MEDIA IMPACT EVENTS
Tomorrow at noon EST:
Join us online Thursday from 12:00-1:00 pm ET for our first OVEE screening featuring clips and conversation from When I Walk, one of the five powerful films selected for our 2015 Media Impact Festival.
An emotional documentary filled with unexpected moments of humor and joy, When I Walk is a life-affirming film driven by one man's determination to survive -- and to make sense of a devastating disease through the art of cinema.
We'll screen the trailer and watch several clips while chatting live with the filmmaker and subject of the film, Jason DaSilva , AXS Lab executive director Alice Cook , and the Fledgling Fund's Senior Director of Programs Emily Verellen . Join us to discuss the film's impact on raising awareness of disability issues and related accessibility challenges.
See what you missed:
Emerging Strategies for Supporting Local and Ethnic Reporting
Last week, Media Impact Funders and Southern California Grantmakers held a convening to explore emerging strategies for supporting local and ethnic reporting projects. We heard from from foundation leaders and grantees in two morning sessions: "Fresh Directions in Local News Funding," and "Ethnic Media: The New Mainstream," with speakers from the Dodge Foundation, McCormick Foundation and California Endowment. Speakers from LA-based NPR station KPCC also presented strategies for better serving America's rapidly growing Latino population.
Media Impact Forum 2015 At our annual Media Impact Forum in June, speakers offered insights in a wide variety of areas including diversity, digital privacy, and the consolidation of information offered by the internet. You can now watch videos from the day, read our wrap-up, and catch up on what others had to say in our Storify from the day.
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MEDIA IMPACT NEWS
AIM Update:
Want more than what we share in this newsletter?
Making and measuring high-impact environmental media:
Recent resources:
In our AIM Tools section, see how the Institute for Nonprofit News (formerly known as the Investigative News Network) is collaborating with Newslynx to refine newsroom impact measurement.
Our AIM Articles section offers insight into how Twitter is changing the climate conversation, and what the actual results of all those chilly Ice Bucket challenges ended up being.
In our AIM Research section, find out how the arts make an impact on wellbeing, and how many films from the past century have failed the "Bechdel Test."
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STORIES FROM THE FIELD
Pubmedia veterans to advise Current
Sustainability in the digital age is a vexing issue for many legacy publications, including this long-time news source for public media makers and funders. In order to grapple with next steps, Current will tap the experience of a new strategic advisory group. Learn more.
Submit your social impact docs to SIMA
Have you or your grantees worked on a film that "harnesses the power of documentary storytelling to raise important questions about the state of our contemporary world, providing deeper insights into the politics of global development, global activism, and the human condition?" If so, this may be the award for you.
Say what?
A grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will support the development of VIOOLY -- a tool to check readability, tone, and other aspects of your communications that might be making them less effective. See it for yourself at this week's #ComNet15 conference. Learn more.
Share Your Grants Today: Become an E-Grant Reporter
The accuracy and completeness of our media funding map depends on you sharing your grants data with the Foundation Center through the Electronic Reporting Program. It's a simple two-step process which includes
Check to see if your grants management system provides an easy export. Questions? Email the address above and someone from Foundation Center will be happy to work with you.
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LINKS
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Subscribe to The Local Fix for the latest developments in community news innovation, curated by Josh Stearns, Director of Journalism and Sustainability at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Common Cause Media Reform Listserv provides timely information on issues relating to media and democracy. See www.commoncause.org for more information.
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