7th Generation Image Makers
Native youth and art program based at Native Child & Family Services of Toronto, Ont., Canada. Works with at-risk Native youth creating murals and art projects such as regalia making, painting, mixed media and photography.

Aesthetic Grounds
Weblog on public art and public space by Glenn Weiss, planner for public art, architecture and urban design in suburban Coral Springs, Fla. Site includes gallery of public art. One of many blogs on artsjournal.com/

Andrija Ilic Photo Gallery
Gallery of photos by Andrija Ilic of Belgrade, who uses photography to document social changes in his environment and daily events in Yugoslavia. He is a photo editor at the FreeSerbia web site and teaches photography at the Open Youth Club in Belgrade.

Appalshop
Whitesburg, Ky., media-arts and cultural center celebrating culture and voicing concerns of people living in the Appalachian Mountains; home of Roadside Theater. Training in community arts techniques.

Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
Membership organization founded 1988 to raise public awareness about artists and scientists using science and technology to explore new forms of creative expression, and to increase communication and collaborations between these fields. Public events (incl. bi-annual international ArtSci Symposium), exhibitions, panel discussions, referrals to institutions, organizations, artists, and funders about creating art-sci programming and developing their projects. ASCI ebulletin. Based in New York, N.Y. Founded, directed by Cynthia Pannucci.

Art Center Nabi
Award-winning media-arts center in Seoul, Korea. Interactive projects on the cross-platform of media arts, urban planning, architecture, technology and social sciences. International competitions, education programs, workshops, lectures, participation in international media-arts networks. Site is available in English.

Art Share Los Angeles
Community arts incubator whose mission is "to shape lives through art, education and community action." Free art classes, 99-seat dance studio and theater, the Warehouse Art Gallery, a computer lab, art studio, classroom spaces and 30 residential lofts for low-income artists. Programs: BLAST (Building Language and Art Skills Together), Community Beautification Program.

Arts Computation Engineering (ACE)
Transdisciplinary graduate program in Arts, Computation and Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Addresses emerging practices and career paths that combine skills and sensibilities of technical and scientific disciplines with arts and humanities. Program is "oriented towards informed production. ACE students make things that work, and they understand the technical, historical and socio-cultural locations of their work." A Cross-Sector Resource.

Arts Journal
"Daily Digest of Arts & Cultural Journalism," edited by Douglas McLennan, including "The U.S. Elections/Politics/Culture Wars page."

Beyondmedia Education
Collaborates with under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories, connect their stories to the world around them, and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of alternative media and arts. Catalogue of available videos and DVDs. Since 1996, has partnered with over 100 community-based organizations and schools to produce media arts on subjects ranging from girls' activism to women's incarceration. Based in Chicago, Ill.

Bielenberg Institute at the Edge of the Earth
Graphic-design institute in Belfast and Seaport, Maine, inspired by Samuel Mockbee's Rural Studio. Purpose: "To inspire young graphic designers, writers, photographers and filmmakers by proving that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world." The Institute's Project M has done a communications project in a Costa Rica conservation area; delivered donated equipment and supplies to Gulf Coast designers displaced by Hurricane Katrina; and assignments for Womens Trust, AIGA and Family LifeCenter. Founded by John Bielenberg.

Billboard Liberation Front
Culture jammers who "improve outdoor advertising." Founded 1977 in San Francisco, Calif.

Brooklyn College Art Lab
Arts and technology after-school site in Brooklyn, N.Y., serving some 700 students a year from some 30 high schools, averaging 80-100 students per day. Central node for The Arts Network at Brooklyn College Community Partnership, a creative learning network linking the college to the communities of Brooklyn; programs in seven Brooklyn high schools.

Cemeti Art Foundation
Organization producing information about dynamics and development of the visual arts field in Indonesia in relation to society, economics, politics, culture. Weekly radio broadcasts since 1999, research, publications, documentation, library, workshops, international networking. Based in Yogyakarta.

Center for Environmental Filmmaking
Based at American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C. Trains environmental and wildlife filmmakers; produces and distributes quality films and videos promoting conservation of land, air, water and wildlife; hosts seminars, festivals, conferences; research and writing; convening of students, scholars, broadcasters, executives and filmmakers; grants, scholarships, awards; partnerships with community organizations to develop and implement consumer education and outreach.

Center for Social Media
Showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. Public events, research projects, convenings, organizational links, Web-published research. Part of the School of Communication at American University, Washington, D.C. Directed by Pat Aufderheide.

