Building Awareness Across Bars Budget Spring 2008

 Meetings Meeting Information


 * Meeting Frequency: Biweekly * Number of Meeting: 8 * Projected Attendance: 15

Meeting Expenses


 * Food: $ 30.00 * Advertising: $ 5.00 * Magic Board: $ 0.00 * Other: $0.00 * TOTAL: $ 35.00

Events Event Information


 * Name: FIERCE Prison Industrial Complex Workshop * Performer: FIERCE * Description: FIERCE is a community organization for Transgender, Lesbian, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Queer, and Questioning youth of color in New York City. They are dedicated to building power in communities through a mix of leadership development, artistic and cultural activism, political education, and campaign development. They put on skill-building trainings about the prison industrial complex in order to help build our political and social consciousness and strengthen our organizing efforts as we look at how queer youth of color are affected in Massachusetts * Attendance: 40 * Date: 2/14/2008

Event Expenses


 * Advertising: $ 10 * Food: $40 * Sound and Light: $ * Security: $ * Honorarium: $450 * Other: $ * TOTAL: $500

Event Information


 * Name: Up the Ridge Screening * Performer: None * Description: Up the Ridge is a documentary produced by Appalshop in rural Appalachia. The film documents the construction of a federal prison in western Virginia. It offers viewers an in-depth look at the United States prison industry and the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city minority offenders to distant rural outposts. The film explores competing political agendas that align government policy with human rights violations, and political expediencies that bring communities into racial and cultural conflict with tragic consequences. The screening would be followed by a talk back with one the filmmakers. * Attendance: 40 * Date: 4/24/2008

Event Expenses


 * Advertising: $ 10 * Food: $40 * Sound and Light: $ * Security: $ * Honorarium: $450 * Other: $ * TOTAL: $500

Publications Publication Information


 * Name: Flyers/Advertisments * Issues:250 * Description:Duplication charges 3 cents per page.

Publication Expenses


 * TOTAL: $75.00

Publication Information


 * Name:Zines * Issues:350 * Description:Duplication charges 3 cents per page.

Publication Expenses


 * TOTAL: $105.00

Equipment Equipment Information


 * Name:Educational Videos * Description:"1. Mendez vs. Westminster $30

2. Palante, Siempre Palante $35 3. The Revelution will not be Televised $50"


 * Purpose:These movies will be purchased in order to donate to the Hampshire County Jail. We have developed a relationship with a teacher, Amy Stamm, within the jail who has helped us greatly in our entry for tutoring there. She requested these films as tools for education for those incarcerated. * Storage:Hampshire County Jail

Equipment Expenses


 * TOTAL: $115.00

Others Other Expenses


 * Description: This money will be used to reimburse students for gas in carpools. Our tutoring at Hampshire County Jail will continue with weekly tutoring sessions. Also, there will be a weekly carpool to the Prison Book Project in Hadley to assist that organization in their prisoner support.

-Hampshire County Jail (20 miles x $.12 x 4 carpools) = $9.60 x 11 wks = $105

-Prison Book Project (10 miles x .36 x 2 carpools) = $7.20 x 10 wks = $72


 * TOTAL: $ 177.00