Open Society Institute: You

Youth Initiatives Grants

Education

New Visions for Public Schools

New Century High Schools Consortium $10,000,000 over a five-year period.

New York, New York | $10,000,000 | Five Years | 2001 | http://www.newvisions.org

Campaign for Fiscal Equity

To support a youth engagement program based on Judge DeGrasse's ruling in January of 2000 in CFE V. State, which challenged New York State's school funding formula.

New York, New York | $40,000 | 1 Year | 2001 | http://www.cfequity.org

LISTEN

A grant to provide general support.

Washington, DC | $100,000 | Two Years | 2001 |

Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing

A grant to support the program activities of the Collaborative.

New York City | $100,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Student Press Law Center

A grant to provide general support.

Arlington, United States | $75,000 | One Year | 2001 |

New York University

To support the Institute for Education and Social Policy Community Involvement Program.

New York, New York | $75,000 | 1 Year | 2002 | http://www.nyu.edu/iesp/programs/community.html

To support youth participation in community organizing for urban school reform.

Chicago, Illinois | $50,000 | 1 Year | 2002 | http://www.crosscity.org

Philadelphia Student Union

To support youth organizing around education reform.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | $20,000 | 1 Year | 2002 | http://www.phillystudentunion.org

Youth in Action

To support youth organizing around issues of equity and social justice.

Providence, Rhode Island | $20,000 | 1 Year | 2002 |

Educational Video Center

To support professional development around youth media projects for teachers and community partners in the Bronx New Century Schools.

New York, New York | $45,000 | 1 Year | 2003 |

Research Foundation of the City University of New York

To fund the video documentary, Echoes: A Video-Documentary of Youth Produced Research and Performance on Racial Justice and Public Education Fifty Years After Brown.

New York, New York | $24,000 | 1 Year | 2003 |

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

To support the "Invest in Schools/Invest in Kids" project.

Brooklyn, NY | $100,000 | One Year | 2004 | http://www.acorn.org/

National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest)

To support K–12 assessement reform projects.

Boston, MA | $140,000 | 1 Year | 2004 | http://www.fairtest.org

Forum for Education and Democracy

To support education reform projects.

Public Education Network (PEN)

To support hearings in 10 states on the effects of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act.

Washington, DC | $150,000 | 1 Year | 2004 | http://www.publiceducation.org

Debate

The Barkley Forum, Emory University

Atlanta Urban Debate League (AUDL) OSI’s Urban Debate Program is based on the Urban Debate League model founded by the Barkley Forum at Emory University. Begun in 1985, AUDL received OSI funding from 1997 to 1999 to strengthen its capacity and now runs in eleven high schools.

Contact: Kara Grant, Program Administrator Email: [email protected] Phone: (404) 727-7178

Atlanta, Georgia | 3 Years | 1998 |

Chicago Debate Commission

Chicago Urban Debate League Urban debate in Chicago is operated by a unique public/private cooperative called the Chicago Debate Commission (CDC). Formed in 1995 by the Community Renewal Society (CRS), the League of Women Voters, and Phi Beta Kappa, the CDC is composed of a diverse group of business, education, legal and civic leaders in Chicago. CDC received OSI funding from 1997 to 2000. Growing by an average of 5 schools per year, the CDC, now managed by the Chicago Public Schools, operates in 25 schools as of 2001-02.

Contact: Barbara Edwards, Administrator, Chicago Public Schools Email: [email protected] Phone: (773)-553-2104

Chicago, Illinois | 3 Years | 1998 |

Wayne State University

Detroit Public School Debate League The Detroit Public School Debate League was established in 1984 by Wayne State University’s College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts and the Detroit Public School’s Gifted and Talented Program. To strengthen the program’s capacity, OSI provided funding from 1997-2000.

Contact: George Ziegelmueller Email: [email protected] Phone: (313) 577-2950

Detroit, Michigan | 3 Years | 1998 |

Kansas City Urban Debate League The University of Missouri-Kansas City administers DEBATE Kansas City. OSI began funding the program in 1998, and the league currently serves 12 schools in 3 districts: Kansas City, KS; Kansas City, MO; and the Turner District.

