Media Impact Forum - Innovation for the Next Four Years
Join funders, technologists, media makers and social innovators for a daylong meeting to explore the next stage of media and technology funding. This event is presented by Media Impact Funders and sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Registration is now open (funders only, please).
Innovation is at the heart of social change, and rapid changes in media and technology are driving monumental shifts in how we learn about the world, share our experiences, take action and filter information.
Connect with colleagues from ZeroDivide, The California Endowment and the Knight, Mozilla, Tides and Wyncote Foundations and many other funders, as we learn from change-makers and funders who are accelerating these shifts in a range of areas - from design-thinking and public media experimentation to social media and advocacy communications.
Sessions (subject to change):
- The Long View - Investing for Sustainable Social Returns
- What's Next - Discovering Innovation and Nurturing Social Entrepreneurs
- Turning the Page in Journalism - Solutions Journalism Network
- Evolution of Storytelling - Harnessing Inspiration, Focusing Action
- What's Next in Public Media Investing - Public Media Accelerator
Confirmed speakers:
- David Bornstein, New York Times columnist and noted author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas.
- Neal Baer, Producer and writer (ER; Law and Order, SVU; and documentary Studio H
- Greg Baldwin, President, VolunteerMatch
- Jay Backstrand, Founder and Board Member, VolunteerMatch, and Director, JP Morgan Private Bank
- Leetha Filderman, Preident of PopTech
- Corey Ford, Director of Matter Ventures, a $2.5 million incubator launched by the Public Radio Exchange, KQED and funded by the Knight Foundation.
- Mary Lou Fulton, Senior Program Manager at The California Endowment
- Dave Glassco, Director, Participatory Culture Foundation and Mother Jones
- Beth Kanter, author, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit
- Steve Katz, Publisher of Mother Jones
- Judith Kleinberg, Program Director at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Annie Leonard, Story of Stuff
- Ben Moskowitz, Mozilla Foundation
- Josh Nesbit, CEO of Medic Mobile and 2009 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow
- Willa Seldon, Partner at The Bridgespan Group
- Robert Sherman, Director of Initiative for Social and Emotional Learning, Novo Foundation
- Carol Varney, Executive Director of Bay Area Video Coalition
Register Now. For more information contact vince@mediafunders.org.
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Media Impact Funders is committed to advancing the field of media arts and public interest media funding. Media Impact Funders serves as a resource for grantmakers who fund media content, infrastructure, and policy, those who employ media to further their program goals as well as a collaborative network for funders who wish to learn more about media.
