SEA’s leading lecturers will participate in media panels on social economic issues each year.
3 cinemateque series consisting of movies and lectures on social economic issues will be held nationwide. These series are open to the public and are expected to attract at least 5000 people a year.
To conduct these activities, SEA will hire a coordinator to organize the seminars, perform the necessary PR for the different activities and assemble the material for the weekly columns.
Public debate serves as a tool for SEA’s relevance to society at large. During the past years SEA received extensive coverage for its activities. More than two dozen new items were published in the Hebrew Media and several in the English media as well. In addition information regarding SEA’s courses is published on a major website – YNET; during the week the State budget was ratified, a major radio station in Israel (Gali Tzahal) had a daily corner for comments of different SEA lecturers and activists.
Evaluation will conducted by following media coverage for the project’s activities; adding a question on the registration forms for new student asking them if they were exposed to SEA by the Project’s activities; follow up on lecturers participation in media debates and on the number of participants in the cinemateque series.
Budget
The Project’s budget is $30,760. SEA is expecting self-generating income from admission fees to seminars and the cinemateque series and income from private donors and foundations such as the New Israel Fund and The Goldman Foundation. We need your help! Your donation of $500 will assist in covering the missing amount in the Project’s budget for the 2010-11 academic year and will allow SEA to fulfill its mission
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