Contact: Linda Collier, Director of Debate Email: [email protected] Holly Reiss, Project Administrator Email: [email protected] Phone: (816) 235-5267

Kansas City, Missouri | 4 Years | 1999 |

University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa

Tuscaloosa Debate League The Tuscaloosa Debate League is administered through the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa by the school’s debate team. It operates in all seven local high schools. Beginning in 1997, OSI funded the program for 3 years.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama | 2 Years | 1999 |

University of California, Berkeley

San Francisco Bay Area (BAUD) Administered by the University of California, Berkeley, the Bay Area Urban Debate League works with students in 3 school districts throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. Founded in 1999, BAUD now runs in sixteen high schools.

Contact: Freya Thimson, Program Director Email: [email protected] Mike Clough, Executive Chair Email: [email protected] Phone: (510) 643-4525

Berkeley, California | 4 Years | 1999 |

University of Missouri - St. Louis

Urban Debate League - St. Louis Founded in 1998, the Urban Debate League - St. Louis is administered through a partnership with the University of Missouri, St. Louis and the St. Louis Public Schools and currently serves 11 schools in the city.

Contact: Paulette Kirkwood, Communications Arts Facilitator, St. Louis Public Schools Email: [email protected]

St. Louis, Missouri | 4 Years | 1999 |

Bronx Defenders

New York Urban Debate League, Bronx Resource Center The Bronx Defenders is a public defender organization serving indigent clients in the Bronx that have been charged with crimes. OSI began providing funds to the Bronx Defenders in 2000 to establish and house a resource center for debaters in the Bronx.

Bronx, New York | 4 Years | 2000 |

Brown University, Swearer Center for Public Service

Providence Urban Debate League (PUDL) The Providence Urban Debate League is managed through the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University. Operating in three high schools for a year prior to OSI funding, which began in 2000, PUDL has expanded to serve 9 high schools in Providence. The Swearer Center has an extensive menu of outreach and youth programs in the community, which serve to bolster PUDL and integrate debate into the Center’s larger mission of advocacy and public service.

Contact: Lisa Heller, Director Email: [email protected] Phone: (401) 863-9836

Providence, Rhode Island | 4 Years | 2000 |

California State University at Fullerton

The Southern California UDL is organized and supported by California State University-Fullertion. Launched in 2000, the program now operates in seven school districts spanning several urban communities in Orange and Los Angeles Counties. It now also works with schools in the central Los Angeles Unified School District.

Contact: Sylvia Beltran, Executive Director Email: [email protected] Phone: 714-278-7239

Los Angeles, California | 4 Years | 2000 |

Claremont McKenna College

Claremont Colleges Debate Outreach (CCDO) Claremont McKenna College supports schools in San Bernardino County and Riverside County. The CCDO works in both high schools and middle schools.

Contact: Kate Shuster, Director Email: [email protected] Phone: 909-607-9383

Claremont, California | 3 Years | 2000 |

FOCUS Hispanic Center for Community Development

Jersey Urban Debate League (JUDL) Administered through the FOCUS Hispanic Center for Community Development, the New Jersey Urban Debate League operates in 10 high schools in Newark. In the future, JUDL plans to expand into 9 cities in Northern New Jersey.

Contact: Brent Farrand, Executive Director Sandra DeLeon, Program Administrator

Newark, New Jersey | 3 Years | 2001 |

Improving Mentor Practices and Communication Techniques (IMPACT)

New York Urban Debate League (NYUDL) Initially launched in 15 schools in 1997 and administered as an operational program of OSI, the New York Urban Debate League is now run by the IMPACT Coalition. The NYUDL operates in 45 high schools in New York City in all 5 boroughs.

Contact: Will Baker, Chief Executive Officer Email: [email protected] Phone: (212) 702-0944

New York, New York | 3 Years | 2001 |

American University Washington College of Law

Marshall-Brennan Urban Debate League (MBUDL) The MBUDL is a collaborative project of 2 universities—the American University Washington College of Law, and the University of the District of Columbia. The MBUDL represents a unique collaboration of University partners who each bring important strengths and resources to the endeavor.

