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911 Media Arts Center
Is Washington's premiere non-profit cultural and educational organization that supports the creative uses of media as communication and art-making tools in a democratic society. Their mission is to promote decentralization and participation in the media arts, and to make media and media literacy an integral part of the community-building process. 911media.org has a National Media Art Directory which is searchable by state and includes media centers. This site also has a media resource guide and a film and video distributors list.
http://www.911media.org/

Alliance For Community Media
Is a national membership organization committed to assuring everyone's access to electronic media. This site has a list of their 1,000 organizational members including a large number of public access organizations that provide low-cost services. The programs they make are seen by cable subscribers and internet users in their communities.
http://www.alliancecm.org/

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
Is the nation's largest nonprofit media arts center dedicated to providing access to media, education and technology. Since 1976, BAVC has offered broadcast-quality video to independent producers, artists, and nonprofit organizations. Their website includes a technical forum, links to national media arts centers and a video glossary.
http://www.bavc.org/

Boston CyberArts
The youth project of Boston Cyberarts helps teachers, afterschool workers and others integrate the worlds of art and technology for young people. They do this through teacher training in media, art, curriculum, and through - occasionally - working directly with kids. Their artist-trainers visit schools/ programs for artist-in-residences and other outreach efforts. Additionally they host an ever-expanding online gallery of youth cyberart (currently with more than 400 images), and offer resource guides via the website. They welcome staff working with youth to contact them about using the website, developing cyberart projects that fit their goals and kids' interests, or about connecting with them in Boston for the next Cyberarts Festival (April, 2001)
http://www.cyberfaces.org/

CTCNet
A network of more than 300 community technology centers which provide access to computers and computer-related technology. The Community Technology Centers Network has a list of more than 300 community technology centers searchable by state. These centers focus on computer technogies but include many media centers such as cable public access centers.
http://www.ctcnet.org/

Educational Video Center
The Educational Video Center (EVC) is a not-for-profit media arts center that teaches documentary video production and media analysis to youth, educators and community organizers. EVC's mission is dedicated to the creative and community-based use of video and multi-media as a means to develop the literacy, research, public speaking and work preparation skills of at-risk youth.
http://www.evc.org/

Global Action Project
Is a media arts organization that provides training in video production and new media technologies for youth, both locally and internationally. G.A.P. promotes the inclusion of diverse youth voices on critical local and global issues through public forums in which young people use their media as a springboard for dialogue and action. Our central goal is to provide young people with the artistic, literacy, and interpersonal skills that will improve their chances for higher education and meaningful careers, while they positively impact their schools, communities, and society. G.A.P.'s award-winning documentaries have been produced by youth in New York City, Croatia, Ghana, Guatemala, the Middle East and Northern Ireland, on such issues as inter-group relations, civic participation, human rights, violence prevention, and sexual health.
http://www.global-action.org/

Horizon Magazine
Horizon is published by a national nonprofit community development organization. Their mission is to incite interest and inspire action in young people and their communities. Through interesting features, celebrity profiles, interactive games and quizzes and personal essays Horizon's is engaging young people in a dialogue about community.
http://www.horizonMag.com/

Image Film & Video Center
As a non-profit media arts center, IMAGE acts as a conduit for charitable contributions from public funding agencies, foundations, and private individuals to independent film and video producers who are IMAGE members. Founded in 1977, the IMAGE mission is to build and support a strong media arts community in Atlanta and the Southeast by promoting the production, exhibition and public awareness of film & video as unique forms of artistic expression.
http://www.imagefv.org/

Indymedia
Is a collective of Independent Media Centers (IMC) around the world and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate news coverage. Go to this site to link to the IMC near you -- there are 14 in the US.
http://www.indymedia.org/

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