Media

Recent Grants

Media

Number of Grants: 55

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)
$750,000 in support of an expansion of the Public Insight Journalism project (over three years). (2006)

Arts Engine (New York, New York)
$180,000 in support of MediaRights, a project that connects social issue filmmakers with nonprofit organizations (over three years). (2005)

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)
$450,000 in support of the Producer's Institute for New Media Technologies, a national pilot training program on producing for multiple platforms (over two years). (2006)

California Newsreel (San Francisco, California)
$300,000 in support of a documentary film series on the connection between socioeconomic status and health disparities, titled "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" (2005)

Camino Bluff Productions (Amagansett, New York)
$25,000 in support of activities to bring the documentary film, "Farmingville," to Mexican audiences. (2005)

Center for Investigative Reporting (Berkeley, California)
$75,000 to support preliminary research for a documentary film exploring the debate over protecting intellectual property. (2005)

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)

Century Foundation (New York, New York)
$1,000,000 in support of the Caravan Project, a multi-media book publishing demonstration project (over two years). (2006)

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)

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (New York, New York)
$100,000 in support of the U.S. broadcast of the BBC World News (over six months). (2005)

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (New York, New York)
$175,000 in support of the U.S. broadcast of the BBC World News (over 18 months). (2005)

Five Star Films (Cabin John, Maryland)
$50,000 in support of a documentary film entitled, "Breaking the Rules: White South Africans in the Struggle Against Apartheid." (2005)

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

Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$175,000 in support of the documentary film "Secrecy," about balancing national security with government transparency. (2005)

Independent Feature Project (New York, New York)
$180,000 in support of documentary programs (over three years). (2005)

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)

Inner Asian Conservation (Hamden, Connecticut)
$200,000 in support of a documentary film on the impact of the Burma Road on biodiversity in the Eastern Himalaya region. (2005)

Kartemquin Educational Films (Chicago, Illinois)
$350,000 in support of a film about community-based conservation efforts in Africa. (2005)

Kikim Media (Menlo Park, California)
$250,000 in support of a documentary film entitled "Still Life: The Pursuit of Parkinson's." (2006)

Kikim Media (Menlo Park, California)
$200,000 in support of a documentary film entitled, "Ending AIDS: The Search for a Vaccine." (2005)

Lichtenstein Creative Media (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$300,000 in support of a documentary film examining the intersection of the mental health, juvenile justice, education, and foster care systems. (2005)

Link Media (San Francisco, California)
$1,000,000 in support of the launch of Global Pulse, a program to bring newscasts from around the world to U.S. audiences through television broadcast, the web, and other distribution mechanisms (over three years). (2006)

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)

National Association of Latino Independent Producers (Santa Monica, California)
$150,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2005)

National Video Resources (New York, New York)
$500,000 in support of a project to aggregate, digitize, and curate independent and public media content for online distribution. (2006)

New York University, Department of Journalism (New York, New York)
$210,000 in support of the exploratory phase of a project to engage citizens as both participants in and funders of journalism. (2006)

One World International Foundation (London, United Kingdom)
$70,000 in support of a planning process to determine the most appropriate approach to implementing the Mobile4Good project in Nigeria, a project which uses mobile phone technology to promote healthy outcomes. (2006)

One World U.S. (Washington, D.C.)
$375,000 in support of the editorial activities for the OneWorld international network, including preparation of news stories for Yahoo! World News (over three years). (2006)

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)

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)

Skylight Social Media (New York, New York)
$250,000 in support of "The Court of Last Resort," a documentary film about the International Criminal Court. (2006)

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

Stuart Television Productions Inc. (Concord, Massachusetts)
$250,000 in support of "Ex-Extremists," a documentary film about former Islamic radicals. (2006)

The Sudan Project (Dover, Delaware)
$125,000 in support of "Emmanuel's War, Emmanuel's Peace," a documentary film which chronicles the life of a former child Sudanese soldier who has become an international rap star. (2006)

University of California (Santa Barbara, California)
$520,000 in support of a research project regarding credibility and digital media (over two years). (2006)

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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for the Study of the American South (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
$55,000 in support of the development of a documentary film about the Wings Over Jordan Choir. (2006)

University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$25,000 in support of the conference The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age. (2006)

University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Communication (Los Angeles, California)
$400,000 in support of the Institute for the Future of the Book (over two years). (2006)

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)

University of Washington, Information School (Seattle, Washington)
$250,000 in support of Credibility Commons, an online environment for developing tools and resources intended to improve the credibility of Internet information (over two years). (2006)

West Wind Productions (San Francisco, California)
$300,000 in support of a film about the multinational efforts to bring former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and his associates to trial. (2005)

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 (Boston, Massachusetts)
$200,000 in support of "The New Asylums," a FRONTLINE documentary film about the challenges faced by a prison system dealing with large numbers of mentally ill inmates. (2005)

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

WGBH Educational Foundation, "Frontline" (Boston, Massachusetts)
$500,000 in support of FRONTLINE/World (over two years). (2005)

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)

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)
$550,000 in support of Wide Angle, a television series featuring documentary films on international affairs (over two years). (2005)