ITVS Community develops partnerships with leading local, regional and national organizations working on diverse social issues. Partners include: advocacy groups, service providers, professional associations, public sector commissions, local businesses, libraries, media arts centers, colleges and universities, other organizations as well as public television stations and other public broadcasting entities throughout the country.

ITVS Community works with its partners to produce events like ITVS Community Cinema, develop outreach and educational materials, provide film and video content for use in those activities, and to collaborate so that ITVS programs have a powerful impact beyond their broadcast.

The ITVS Community Network of partner organizations is growing each day, so please check back often to find out who is working on Community Cinema in your state. If you are interested in producing Community Cinema in your city, please contact us at outreach@itvs.org.

OUR PARTNERS:

A Call to Men: National Association of Men and Women Committed to Ending Violence Against Women
A Call To Men is a leading national men's organization addressing men's violence against women, and the eradication of sexism, while maintaining strong coalitions with women's organizations already doing this important work. We help to organize communities in order to raise awareness and get men involved in ending violence against women.

American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
The AACC is the primary advocacy organization for the nation's community colleges. The association represents 1,100 two-year, associate degree-granting institutions and more than 10 million students.

American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions and cultures.

Amnesty International
Amnesty International has a varied network of members and supporters around the world. At the latest count, there were more than 1.8 million members, supporters and subscribers in over 150 countries and territories in every region of the world. Although they come from many different backgrounds and have widely different political and religious beliefs, they are united by a determination to work for a world where everyone enjoys human rights.

Boys and Girls Clubs of America
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
A Boys & Girls Club Provides:
A safe place to learn and grow...
Ongoing relationships with caring, adult professionals...
Life-enhancing programs and character development experiences...
Hope and opportunity.

Center for American Progress / Campus Progress
The Center for American Progress is a progressive think-tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. We are creating a long-term, progressive vision for America—a vision that policy makers, thought-leaders and activists can use to shape the national debate and pass laws that make a difference.The Center for American Progress is headed by John D. Podesta, former chief of staff to President William J. Clinton and a professor at Georgetown University Center of Law.

Campus Progress, part of the Center for American Progress, works to strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses and to empower new progressive leaders nationwide. Through an on-line magazine and student publications, public events, and grassroots issue campaigns, Campus Progress supports young advocates, activists, journalists, and artists as they develop fresh ideas and perspectives and seek to communicate in new ways.

Center for Family Policy and Practice
The Center for Family Policy and Practice (CFFPP) is a nationally-focused public policy organization conducting policy research, technical assistance, training, litigation and public education in order to focus attention on the barriers faced by never-married, low-income fathers and their families.

Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture—University of Chicago
The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) at the University of Chicago is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to promoting engaged scholarship and debate around the topics of race and ethnicity. We are especially interested in how these ideas and their structural manifestations impact and shape people’s daily lives. Broadly, our research program encourages the study of race and processes of racialization in comparative and transnational frameworks. Thus, the work of faculty affiliates ranges from an examination of processes of racialization among dominant groups to the study of racialized minorities within the United States and black and/or indigenous populations in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Asian Pacific, and Europe.

Center for the Study in Sport and Society
The Center for the Study of Sport in Society, utilizes the power and appeal of sport; works locally, nationally and globally to identify and address social problems in sport and in society. We conduct research, develop programs that offer solutions, and educate and advocate on the emerging issues.

Critical Resistance
A national grassroots organization committed to ending society’s use of prisons and policing as an answer to social problems. Critical Resistance believes that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make communities secure. As such, their work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness.

The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
The Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) was established in 1976. At that time, dystonia research was in its infancy, and patient resources for affected individuals and families were virtually non-existent. The DMRF is a membership-driven organization that serves persons with all forms of dystonia. The DMRF has funded over 400 medical research investigations, provides awareness and educational resources and sponsors support groups throughout North America.

Family Violence Prevention Fund
The Family Violence Prevention Fund works to prevent violence within the home, and in the community, to help those whose lives are devastated by violence because everyone has the right to live free of violence. For more than two decades, the FVPF has worked to end violence against women and children around the world. Instrumental in developing the landmark Violence Against Women Act passed by Congress in 1994, the FVPF has continued to break new ground by reaching new audiences including men and youth, promoting leadership within communities to ensure that violence prevention efforts become self-sustaining, and transforming the way health care providers, police, judges, employers and others address violence.

Gender Public Advocacy Coalition
The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition works to ensure that classrooms, communities and workplaces are safe places for everyone to learn, grow and succeed whether or not they fit stereotypes for masculinity and femininity. As a human rights organization, GenderPAC also promotes an understanding of the connection between discrimination based on gender stereotypes and sex, sexual orientation, age, race and class. The GenderYOUTH Network empowers youth leaders to build safer classrooms and communities where all youth can learn, grow and succeed, whether or not they conform to expectations for masculinity and femininity.

Global Fund for Children
The Global Fund for Children’s mission is to advance the dignity of children and youth around the world. GFC pursues its mission by making small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth, complemented by a dynamic media program that, through books, documentary photography and film, highlights the issues affecting children and celebrates the global society in which we all live.

Hate Free Zone
Hate Free Zone's mission is to advance the fundamental principles of democracy and justice at the local, state and national levels by building power within immigrant communities, in collaboration with key allies.

Immigrant Legal Resource Center
The ILRC is a national resource center that provides trainings, materials and advocacy to advance immigrant rights. As a legal services organization, they train lawyers and paralegals on ever-changing and complex immigration law. ILRC develops leadership by encouraging immigrants to play leading roles in confronting and reshaping the laws and policies that perpetuate racial, economic and social injustice. ILRC educates and empowers those in the immigrant community so that they may organize and advocate for the rights and privileges that best define our democratic traditions.

International Child Resource Center
Helping children play and grow, ICRI is an international organization committed to improving the lives of children and families throughout the world, enabling them to survive and succeed.

Just Think!
Just Think! (JT) is a leader in media education in America. JT teaches young people to lead healthy, responsible, independent lives in a culture highly impacted by media. JT develops and delivers innovative programs and cutting-edge curricula emphasizing the professional training of educators in the area of media skills, literacy and scholarship. By promoting media education, young people and the adults around them build and improve their skills in critical thinking, core academic competency and creative expression.

Ms. Foundation for Women
The Ms. Foundation supports the efforts of women and girls to govern their own lives and influence the world around them. Through its leadership,expertise and financial support, the Foundation champions an equitable society by effecting change in public consciousness, law, philanthropy and social policy.

National Black Law Students Association
The National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA), the largest student-run organization in America, has over 200 chapters at law schools throughout the country. This represents almost every ABA accredited law school, plus several non-accredited law schools. These chapters represent over 6,000 black law students in six regions, which encompass 48 states including Hawaii, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Since its inception in 1976, NCADP has been the only fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment. NCADP provides information, advocates for public policy and mobilizes and supports individuals and institutions that share our unconditional rejection of capital punishment

National Hip Hop Political Convention
The National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC) is a developing national organization operating in 20 states throughout the U.S. working on issues facing the hip-hop generation. Our keystone event is the bi-annual National Hip Hop Political Convention, where delegates and local organizing committees from the hip-hop generation vote on, adopt and endorse an agenda. The purpose of the National Hip Hop Political Convention is to support the movement towards increased civic and political participation within the hip-hop generation.

