Media

Recent Grants

Media

Number of Grants: 73

371 Productions (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
$200,000 to support "As Goes Janesville" , a documentary film exploring the impact of large-scale job loss on a manufacturing town. (2010)

After Image Public Media (San Francisco, California)
$200,000 in support of"Higher Ground" , a documentary film about international climate change focused on the Republic of Maldives. (2009)

America Abroad Media (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 to support"America Abroad" , an international affairs radio series (over two years). (2010)

American Documentary (Brooklyn, New York)
$1,500,000 in support of P.O.V., a documentary series on public television (over three years). (2010)

American Forum (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2011)

American Public Media (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
$500,000 to support the business news program "Marketplace" (over two years). (2011)

American Public Media (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
$500,000 in support of the business news program, Marketplace (over two years). (2009)

American University School of Communication (Washington, D.C.)
$600,000 to support the Investigative Reporting Workshop (over three years). (2009)

Arts Engine (New York, New York)
$50,000 in support of"Rose & Nangabire" , a documentary film about refugee resettlement and post-war reconciliation. (2009)

Association of Independents in Radio (Dorchester, Massachusetts)
$250,000 in support of Public MediaCraft, an effort to develop programming for radio and digital platforms (over two years). (2009)

Bay Area Video Coalition (San Francisco, California)
$200,000 to develop and test the Impact Dashboard, an online platform for tracking and analyzing media use across platforms and venues. (2010)

Bay Area Video Coalition (San Francisco, California)
$43,000 to develop "Virtual Mine", an interactive, three-dimensional online game in connection with a documentary film about the economic and environmental trade-offs of coal mining. (2009)

Camino Bluff Productions (New York, New York)
$200,000 in support of "The Arizona Project," a documentary film exploring the immigration debate sparked in 2010 by Arizona's controversial immigration law. (2011)

Center for Independent Documentary (Sharon, Massachusetts)
$175,000 in support of "Electoral Dysfunction," a documentary film examining the system of voting and voting rights in the United States. (2011)

Center for Investigative Reporting (Berkeley, California)
$600,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2009)

Center for Public Integrity (Washington, D.C.)
$750,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2010)

Chicago Community Trust (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 to support the Community News Matters initiative, a grantmaking program to expand the gathering and dissemination of local news and community information in the Chicago region. (2011)

Chicago Community Trust (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 to support the Community News Matters initiative, a grantmaking program to expand the gathering and dissemination of local news and community information in the Chicago region. (2010)

Community Initiatives (San Francisco, California)
$300,000 in support of a project on the use and impact of documentary films to educate the public and contribute to civic engagement in public policy issues (over two years). (2010)

Duke University Center for Documentary Studies (Durham, North Carolina)
$140,000 in support of "Groundwork," a radio documentary series examining local policymaking processes. (2011)

Ethno Pictures (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 in support of a documentary film,"All the Difference" . (2010)

Firelight Media (New York, New York)
$200,000 to support the Producers Lab and the Diversity Fund, a new funding program to support documentary film projects by emerging filmmakers of color (over two years). (2011)

Global Voices (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
$450,000 in support of Global Voices Online (over two years). (2011)

Global Voices (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
$75,000 in support of the Citizen Media Summit. (2010)

Homelands Productions (Ithaca, New York)
$250,000 in support of "The Hunger Chronicles" , a public radio documentary series on global hunger and food policy issues. (2010)

I Learn America (Brooklyn, New York)
$125,000 in support of "I Learn America," a documentary film about immigrant integration from the perspective and experience of five immigrant high school students and their teachers. (2011)

Independent Television Service (San Francisco, California)
$1,500,000 to support the Global Perspectives Project, a program to bring documentary content from international producers to U.S. audiences, and from U.S. producers to international audiences (over three years). (2010)

Investigative News Network (Encino, California)
$300,000 in support of operational and programmatic growth (over three years). (2011)

Iskander Films (Brooklyn, New York)
$150,000 in support of a documentary film about a young, Egyptian journalist and her experiences as change takes place in Egypt in early 2011. (2011)

Justice Project (Dallas, Pennsylvania)
$200,000 in support of "Twisted Justice," a documentary film about Pennsylvania's "kids for cash" court scandal, and the questions it raises about the juvenile justice system. (2011)

Kartemquin Educational Films (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 to produce"The Interrupters" , a documentary film about breaking the cycle of violence in urban America. (2010)

Kartemquin Educational Films (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 in support of a documentary film,"American Arab" . (2010)

Kelly+Yamamoto Productions (Greenbrae, California)
$150,000 in support of"Stories to Tell" , a documentary film about Chicago's Albany Park Theater Project and the role of art in the lives of immigrant and low-income youth. (2009)

Latino Public Broadcasting (Burbank, California)
$225,000 in support of"Voces" , a Latino documentary series on PBS (over three years). (2009)

Link Media (San Francisco, California)
$1,500,000 to produce and distribute Link TV's global news programs (over three years). (2010)

