On a special segment aired August 24, 2007, low-powered FM radio (LPFM) activist Hannah Sassaman of the Prometheus Radio Project, journalist Rick Karr and Bill Moyers discuss the current battle to protect and bolster low-power FM radio, as well as look at how low-power radio helped to save lives after Hurricane Katrina. To watch the video segment click here.

The results of a study funded through the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), a grantee of the Ford Foundation, have just been released.

San Francisco State University researcher Graciela Orozco examined how Latinos in California utilized Radio Bilingue, a local Spanish-language radio station, to inform, encourage, and organize political action on the issue of immigrants'  rights as part of the national May 1st mobilization protests that took place in 2006.  Orozco’s work lends evidence to the continuing importance of broadcast radio for community discourse, outreach and organizing.

The Council on Foundations and Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media (GFEM) are seeking submissions of films and videos for the Council on Foundations' 42nd Annual Film & Video Festival to be held May 4-6 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Download a PDF version of this notice through the link provided at the bottom of this page.)


Deadline: June 27, 2008. 

By Jessica Schwartz, The Wallace Foundation

Since 2000, the Wallace Foundation has invested $215 million in their education leadership initiative. The film they commissioned in 2007, now in production, will follow school principals and their teams at several Illinois schools, focusing on their efforts to create a climate where all students can achieve at high levels. This article describes why they decided to commission, and the somewhat unusual process they devised to carry it out that allowed them to stay true to their mission and approach.

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