Rising Voices announces the new 2012 Rising Voices microgrant competition.Organization will provide up to five microgrants in the amount of $USD 2,500-4,000 to successful applicants that have demonstrated a strong and clear idea how to best provide training and ongoing support to their local community members. The project's primary activities should be to provide citizen media training workshops to the target community, as well vital ongoing support and mentoring. Selected grantee projects will join the Rising Voices community of projects and be featured prominently across the Global Voices network.