National Women’s Alliance
The National Women’s Alliance (NWA) is a community-driven, national advocacy organization dedicated to ending all forms of discrimination against women and girls of color. NWA envisions a world where the lives of women and girls of color are free from violence, have a full range of reproductive and sexual health options, and achieve racial and economic equality.

Oxfam America
Forty percent of the people on our planet—more than 2.5 billion—now live in poverty, struggling to survive on less than $2 a day. Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization working to change that. Together with individuals and local groups in more than 120 countries, Oxfam saves lives, helps people overcome poverty and fights for social justice.

Media Tank
Media Tank is a nonprofit organization working to develop new ways to open up debate and build public awareness around media issues in order to engage the public in creating a more democratic media system.

Search for Common Ground
Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground works to transform the way the world deals with conflict—away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. We work with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies' capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalities.

Sentencing Project
The Sentencing Project is a national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration.

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) is a national organization advancing the interests of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese Americans through leadership development, capacity building and community empowerment.

Sports Leadership Institute – Adelphi University
The Sports Leadership Institute (SLI) at Adelphi University was founded on the principle that sports, physical education and athletics are part of a comprehensive educational experience, providing innumerable opportunities to teach valuable life lessons. SLI leverages the powerful influence that sports has on our culture to provide proactive and innovative programs addressing myriad social issues, while working to return the positive, educational and fun experience to all sport participants. Supported by research initiatives and special events, SLI's mission to return the altruism to sport will be realized.

Transfair USA
TransFair USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is one of 20 members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. TransFair USA audits transactions between U.S. companies offering Fair Trade Certified™ products and the international suppliers from whom they source, in order to guarantee that the farmers and farm workers behind Fair Trade Certified goods were paid a fair, above-market price. In addition, annual inspections conducted by FLO ensure that strict socioeconomic development criteria are being met using increased Fair Trade revenues.

United Nations Association
UNA is a membership-based organization whose mission is to reach out to national and local citizens, opinion leaders and our government to educate, mobilize and inspire Americans to support the principles and vital work of the United Nations, to strengthen the United Nations system, to promote constructive United States leadership in that system and to achieve the goals of the UN Charter.

United Students Against Sweatshops—SLU Affiliate
United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers' rights. USAS defines 'sweatshop' broadly and recognizes that it is not limited to the apparel industry, but everywhere among us.

Uth TV
Uth TV fosters opportunities for young mediamakers to have their authentic voices heard by a vast audience. UthTV.com is an online community for creators of all levels to share their original work.

Whole Foods
Founded in 1980 as one small store in Austin, TX, Whole Foods Market® is now the world's leading retailer of natural and organic foods, with 187 stores in North America and the United Kingdom. To date, Whole Foods Market remains uniquely mission driven: it is highly selective about what is sold, dedicated to stringent quality standards and committed to sustainable agriculture.

Women of Color Resource Center
Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well being of women and girls of color in the United States. Informed by a social justice perspective that takes into account the status of women.

World Savvy
World Savvy's mission is to inform, empower and engage young people to become active and responsible lifelong participants in a global community. World Savvy aims to educate youth about international affairs and build their skills for "global citizenship" so that they become well-informed and responsible citizens.

Youth Movement Records
Youth Movement Records (YMR) is a non-profit, youth-directed recording company and youth development project based in Oakland, California. Launched in 2003, YMR has reached over 15,000 youth with more than 100 safe, sober weekend events. YMR has engaged over 500 youth directly in producing four original CD’s, planning and creating performances, and giving youth the opportunity to gain and sharpen professional and life skills.

ALABAMA

ACLU of Alabama
Founded in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union is the nation's foremost guardian of liberty. A non-profit, non-partisan, private organization with 53 affiliates throughout the nation, the ACLU is devoted exclusively to the defense and promotion of individual rights guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

The ACLU of Alabama, established in 1965, is the state affiliate of the national ACLU. Through education, litigation, and community outreach they work to preserve and strengthen the individual rights and liberties of every person in Alabama.

Equality Alabama (Producing Partner)
Equality Alabama’s mission is to advance full equality and civil rights for all the people of Alabama through education and action. Equality Alabama was formed by a group of concerned citizens who agreed to merge the efforts of GALAA, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Alabama, Equality Begins at Home of Central Alabama and various private citizens who became concerned with the anti-gay rhetoric from Alabama's increasingly conservative politicians.

Mobile Public Library
The Mobile Public Library is a public service agency. Their mission is to provide the resources and services needed to open doors to life-long learning, to fulfill citizens' information needs and to offer and support cultural and recreational activities.

ARIZONA

Make A Difference (Producing Partner)
Make A Difference is a 501 c3 nonprofit organization that mobilizes volunteers, develops and manages innovative programs and cultivates service leaders to create strong and vibrant communities. Make A Difference is an affiliate of Hands on Network.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital

CALIFORNIA

ACLU Death Penalty Project/ACLU of Northern California
The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees: your First Amendment rights (freedom of speech, association and assembly); freedom of the press and freedom of religion supported by the strict separation of church and state; your right to equal protection under the law (equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin); your right to due process (fair treatment by the government whenever the loss of your liberty or property is at stake); your right to privacy (freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and private affairs).

ACLU of Southern California

Alter Eco Americas
Alter Eco’s goals are to provide consumers with quality products, encourage the development of independent producers as well as distributors who are concerned with social issues and to maximize the openings for marginalized producers by developing the sale of Fair Trade goods.

Americans For Peace Now, Southern California
Americans for Peace Now [APN] was founded in 1981 to support the activities of Shalom Achshav (Peace Now in Israel). APN is the leading United States advocate for peace in the Middle East. APN's mission is to help Israel and the Shalom Achshav movement to achieve a comprehensive political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict consistent with Israel's long-term security needs and its Jewish and democratic values.

Access SF
Access San Francisco is an award-wining community media organization with a 17-year track record. Through a contract with the city, they manage San Francisco's public access television operation and take an active role in advocating for public interest communications policy in San Francisco. They provide San Francisco's diverse local communities and the nonprofit sector with access to electronic communication tools, distribution systems and training in their use.

Arab Cultural and Community Center
The Arab Cultural and Community Center provides the Arab community in the Bay Area and neighboring regions with a physical base for cultural activities, where a sense of belonging and unity are strengthened; teaches the younger generation of Arabs about the components of their culture especially the Arabic language, history and traditions in order to nurture pride in their heritage and identity and provides Arab organizations representing diverse groups with the support they need in serving their membership.

Asian Law Caucus
The nation's oldest legal and civil rights organization serving the low-income Asian Pacific American communities. Founded in 1972, the Caucus has always strived to defend and empower the Asian Pacific American community through a three-pronged strategy of (1) community education and organizing, (2) provision of direct legal services, and (3) strategic impact litigation.

Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
A community-based, social justice organization serving the Asian and Pacific Islander communities of the Greater Bay Area. With a staff of 20 in offices in San Francisco and Oakland, they provide legal, social, and educational services in more than a dozen languages and dialects including Cantonese, Chiu-Chow, Hindi, Ilocano, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Urdu and Vietnamese. Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach was formerly known as Nihonmachi Legal Outreach.