Centre for Aboriginal Media
Canadian nonprofit organization training and supporting aboriginal media artists. Projects: annual imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival, imagineNATIVE Film & Video Tour, CAM Online Media Database. Partnered with V-tape, Canadian independent video distribution center.

Cinereach
Nonprofit media organization focused on effecting social change. Supports independent film projects as well as Reach Film Fellowship, Creative Visions, Witness, Film Aid's Participatory Video Project, The Magic Tent, Human Rights International Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, The New York Film Festival.

Community Images
Photography program for Asian college students and adults in San Francisco, Calif. Workshops, photo trips. Web gallery hosted by In Motion magazine.

Community Technology Center's Network (ctcnet)
National, nonprofit membership organization of more than 600 independent community technology centers for training and free or low-cost access to computers, computer-related technology and the Internet.

Deep Dish TV
Activist, progressive TV network that assembles material from independent producers and transmits it to community TV stations and home dish owners. Includes Webcasts and arts shows.

Digital Clubhouse Network
Public learning centers in Silicon Valley and New York City developing new ways of using information technology to enrich K-12 education and lifelong learning.

Documentary Gallery of Student Action with Farmworkers
Project of Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies and Student Action with Farmworks (SAF). whose mission is to bring students and farmworkers together to learn about each other's lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change. Gallery exhibits online.

EGG the arts show
PBS TV arts series, with "eggsite," companion Web site with interactive pieces about artists/work in the series; See and Do USA database clearinghouse for U.S. arts happenings; "Egg on the Arts" discussion forum.

Educational Video Center
Nonprofit youth media organization teaching documentary video as means to develop artisitic, critical literacy and career skills. Core programs: Documentary Workshop, YO-TV (Youth Organizers TV), Teacher Development Program, Community Engagement. EVC youth-produced documentaries have been broadcast on the NBC, ABC and PBS TV networks and have won more than 100 awards, including an Emmy. Founded 1984 as video class for teenagers in a Lower East Side (N.Y.C.) alternative high school.

Electronic Cafe International
"The planet's oldest multiple-media cyber-venue, artist-run cyber-cafe network producing realtime networked collaborative multimedia environments with 40 global affiliates."

Empowerment Project
Community-based video resource service and documentary filmmaking organization based in Chapel Hill, N.C.; Oscar-winner for "The Panama Deception."

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
Annual showcase for environmental films. Presented annually in Washington, D.C, in collaboration with 101 local, national and global organizations. Films are screened at 52 venues throughout D.C., including museums, embassies, libraries, universities, local theaters. Web site features Green Film Forum where media artists can submit short environmental films or learn about environmental filmmaking. Short films are online.

FLUX Art Space
Presents and exhibits digital art works and interdisciplinary projects by established and emerging artists, "providing an artistic forum for underprivileged and underexposed sections of multicultural communities in New York City."

Fair Use Tool Kit
Compendium of information about "fair use": "The right, in some circumstances, to quote copyrighted material without asking permission or paying for it. It is a crucial feature of copyright law and what keeps copyright from being censorship. You can invoke fair use when the value to the public of what you are saying outweighs the cost to the private owner of the copyright." By Center for Social Media at American University.

Fanlight Productions
Distributor of innovative film and video works on the social issues, including disability and the arts. Search catalog for "Changing Identities: A Story of Traumatic Injury and Art," "The Healing Arts: A New Pathway to Health," "Key Changes," "Outsider," "Multiple," "Mister Spazzman," "Phoenix Dance," "When Billy Broke his Head," "White Cane and Wheels." Sales and rentals.

Feral Arts
Based in Brisbane, Australia, using new media for community cultural development. "Placeworks" project enables communities to share histories online. Online "globosaurus.net" project for community cultural workers responding to impacts of global development.

Fighting Poverty: Utilizing Community Media in a Digital Age
Downloadable publication with articles, audio and video documents by practitioners, decision makers and scholars on concrete examples of the role of community media in development. Published by World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Division for Communication Development of UNESCO and Communication for Social Change Consortium, 2008.