Washington, D.C. | 1 Year | 2002 |

National Forensics League (NFL)

National Association of Urban Debate Leagues In 2001, the Urban Debate Program made a grant to the NFL to create the National Urban Debate Initiative (NUDI). NUDI is an umbrella organization that strengthens the work of the urban debate leagues acros the country by providing technical assistance and facilitating the exchange of resources and information among sites.

Contact: Les Lynn, Executive Director Email: [email protected] Phone: (312) 427-8101

Ripon, Wisconsin | 2 Years | 2002 |

Seattle Debate Foundation

Seattle Urban Debate League The Seattle Urban Debate League operates through a partnership between the Seattle Debate Foundation (SDF) and the Alliance for Education, the local education fund, whose mission is to ensure that the Seattle School District has the resources and leadership essential to prepare its graduates for post-secondary education, successful careers and productive citizenship. The SDF was founded in 1998 by Rebecca Galentine, a former college debater who created the SDF as a vehicle to bring debate to Seattle's high schools.

Contact: Sean Harris, Executive Director Email: [email protected] Phone: (206) 251-7326

Seattle, Washington | 2 Years | 2002 |

Brooklyn Debate Resource Center Sesame Flyers International, Inc. is a not-for-profit combining culturally correct services wwith a range of educational, social, recreational and youth development programs in and around the greater Canarsie and East Flatbush communities, and in the twin island of Trinidad and Tobago. The Brooklyn Debate Resource Center provides extensive debate resources, including classes, private debate instruction and space for group practice for New York Urban Debate League students from Brooklyn.

Contact: Jessica Clark, Program Director Email: [email protected] Phone: (718) 221-8880, ext.340

Brooklyn, New York | 2 Years | 2002 |

California State University, Northridge Trust Fund

Los Angeles Urban Debate League (LAUDL) The Los Angeles Urban Debate League began in 2001 as a pilot project of the Southern California UDL. In 2003 it expanded and became its own program, being managed by Cal State, Northridge and serving schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District and surrounding districts.

Contact: David Wilitz, Program Director Email: [email protected]

Los Angeles, California | 1 Year | 2003 |

Sesame Flyers International

To support the Brooklyn Debate Resource Center.

Brooklyn, New York | $60,000 | 1 Year | 2003 |

National Association of Urban Debate Leagues

To support the development and sustainability of the Urban Debate League Network.

Chicago, Illinois | $315,000 | 1 Year | 2004 |

California State University, Northridge, Trust Fund

To support the activities of the Los Angeles Urban Debate League.

Northridge, CA | $165,000 | 1 Year | 2004 | http://www.debatela.com

To support the activities of the IMPACT Coalition.

New York, NY | $400,000 | 1 Year | 2004 | http://www.impactcoalition.org

Jersey Urban Debate League

To support the Jersey Urban Debate League.

Newark, NJ | $85,000 | 1 Year | 2004 | http://www.judl.org/

University of the District of Columbia

To support the DC Urban Debate League.

Washington, DC | $175,000 | 1 Year | 2004 | http://www.dcdebate.org

Seattle Debate Foundation

To support the Seattle Urban Debate League.

Seattle, WA | $110,000 | 1 Year | 2004 | http://www.seattledebate.org

Improving Mentor Practices and Communication Techniques (IMPACT) Coalition

To support the relocation and continuation of the Bronx Debate Resource Center.

New York City | $50,000 | One Year | 2004 | www.impactcoalition.org

Sesame Flyers International

To support the Brooklyn Debate Resource Center.

Brooklyn, NY | $40,000 | One Year | 2004 | http://www.sesameflyers.org

Youth Media

Project HIP-HOP

A grant to support the development of the communications programs.

Boston, United States | $30,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Warehouse 21

Sante Fe, United States | $30,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Latin American Youth Center

A grant to support Youth Radio DC.

Washington DC, United States | $30,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing

To support the program activities of the collaborative.

New York City | $100,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

To support the High School Pilot Program.

New York City | $40,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Johns Hopkins University

To support the Uniquely Spoken youth radio program.

Baltimore, MD | $29,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Latin American Youth Center

To support Youth Radio DC.

