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Audio Now Available: The Broadband Stimulus and How Funders Can Address the Needs of Their Communities

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Listen to the teleconference to learn more about the range of activities the philanthropic community is undertaking to leverage this historic opportunity.

The Media Justice Fund Issues its Final Evaluation Report

Since 2003, the Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange has made grants to grassroots social change organizations to support the development of media and communications systems to advance ...

ITF's "New Interactive Media for Progressive Change Initiative" Awards First $250,000 in Grants

January 29, 2010 -- A total of 7 nonprofit organizations were recently awarded a total of $250,000 for grants submitted online to the New Interactive Media for Progressive Change Initiative ...

Community Radio Reaches Out in Haiti

[Source: Prometheus Radio Project, January 27, 2010]
"Much has been made about the role flashier technologies like Twitter, Skype and text messaging have played in helping disaster victims find loved ones and communicate with international aid ...

Social Media Aids Efforts to Help Victims of Earthquake in Haiti

[Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy, by Caroline Preston, January 13, 2010]
People interested in helping victims of the earthquake that wracked Haiti are being encouraged to text and tweet their donations and publicize their support using the new technologies. At the same ...

Knight Foundation Commits $70 Million to Community Foundations Nationwide

MIAMI (Jan. 7, 2010) The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced today that it intends to distribute $70 million over the next seven years to community foundations serving cities and ...

Social Media, Health Care and Strategic Learning for 2010

[Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project, by Susannah Fox; January 6, 2010]

Reflecting on Public Media 2.0 in 2009 and Looking Ahead to 2010

[Source: Center for Social Media; December 22, 2009]This year at the Center for Social Media we featured some truly innovative projects in the Public Media 2.0 Showcase.

Journalism’s Main Priorities in 2010 - and 10 Resolutions

[Source: The Media Consortium, by Tracy Van Slyke and Josh Stearns; December 18, 2009]