Balinese: substantive and funding questions

[Alissa Stern]

RNLD Folks:

I just started developing dialogue-based interactive materials for 
Balinese.  Each dialogue will be hyperlinked with grammatical and 
cultural notes in addition to a range of multimedia exercises.  The 
conversational part of the materials will be targeted to Balinese living 
outside of Bali, children who have only one Balinese parent (who tend, 
as a general matter, to learn Indonesian or English rather than 
Balinese), and nonBalinese living in Bali or elsewhere.  The materials 
will also include a chapter on Balinese script targeted for Balinese 
children and anyone else who is interested.

As a nonprofit organization, we will donate the materials free of charge 
to nonprofits in Bali and at a nominal charge to others to cover 
maintenance and updates.

Two questions:

1) This is designed as a collaborative effort, pulling together 
linguists, videographers, anthropologists, animators and other experts 
in Balinese.  If anyone would like to contribute to this effort or knows 
of others working in this area, please let me know.

2) I'm looking for sources of funding to cover the costs of developing 
the videos and dialogues (the software itself was donated by 
Transparent).    I started a kickstarter campaign (http://kck.st/rpeM26) 
but it is going a little slowly, so I'm wondering if there are grants or 
other sources of funding out there for Balinese specifically or 
threatened languages more generally.

Many thanks for your advice.

Alissa Stern
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Alissa Stern Executive Director BASAbali, alissa at basabali.org, 
www.basabali.org