Washington, DC | $30,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Learning Matters—Listen Up!

To support Listen Up!'s "Taking Back the Media" workshop.

New York City | $40,300 | One Year | 2001 |

LISTEN, Inc.

To provide general support.

Washington, DC | $100,000 | Two Year | 2001 |

To provide general support.

Arlington, VA | $75,000 | One Year | 2001 |

WNYC Radio

A grant to support the Radio Rookies program.

New York City, United States | $75,000 | One Year | 2001 |

We the People Media

A grant to support the Urban Youth International Journalism Program.

Chicago, United States | $40,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Youth Communications

A grant to support the publication of an anthology of stories about death by urban youth. With the Project on Death in America.

New York City, United States | $20,700 | One Year | 2001 |

National Coalition Against Censorship- Free Expression Policy Project

A grant to support a youth media and censorship colloquium.

New York City, United States | $20,000 | One Year | 2001 |

P.O.V.

A grant to support the Youth Views project.

New York City, United States | $30,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Pacific News Service

To support linking juvenile halls to the community and transform them into remedial institutions.

San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | One Year | 2001 | http://news.pacificnews.org/news/

Street-Level Youth Media

To support the distribution program.

Chicago, IL | $35,000 | One Year | 2001 | http://streetlevel.iit.edu/

To support youth radio training programs for immigrant and incarcerated youth, and to build the capacity of youth radio opportunities in rural Maine.

Portland, ME | $30,000 | One Year | 2001 | http://www.bluntradio.org/

Video Machete

To support on-going media education and production workshops and the National Youth Media Distribution Project.

Chicago, IL | $60,000 | One Year | 2001 | http://videomachete.org/

Appalshop, Inc.

To support the Appalachian Media Institute.

Whitesburg, KY | $40,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Downtown Community Television

To support the Professional Training Television program (Pro-TV).

New York, NY | $30,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Educational Video Center

To provide general support.

New York, NY | $50,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Global Action Project

To write a curriculum manual that will combine best practices in youth development with social activism, media literacy, and media training workshops.

New York, NY | $50,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Manhattan Neighborhood Network

To support the Youth Channel and its pilot partnership with four public access centers across the country to develop youth projects.

New York, NY | $75,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Sound Portraits Productions

New York, NY | $30,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Students at the Center

To support school and community-based intensive writing and media projects.

New Orleans | $75,000 | One Year | 2001 |

WBEZ Chicago Public Radio

To support the Youth Education Outreach component of the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

Chicago, IL | $10,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Youth Communication

To support website and new audience development.

New York, NY | $45,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Youth News Service

To support the LA Youth "Teen Voices in Mainstream Media" project.

Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Youth Today

To support publication of Youth Today: The Newspaper on Youth Work.

Washington, DC | $60,000 | One Year | 2001 |

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

To support the creation of the Native Vision Youth Media Activists program.

Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | One Year | 2001 | http://www.jhsph.edu/

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

To support Youth Metro.

Chicago, IL | $20,000 | One Year | 2001 | http://www.mfacmchicago.org/

To support the completion of the National Youth in Radio Training Project Resource Manual.

San Francisco, CA | $11,500 | One Year | 2001 | http://www.nfcb.org/index.jsp

Gay-Straight Alliance Network

To support Free Zone, a youth-produced travelling media exhibition in high schools

San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | One Year | 2002 | http://www.gsanetwork.org/

Johns Hopkins University’s Center for American Indian Health

To support the transfer of leadership of the Youth Media Activist program to tribal governance on the Wind River Reservation.

Wind River, WY | $26,000 | One Year | 2002 | http://www.jhsph.edu/

National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture

To support the Youth Media Initiative.

San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Youth Communication

To support ongoing youth journalism projects.

New York, NY | $68,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Sound Portraits Productions, in Collaboration with WNYC

To support distribution of the Youth Portraits CD and curriculum.

New York, NY | $15,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Youth Today - American Youth Work Center

To support Youth Today.

Washington, DC | $50,000 | One Year | 2002 |

National Coalition Against Censorship

To support the Youth Free Expression Network, a project of the Free Expression Policy Project.