Film Aid International
Nonprofit organization that screens films for inspiration and information to refugees and displaced people and their host communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Macedonia, Afghanistan and Louisiana. Feature films and information on conflict prevention, human rights, HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence. Screenings held in community centers, schools, hospitals and infant feeding centers on teenage pregnancy, reproductive health and education for girls. Participatory Video Project helps youth tell their own stories. Founded during 1999 Kosovar refugee crisis by filmmaker Caroline Baron after learning the most prevalent problem among refugees was psychological trauma and hopelessness.

First Exposures: Youth Opportunities through Photography (FX)
S.F. Camerawork mentoring program for students ages 11 - 18 are recruited from local agencies serving young people with backgrounds of foster care, homelessness or low-income living situations. Online gallery, public billboard project, Photo Safari field trips, cultural exchange with youth in Ghana. Initiated at Eye Gallery in 1993, developed by S.F. Camerawork 1996.

Florida Film Institute
Organization based in North Miami, teaching filmmaking to children in schools and community centers. Mentored over 4,200 middle and high-school students in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties since 1992.

Fountainhead: Black International Cinema
International, intercultural organization based in Berlin, Germany, producing annual film festival, weekly television program, publications, cinema distribution, dance theater.

Free Culture
International student movement of creative artists and writers, media activists and civil libertarians with roots in the free software/open source community.

Global Action Project
Media-arts and leadership training for young people living in underserved communities to create media on local and international issues as a catalyst for dialogue and social change.

Global Lives Project
Collaborative online video encyclopedia of human life experiences. International collective of filmmakers, designers, architects, activists and institutions from around the globe, including U.S., Japan, Brazil and Malawi. Goal is to record 24 hours in the lives of 10 people that roughly represent the diversity of our planet's population, creating an innovative video installation with the materials.

Global Media Research Center
Research and creative exchange around global media and its links to global economy: foreign news reporting, television programs, recorded music, advertising and public relations industries, world cinema, business telecommunications, applications of the internet. Podcasts, international conferences. Projects: The Nollywood Project , Young People's Videogame Uses in East Asia, The Billboard and Skin Shade Project, The Alternative Media and Social Movements Encyclopedia Project, The OurMedia/NuestrosMedios Project, The TeleVisions Project: TV Entertainment and "Race." Based at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Global Youth Media and Arts Program
World Savvy's arts education program for youth ages 12-18 in New York and San Francisco. "Platform to examine global themes such as Peace and Conflict, Immigration and Identity, and Power in Global Society using visual arts, performance and media." Annual Global Youth Media and Arts Festival; professional-development workshops for teachers; artist-led field trips.

Green Museum
Online museum of environmental art.

HASTAC
Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory ("Haystack"), a consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, social scientists and engineers from universities and other civic institutions (U.S. and international) committed to new forms of collaboration across communities and disciplines fostered by creative uses of technology. Develops tools for multimedia archiving and social interaction, gaming environments for teaching, innovative educational programs in information science and information studies, virtual museums. Links to dozens of member universities and centers. A Cross Sector Resource.

Harlem Children's Zone
Nonprofit, community-based organization working to enhance quality of life for children and families in New York City's most devastated neighborhoods; includes TRUCE (The Renaissance University for Community Education) youth development through media arts program. 15 HCZ centers serve 13,000 children and adults, including 10,000 at-risk children. Founded 1970; formerly known as Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families. President: Geoffrey Canada. Harlem Children's Zone Project, founded 1997, focuses on social-service/educaiton programs in 60-black area of Central Harlem. Includes Community Pride organizing program, Baby College, Employment & Technology Center, Harlem Gems/Head Start/Harlem Peacemakers, Single Stop, Asthma Initiative.

ImaginOn
Collaborative venture of the Public Library the Children's Theatre of Charlotte, N.C., occupying entire city block. Library, museum, theater, Story Lab, Tech Central, Teen Loft, classes.

Independent Arts & Media
San Francisco-based "producer's co-op and media/culture incubator" with a mission to "expand civic dialogue by increasing access to independent voices." Provide free or affordable resources and support for media, arts and cultural programs and producers. Annjual CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival: is an films and discussion to raise awareness about issues related to corporate power, influence, crime and abuse. Also: Expo for Independent Arts; Innovations in Journalism Expo; fiscal sponsorship; events calendar & opportunities listings; democracy blog; reading list; DIY workshops.

Iowa Roots
Music, stories and talk with Iowa traditional artists. By Iowa Arts Council and Iowa State University Radio Group.

