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ACME Coalition Blog
ACME is a network of educators, students, health professionals, journalists, media-makers, parents, activists, and other citizens joined as a member-supported, independent, nonprofit continental educational coalition.
http://www.acmecoalition.org

Appalshop
Young people in eastern Kentucky work with ami to learn how to use video cameras and audio equipment to document the unique traditions and complex issues of their mountain communities. Based in the community media model and artistic resources of appalshop, ami offers an intensive summer institute and year-round media literacy and production training with youth, teachers and community groups in central appalachia. Ami's goals are to develop the critical and creative skills of young people in eastern kentucky and to involve them in their communities and the world by making and sharing media.
http://www.appalshop.org/ami

BAMboozled
Find truth in youth at BAMboozled, a site written by teenagers for teenagers, and designed to combat, through new media, the negative stereotypes of youth created in the traditional media. Come here for great articles, factoids, movie reviews and to make your voice heard in their polls.
http://www.bamboozled.org/

Bay Area Youth Programs
In our programs, young people are responsible for self-reflection; for asking why; for investigating truth and knowledge; for developing advanced technical production skills; for determining the content and form of their stories; for producing and distributing their finished products; for working with and depending on others; and for interacting with both critical and indifferent audiences.
http://www.youthsounds.org

Be the Difference
The Youth Development Initiative of San Mateo County (YDI) is dedicated to helping bridge the gap between youth and adults. We realize that youth have valuable skills and opinions that need to be heard. We believe that adults help to build strengths for youth, such as values, personal passions, and supportive relationships.
http://www.bethedifference.org

Blunt Youth Radio Project
The Blunt Youth Radio Project produces a weekly call-in talk show that airs Monday nights from 7:30-8:30 on WMPG, Greater Portland Community Radio. High school age youth from the Portland area, both free and incarcerated, staff the show. Blunt Members are trained in all areas of radio production: interviewing, hosting, reporting, editing, and engineering.
http://www.bluntradio.org

Center for Media Literacy
Learn to use critical thinking skills in accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating media.
http://www.medialit.org/

Conscious Youth Media Crew
Conscious Youth Media Crew is a San Francisco-based youth-driven, digital media production studio. We provide the technology and training necessary for inner city youth to create quality media that represents their experiences, stimulates meaningful dialogue, and promotes social change.
http://www.consciousyouthmediacrew.org

EarthNet News
The largest student environmental newsletter in the U.S. Thier newsletter includes legislative updates, corporate attacks on the environment, and political, environmental and campus news. On the Web site you can take action, find jobs or events in your area, and learn about their campaigns on campus or in your community.
http://www.envirocitizen.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/

Educators for Social Responsibility
ESR's mission is to make teaching social responsibility a core practice in education so that young people develop the convictions and skills needed to shape a safe, sustainable, democratic, and just world.
http://www.esrnational.org/

Film Street
Film Street provides educational but fun ways to learn about filmmaking, geared towards younger people.
http://www.film-street.co.uk

Global Action Project
Since 1991, Global Action Project (G.A.P.) has provided media arts and leadership training for thousands of young people living in underserved communities, from New York to Croatia to Guatemala to the Middle East and beyond. Our mission is to provide youth with the knowledge, tools, and relationships they need to create powerful, thought-provoking media on local and international issues that concern them, and to use their media as a catalyst for dialogue and social change.
http://www.global-action.org

Global Kids' Everything After
An online dialogue for high-school students to talk about any and all issues that have come up since September 11th.
http://www.globalkids.org/ea911

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

ICA Fast Forward
Fast Forward is an accelerated, multi-year new media program offered free of charge to qualified high school students. Participants meet weekly, developing a portfolio of work for critique, presentation and distribution.
http://www.icaboston.org/programs/learn/fast-forward/

International Youth Media Summit
Nearly 90 people from 26 countries attended the last summit and represented diversity in identifying and addressing seven core issues: racism, poverty, violence, environment, health, youth empowerment, and women's empowerment. The outcome was 7 X 1 minute Public Community Announcements filmed and edited by student filmmakers as well as researched and prepared by the student diplomats.
http://www.roamingreporters.net/IRMAS/Welcome.html

