We've just been contacted by the Communication for Social Change Consortium, an international nonprofit based in South Orange, N.J., that is working "to build local capacity of people living in poor and marginalized communities to use communication in order to improve their own lives."

They say they have a "6-plus year history of communication for social change work begun at the Rockefeller Foundation. We have grown into a network of several hundred practitioners and scholars who believe that communication must be bottoms-up (as opposed to top down and externally generated), empowering, and based upon principles of tolerance, equity, justice, and unleashing the voices of the previously unheard.

"Among our partner organizations are many of the UN agencies, and divisions within the World Bank, IADB and universities in the North and South." We realize some readers may have a problem with affiliation with the World Bank, but in any case, the Web site is full of useful information. They go on to say:

"We have included on the site at this point many of the CFSC publications, speeches and meeting proceedings generated during the past few years. Soon, the site will become more interactive, with public space for dialogue about critical issues facing communicators."

CFSC produces a quarterly online report ("Mazi," where you can find news about the arts in this sector), plus a huge list of publications, lots of curricula and a vast, searchable knowledge base. It has a big university network and projects on AIDS, water, education, poverty, polio, community radio and plenty more.

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