Kamoinge
Kamoinge ("a group of people acting together") formed in New York in 1963 to address the under-representation of black photographers in the art world. Founded by Louis Draper, Ray Francis, Herbert Randall and Albert Fennar, with Roy DeCarava as its first director. Body of work spans the past 40 years and included numerous images of daily life in black America during the last half of the 20th Century. See "The Sweet Breath of Life: A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family" by Frank Stewart and Ntozake Shange and Kamoinge (Atria Books, Simon&Schuster, 2004).

Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster
Multimedia Web site documenting the social and economic toll of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Photos, articles, radio clips, videos. Calls attention to issues of race, poverty and government connected to the storms, and to what is preventing residents from recovering from the disaster and returning home. Site features work of award-winning print and radio journalists, photographers, filmmakers and youth media organizations, all Open Society Institute Katrina Media Fellows.

Labor Art
Examines the "cultural and artistic history of working people" with photography and drawings of America's union workers' lives. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives looks at 100 years of labor in New York City and the culture of solidarity.

Labyrinth Project
Projects at USC's Annenberg Center combining the language of narrative cinema with the interactive potential and database structures of new media.

Lake Street USA
600 photographs of people who live along a six-mile stretch of Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minn., taken by Wing Young Huie, and exhibited along Lake Street in store fronts, bus stops, other public places.

Many Versions of Masculine: An Exploration of Boys’Identity Formation through Digital Storytelling in an Afterschool Program
Qualitative research that features case studies of nine urban boys of color, aged nine to 11, who participated in an after-school program where they learned to create digital multimedia texts. Argues for recognition of and support for the different functions such programs can serve when structured as alternative spaces for learning and identity formation. Written by Glynda A. Hull, Nora L. Kenney, Stacy Marple, & Ali Forsman-Schneider; published by Robert Bowne Foundation in Afterschool Matters, 2006. (PDF)

Mapping Public Media
Initiative by American University's Center for Social Media. Goal: "to reveal the resources and connections that sustain this active, productive, but rarely visible world devoted to helping audiences recognize themselves as publics and act from that knowledge." Part of the Center's Future of Public Media project, conducts and publishes research on new directions in public media, convenes leaders throughout the field, and showcases innovative and productive work in public media.

Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
Media arts center with a "comprehensive exhibition program which acknowledges the moving image as the principal art form of this century." Serving the University of Nebraska, its Lincoln community, the state and the region. Home of UNL Film and New Media Program., under auspices of the Dept. of Theatre. Two screens, state-of-the-art technology, a research library and film storage archive, offices, classroom laboratories, equipment storage space and editing suites,

Mass Transit Street Theater & Video
Based in Bronx, New York. Documentary video on Northwest Bronx Neighborhood Coalition: "Passin' It On: 25 Years of Oraganizing the Northwest Bronx." Theater explores loss of community, home and homelessness, value of diversity.

Media That Matters
Online showcase of new media works for social change co-presented by Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and powered by Free Speech TV.

Mexican Fine Arts Museum
In Chicago's Pilsen/Little Village community, "the largest Mexican community in the Midwest," dedicated to Mexican culture as manifested inside and outside Mexico. Exhibitions, collections, radio station and youth museum.

Mission Voices
Media literacy program in San Francisco's low-income Mission District by Worldstudio Foundation, Southern Exposure and Horizons Unlimited. Participants studied how media portrays local minority community and propagates stereotypes. Includes poster project.

Moving Lives
Digital storytelling project with young separated refugees in East London by PhotoVoice. Workshops to help them settle in the U.K., prepare for school/college and explore ideas around integration. Mentoring project in photography

Museum of the African Diaspora
San Francisco-based museum without a collection; a "collector of stories—a repository of information to be shared with all who wish to know about the African Diaspora." Exhibition, literacy and schools programs, lectures, films, teen art talks. MoAD Stories project: "I've Known Rivers."

Nancy B. Jefferson Literacy and Creative Media Program
Program at Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School providing print- and media-literacy skills-enhancement programs to young people detained in Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago, Ill. Programs in tutoring, creative writing, publishing, digital image manipulation, sound editing and sequencing, web design, maintenance of personal computers from the inside out, including building them from scratch. Library, volunteer coordination, school-wide events, seminars. Excellent links to activism in "prison industrial complex" issues.

National Association of Media Arts Centers (NAMAC)
Membership organization of film, video and online/media artists and organizations. Web site offers searchable members directory, media-arts newsletter.