Irish Youth Media Development
The Irish Youth Media Development is an organization concerned with the impact of the mass media on the creation of contemporary culture. IYMD aims to help young people develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the mass media: the techniques used by the media industry, and the impact of these techniques on the image of youth in society.
http://www.irishyouthmedia.com

Keeping It Reel
Youth Leadership Institute has cultivated and created a unique Friday Night Live program in San Francisco where young people work in partnership with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to create an annual, independent, youth-made media festival. The Youth Media Showcase is a youth-led, intergenerational and interactive community celebration.
http://www.finc.org/Filmnotes/keepingitreel.html

LA Youth: Youth News Service
Essays and opinions written by teens in LA to go along with print newspaper intended to provide "free speech and creating for young people a journalism program that fosters critical thinking, writing skills, literacy and civic education." Topics include juvenile justice, homophobia, bereavement, entertainment and more.
http://www.layouth.com/

MAGIC
MAGIC is a UN initiative about helping youth become more familiar with the role media can play in developing their rights.
http://www.unicef.org/magic

Media That Matters Film Festival
Watch youth made videos on the Media That Matters Film Festival.
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org

NYC Grassroots Media
The NYC Grassroots Media Coalition is working to re-imagine issues of access to, control of, and power over our media system. That means defining our struggle as a struggle for Media Justice.
http://www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org/

Native Networks Youth Resources
In 2001 the NMAI has launched the Native Networks Website to welcome you to the field of Native media throughout the Americas. The site provides information about new productions and media makers, current areas of special interest and accomplishments in the field.
http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/yellow/fymm.htm

NoodleHead Network
The NoodleHead Network produces, markets, and distributes educational videotapes created from a kid's eye view. Kids play an integral role in the creation of each tape-from script development, to acting, to editing. Then a group of "ex-kids"-writers, producers, and educators translate those ideas into unique videos that educate and inspire.
http://www.noodlehead.com/

Open Youth Networks
Open Youth Networks assists young people and their allies in the design and use of participatory media tools that enable them to create innovative peer-to-peer projects of dialogue, art, education and action.
http://www.openyouthnetworks.org

OutLoud
The outLoud Radio Project gives voice to youth who are otherwise silenced because of their sexuality or gender identity. outLoud is a group of young people producing and broadcasting radio with the goal of furthering human rights and expressing themselves for all the world to hear.
http://www.outloudradio.org

Phillips Community Television
The PCTV crew creates a bi-weekly talk show called Our Turn, a online gallery featuring web design, photography and, creative writing called Mixed Visions, video essays, and other media products. These creative projects reflect public concerns and document work by youth in their neighborhoods. Participants of PCTV, and the schools they are selected from, demonstrate a strong commitment to community service and to engaging young people outside the classroom.
http://www.phillipscommunitytv.org/

RecYouth
NYC youth (ages 6 - 19) participating in the RECYouth program learn the skills necessary to become digital filmmakers, musicians and storytellers. RECYouth offers free, citywide, year-round programming, based in City of New York Parks & Recreation's Computer Resource Centers. We offer both after-school and teen programs in which students are trained in digital video and audio production through hands-on, pre-employment technology and arts instruction.
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/crc/recyouth/recyouth_index.html

Reel Works
Reel Works Teen Filmmaking is centered of the conviction that every young person has a story to tell and an important contribution to make our world. We believe that filmmaking holds within it essential disciplines of literacy, communication, creative and critical thinking, storytelling and teamwork that young people need to effectively express their unique visions.
http://www.reelworks.org

SEAC
A youth run, national network of progressive organizations and individuals whose aim is to uproot environmental injustice through action and education.
http://www.seac.org/

Street Level Youth Media
Neutral Ground, Street-Level's Multimedia Center in Chicago, offers after-school and summer programs to youth ages 8-22. In addition to to our homework help and open access program, Street-Level offers various media production workshops. The workshops are scheduled on different days of the week throughout the school year. All programs and workshops are free of charge.
http://www.street-level.org