Asian Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership (AYPAL)
The Asian Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership (AYPAL) is a collaborative of six agencies serving Asian and Pacific Islander youth in the East Bay. AYPAL aims to change the relationship of power between youth and policy makers through youth-identified and youth-led direct action and arts activist campaigns for school and community improvement.

Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition
BAIRC is a broad-based coalition of individuals and organizations working to build a unified voice for immigrant rights that transforms and improves the lives of immigrants. BAIRC forges strong, working relationships between member organizations, advocates for just public policies, raises public awareness about the rights and living conditions of immigrants and increases the capacity of member organizations to work on immigrant issues.

BHERC (Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center)
The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center, a nonprofit, public benefit organization, is designed to advocate, educate, research, develop and preserve the history and the future of blacks in the film and television industries.

California State University East Bay (Producing Partner)
California State University East Bay is best known for its award-winning programs, expert instruction, small classes, a highly personalized learning environment and a choice of more than 100 career-focused fields of study.

Cambodian Community Development Inc.
Cambodian Community Development, Inc. (CCDI) is a grassroots, volunteer-based organization founded by a group of concerned community activists in 1997. CCDI assists Cambodian refugees in Oakland, California in overcoming social, cultural and economic barriers to reach independence and self-sufficiency. Currently, the agency serves approximately 500-1,000 refugees per year in one or more of its programs.

Campaign to End the Death Penalty
The Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP) is the only national membership-driven, chapter-based grassroots organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment in the United States. We have active chapters in cities and campuses across the countryÑfrom Berkeley, California to Austin, Texas to Chicago, Illinois. We work hand in hand with those who have experienced the horrors of death row firsthandÑdeath row prisoners themselves and their family membersÑand work to ensure that their voices are at the forefront of our movement.

Coffee Quality Institute
CQI works to improve the quality of coffee and the lives of the people who produce it through innovative approaches to economic sustainability. CQI’s solutions have helped to improve the lives of thousands of coffee farmers and over 88 percent of their income goes directly into these programs.

CARE
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. They place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.

Center for Investigative Reporting
CIR is part of the solution, injecting tough but fair investigative reporting into the news media, by: investing in promising stories at their earliest stages to give them a chance in the news marketplace; producing major investigative projects for television, radio, print and the Web; promoting the best investigations to maximize their impact with policy makers and the public.

Center for Juvenile Justice
Established in 1985 as the Western Regional Office of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA), CJCJ maintains a professional staff with diverse backgrounds and expertise in the various components of criminal justice with its senior staff members possessing over 15 years experience in the justice field. Headquartered in San Francisco, CJCJ provides direct services, technical assistance and policy research in the criminal justice field. The Center includes offices in Oakland, California and The District of Columbia.

Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The principal mission of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of California at Berkeley is to enhance awareness of the Middle East and of its diverse peoples and cultures. The center promotes both specialized knowledge and public understanding of this crucial area of the world, which includes the Arab states, Turkey, Iran and Israel.

The City of Oakland
Nestled between the San Francisco Bay and the coastal hills, Oakland has it all: balmy temperatures, world-class arts and entertainment, top-flight restaurants and hotels and an abundance of recreation. Whether you're coming for business or pleasure, you'll find Oakland offers something for every interest and price range.

Conscious Youth Media Crew
Conscious Youth Media Crew is a San Francisco-based youth-driven, digital media production studio. They 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. Conscious Youth Media Crew participants become life long learners and gain workforce skills to help shape a successful future for themselves and their communities.

Death Penalty Focus
Founded in 1988, Death Penalty Focus is a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives. We conduct research on behalf of lawyers, educators and the general public and sponsor a variety of public education and media campaigns. DPF also serves as a support network for our 10 chapters throughout California and as a liaison among anti-death penalty groups nationwide.

The DJ Project
The DJ Project is an arts entrepreneurship program built on a hip-hop foundation. It uses music to engage young adults, giving them opportunities to develop in a context familiar to them. Through small business management, audio and video production, job readiness training and community service, The DJ Project model is a creative learning experience for the hip-hop generation.

Dystonia Support and Advocacy Group of San Diego
The Dystonia Support and Advocacy Group of San Diego welcomes persons with all forms of dystonia, as well as their family members and friends to be part of a support group and to attend meetings.

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights/Books Not Bars campaign
Books Not Bars fights to redirect California's resources away from youth incarceration and towards youth opportunities. We engage in grassroots campaigns using media advocacy, policy advocacy, grassroots organizing and alliance building. Currently, we are working to close California's abusive, expensive youth prisons and replace them with rehabilitation centers and community-based programs.

Ethiopian Community & Cultural Center

Fresh Roast Daily

Giant Robot
From movie stars, musicians and skate-boarders to toys, technology and history, Giant Robot magazine covers cool aspects of Asian and Asian-American pop culture. Paving the way for less knowledgeable media outlets, Giant Robot put the spotlight on Chow Yun Fat, Jackie Chan and Jet Li years before they were in mainstream America's vocabulary.

Global Exchange
Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Since its founding in 1988, they have successfully increased public awareness of root causes of injustice while building international partnerships and mobilizing for change.

Groundwork Coffee

Hand to Hand Kajukenbo Self Defense Center
Hand to Hand provides traditional martial arts training and self defense classes. The center was founded in 1980 by Sigung Coleen Gragen and is one of the largest woman-led schools on the West Coast.

Homies Unidos
Homies Unidos is a nonprofit gang violence prevention and intervention organization with projects in San Salvador, El Salvador and Los Angeles, California. The organization was founded in 1996 in San Salvador and formally began organizing in the United States in 1997.

Immigrant Legal Resource Center
The ILRC is a national resource center that provides trainings, materials and advocacy to advance immigrant rights. As a legal services organization, they train lawyers and paralegals on ever-changing and complex immigration law. ILRC develops leadership by encouraging immigrants to play leading roles in confronting and reshaping the laws and policies that perpetuate racial, economic and social injustice. ILRC educates and empowers those in the immigrant community so that they may organize and advocate for the rights and privileges that best define our democratic traditions.

Impact Bay Area
Impact Bay Area is a nonprofit organization preventing violence and promoting healing by teaching Impact, a unique form of full-force self-defense for mind, body and voice. They offer a variety of courses, each with the aim of making you more safe and secure in this world. Their Women's Basics course is over 20 hours of comprehensive training with lots of practice, covering the emotional, mental and physical aspects of self-defense. Since 1985, Impact Bay Area has given more than 8,400 women and girls the skills to defend themselves against verbal, physical and sexual assault.

Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco
The Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco (ILRCSF) ensures that people with disabilities are full social and economic partners, both within their families and in a fully accessible community.

ISM Support Group
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. Founded by a small group of activists in August, 2001, ISM aims to support and strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by providing the Palestinian people with two resources, international protection and a voice with which to nonviolently resist an overwhelming military occupation force.

Just think – Media literacy
Just Think teaches young people to lead healthy, responsible, independent lives in a culture highly impacted by media. They develop and deliver cutting-edge curricula and innovative programs that build skills in critical thinking and creative media production.