Native American Public Telecommunications
Support the creation, promotion and distribution of Native public media. Creative, training, leadership, policy initiatives. Based in Lincoln, Neb.

Netart Initiative
Franklin Furnace's "loosely knit, open-source-based, hub-styled, forum-oriented, action-enable consortium" on art on the Net, with live Webcasts and archived video.

New Deal Stage
Online Library of Congress presentation of 13,000+ images from Federal Theatre Project Collection., part of Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1930s.

New York Latino Journal
Online "Latino people’s magazine of thought, news, opinion and information," based in New York City. "The People's History of the World, as told through the Latino experience." Includes arts.

Northwest Institute for Social Change
Nonprofit organization in Portland, Ore., offering Media Making Change, summer institute in media arts for undergraduate fellows. Students learn how media tools can positively affect public policy. Can earn a full term's worth of credit from the University of Oregon School of Communication. Each student attends media-studies courses, then works with NPR producers and Academy-award-nominated filmmakers, producing both an audio and a video documentary about a local solution to a global issue.

OnRamp Arts
Digital-arts organization in central Los Angeles, Calif., that does collaborative new-media projects with community members and artists.

Paper Tiger TV
Nonprofit, volunteer video collective working to "challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media." Production and distribution of our public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings, grassroots advocacy.

Phillips Community TeleVision
Youth media organization with training programs, TV magazine, video diaries, Web gallery and more. Based in Minneapolis, Minn.

PhotoVoice
Grassroots training in photography for social action. Enables people to record community strengths and problems; promotes dialogue about important issues through group discussion and photographs; engages policymakers. Based in London, England.

Plugged In
Community computing center that brings technological resources to low-income youth, uses art as catalyst to learning; based in Palo Alto, Calif.; includes national list of community computing centers.

Project Row Houses
22 renovated shotgun-style houses in Houston's historic African-American Third Ward dedicated to revolving art, photography and literary projects, plus transitional housing and services for young mothers and their children. Directed by Rick Lowe. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Puerto Rico and the American Dream
Multimedia Web site on history, culture and politics of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican diaspora. Based in Spanish Harlem, N.Y.C. Film section, online gallery, discussion boards, historical timelines, oral histories, announcements, current events postings. CentroTalks: online archive of scholarly talks at Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College/City U. of New York, the largest Latino archive in U.S. MediaNoche: new-media project and digital gallery in Spanish Harlem. Handball Court Outdoor Summer Film Festival. Nuyorican Cinema: permanent online exhibition of films of the Puerto Rican diaspora, with critical essays. Founded by filmmaker Judith Escalona and Web designer Stephanie Owens. In Spanish and English.

Radio ARTE Chicago
Award-winning Latino-owned, youth-driven, urban community radio station ("the only one in the country"). Bilingual initiative of National Museum of Mexican Art, located in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Offers full range of Latin music. Covers social-justice issues and engage in dialogue through community journalism and first voice forums.

Regent Park Focus Media Arts Centre
Youth program in Toronto's Regent Park, Canada’s largest public housing community, to develop prevention programs and activities exploring radio and print journalism, and audio, video, photography arts. Catch da Flava Newe, Catch da Flava Radio, E.Y.E. Video Library, Focus Music Studio, Zapparoli Photo Studio. Directed by Adonis Huggins.

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
Photography-based artwork about restoring and listening to the earth.

Shelter Against Violence: a case for empowerment
Art-and-technology research project as a vehicle for the empowerment of domestic violence survivors as they learn interdisciplinary art skills and increase computer competency. Shelter residents participate in a storytelling-centered learning experience where they will contribute images, text and sound bytes toward the development of their personal narrative.Community partnership between the Arts Media and Engineering Program at Arizona State University, and the YWCA of Maricopa County Haven House shelter.

Sleep Secure: The 2004 Tax Dollars Quilt
Artist Nancy Buchanan's interactive, virtual quilt depicting how U.S. tax dollars are spent.

Slum-TV
Grassroots film project featuring newsreels made by/about people living in Mathare, the biggest slum in Kenya, with some 700,000 inhabitants and no electricity, running water or sewage system.

Sound Play
Bond Anderson's outdoor "musical playscapes": permanently installed, tuned musical instruments providing a public setting where people can share in the creative process. Constructed from materials available in most hardware stores and lumber yards.

