Media

Recent Grants

Media

Number of Grants: 48

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)

American Documentary, Inc. (New York, New York)
$1,500,000 in support of P.O.V. (Point of View), a documentary series on public television (over three years). (2007)

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)

Arts Engine (New York, New York)
$130,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2008)

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)

Association of Independents in Radio (Brooklyn, New York)
$75,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2007)

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)

Bay Area Video Coalition (San Francisco, California)
$900,000 in support of the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies (over three years). (2008)

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

Center for Public Integrity (Washington, D.C.)
$450,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2008)

Center for Public Integrity (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 in support of general operations. (2007)

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (New York, New York)
$635,000 in support of the U.S. broadcast of the BBC World News (over three years). (2007)

Global Voices (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
$750,000 in support of Global Voices Online (over three years). (2008)

Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$210,000 in support of a conference and research on citizen journalism. (2007)

Independent Television Service (San Francisco, California)
$1,500,000 in support of the digital conversion of ITVS production and distribution processes, and the pilot testing of this conversion with the International Media Development Fund (over three years). (2007)

Kartemquin Educational Films (Chicago, Illinois)
$15,000 in support of outreach activities, including an opening reception and U.S. premiere of the documentary film, "Milking the Rhino." (2008)

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)
$500,000 in support of general operations. (2009)

Media Standards Trust (London, United Kingdom)
$350,000 in support of a project to establish and implement a set of Basic Journalism Standards for news reporting (over two years). (2007)

Online Computer Library Center (Dublin, Ohio)
$100,000 in support of a planning process for the development of a new search engine based on the citations and recommendations of reference librarians. (2008)

OpenDemocracy USA (New York, New York)
$40,000 in support of a seminar to engage scholars and practitioners about the topic of online news and information credibility. (2007)

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)

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

Public Radio International (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
$1,200,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2008)

Renew Media (New York, New York)
$500,000 in support of a project to aggregate, digitize, curate and make available independent media content for online distribution. (2007)

Station Resource Group (Takoma Park, Maryland)
$600,000 in support of the Public Radio Exchange (over three years). (2007)

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

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 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)
$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 Michigan School of Information (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
$430,000 in support of a research project on credibility assessment in the participatory Web environment (over three years). (2008)

University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (Los Angeles, California)
$40,000 in support of a conference on Internet video. (2007)

University of Washington, Information School (Seattle, Washington)
$140,000 in support of a conference and research on information overload. (2007)

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

WBEZ Alliance (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 in support of the Third Coast International Audio Festival (over three 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)

WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston, Massachusetts)
$4,750,000 in support of the FRONTLINE and the FRONTLINE/World series, and the expansion of the series' digital and online capabilities (over five years). (2007)

WGBH Educational Foundation, "Frontline" (Boston, Massachusetts)
$250,000 in support of FRONTLINE/World. (2007)

WNET Channel 13 (New York, New York)
$750,000 in support of Wide Angle, a television series featuring documentary films on international affairs (over three years). (2009)

WNET Channel 13 (New York, New York)
$500,000 in support of Bill Moyers Journal, a new weekly public affairs series on PBS. (2007)

WNET Channel 13 (New York, New York)
$250,000 in support of Wide Angle, a television series featuring documentary films on international affairs. (2007)

WNET Channel 13 (New York, New York)
$500,000 in support of Wide Angle, a television series featuring documentary films on international affairs (over two years). (2007)

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)

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