Khmer Girls in Action
Khmer Girls in Action’s (KGA) mission is to contribute to the movement for social, economic and political justice by building a strong, progressive and sustainable community institution led by Southeast Asian women and girls. Taking a comprehensive approach to youth development, KGA provides leadership skills and organizing work in partnership with cultural exploration and expression. Their goal is to increase the community’s power and ability to challenge oppressive systems and institutions that are not accountable to immigrant/refugee needs.

KQED Community Outreach
KQED Community Outreach uses evocative PBS films to convene communities and spark dialogue.

KQED’s SPARK
Spark is about Bay Area artists and arts organizations. It is a weekly television show, an educational outreach program and a Web site. More than a showcase for art objects and the artists who make them, Spark takes the audience inside the creative process to witness the challenges, opportunities and rewards of making art.

L.A. Coalition to End the Death Penalty

Los Angeles Times

Media Alliance
Media Alliance is a 30-year-old media resource and advocacy center for media workers, nonprofit organizations and social justice activists. Their mission is excellence, ethics, diversity and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice and social responsibility.

Middle East Children's Alliance
Since 1988 MECA has brought over $8 million of much needed relief to besieged communities in Iraq and Palestine through emergency medical aid and direct aid to families and communities. MECA also supports children’s clinics and family mental health projects in various refugee camps thought the Occupied West Bank and Gaza, and supports community projects for children including, playgrounds, children’s libraries and youth centers. In line with their commitment to fighting for justice, MECA supports Palestinian and Israeli organizations and movements, fighting for political, social and economic equality for the Palestinian people as well as Iraqi and international movements and organizations working to secure justice for the Iraqi people.

Museum of Children’s Arts
Founded in 1988, MOCHA is synonymous with excellence and leadership in arts education. For more than 15 years, MOCHA has encouraged hands-on learning in the arts and has promoted the arts as a way to help children of all backgrounds develop as healthy, resourceful and involved citizens.

National Lawyers Guild SF Bay Area Chapter
The National Lawyers Guild is an association dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization which shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests. Our aim is to bring together all those who regard adjustments to new conditions as more important than the veneration of precedent; who recognize the importance of safeguarding and extending the rights of workers, women, farmers, and minority groups upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends; who seek actively to eliminate racism; who work to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them; and who look upon the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression.

New College of California Media Studies M.A. Program
Offering an innovative media studies education for social change, the Media Studies Graduate Program is founded on the belief that vibrant alternative media are urgently needed to renew our democracy and achieve peace and social justice. The program encourages media makers to speak truth to power, expose injustice and enable marginalized communities to utilize media – and in these ways create a forum for the practice of democracy.

Nomad Café
Nomad is a community-based, earth-friendly arts and internet café. Many evenings (and a few afternoons) bring live music, poetry storytelling and open mic performances to the Nomad stage.

Oakland Asian Cultural Community Center
The Oakland Asian Cultural Center believes that culture and heritage play a critical role in building and maintaining vibrant and healthy communities. The Center showcases a wide range of cultural and artistic expression including dance, literature, music and the visual arts. OACC serves as a resource for understanding the legacy of Asians and Pacific Islanders and their unique influences on the cultural identities and enrichment of our communities.

The Oakland Film Office
The Oakland Film Office promotes filmmaking in the City of Oakland to advance economic development and civic pride and to increase regional, national and international awareness of Oakland as a vibrant, beautiful and culturally diverse city.

Oakland Museum of California
The Oakland Museum of California provides unique collections, exhibitions and educational opportunities designed to generate a broader and deeper understanding of and interest in California's environment, history, art and people. Museum programs are responsive, accessible and meaningful to the public, including school children, teachers, scholars, the immediate Oakland community and an increasingly diverse California population.

Omega Boys Club
The Omega Boys Club/Street Soldiers was founded in 1987 as a program of the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House by Joe Marshall, a middle school teacher and administrator, and Jack Jacqua, a middle school counselor. Both men were concerned about the number of African American youth who were dropping out of school and/or becoming involved in the drug trade.

Through their day-to-day work with youth, the founders of Omega Boys Club/Street Soldiers identified violence as a public health issue and developed an approach to helping youth move from the culture of violence to safer, more personally and socially productive alternatives.

Peace Over Violence
Peace Over Violence is a social service agency formerly called Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women, or LACAAW. The organization changed its name on its 35th anniversary in 2006 to reflect the growing range of programs offered, which have grown from one-on-one intervention in sexual assaults and domestic abuse, to include one-by-one prevention of youth violence and child abuse, as well as a range of specialized services reaching underserved groups like Latinas, deaf persons, disabled persons, seniors, the LGBTQ community and youth.

Project Censored
Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media.

Salon.com
Salon Media Group, Inc. (OTC: SALN.0B) is an Internet media company that produces seven original content sections as well as two online communities — Table Talk and The Well. The content sites, updated daily or more frequently, include News and Politics, Opinion, Technology & Business, Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life and Comics.

San Diego Public Library
The San Diego Public Library responds to the information needs of San Diego's diverse communities, ensures equal access to local, national, and global resources, anticipates and addresses the educational, cultural, business, and recreational interests of the public and develops and provides welcoming environments.

San Francisco Public Library

SF Bay Area IMC
The San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center is a non-commercial, democratic collective of Bay Area independent media makers and media outlets, and serves as the local organizing unit of the global Indymedia network.

Solstice Neurosciences
A biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacturing, sales and marketing of specialty biopharmaceutical products, including Botulinum Toxin Type B Injectable Solution, indicated for the treatment of patients with cervical dystonia to reduce the severity of abnormal head position and pain associated with cervical dystonia.

South Asian Network
South Asian Network was founded in 1990 to provide an open forum where individuals of South Asian origin could gather to discuss social, economic and political issues affecting the community, with the goal of raising awareness, active involvement and advocacy among community members leading to an informed and empowered community.

SPARK
Spark was founded in 2004 by a group of young women in San Francisco seeking to engage their peers in global issues that affect women. President Maya Garcia envisioned an organization that would empower young professional women in local communities to address social, political and economic issues that women face globally by creating a local network and working with grassroots women’s groups worldwide. Spark began as a way to provide young people the opportunity to channel their energy toward becoming involved in the local and global community.

Tarjan Center Service Inclusion Project
The Tarjan Center Service Inclusion Project (TCSIP) at the University of California, Los Angeles in partnership with the California Service Corps, California State Office of the Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS), and the National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP), supports the active engagement of people with disabilities as service members and volunteers in all levels of national and community service. The goals of the Tarjan Center Service Inclusion Project are to increase the capacity of national service programs in California and Pacific Cluster States and to be inclusive of disabilities, facilitating partnerships between national service entities and disability organizations.

Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law brings together faculty, students, the bar and the bench to explore more effective ways for the law to fulfill our nation’s promise of equality for all people. Established in 1999, the Center fosters a new kind of scholarship that views the law in a larger social context and works in partnership with communities to provide education to the general public. By providing bridges between academia and the real world and between theory and practice, it seeks to teach students how to work collaboratively across disciplines and perspectives and to locate the common ground among people.

Transfair USA
TransFair USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is one of 20 members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. TransFair USA audits transactions between US companies offering Fair Trade Certified™ products and the international suppliers from whom they source, in order to guarantee that the farmers and farm workers behind Fair Trade Certified goods were paid a fair, above-market price. In addition, annual inspections conducted by FLO ensure that strict socioeconomic development criteria are being met using increased Fair Trade revenues.

