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Audio Now Available: The Broadband Stimulus and How Funders Can Address the Needs of Their Communities

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Listen to the teleconference to learn more about the range of activities the philanthropic community is undertaking to leverage this historic opportunity.

Rural Broadband: The Cost of Exclusion

The Center for Rural Strategies contributed the following remarks to a recent public hearing on Digital Inclusion by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The event was part of a series ...
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Broadband Touted As 'Civil Right' at FCC Public Hearing

[Source: CongressDaily, by Sara Jerome; December 14, 2009] Broadband advocates, civil rights activists, and FCC officials described high-speed Internet service as a ...
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Dealing with Broadband's Rural Downside

[Source: Daily Yonder, by Sharon Strover and Nick Muntean; November 18, 2009]
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Leveraging a Little for Maximum Impact: The Digital Arts Service Corps and a New Structure for Public Media Engagement

By Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D.Professor, Cinema, Photography and Media Arts at Ithaca CollegeHere’s a recession fantasy: Imagine a small amount of money—less than half the cost of a new Prius ...

Art and the Public Purpose: A New Framework for Cultural Policy

This new Framework was developed by the Cultural Policy Working Group created on May 12th, 2009, following a White House Briefing on Art, Community, Social Justice, and National Recovery. For more ...

Fetzer Institute President Announces Retirement in 2011

KALAMAZOO, Michigan, April 22, 2009—Thomas F. Beech, president of the Fetzer Institute, announced today that he will retire in June 2011, after eight years of service.

Media Used to Unite Communities

Community economic development can often generate tension among long-time residents and those looking to bring about change. Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia has a unique media program that has ...

Nonprofit Communicators: half a glass

Two-thirds of Nonprofits Lack Communications Staff