Media Centers

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/

Film and Video Arts
Founded in 1968, Film/Video Arts is the largest nonprofit media arts center in the New York region. Film/Video Arts provides a fertile environment where emerging and established film, video and digital media producers of diverse backgrounds can take courses, rent production equipment and edit their projects�� all under one roof. Film/Video Arts\'s programs encourage interaction between these producers -- whether working on narrative features, documentaries, nontraditional work, shorts, industrials, cable programs, music videos or student projects - by offering them affordable services essential to the creation of their work and the development of their careers. Over 2,500 individuals and organizations participate in Film/Video Arts programs every year. Film/Video Arts\'s mission is to make the tools and skills of the media arts available to those who might otherwise not have access to them.
http://www.fva.com/

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/

Listen Up!
Since January, 1999, Listen Up! has engaged more than 1,000 youth from diverse backgrounds in the researching, writing, production, editing and distribution of their own media.
http://www.pbs.org/merrow/listenup/watchmedia/

Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN)
Manhattan Neighborhood Network is responsible for administering the Public Access cable television services in Manhattan. Their purpose is to ensure the ability of Manhattan residents to exercise their First Amendment rights through the medium of cable television and to create opportunities for mutual communication, education, artistic expression and other noncommercial uses of video facilities on an open, uncensored and equitable basis. In providing services, they seek to involve the diverse racial, ethnic and geographic communities of Manhattan in the electronic communication of their varied interests, needs, concerns and identities.
http://www.mnn.org/

NAMAC.org Media Arts Center Listings
NAMAC.org
http://www.namac.org/Resources/index.html

Reelmind.com
REELMIND is a FREE Internet community offering filmmakers, animators, writers and composers global promotion through streaming media and personal websites.
http://www.reelmind.com/

Scenarios USA: Kids Creating Social Change
Scenarios USA wants to hear real stories from REAL people ages 12-22. This is YOUR chance to tell about SEXUALITY and being a young person in the USA. It is not only about having sex or taking part in sexual behaviors. It's also about the person you feel you are, your body, how you feel as a young man or woman, the way you dress move and speak, the way you act toward and feel about other people. What are your thoughts behaviors, emotions, experiences when it comes to sexuality.
http://www.scenariosusa.org/

Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo Media Resources
Supports and promotes the creation of film, video, and digital/computer art by independent and community media makers in Buffalo and WNY. They provide affordable access to media production equipment along with related information and education. Promotion of independent work through local screenings, touring programs, public access cable programming, production services, installations, online networking and publications involves extensive community interaction to develop broader and more diverse audiences and producers.
http://www.squeaky.org/

Street Level Youth Media
Street-Level Youth Media educates Chicago's inner-city youth in media arts and emerging technologies for use in self-expression communication, and social change. Street-Level programs build self-esteem and critical thinking skills for urban who have been historically neglected by policy makers and mass media. Using video production, computer art and the Internet young people address community issues, access advanced technology and gain inclusion in our information-based society. In 2001, more than 1,800 youth in neighborhoods across the city will participate in our many programs.
http://streetlevel.iit.edu/

What Kids Can Do
What Kids Can Do (WKCD) is a national nonprofit founded in January 2001 by an educator and journalist with more than 40 years' combined experience supporting adolescent learning in and out of school. Together, they felt an urgent need to promote perceptions of young people as valued resources, not problems, and to advocate for learning that engages students as knowledge creators and not simply test takers. Just as urgent, they believed, was the need to bring youth voices to policy debates about school, society, and world affairs.
http://www.whatkidscando.org/

Youth Leadership Institute
As an Institute, the YLI provides professional, relevant, effective training and technical assistance to people in education, health, and community development systems and agencies, as well as to young people, youth practitioners, policy-makers and other interested parties. The goals of our training activities are to share information and promote best practices in youth development.
http://www.yli.org/

Youth Press
The students who participate in Youth Press learn the skills of radio and video production, and newspaper publishing. They have the opportunities to become leaders in their schools and communities and to work with media professionals.
http://www.youthpress.org/

iEarn
Started in 1988, iEARN is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
http://www.iearn.org/