Street Level Youth Media
Neutral Ground, Street-Level's Multimedia Center, offers after-school and summer programs to youth ages 8-22. In addition to to our homework help and open access program, Street-Level offers various media production workshops. The workshops are scheduled on different days of the week throughout the school year. All programs and workshops are free of charge.
http://www.street-level.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/

Wide Angle Media
Wide Angle Youth Media is a 501c3 non-profit that provides Baltimore youth with opportunities to tell their own stories using video technology, public speaking, and critical thinking skills. Through after school programs, community events, our annual Who Are You? Youth Media Festival, and our youth-run television show, Wide Angle strives to make media make a difference.
http://www.wideanglemedia.org

Wiretap
A portal for other youth media groups. Rather than compete with other zines, they aim to broaden the audience for youth media in all of its unique and colorful forms by directing visitors to other youth media organizations.
http://www.alternet.org/wiretapmag/

World Bridger Media
World Bridger Media links cultures, ideas and the arts through inspirational multimedia talks, workshops and trainings.
http://www.worldbridgermedia.com

YO! (Youth Outlook)
YO! is a newspaper written by and for Bay Area youth. It is distributed 10 times a year to schools all around the Bay Area. YO! includes essays, reporting pieces, cultural reviews and poetry. It's last page is writing by incarcerated youth. YO! Youth Outlook, 660 Market Street, #210, San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 438-4755, fax (415) 438-4935.
http://www.youthoutlook.org/

Yesworld.org
YES! is a non-profit organization that educates, inspires and empowers young people to join forces for social justice and environmental sanity. Founded in 1990 by 16-year-old Ocean Robbins and 19-year-old Ryan Eliason, at a time when Nancy Reagan was telling young people to "just say no," we help youth say "yes" to living with meaning, purpose, integrity and commitment.
http://www.yesworld.org/

Youth Channel
A channel that is programmed and governed by youth. That means youth get to make important decisions concerning the Youth Channel! We welcome work from all youth. The videos must be completely produced by youth.
http://www.youthchannel.org/

Youth Media
Youth Media, of Oakland, CA, has a mission to help educators, youth service providers and youth use digital media and television production.
http://www.youth-media.org

Youth Media Communications
Giving young people, particularly less advantaged youth, a forum to report on their world and their experiences is at the heart of the Open Society Institute's Youth Media Program. In the wake of the horrific events of Tuesday September 11, 2001, it is even more important to include these young people's thoughts, reactions and perspectives in the public discourse.
http://www.soros.org/youth/pointofview.htm

Youth Media Council
We're the same bold and visionary organization you knew as the Youth Media Council—but we've grown into our shoes as a unique national media strategy and action center with a sharpened approach to movement building for racial justice and youth rights.
http://www.centerformediajustice.org

Youth Media Minds of America
YMMA's mission is to provide state-of-the-art multimedia communications training and experience to at-risk and underserved youth, ages 14-18, to supplement their secondary education and adequately prepare them for educational and employment opportunities in the multimedia field.
http://www.ymma.org

Youth Radio
Youth Radio promotes young people's intellectual, creative, and professional growth through training and access to media. Through hands-on practice, working relationships with industry professionals, and production of award-winning programming, Youth Radio students learn the basics of broadcasting. In the process, they're exposed to a broad spectrum of media-related careers.
http://youthradio.org/

Youth Rights Media
Youth Rights Media is a New Haven-based nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering youth to know, protect and advance their rights. YRM builds youth power and leadership by engaging young people in video media production and community organizing, equipping them with tools, skills, and strategies for affecting change within themselves and their communities.
http://www.youthrightsmedia.org

YouthNOISE.com
YouthNOISE (www.youthnoise.com) is a group of young people--from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 118 countries--together with a group of adults working to provide information from more than 300 nonprofit partners to date that will spark youth action and voice. YouthNOISE is an initiative of Save the Children Federation, Inc., which is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian, nonprofit organization with a presence in more than 46 countries, that has been working for nearly 70 years to improve the lives of children and youth.
http://www.youthnoise.com/

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/