Media Infrastructure

A high-speed, unfettered Internet, community-based media arts organizations, PBS, NPR, Public/Educational/Government (PEG) public access stations, or mobile phones are all a part of our media infrastructure—GFEM provides funders with information to help them in supporting media infrastructure, whether local, national, or international.

MacArthur Foundation Announces a Public Competition: Award $2 Million

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced a public competition that will award $2 million in funding to emerging leaders, communicators, and innovators shaping the field of ...

The Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange Announces Award

The Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange (FEX) announced the award of $335,500 to 11 members of the Funding Exchange National Network for regranting to media justice organizations in their ...

Deadline Looming: FCC to Grant Full Power Radio Non-Commercial Educational Licensing

From Guatemala to Georgia, India to Illinois, people working for change have built radio stations in their communities. For the first and perhaps last time in a generation, the Federal ...

Grantmaking Foundations Using the Internet and New Technologies to Achieve their Missions

Amy Luckey, Senior Analyst at Blueprint Research & Design, Inc., has recent published an article for Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), "Grantmaking 2.0: Using New Technology ...

Is there a Role for Distributors in the Internet Age?

There is a myth in the current, collective unconscious about an emerging internet age where virtually all the content in the universe will become available to almost anyone in reach of a browser. ...