National Federation of Community Broadcasters

To support the 2003 National Youth Training Project.

San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | One Year | 2002 |

New Visions Foundation

To expand the pilot media-training program "Behind the Wall" at Camp David Gonzales, a Los Angeles probationary camp.

Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Oasis Center

To support the Oasis Filmmakers Program, which works with incarcerated youth.

Nashville, TN | $20,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Santa Fe Teen Arts Center—Warehouse Twenty-One

To support media opportunities for youth in film, print journalism, radio, and computer technology.

Santa Fe, NM | $30,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Snow City Arts Foundation

To support film and video workshops for hospitalized youth.

Chicago, IL | $10,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Spy Hop Productions

To support the 2003 Documentary Arts Program.

Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Student Press Law Center

For general operating support.

Arlington, VA | $75,000 | One Year | 2002 |

The American Documentary, Inc.

New York, NY | $30,000 | One Year | 2002 |

WNYC Radio

To support the expansion of the Radio Rookies program.

New York City | $60,000 | One Year | 2002 |

We the People Media

To support the Urban Youth International Journalism Program.

Chicago, IL | $40,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Wide Angle Community Media

To support the Youth Media Advocacy Coalition.

Baltimore, MD | $40,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Youth Rights Media

To support the Youth-Police Video Dialogue Project.

New Haven, CT | $25,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Global Action Project

To support development of a youth media curriculum manual.

New York, NY | $50,000 | One Year | 2002 |

In the Mix

To create a national multimedia project highlighting the role of youth activism in the education reform movement.

New York, NY | $100,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Youth News Service

To support the LA Youth "Teen Voices in Mainstream Media" project.

Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | One Year | 2002 |

To support MediaRights.org's new Youth Media Distribution Initiative.

New York, NY | $40,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Manhattan Neighborhood Network

To support the Youth Channel and the National Youth Media Access Project (NYMAP).

New York, NY | $30,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Students at the Center

To support Students at the Center youth media courses in public high schools.

New Orleans, LA | $45,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Teen Voices

To support the Teen Voices magazine SHOUT! program.

Boston, MA | $50,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Video Machete

To support Video Machete's ongoing youth media workshops.

Chicago, IL | $40,000 | One Year | 2002 |

WBEZ Chicago Public Radio

To support youth involvement in the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

Chicago, IL | $15,000 | One Year | 2002 |

WITNESS

To support distribution of the Books Not Bars video.

New York, NY | $20,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Art Start

To support the Media Works Project

New York, NY | $30,000 | One Year | 2002 | http://www.art-start.org/

To support Blunt Radio's programs with incarcerated and refugee youth

Portland, ME | $28,000 | One Year | 2002 | www.bluntradio.org

Children's Media Project

To support the development of a youth media curatorial program and the youth track at the Hamptons International Film Festival

Poughkeepsie, NY | $25,000 | One Year | 2002 | http://www.childrensmediaproject.org/

Appalshop, Inc.

To support the expansion of the Appalachian Media Institute to include a year-round youth media program.

Whitesburg, KY | $30,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Center for Media Education

To support youth media groups' education and engagement around open-access issues on the Internet.

Washington, DC | $40,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Downtown Community Television Center

To support the expansion of Pro-TV.

New York, NY | $45,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Downtown Community Television Center

To support a planning grant for Speak Up! New York.

New York, NY | $25,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Educational Video Center

To provide general support for EVC's core programs.

New York, NY | $50,000 | One Year | 2002 |

ETCOM, Inc.

To support Youth Impact, a youth radio training and production project.

American University/WAMU Radio 88.5

To suppport the launch of the Youth Voices program.

Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2002 |

Children's Pressline

To increase capacity to partner with grassroots organizations and disseminate work to a wider audience.

New York City | $30,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing

To support the collaborative's programmatic and administrative work.

New York City | $50,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Global Action Project

To support the Urban Visionaries Film Festival.

New York City | $11,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

To support the youth radio program Uniquely Spoken.

Baltimore, MD | $29,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Just Think Foundation

To provide general support.

San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Latin American Youth Center

To support Youth Radio DC.

