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Active Voice
www.activevoice.net
Active Voice is a team of strategic communication specialists who put powerful media to work for personal and institutional change in communities, workplaces, and campuses across America.
Artists for Amnesty
www.amnestyusa.org
Artists for Amnesty is a group of committed artists who take action to stop human rights abuses and save lives.
Center for Social Media:
www.centerforsocialmedia.org
The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as a creative tool for public knowledge and action. It has a bevy of useful resources including publications, articles and links to help you complete your projects.
Chiapas Media Project
www.promediosmexico.org
A bi-national Mexican/American partnership that provides video and computer equipment and training to indigenous and campesino communities in Chiapas and Guerrero, Mexico. The emphasis has been in the area of video production. The Chiapas Media Project is currently distributing 16 indigenous productions worldwide.
Design 21
www.design21sdn.com
Social Design Network's mission is to inspire social activism through design. They connect people who want to explore ways design can positively impact our many worlds, and who want to create change here, now.
DV Republic
www.dvrepublic.org
Republic.org exist as a self-validating, self-supporting online community of "citizens" who monitor the intersection of media, technology, and social justice. As informed citizens, they engage in active online discussion in the "public square" of the DV Republic liberated zone.
Environmental Media Association
www.ema-online.org
The Environmental Media Association mobilizes the entertainment industry in a global effort to educate people about environmental issues and inspire them into action.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
www.fair.org
A national media watch group that has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.
Independent Media Center
www.indymedia.org
The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. They work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.
Institute for Global Communications
www.igc.org
Institute for Global Communications (IGC) brings advanced communications technologies to grassroots organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental sustainability, women's rights, conflict resolution and worker rights.
The Film Connection
www.thefilmconnection.org
The Film Connection is a community of film lovers, social activists and lifelong learners who use our non-profit online film library to watch, discuss and act on compelling films from around the globe. An initiative of the global humanitarian agency Mercy Corps, The Film Connection offers a growing library of DVDs that tackle the issues facing the world we live in.
MediaRights
www.mediarights.org
A community website that helps mediamakers, educators, nonprofits and activists use documentaries for action and dialogue.
MusiCares
www.grammy.com/MusiCares
MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares' services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community.
Participant - Participate Network
www.participate.net
Centered on the films of Participant production company, participate.net is a growing community of film lovers and activists who are dedicated to engaging their minds, sharing their passions, and improving the world around them.
Witness
www.witness.org
WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. They empower people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change.
Women's Media Center
www.womensmediacenter.com
The Women's Media Center strives to make women visible and powerful in the media. Their mission is to assure that women and women's experiences are reflected in the media just as women are present everywhere in the real world.
Working Films
www.workingfilms.org
Working Films brings the persuasive, provocative and personal narratives in independent documentary films and video - vividly illustrating the struggles and triumphs of our lives - to long-term community organizing and activism.