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The goal of the Graduate School of Journalism is to produce professional print, broadcast and new media journalists who move on to positions of leadership and influence. The two-year Master of Journalism (M.J.) program provides intensive training in journalism skills and teaches the traditions and principles of the field.

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is a nationally recognized center for research on women and gender and the only organized research unit of its kind in the University of California system. Established in 1984, it draws on the energies of approximately 150 faculty members from seven UCLA professional schools, 34 departments and 10 research centers. Organized to develop, promote and disseminate faculty and graduate student research, the Center administers grants, conferences, seminars and a quarterly speakers series that brings together UCLA, UC, national and international scholars with the intellectual community of Los Angeles.

UCSD Medical Center
UCSD Medical Center is part of the renowned University of California system, recognized for its clinical and research excellence in a wide range of specialties, including cancer care, orthopedics, respiratory care and gynecology.

University of Southern California at Annenberg—Institute for Justice and Journalism
The mission of IJJ is to strengthen news media coverage about justice and injustice. IJJ seeks to help journalists bring context, depth and diversity of perspectives to news coverage and commentary about complex justice issues; to make exemplary journalism accessible to the public across all media; and to raise the standing of justice issues in the field of journalism, ensuring that media decision makers nurture high-quality news coverage.

Volunteer San Diego (Producing Partner)
Directs capacity-building program and services that engage volunteers in working hand in hand with nonprofit agencies to develop strong and vibrant communities. Volunteer San Diego’s mission is to engage individuals and groups in meaningful volunteer opportunities that meet real community needs and envisions making volunteering a way of life for all San Diegans.

Women’s Building
The Women's Building is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-service center for women and girls. Their mission is to provide women and girls with the tools and resources they need to achieve full and equal participation in society.

Women of Color Resource Center
Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well being of women and girls of color in the United States. WCRC is informed by a social justice perspective that takes into account the status of women.

World of Good Development Organization
World of Good focuses on building strategies to substantially improve economic and social conditions for millions of artisans and their families living on less than four dollars per day. The organization promotes fair trade practices and invests in fair trade artisan communities around the world. World of Good strives to educate US consumers and corporations about the benefits of engaging in ethical trade practices to bridge the gap between the global north and south.

Youth Media Council
Launched in April 2001, the Youth Media Council is a Bay Area-based youth organizing, leadership development, media capacity-building and watchdog project dedicated to developing youth-led strategies for media justice.

Youth Movement Records
Youth Movement Records (YMR) is a non-profit, youth-directed recording company and youth development project based in Oakland, California. Now in its third year, YMR has reached over 15,000 youth with more than 100 safe, sober weekend events. YMR has engaged over 500 youth directly in producing four original CDs, planning and creating performances and giving youth the opportunity to gain and sharpen skills.

Youth Speaks
Youth Speaks Arts in Education Program offers in-school and after-school workshops for youth, school assemblies and residency programs for schools, and professional development opportunities for teachers and youth development workers. Our programs emphasize literacy, literary arts, youth development leadership and performance poetry. Our work with teachers focuses on translating urban and alternative literacy to academic success. We are empowering youth with their own voices and their own stories because the next generation can speak for itself.

Zeum
Zeum is a nonprofit multimedia arts and technology museum. Their mission is to foster creativity and innovation in young people and their families. It is the only Bay Area museum where individuals of all ages, backgrounds, communities and learning styles combine hands-on use of animation, digital technology, electronic media, traditional and non-traditional materials and the power of their imaginations to create high quality stories, movies, performances, music, art and more.

COLORADO

Denver Film Society
Denver Film Society is the only nonprofit cultural institution in Colorado dedicated to the celebration and cultivation of film as art. Founded in 1978, Denver Film Society is one of the premier membership-based cultural arts institutions in the Rocky Mountain region. The organization offers year-round cinematic programming and special events to its supporting membership and to the general public, reaching more than 200,000 film-lovers annually.

Rocky Mountain PBS (Producing Partner)
Rocky Mountain PBS reaches one million viewers weekly in Colorado and the surrounding states, providing top-quality education, entertainment and news programming. It is Colorado's only statewide television network and its only full-service PBS member broadcaster.

FLORIDA

Alliance for Human Services
A nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of a Health and Social Services Master Plan (SSMP) for Miami-Dade County.

C-One: Center On Non-profit Effectiveness
C-One, the Center on Non-profit Effectiveness, is dedicated to strengthening the nonprofit sector in Miami-Dade County by building the management capacity of nonprofit organizations.

Early Learning Coalition of Miami-Dade/Monroe County
The coalition works to make available and affordable high-quality, comprehensive health, education and nurturing services and programs for all the county's 160,000 children, birth through age five.

Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC) is a not-for-profit legal assistance organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the basic human rights of immigrants of all nationalities at the local, state and national levels.

Hands On Broward
Hands On Broward is an affiliate of Hands On Network (formerly City Cares), a national organization that supports an innovative alliance of volunteer management organizations across the United States, United Kingdom and other countries.

Hands On Miami (Producing Partner)
In partnership with schools, social service and environmental organizations, HOM organizes more than 70 service opportunities each month offering thousands of Miamians the chance to make a difference in their community. The HOM model makes community service accessible on anyone's schedule. Flexible time commitments permit volunteers to serve once a week, once a month, or whenever they can.

The Human Service Coalition Prosperity Campaign
The Prosperity Campaign connects low-wage workers to existing economic benefits programs available to them such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Childcare Tax Credit. It also seeks to provide individuals and families financial literacy programs that will help them improve their standard of living so they can buy a house, a car and put themselves or their kids through college.

Miami Beach Film Society
The Miami Beach Film Society is housed at The Miami Beach Cinematheque, which is the headquarters for The Miami Beach International Film Festival.

The Miami Coalition
Serving in the role of community convener and facilitator, the Coalition is committed to reducing the problems of drug abuse, addiction and directly related social issues in the Miami-Dade Community.

Miami Dade College
Miami Dade College offers more than 150 associate's degrees and 50 fast-track vocational training programs, as well as a full complement of adult education classes, GED preparation classes and classes for fun and recreation in six campuses and additional centers.

The Parent Academy for Miami-Dade Schools
The Parent Academy for Miami-Dade Schools are committed to provide educational excellence for all. Their mission is to provide the highest quality education so that all of their students are empowered to lead productive and fulfilling lives as lifelong learners and responsible citizens.

Unity On The Bay
Unity on the Bay is a diverse spiritual home that embraces and radiates unconditional love, acceptance, energy and healing.

United Way of Miami Dade
United Way of Miami-Dade has a plan to achieve measurable outcomes in four areas: helping kids and families lead successful lives, improving health and independence, responding to emergency and basic needs and encouraging neighborhood and civic involvement.

WPBT, Channel 2

GEORGIA

American Intercontinental University

Azizah Magazine
A unique publication that presents the issues, accomplishments and interests of Muslim women in North America.

Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Georgia Public Defenders Council
The Georgia Public Defender Standards Council is an independent agency within the judicial branch of the state government of Georgia. The mission of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council is to ensure, independently of political considerations or private interests, that each client whose cause has been entrusted to a circuit public defender receives zealous, adequate, effective, timely and ethical legal representation, consistent with the guarantees of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, the Constitution of the United States and the mandates of the Georgia Indigent Defense Act of 2003; to provide all such legal services in a cost efficient manner; and to conduct that representation in such a way that the criminal justice system operates effectively to achieve justice.

Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
A statewide network of religious leaders, relatives of murder victims, academic leaders, political leaders and concerned citizens who seek to end the use of execution as a method of punishment.

The Institute on Human Development and Disability
IHDD works with others to create opportunities that will improve the quality of life for people with disabilities and their families. IHDD advances the understanding of the abilities of all people through education, research and public service.

International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee opened its regional resettlement office in Atlanta in 1979, at a time when many refugees from Southeast Asia were being resettled in the United States following the Vietnam War. Since then, the office has helped more than 16,500 refugees from over 20 countries rebuild their lives in the greater Atlanta area. The IRC provides a wide range of services to refugees in all stages of resettlement and seeks to promote each refugee family's search for self-sufficiency.

Java Vino
JavaVino, a coffee and wine house, is a small independently family owned business by Heddy Kühl and Steve Franklin, a husband and wife team. With the start of JavaVino, Heddy is proudly sixth generation in the coffee business..

Laotian American Society
The Laotian American Society is a nonprofit organization committed to being a resource to all people of ethnic origins native to Laos or who have ties to Lao culture and heritage. The Society strives to improve their quality of life, education, health and welfare by organizing and sponsoring educational, cultural, social and other related activities as well as promoting communication and education about issues related to the Laotian community.

Local Dystonia Chapter – Atlanta Support Group

Miller’s Prep Academy for Boys
The mission of Miller’s Preparatory Academy for Boys is to prepare and produce young men who will be able to succeed in today’s challenging environment. We focus on boys between the ages of five and 18. The Academy believes that these young boys produce best in an environment of their peers.

Mothers Raising Sons, Inc.
Mothers Raising Sons, Inc.’s mission is to establish, educate and enthuse support for single women raising boys and promote proper guidance for positive family structure and to provide children with the foundation, structure and independence needed to achieve their potential of becoming productive and successful adults for their family and community. MRS believes development starts at home.

People Against Crime/William Brown Ministries
People Against Crime/William Brown Ministries addresses issues of youth incarceration through counseling and mentoring.

National Black Law Students Association
The National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA), the largest student-run organization in America, has over 200 chapters at law schools throughout the country. This represents almost every ABA accredited law school, plus several non-accredited law schools. These chapters represent over 6,000 black law students in six regions, which encompass 48 states including Hawaii and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

ILLINOIS

Cambodian Association of Illinois
The mission of the Cambodian Association of Illinois is to enable refugees and immigrants from Cambodia residing in Illinois, especially those in metropolitan Chicago, to become self-sufficient, productive participants in American society while preserving and enhancing their cultural heritage and their sense of belonging to this community.

Chicago Coalition to End the Death Penalty (Chicago-CEDP)
The Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP) is the only national membership-driven, chapter-based grassroots organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment in the United States. The Chicago CEDP works with those who have experienced the horrors of death row firsthand—death row prisoners and their family members—and work to ensure that their voices are at the forefront of our movement.

Chicago History Museum
The Chicago History Museum cares for, showcases and interprets millions of authentic pieces of Chicago and U.S. history. Our ability to illuminate the past is a reminder of what really happened once upon a time, sheds light on the present, and compellingly informs the future. We invite you to engage with our stories and make history yourself.

Chicago Fair Trade
Chicago Fair Trade is a member-organization that works to increase support for Fair Trade in the Chicago metro area through education, advocacy and targeted consumer campaigns.

Changing Worlds
Changing Worlds’ mission is to foster inclusive communities through oral history, writing and art programs that improve student learning, affirm identity and enhance cross-cultural understanding.

Cinema/Chicago’s Education Program
Cinema/Chicago provides free field trips for Chicago public high school students. Their education program gives Chicago teens the opportunity to view one-of-a-kind films and meet film professionals from around the world. They organize over 20 daytime field trip events for thousands of high school students throughout each school year.

Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European and Latino Immigrants of Illinois (CAAAELII)
CAAAELII’s mission is to strengthen diverse voices of inter-generational immigrant and refugee communities by building alliances through a transformative process to develop grassroots power that impacts public policy.

Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Center for Neurodegenerative Disease

Females United for Action
Females United for Action (FUFA) is a coalition of young women leaders dedicated to educating not only themselves but others as well, on issues that affect women and girls. FUFA organizes to bring attention to the issues and takes action to address them. FUFA is formed by girls and young women from all over the city of Chicago, from all backgrounds and nationalities, ranging from 12 years of age and up.

These active girls and young women are from different communities and represent organizations including the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Centro Comunitario Juan Diego, Alternatives Girlworld, Access Living Empowered Fe Fes, the Mikva Challenge and the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health. FUFA is coordinated by the Women & Girls Collective Action Network.

The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council
The Public Square fosters debate, dialogue and exchange of ideas about cultural, social and political issues with an emphasis on social justice. Their programs promote participatory democracy by creating space for public conversations. Knowledge is power, yet much crucial knowledge still circulates only in small, isolated communities. The Public Square builds bridges between theory and practice in order to empower individuals to use ideas as tools to improve their lives, creating a site for the exchange of ideas and the collaborative pursuit and creation of knowledge. The organization is a forum for ideas that might not otherwise gain an audience through commercial media.

Reeltime Independent Film and Video Forum
Reeltime’s mission is to foster a dialogue between audiences, artists and guest speakers about the issues raised by the independent films and videos we present. Programs are developed in collaboration with diverse groups to reflect community concerns and perspectives.

The Rogers Park Young Women’s Action Team
The Rogers Park Young Women’s Action Team is a youth-led, adult-supported social change project that empowers women to take action on issues that affect their lives (particularly issues of violence against girls and young women). The YWAT believes that girls and young women should be free from violence. They believe that through collective action, consciousness-raising and organizing they can end violence against girls and young women.

Teen Living Programs
Since 1975, Teen Living Programs has been at the forefront of serving underprivileged youth in Chicago. TLP is the only agency in Chicago whose mission is to serve homeless and runaway youth exclusively, and whose programs assist youth from the streets all the way to their independence. TLP's mission is to create hope and opportunity for youth who are homeless by assisting them to permanently leave the streets, secure stable housing, and build self-sufficient, satisfying lives.

The Women & Girls Collective Action Network
The Women & Girls Collective Action Network helps women and girls to develop leadership skills to take action and promote social justice on issues that matter most to them. Through Women & Girls CAN, women and girls learn from one another to raise consciousness, unite to build connections between communities and build power to take collective action. They envision Women & Girls CAN as a center for training, dialogue and action around issues that matter to women and girls.

IOWA

SUB Films (Student Union Board)
SUB Films show various genres of film Thursday and Friday nights. SUB Films specializes in non-Hollywood, indie films. This committee has played a wide range of movies, from Pirates of the Caribbean to Y Tu Mama Tambien. But this isn't your usual movie night—expect movies at the pool, outdoor screenings, dinner and a movie and special guests.

Iowa Public Television
Iowa Public Television is Iowa's statewide public broadcasting network. IPTV provides quality, alternative programming that educates, enlightens and entertains Iowans throughout the state. More than one million viewers a week turn to IPTV for programming that reflects a range of interests for Iowans in all demographic categories.