Spark Web
Companion Web resource to KQED public television show about San Francisco Bay Area artists and arts organizations. Media resources, educational materials and professional-development training, including comprehensive Educator Guides and arts-education tools to help K-12 and post-secondary educators use Spark in the classroom. Artist profiles; digital library of video/audio streams of Bay Area artists; Spark Guide to the arts in the area: events, tours, "cool deals," classes and family fun.

StoryCorps
National project to instruct and inspire people to record one another's stories in sound. Building StoryBooths (soundproof recording studios) in N.Y., across the U.S., plus mobile booths, to record broadcast-quality interviews with help of a trained Facilitator. Griot Initiative: to collect interviews from at least 1,750 African Americans in 2007 and 2008. E-mail list, podcasts.

Street-Level Youth Media
Educates Chicago's inner-city youth in media arts and emerging technologies for use in self-expression, communications and social change.

Sura Arts Academy
Youth photography program at Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Instructors from Detroit's College for Creative Studies teach courses in basic camera operation, provide the participants with digital cameras, and send them into their communities to document topics such as work, food, religion, recreation and family life. Students discuss their photographs in sessions designed to "strengthen cultural awareness among the area's diverse groups of Arab Americans, African Americans, Latinos and other groups in primarily lower-income communities."

TIGed
Virtual classroom resource for educators by TakingITGlobal, an international organization based in Toronto, Ont., Canada, "led by youth and empowered by technology." TIGed includes The Activities Database, a collection of global education-related activities, linked to curriculum, submitted by teachers and partners; Collaboration Tools: special features to help educators find partners for global collaborations; Video Chat to enable student dialogue across cultures and geographies in real time.

TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools)
San Francisco-based nonprofit organization working in school programs and community organizations to teach moviemaking fundamentals and the language of media.

TRUCE
The Renaissance University for Community Education at Harlem Children's Zone in New York, youth-development program for 200 adolescents that fosters academic growth and career readiness through the arts, media literacy, health and multimedia technology. Teens create award-winning cable TV program ("The Real Deal") featuring poetry, video dramas and documentaries; community murals and gardens; quarterly newspaper (Harlem Overheard). Intensive college-prep program, The Insight Center.

Teenage Life
Organization in Tanzania carrying out projects to educate young people about HIV/AIDS, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), media and culture. Workshops and presentations at Tanzanian universities, schools and communities and 30 cities worldwide. Uses information and communication technology, video, television, radio, music, intercultural exchange, publications, numerous partnerships. Co-founded Tanzanian Youth Network, co-operates an orphanage center for Tanzanian children. Founded in Dar es Salaam, 2000.

Tempography
Public media-arts project by Anthony Bannwart and Magnus Aronson. Online festival of minimalist video. Shown on London buses in 2004. Open for public online participation.

The Artist Inside Program
Nonprofit art program in a juvenile facility in New Mexico. Taught and facilitated by an all volunteer multidisciplinary team including photographer, multimedia artist and videographer—all educators in the Las Cruces, N.M., community working as college instructor, physician and university professor respectively. Site includes newsletter and gallery.

The Corrections Documentary Project
Web site elaborating issues around "Corrections," a documentary film about the prison-industrial complex by Ashley Hunt. Project continues to grow with additional videos, spefici campaigns and "footnotes" on how ideas of crime and punishment not "natural," but are built upon and coded with politics of race and class.

The Mirror Project
Creates, exhibits and distributes videos that promote social, cultural, and personal-awareness. A major focus of the work is teaching inner-city youth how to create videos about their everyday experiences.

The PhotoBooth Project
Ongoing photographic project to document communities across the U.S. and create public installations of the collected portraits in those communities. Lightweight portable studio can be shipped to any community gathering place or cross roads. Irion creates installations of resulting portraits: images, each usually 16x24”, digitally printed on rolls of paper, hung like wallpaper as one contiguous surface.

Third World Majority
New-media training and production resource center "run by a collective of young women of color and our allies dedicated to developing new media practices that affect global justice and social change through grassroots political organizing." Community digital storytelling workshop, COINTELNOW security training initiative, participation in Media Justice and Technology Organizing movement, community training and education, facilitative production (consulting support to organizations seeking to define and share their story and mission), Storylink 1.0., community organizing and media services, blog. National partnerships.

Thousand Kites
Storytelling and listening project about the criminal-justice system. Gathering prison-related stories through community story circles, house parties, call-ins to a weekly radio broadcast, a toll-free phone line and interactive script-writing room on the project Web site. They will create a play script from the gathered stories, offered free for use in any community. Project of Appalshop.