Washington, DC | $30,000 | One Year | 2002 |

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Chicago, IL | $25,000 | One Year | 2002 | http://www.mfacmchicago.org/

Pacific News Service

To support the development of satellite Beat Within programs in Los Angeles, Giddings, TX and New York City

San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | One Year | 2002 | www.pacificnews.org

Street-Level Youth Media

To support the Street-to-Street media festival

Chicago, IL | $50,000 | One Year | 2002 | http://streetlevel.iit.edu/

Youth Radio

To support the development of Youth Radio Television, an advanced web training program and an international webcasting project.

Berkeley, CA | $75,000 | One Year | 2002 | http://www.youthradio.org/index.shtml

Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing

To support grantmaking and program activities.

New York City | $100,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

Global Action Project

To support the 2004 Urban Visionaries Video Festival.

New York City | $15,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Johns Hopkins University

To support Uniquely Spoken, a youth-radio project.

Baltimore, MD | $30,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Just Think Foundation

A general support grant.

San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | One Year | 2003 |

To support the Youth Radio DC project.

Washington, DC | $30,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Link Media, Inc.

To support SNAP, a participatory television series featuring youth-produced media.

San Rafael, CA | $53,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Manhattan Neighborhood Network

To support further development of the Youth Channel on community access cable television.

New York City | $60,000 | One Year | 2003 |

National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture

To support the Youth Media Initiative.

San Francisco, CA | $120,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

National Coalition Against Censorship

To support the Youth Free Expression Network.

New York City | $35,000 | One Year | 2003 |

National Federation of Community Broadcasters

To support the National Youth in Radio Training Project.

Oakland, CA | $150,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

New Vision Foundation

To support the media training program "Behind the Wall" at Camp David Gonzales, the Los Angeles probationary camp.

Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Oasis Center

To support the Youth Voice Through Video project, which works with court-involved youth.

Nashville, TN | $20,000 | One Year | 2003 |

To support Children's Pressline, a youth advocacy newspaper.

New York, NY | $40,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Student Press Law Center

A general support grant.

Arlington, VA | $150,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

The American Documentary, Inc.

To support P.O.V.'s Youth Views program.

New York, NY | $30,000 | One Year | 2003 |

We the People Media

To support the Urban Youth International Journalism Program.

Chicago, IL | $40,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Wide Angle Community Media

To support the Youth Media Advocacy Coalition.

Baltimore, MD | $80,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

WNYC Radio

To support the Radio Rookies program.

New York City | $150,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

To support the Young Artists at Work program.

San Francisco, CA | $1,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Youth Media Council

To support youth-led media advocacy and accountability projects.

Youth Radio

A planning grant to develop strategies for Youth Radio to serve as a curator of youth media material for broader distribution.

Berkeley, CA | $10,000 | One Year | 2003 |

WBEZ Alliance, Inc. - Third Coast International Audio Festival

To support the Young Producers Initiative at the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

Chicago, IL | $18,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Women Express - Teen Voices

A general support grant to Teen Voices, a magazine by and for young women.

Boston, MA | $40,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Youth Communication New York Center

A general support grant for the youth journalism training program.

New York City | $200,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

Youth News Service - LA Youth

A general support grant for a newsletter written by teens.

Los Angeles, CA | $180,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

Youth Radio

A general support grant for youth radio training programs.

Berkeley, CA | $200,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

Youth Rights Media

To support the Youth Police Video Dialogue Project.

New Haven, CT | $30,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Appalshop, Inc.

Whitesburg, KY | $40,000 | One Year | 2003 | http://www.appalshop.org

Downtown Community Television Center

A general support grant for DCTV youth media programs.

New York City | $200,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

Educational Video Center

A general support grant for video documentary and media arts programming.

New York City | $200,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

First Nations Development Institute

To support planning for a Youth Leadership Initiative in Native communities.

Fredericksburg, VA | $30,000 | One Year | 2003 | http://www.firstnations.org

Gay-Straight Alliance Network

To support the distribution of Free Zone, a youth-produced traveling media exhibit in high schools.

San Franciso, CA | $20,000 | One Year | 2003 | http://www.gsanetwork.org

Global Action Project

A general support grant for youth media arts programming.

