Speaking Place

“Expenses computer services 231 website 788 travel 7,335 lodging 340 meals @ 50% 636 insurance 382 video production 3,566 materials and supplies 2,377 equipment 2,788 grant management fees 1,205 books & reference 225 fees, licenses, permits 55 bank fees 31 dues & subscriptions 125 board activities 174 total 20,258”

“NONDEDUCTIBLE MEALS -635”

“Accounts payable and accrued expenses 165 1,148”

“Speaking place develops documentary and new media solutions for use in promoting educational, scientific, and charitable purposes within the meaning of section 501 (c) (3).”

“Speaking place designed and implemented fluent comprehender training for personal language recovery in the passamaquoddy communities of sipayik and motahkomikuk in maine, usa with participants who understand but are not able to speak their indigenous language: passamaquoddy. The program makes use of a written handbook prepared by speaking place staff and program participants; video illustrations; meditation and other relaxation techniques; and group discussion of the personal language journey in order to understand personal and generational trauma in order to promote language reacquisition and the greater goal of language revitalization in the broader community.”

“Speaking place designed and used the tavico (taller audio visual comunitario de oaxaca) concept of training in community self-documentation to a pilot project with a team of passamaquoddy community members living in maine. Called "laopomosine" (let's look at ourselves), this series of training workshops and community video production is a collaboration between speaking place and maine media workshops + college based in rockport, maine, and uses cell phone technology for filming and editing.”

“Other accomplishments from speaking place this year took place in oaxaca, mexico, including the original development and implementation of tavico (taller audio visual comunitario de oaxaca), a multi-year collaborative project to train teams from multiple indigenous communities of oaxaca state, mexico, in commnunity and language self-documentation using video technology in the speaking place approach; and support of totontopec documentary production.”

“Speaking place met guidelines for filing 990-n in prior years, which does not require listing psas. All psas reported for the current year are in line with the exempt purpose activities and accomplishments the organization has engaged in previously.”