Stories from the Field

Academy Award Nominee Among Winners of 2009 Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film & Digital Media

The Council on Foundations and Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media Announce Award Recipients

Anatomy of a Failed Media Grant - Carnegie Corporation

This is an analysis of media grantmaking to support nonprofit issues. It is also the story of a first-time grantmaker who can say, in the end, that the grantee did what it was supposed to do ...

Take Note: News Corp Quietly Owns NYC Neighborhood Newspapers

[Source: Black and Brown News, by Sharon D. Toomer - March 27, 2009] I am embarrassed as the founder of a digital media source of news and information that I am only now learning of ...

Why Grantmaking on Media Policy Matters

By Becky Lentz, Assistant Professor, McGill University

Change That Dial: Improved Data Collection and Analysis Needed for Media Policy-making

By Ann Chaitovitz, Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition

Is Fundraising Dead?

[Source: Strategy for Social Change Initiatives, By Lina Srivastava - February 27, 2009]

The Knowledge Exchange Program: Strengthening Collaboration between Grassroots and D.C.-based Media Policy Advocates

Introducing the New York Media Arts Map: An Interview with Karen Helmerson of NYSCA

Funder as Supplicant

[Source: SF360.org] By John R. Killacky (January 21, 2009) As a program officer at The San Francisco Foundation, I say "No" to artists and arts organizations daily. I try to ...

Pamela Yates, "The Reckoning": Social Networking and Grassroots Advocacy

[Source: indieWIRE.com]