New York City | $200,000 | Two Years | 2003 | http://www.global-action.org

Independent Media Institute—Wiretap

A general support grant to Wiretap, an online youth magazine of Alternet.org.

San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | Two Years | 2003 | http://www.alternet.org/wiretap

Manhattan Neighborhood Network

To support the further development of the Youth Channel on community cable access television.

New York City | $40,000 | One Year | 2003 | http://www.mnn.org

To support further development of the Youth Media Distribution Initiative.

New York City | $80,000 | Two Years | 2003 | http://www.mediarights.org

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

A general support grant to Radio Arte, the only bilingual, youth-operated urban radio station in the United States.

Chicago, IL | $100,000 | Two Years | 2003 | http://www.wrte.org

Pacific News Service

To support the involvement of youth media organizations in the November 2003 New California Media Expo.

San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | One Year | 2003 | http://news.pacificnews.org

Pacific News Service

A general support grant to The Beat Within, a publication of the writings and artwork of youth from juvenile halls.

San Francisco, CA | $200,000 | Two Years | 2003 | http://news.pacificnews.org

Children's Media Project

To support the "Young Videomakers" exhibition at the Hamptons Film Festival.

Poughkeepsie, NY | $25,000 | One Year | 2003 | http://www.childrensmediaproject.org/

National Federation of Community Broadcasters

To support the 2003 National Youth in Radio Training Project.

San Francisco, CA | $12,000 | One Year | 2003 | http://www.nfcb.org

Rutgers University Foundation

A general support grant to the National Teen-to-Teen Sexuality Education Project for a national newsletter by and for teens on sexual health issues.

New Brunswick, NJ | $40,000 | One Year | 2003 | http://support.rutgers.edu

Street-Level Youth Media

A general support grant for this community-based media arts organization.

Chicago, IL | $50,000 | One Year | 2003 | http://streetlevel.iit.edu

A general support grant for the youth radio training and production program.

Portland, ME | $100,000 | Two Years | 2003 |

Video Machete

A general support grant for popular media education with youth for social change purposes.

Chicago, IL | $50,000 | One Year | 2003 |

Academy for Educational Development, National Service-Learning Project

To support a six-month planning grant to pilot youth media projects in the Youth Innovation Fund.

New York City | $10,000 | Six Months | 2004 | http://www.service-learningpartnership.org/

Link Media, Inc.

To support youth-produced programming on Link TV.

San Rafael, CA | $83,000 | One Year | 2004 | http://www.worldlinktv.org/

New Vision Foundation

To support the media training program "Behind the Wall," at Camp David Gonzales, a Los Angeles probationary camp.

Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | One Year | 2004 | http://www.newvisionsfnd.org

Oasis Center

To support the Youth Voice Through Video project.

Nashville, TN | $20,000 | One Year | 2004 | http://www.oasiscenter.org/

Youth Media Council

To provide support for organizational sustainability and capacity.

Oakland, CA | $60,000 | Two Years | 2004 | http://www.youthmediacouncil.org/

Youth Rights Media

To provide general support.

Global Action Project

To support the 2005 Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival.

New York City | $25,000 | One Year | 2004 | http://www.global-action.org

Children's Media Project

To support the "Young Videomakers" exhibition at the Hamptons Film Festival.

Poughkeepsie, NY | $25,055 | One Year | 2004 | http://www.childrensmediaproject.org/

Manhattan Community Access Corporation

To support a youth media summer health partnership between Youth Channel and the Health and Hospitals Corporation.

New York, NY | $13,850 | 18 Months | 2004 |

Pacific News Service

To support the Youth Media Networking Project.

San Francisco, CA | $55,000 | 1 Year | 2004 | http://news.pacificnews.org/news/

Children's PressLine

To support youth reporting at the Democratic and Republican national conventions.

New York, NY | $30,000 | 6 Months | 2004 | http://www.cplmedia.org

Station Resource Group

To support the PRX Youth Initiative "Generation PRX."

Cambridge, MA | $75,000 | 1 Year | 2004 | http://www.srg.org/

Third Coast International Audio Festival

To support the Young Producers Initiative of the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 Year | 2004 | http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/