Publications

"Girl Director" Gives Insight to Film and Video
"Girl Director: A How to for the First-Time, Flat-Broke Filmmaker (and Videomaker)" is the new book from GirlPress that provides information about what it takes to make a movie and a career in film or video with advice on everything from story concepts to lighting to props to animation. Plus, inspiring profiles of women directors, and behind-the-scenes Hollywood stories. "Girl Director" is a fine resource, not only for young women, but fledgling filmmakers in general.
http://www.girldirector.com/

Advocacy Video: Producing Change
Is published by the Center for Strategic Communications and The Benton Foundation as part of their series, Strategic Communications for Nonprofits. For more information, contact the Center for Strategic Communications (72 Spring Street, Suite 208, New York, NY 10012; 212.965.0180; email: cscinfo@pipeline.com).
http://www.benton.org/Library/Advideo/advideo1.html

AdvocacyGuru.com
Effective Advocacy Checklist: Reprinted with permission from "Government by the People: How to Communicate with Congress" or order Government by the People: How to... through Amazon.com. * AdVanced Consulting's AdVocacy Tutorial. Learn here about the elements of effective communication and the tools you need to become an active participant in your government.
http://www.advocacyguru.com/

Benton Foundation
Download free documents or order print versions from their online library about producing change in the Information Age.
http://www.benton.org/MTM

Communication for Social Change
Published online by the Communication Initiative, this series of articles explores how to best use media and communication for international development. The Communication Initiative is a partnership of development organizations seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication interventions for positive international development. The C.I. strategy includes provision of real-time information on communication and development experiences and thinking, facilitating horizontal linkages between people engaged in communication action, peer commentary on programmes and strategies and taking opportunities to promote strategic thinking on communication and development issues and problems.
http://www.comminit.com/social-change.html

Current Online
The newspaper that covers public TV and radio in the US.
http://www.current.org/

HandsNet WebClipper Digest
This site has a weekly overview of cross-cutting human services news from throughout the World Wide Web. The site has daily headline news, alerts and discussions and a free trial of their personalized clipping service tailored to your needs.
http://www.handsnet.org/

Headliners
Headliners is a UK-wide news agency producing news, features and comment by young people for everyone. Through a unique learning through journalism programme, young people aged 8 to 19 research and write stories on issues that are important to them for publication in national and local newspapers, magazines, television and radio.
http://www.headliners.org

How to Make Public Broadcasting Accountable to You
This manual is a practical guide for making change.
http://www.cipbonline.org/manual.htm

ITVS's Beyond the Box Newsletter
Beyond the Box, their semi-annual magazine, contains funding guidelines, a schedule of upcoming broadcasts and other useful information.
http://www.itvs.org/about/news.html

National Video Resources (NVR) Conference
Designs and implements projects that help enable individuals and organizations such as public libraries, colleges and universities to acquire and use independent films and videos. NVR also commissions and publishes research on issues of concern to indiemakers, distributors, educators and activists.
http://www.nvr.org/

The Groovy Little Youth Media Sourcebook
The Groovy Little Youth Media Sourcebook provides tips, ideas, methods and activities that members of the Listen Up! Youth Media Network find particularly useful in creating and facilitating successful programs.
http://www.pbs.org/merrow/listenup/resources/sourcebook/sourcebook.html

The Visual Artist Information Hotline
Is the best resource for visual artists who are serious about advancing their careers and their work. A program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Visual Artist Information Hotline is a free national information service for individual artists working in all visual arts media (painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, drawing, printmaking, crafts, etc). The Hotline empowers visual artists by providing them with complete information about resources to facilitate their work. Artists can speak directly with staff by calling (800) 232-2789 between the hours of 1 and 5 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday. During other hours, artists can request information either by leaving a message on our voice mail, by e-mailing us at hotline@nyfa.org, or by directly accessing Factsheets online at our web site, http://www.nyfa.org/vaih.
http://www.nyfa.org/vaih

We Interrupt this Message
Soundbites and Cellblocks: Analysis of the Juvenile Justice Media Debate & A Case Study of California Proposition 21 and In Between the Lines: How The New York Times Frames Youth. We Interrupt this Message is a national non-profit media training center and communications firm challenging media stereotypes about race and poverty. Interrupt provides traditional media training to grassroots and public interests advocates as well as innovative trainings in message development and media activism. Interrupt currently partners with advocates in media campaigns around education, crime and welfare.
http://www.interrupt.org/

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/

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/

idealist.org
A directory of consultants that work only or primarily with nonprofits.
http://www.idealist.org/