MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS, AND TECHNOLOGY

Alternet
www.alternet.org
AlterNet is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. Its website is designed to serve as an "online helper," leading individuals, policy professionals and journalists to sources for information and insight. As an "infomediary," Alternet finds, evaluates, aggregates and organizes links to the best journalism, policy analysis and websites on a range of pressing issues, from globalization and grassroots organizing, to the war on drugs and genetic engineering.

Center for Digital Storytelling
www.storycenter.org
The Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based nonprofit arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. The Center assists young people and adults in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve all our lives. In addition to offering public Digital Storytelling Workshops, this organization works with a wide range of community, educational, and business organizations to offer customized services and consultation on the development of special projects. As leaders in the field of digital storytelling, the Center for Digital Storytelling has experience in issues of human interface design, interaction design, story and dramatic theory, non-profit organizational planning and development, event production, software product development, web design, on-line community building, training curriculum development and the development and management of community and educational technology programs and centers.

CompuMentor
www.compumentor.org
CompuMentor is one of the nation's leading nonprofit technology assistance organizations. CompuMentor helps nonprofit organizations and schools use technology more effectively to achieve their missions. CompuMentor focuses on working with small to medium-sized nonprofit organizations and schools serving low-income and underserved populations; CompuMentor also works with organizations that support these agencies and schools. This includes foundations, who may ask CompuMentor to work with their grantees on a technology project. This company offers a unique combination of hands-on consulting services and online resources. Organizations can choose the type of service that fits their resources and needs.

Media Alliance
www.media-alliance.org 
Media Alliance is a 30 year-old media resource and advocacy center for media workers, nonprofit organizations, and social justice activists. Its mission is excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility. Media Alliance’s website features up-to-date news and alerts on media-related issues. In addition to journalism classes in writing, editing, and researching stories, Media Alliance also teaches media strategy classes that train non-profit organizations and activists to achieve better media coverage of their work. Media Alliance’s classes are taught by working media professionals.

NetSquared
www.netsquared.org
NetSquared is an online and offline community created by TechSoup, www.techsoup.org, a project of CompuMentor, www.compumentor.org, an organization that has helped nonprofits access technological assistance, information and products for 18 years. NetSquared is just starting up, but its mission is to help nonprofits use the internet as a participatory space to promote social change. 

Pacific News Service
http://news.pacificnews.org
A communications hub for journalists, scholars, filmmakers, artists and young people dedicated to bringing the seldom heard, often most misunderstood or ignored voices and ideas into the public forum.

Progressive Media Project
www.progressive.org/mediaprojectabout
The Progressive Media Project solicits, edits, and distributes commentary (or "op-ed") pieces to daily newspapers in the United States on a full range of domestic issues, as well as on issues of foreign policy, peace and international cooperation.

Progressive Technology Project
www.progressivetech.org
The Progressive Technology Project works to strengthen grassroots community organizing in low/no-income communities and communities of color by convening events to exchange ideas and experiences about new technology, conducting training sessions for organizers, providing a framework for technical assistance, providing downloadable how-to resources on its web site and raising and re-granting funds for organizing technology.

SPIN Project
www.spinproject.org
The SPIN (Strategic Press Information Network) Project strengthens nonprofit social justice organizations, small and large, to communicate effectively for themselves. The SPIN Project provides accessible and affordable strategic communications consulting, training, coaching, networking opportunities and concrete tools. SPIN blends its skills and expertise with its commitment to strengthening social justice organizations and helping them engage in communications to achieve their goals.

Wiretap
www.alternet.org/wiretap/
WireTap is an independent information source by and for socially conscious youth. The magazine showcases investigative articles, personal essays, opinion editorials, artwork and activist resources to give young people a voice in the media. WireTap is a place for a new generation of writers, artists and activists to network and organize. Like Alternet, WireTap is a project of the Independent Media Institute.

Third World Majority
www.cultureisaweapon.org
Third World Majority (TWM) is a media training and production resource center run by a collective of young women of color and their allies dedicated to developing new media practices that affect global justice and social change through grassroots political organizing. TWM's principal focus is a three-day community digital-storytelling workshop. TWM also offers training and services in media production, organizing strategy and curriculum development.

Youth Media Council
www.youthmediacouncil.org
Launched in April 2001, the Youth Media Council is a Bay Area-based youth organizing, leadership development, media capacity-building and watchdog project dedicated to developing youth-led strategies for media justice.

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