Link Media (San Francisco, California)
$500,000 in support of general operations. (2009)

Mud Horse Pictures (Brooklyn, New York)
$50,000 in support of"High Tech, Low Life" , a documentary film exploring citizen reporting in China. (2010)

Naked Eye Productions (New York, New York)
$140,000 in support of "Seeking Refuge," a documentary film about torture survivors and the professionals who help them heal and start new lives. (2011)

Openhood (Piedmont, California)
$115,000 in support of"The Waiting Room" , a documentary film about the role of emergency rooms in caring for the uninsured. (2010)

Openhood (Piedmont, California)
$50,000 to develop a multimedia project and documentary film about urban public hospitals and the uninsured patients being served by them. (2009)

Participatory Culture Foundation (Boston, Massachusetts)
$100,000 to develop an open and collaborative translation system for online video and to support targeted testing and adoption of the system by public media. (2010)

Potomac Media Works (Washington, D.C.)
$160,000 in support of "Easy Like Water," a documentary film about an innovative approach to education and climate change in Bangladesh. (2011)

ProPublica (New York, New York)
$750,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2011)

ProPublica (New York, New York)
$500,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2009)

Public Radio Capital (Boulder, Colorado)
$50,000 in support of a Public Media Audience Research Study. (2010)

Public Radio Exchange (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$900,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2010)

Public Radio International (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
$250,000 in support of general operations. (2011)

Radio Diaries (New York, New York)
$300,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2010)

Round Earth Media (St Paul, MN)
$105,000 in support of "The Mexico Reporting Project," a series of radio documentaries on Mexico's under-reported social and economic challenges. (2011)

Show of Force (New York, New York)
$250,000 in support of a documentary film series for public television inspired by Nicholas Kristof's best-selling book, Half the Sky. (2011)

Social Change Institute (Encino, California)
$100,000 in support of the documentary film, "Studio H: Design. Build. Transform." (2011)

Stir It Up Productions (Seattle, Washington)
$80,000 in support of "Oil and Water," a documentary film exploring the contamination of Ecuador's Amazon region and efforts to protect the area and its people. (2011)

StoryCorps (Brooklyn, New York)
$400,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2011)

StoryCorps (Brooklyn, New York)
$450,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2009)

Sundance Institute (Beverly Hills, California)
$450,000 to support the Documentary Film Program (over two years). (2011)

Sundance Institute (Beverly Hills, California)
$400,000 in support of the Documentary Film Program (over two years). (2009)

The Moth (New York, New York)
$200,000 to support The Moth Radio Hour (over two years). (2011)

The Moth (New York, New York)
$200,000 in support of The Moth Radio Hour (over two years). (2009)

The Way We Get By (Brookline, Massachusetts)
$50,000 to develop an online interactive information resource in connection with the production of a documentary film, "The Way We Get By". (2009)

Tribeca Film Institute (New York, New York)
$350,000 in support of the Tribeca All Access program for minority and women filmmakers and the Tribeca Reframe Collection, a non-commercial digital marketplace for independent films and videos (over two years). (2011)

Tribeca Film Institute (New York, New York)
$450,000 in support of Reframe, a project to aggregate, digitize, curate and make available independent media content for online distribution (over two years). (2009)

University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (Berkeley, California)
$250,000 to support the Investigative Reporting Program (over two years). (2011)

Vertumnus Productions (Boston, Massachusetts)
$200,000 in support of "The Supreme Price," a documentary film about the pro-democracy movement and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles. (2011)

Vital Pictures (Boston, Massachusetts)
$350,000 in support of a documentary film about the growing aging population (over two years). (2009)

WETA Public Television & Radio (Arlington, Virginia)
$1,000,000 in support of The NewsHour, a nightly primetime news program on PBS (over three years). (2010)

WNET Channel 13 (New York, New York)
$250,000 in support of Wide Angle, a television series featuring documentary films on international affairs (over three years). (2009)

WNET.ORG (New York, New York)
$500,000 in support of NEED TO KNOW, a new weekly current affairs program (over two years). (2011)

WNET.ORG (New York, New York)
$1,000,000 in support of "Moyers & Company," a new public affairs program hosted by Bill Moyers (over two years). (2011)

WNET.ORG (New York, New York)
$100,000 in support of"Cuba: The Accidental Eden" , a documentary film about Cuba's threatened natural environment for PBS NATURE. (2010)

Woodlawn Avenue Productions (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 in support of a documentary film about medical interventions and community efforts to reduce maternal mortality in Nigeria. (2009)

Working Films (Wilmington, North Carolina)
$300,000 in support of a project on the use and impact of documentary films to educate the public and contribute to civic engagement in public policy issues. (2010)

WTTW Channel 11 Window to the World Communications (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of the Chicago News Cooperative (over two years). (2010)

WTTW Channel 11 Window to the World Communications (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of the Chicago News Cooperative. (2009)