Time & Space Limited
Hudson Valley, N.Y. arts organization with programs in all disciplines dedicated to community and activism. Youth projects and Time To Talk discussion series on local political, social and environmental topics that reflect regional and national concerns. Founded 1991 by N.Y. theater artists Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce.

Toy Symphony
Music performance/education project by Tod Machover and MIT Media Lab; exploration of new technological "Music Toys" played by gesture and touch, and software that turns lines into musical compositions. Residencies, workshops, performances.

Traces of the Trade
Documentary film and dialogue initiative by filmmaker Katrina Browne and R.I. Committee for the Humanities about the Rhode Island slave trading De Wolf family, from whom Browne is descended. Browne's family participated in the project.

Trilby Multimedia
Based in Birmingham, England. Established1993 to use new media formats for social and cultural development. Peer group approach to production of educational CD-ROMs, Websites, databases, videos, exhibitions and printed material.

University of Central Florida Cultural Heritage Alliance
Joint effort of UCF College of Arts and Sciences and Florida State Department Folklife Program. Celebrates regional diversity through education, technology-based heritage projects, folklife research, preservation and network-building. Directed by Kristin Congdon, based in School of Film and Digital Media.

UrbanFilmSeries.com
"Connecting communities with history and progressive cinema." Provides current information on Next Generation Awareness Foundation ("NGAF") film-related programs, tours and services including Annual National Black History Month Film & Discussion Series, Urban Film & Discussion Series, The Black Docs Series, 2-Day Film School.

VOICES
"Community stories past and present, inc." Community-based nonprofit organization in Tucson, Ariz. Mentors low-income youth in telling their stories using photography, photo documentation, creative nonfiction, journalism, oral history, digital storytelling, spoken word and dance. Projects: 110° After School Magazine Project, DAMN, Living Stories Project, Looking Forward/Looking Back, South Park, WW2 Stories. Publications.

Venice Arts: In Neighborhoods
Los Angeles, Calif.-based media arts organization working primarily with low-income children in photography, film and digital arts locally, regionally and internationally. Arts mentoring programs, ArtPartners, Institute for Photographic Empowerment (with USC Annenberg school for Communication), Social Art Initiative. Directed by Lynn Warshafsky and Jim Hubbard.

Videoletters
Project connecting friends, colleagues and neighbors separated by the war in the former Yugoslavia through videoletters. Web site, broadcast TV series, mobile recording studio, documentary film. By Dutch filmmakers Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek.

Visionary Institute International
Center for the study and creation of socially responsible media. Based at Chester College of New England, Chester, N.H. Associated with Visionaries Inc., producer of "Visionaries" documentary series for public television that highlights nonprofit organizations around the world working to make a positive difference in their community and beyond.

WondeRoot
Atlanta-based nonprofit arts organization committed to uniting artists and community to inspire positive social change. WonderRoot Community Arts Center provides production facilities, facilitates arts-based service programs, encourages artists to be proactive in engaging their local communities through service work.

Working Films
Independent film resource serving a national role as strategists, consultants and community builders. Works with filmmakers on coordinated community-education efforts, consumer organizing campaigns, activist movements, classroom projects. Works with organizers to enrich grassroots efforts with media. Works with educators to bring independent film and video on issues of social and economic justice into the classroom.

Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics
Press of College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis, Minn. Home of "Xcp: Streetnotes, a biannual online exhibition space devoted to Poetry, Ethnography and the Documentary Experience."

YES! magazine
"The journal of positive futures" often features community-arts stories. Visit their Arts/Media section.

Your Art Here
Indiana art billboard nonprofit.

Youth in Focus
Award-winning Seattle photography program for youth 13-19 directed by Walter Bodie. Has gallery and darkroom in Columbia city neighborhood with Southeast Youth & Family Services. Web site's "gallery" shows pictures from the programs Cedar River Watershed project.

myvillages.org
Initiates discussion and practice-based projects addressing notion of the village within contemporary cultural discourse and development. By artists Kathrin Böhm (Germany, U.K.), Wapke Feenstra (Netherlands) and Antje Schiffers (Germany). Projects in artist's home villages: farmers' videos and artists' exhibited and bartered; with village women, establishment of line of goods for market stall at village fete. 2003 Village convention: contextual Art in Rural Environments (England).