2009 New Media Women Applicants Focused on Diverse Subjects
This chart shows the topic of each New Media Women Entrepreneurs grant proposal. A large number of the grant applications focus on hyper-local projects, with ethnic, immigrant, and African-American projects and women’s issues projects following close behind.
Within the ethnic and racially-focused projects, a large number focused on African-American communities, followed by other races and ethnicities (such as Asian and Native American), Middle Eastern and Latina communities.
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