LOUISIANA

Amnesty International
Amnesty International has a varied network of members and supporters around the world. At the latest count, there were more than 1.8 million members, supporters and subscribers in over 150 countries and territories in every region of the world. Although they come from many different backgrounds and have widely different political and religious beliefs, they are united by a determination to work for a world where everyone enjoys human rights.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center
Ashe Cultural Arts Center is an effort to combine the intentions of neighborhood and economic development with the awesome creative forces of community, culture and art to revive and reclaim a historically significant corridor in Central City New Orleans: Oretha Castle-Haley Boulevard, formerly known as Dryades Street.

Charitable Film Network (Producing Partner)
The Charitable Film Network (CFN) is a diverse community of media-makers dedicated to connecting and collaborating with nonprofits, activists and artists on noteworthy grassroots efforts that contribute to the community-at-large. CFN uses networking, fundraising and media advocacy as strategies for amplifying the perspectives and influence of youth, disadvantaged populations and Gulf Coast communities.

Critical Resistance
Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

Gambit Weekly
Twenty-six years ago the first issue of Gambit Weekly was published. Today, 40,000 papers are distributed every week to over 375 locations throughout the metro New Orleans area. This locally owned newspaper is one of the most successful weeklies in the country, and the recipient of numerous annual awards for editorial and design achievement.

Innocence Project New Orleans
Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) represents innocent prisoners serving life sentences in Louisiana and Mississippi, and assists them with their transition into the free world upon their release. IPNO works in states with the country's highest incarceration rates, and the highest rate of wrongful conviction in the country. By identifying and remedying cases and causes of wrongful conviction, IPNO engages in high impact, frontline advocacy in the courts of law and public opinion, and leads a community-based response to the mistakes made by our criminal justice system.

Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance

The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
The festival was founded by a wide and diverse range of New Orleans community activists. The festival is dedicated to nurturing they city's human rights community, supporting the work of local organizers and organizations involved in these struggles and linking local issues to international issues. Their goal is to raise awareness of these issues and provide a forum for artistic expression of these themes.

Resurrection After Exoneration

Sip Wine Shop

The Spirit of Humanity Festival (Producing Partner)
Spirit of Humanity Festival celebrates the positive from across the nation. It applauds the resilience of the human spirit. With a festival, it honors the super hero in all of us. With projects like Senior Speak and New Orleans Y.E.S! - Central City Voices, it allows us to gain a deeper appreciation for those in surrounding neighborhoods. With holistic workshops, it teaches ways to harness energies and handle tragedies in a healthy manner. The Spirit of Humanity Festival is a celebration to honor all those who have, who are, or who will be willing to put up a fight to survive and win.

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston Cares (Producing Partner)
Boston Cares organizes team-oriented volunteer opportunities in the Greater Boston area. The organization serves more than 120 nonprofit organizations, matching volunteers and companies with more than 150 projects each month. Boston Cares is a member of the Hands On Network, a national alliance of 58 volunteer service organizations.

Hostelling International USA – Eastern New England Council (Producing Partner)
Hostelling International USA - Eastern New England Council is a cultural exchange and education organization whose mission is to help all gain a greater understanding of the world and its people. In addition to operating hostels in Boston, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, HI-ENEC captures the greatest impact of travel by offering culturally focused educational and critical thinking programs for youth, students and community members throughout the greater Boston area.

Global Education Opportunities Center at Colleges of the Fenway
The GEO Center expands global education opportunities such as language study, study abroad and area and international studies, provides support for and engagement of international students and scholars and provides resources for curriculum development and integration to ensure that students and faculty at the Colleges of the Fenway are prepared to live and lead in a global society.

WGBH – Boston
WGBH informs, inspires, and entertains millions of people throughout New England. Boston’s last remaining independent TV station, WGBH is the leading producer of PBS prime-time programs and online content, a major producer for public radio and a pioneer in educational multimedia and services that make media accessible for people with disabilities.

MICHIGAN

The Arab Culture Club at GVSU
The Arab Culture Club (ACC) was established in 1999 by students interested in Arab culture. It was created to promote awareness of Arab culture and to provide an experience of the traditions and customs. The club hopes to successfully share the old traditions now being passed down to the first American-born generation.

Asian Student Union at Grand Valley State University
The goal of the Asian Student Union focuses on serving as a support group and an educational resource for students who are interested in learning more about Asian cultures. The group strives to dispell stereotypes regarding Asian Americans through workshops and cultural events.

Every Woman's Place/Webster House
Every Woman's Place is a crisis center for women and their children. The agency subscribes and adheres to a supportive philosophy of self-determination and empowerment and treats individuals with respect, regard for their dignity and with absolute confidentiality for their privacy. Every Woman's Place will pursue and/or provide those opportunities within the community that lead to women's safety, self-sufficiency, productivity and meaningful participation in their communities.

Grand Rapids Community Media Center
The CMC is dedicated to building community through media: providing avenues for self-expression, uniting diverse points of view, promoting the principles of democracy and an informed electorate and nurturing artistic visions. In service to this mission, the executive director of the CMC participates in several community-building initiatives, such as the Electronic Technology Infrastructure Planning (e-TIP) Commission, Delta Strategy, Community Archive and Research Center development, West Michigan Strategic Alliance and the Alliance for Communication Democracy.

Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy
GRIID acts as a local media watchdog, monitoring news, commercialism, ownership and the media's responsibility to the public. GRIID coordinates the CMC Tele-Democracy Project— hosting and broadcasting local candidate forums, voter information and monitoring local news media coverage of elections. It provides services to the greater Grand Rapids community such as: Media Literacy Workshops for educators; Workshops on How to Engage the Commercial Media; Research on local commercial & news media; Published reports on local news coverage; Hosting community forums through its Media & Society Series; Free Media Resources; and Presentations for University, High School and Grade School classes.

Grand Valley State University School of Communications
The School of Communications at Grand Valley State University considers creative activity and scholarly achievement an important part of the construction of meaning in society. The curriculum within the School of Communications reflects a commitment to integrate professional and liberal education. The study of communication at Grand Valley State University emphasizes a broad understanding of the field combined with a solid knowledge of specific technical skills. Foregrounding a liberal arts context, emphasis is placed on learning-by-doing. Students frequently participate in creative performances, exhibitions, and publications related to their chosen major field of study.

Grand Valley State University Women and Gender Studies Department
Women and Gender Studies at Grand Valley State University offers an interdisciplinary curriculum based on the scholarship of the study of women, men, lesbians, gays, transgendered people and bisexuals. Part of the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, WGS has close relationships with African/African American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Latin American Studies, East Asian Studies and Liberal Studies. The WGS Program works closely with GVSU's Women's Center to cosponsor a wide variety of speakers, events and internships.

International Student and Scholar Services at Grand Valley State University

Men's Resource Center of West Michigan
The Men's Resource Center of West Michigan is dedicated to helping men discover, develop and celebrate their humanity and seeks to free men of the rigid male training that erodes their lives and relationships. The center’s goal is to help men re-define and revision their masculinity to experience full humanity and to establish respectful lives. They seek to provide awareness and growth through counseling, consultation, education, advocacy and experiential workshops. They invite the support of women in this venture and avoid any principle or activity that would undermine or subjugate women. Their vision is men joining together to create a caring, strong and safe community.

Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
MCADSV is a statewide membership organization whose members represent a network of over 70 domestic and sexual violence programs and over 200 allied organizations and individuals. They have provided leadership as the statewide voice for survivors of domestic and sexual violence and the programs that serve them since 1978.

Michigan Medical P.C. (mmpc®)

UICA
Founded in 1977, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) is a vibrant research and development center for the art of today and tomorrow. Through interdisciplinary presentation, education, community studios and art therapy, they actively challenge both artists and audiences to new levels of creative activity, collaboration, dialogue and healing.

WGVU PBS&NPR (Producing Partner)
WGVU's continued mission is to provide educational, informative and entertaining programs and events to the West Michigan community as a service of Grand Valley State University.

MISSOURI

FOCUS St. Louis
FOCUS St. Louis is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a thriving, cooperative region by engaging citizens to participate in active leadership roles and to influence positive community change.

KETC/Channel 9
KETC provides the people of the St. Louis region with educationally and culturally stimulating programs enhanced by community outreach and related services. Since its inception in 1954, Channel 9 continuously strives serve the community through extensive outreach activities and the broadcast of award-winning educational programming.

Missouri History Museum
The Missouri Historical Society seeks to deepen the understanding of past choices, present circumstances, and future possibilities; strengthen the bonds of the community; and facilitate solutions to common problems.

NEBRASKA

NET PBS & NPR (Producing Partner)
NET is perhaps best known for its public television and radio services, with its online service playing an increasingly important role. Through this package of public broadcasting services, NET provides Nebraskans with programs ranging from breaking local and international news and public affairs, varied entertainment from performing arts to sports, breakthroughs in science and the mysteries of nature and opportunities for education and life-long learning.

NEW YORK

Southern Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project, Incorporated (S.T.A.M.P.) (Producing Partner)
S.T.A.M.P. seeks to empower community control over delinquency and crime, reduce over-reliance on incarceration and assist those incarcerated and leaving state prison with transitional services.

Tompkin County Workers Center (Producing Partner)
The Tompkins County Workers Center is composed of a group of low and middle income residents of Tompkins County, as well as over 50 affiliated organizations. Their mission is to stand up with all workers treated unfairly at work or faced with critical poverty, racial, housing, health care or other social and economic issues. They will support, advocate for and seek to empower to create a more just community and world.

PENNSYLVANIA

ACLU of Pennsylvania
Founded in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is the nation's foremost guardian of liberty. The ACLU is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending and protecting our individual rights and personal freedoms. Through advocacy, education and litigation, their attorneys, advocates and volunteers work to preserve and promote civil liberties including the freedom of speech, the right to privacy, reproductive freedom and equal treatment under the law. We stand in defense of the rights of women and minorities, workers, students, immigrants, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, and others who have seen bias and bigotry threaten the rights afforded to all of us in this country by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating children about the Arabic language and culture through structured exposure to the language, arts, architecture, music, dance and natural environment of the Arab world. "Al-Bustan", Arabic for "The Garden", also strives to promote understanding and respect both within the diverse community of Arab American children and among children of various ethnic, religious and socio-economic backgrounds.

Allegheny General Hospital

American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee is a practical expression of the faith of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Committed to the principles of nonviolence and justice, it seeks in its work and witness to draw on the transforming power of love, human and divine.

Amnesty International, University of PA Chapter
Amnesty International's local groups, student groups and action teams in the Philadelphia area work to keep local members and the public informed of current human right issues and actions. They often initiate partnerships with other organizations in the area to work together toward shared goals.

Black Lily Film & Music Festival
We are proud to welcome you to the Black Lily Film & Music Festival (the Lily). Presented by the Painted Bride Arts Center, The Lily will take place May 4–6, 2007 in Philadelphia and will build upon the success of the world-renowned women in music series.

Building New Hope
Building New Hope is a volunteer driven 501(c)(3) organization based in Pittsburgh, PA, and Granada, Nicaragua, that has been supporting grassroots development projects in Central America since 1992. They actively assist communities—primarily in El Salvador and Nicaragua—by selling fairly traded organic coffee; operating career training centers; alternative schools and literacy programs for underserved and at-risk youth and funding income-generating projects for women and community organizing initiatives.

Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia (CAGP)
The Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia, Inc. (CAGP) is a nonprofit, 501 (c)(3) agency formed in 1979. Their mission is to improve the quality of life for Cambodian-Americans within the greater Philadelphia area by providing services, advocating and empowering communities to obtain equal access to social/economic development, as well as to quality healthcare and education. CAGP also seeks to promote racial harmony by fostering better communication, networking, and promoting cultural awareness among neighbors.

Delaware Valley Justice Month

Equal Exchange
Equal Exchange, founded in 1986, is the oldest and largest for-profit Fair Trade company in the U.S. Equal Exchange offers organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa and chocolate bars produced by democratically run farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through our success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.

Freshout Media
The aim of Freshout Media is to provide original and intriguing music-related content through the mediums of print, audio, live events and the Web. Our absolute focus is on exposing art that is unique and of substance. Freshout Media is funded solely by its founder and, therefore, is not inclined to please anything outside of its core values.

Hip-Hop Speaks
At its core, Hip-Hop Speaks’ program contents and methodology work together to encourage both teachers and students to see themselves as critical consumers and creators in a media-driven society. An integral part of every kaPow! program attempts to meet youth "where they are" by encouraging them to strengthen their core understanding of the world around them.

Independents Coffee Cooperative
Independents Coffee Cooperative started in 2003 when four independent, Fair Trade coffee shops in Philadelphia began sharing information and resources. Today, the co-op comprises eight member businesses.

The Islamic Center of Pittsburgh
The Islamic Center of Pittsburgh is the area's largest Mosque, providing services to Muslim and non-Muslim communities in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Northern West Virginia.

Israeli Film Festival of Greater Philadelphia
The Israeli Film Festival of Greater Philadelphia is a celebration of Israeli culture, with the aim of enriching the American vision of Israeli culture and society through film.

Magee Rehabilitation
Magee, a founding member of the Jefferson Health System, is the Philadelphia Region's first rehabilitation hospital, opening its doors in 1958. Along with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Magee is one of 14 federally designated model Regional Spinal Cord Injury Centers. Magee is also home to the nation's first brain injury rehabilitation program.

Media Tank
Media Tank is a non-profit organization working to develop new ways to open up debate and build public awareness around media issues in order to engage the public in creating a more democratic media system.

The Middle East Center at University of Pennsylvania
Since The Middle East Center (MEC) was founded in 1965, it has worked to bring the University of Pennsylvania's long-established programs in ancient and medieval languages and civilizations together with scholarship on modern Middle East politics and societies. The Middle East Center Outreach Program offers the academic community and the interested public access to the resources available at Penn. The Center strives to reflect the diverse nature of the region in its public programming and its efforts to strengthen Middle East studies on campus.

Muslim Students Association at UPenn
The Muslim Student Association’s purpose is to be a haven for Islam on campus, and cater to the spiritual needs of Muslim students. They are dedicated to nurturing the culture, heritage and religious practices, as well as combating common stereotypes and misunderstandings about Islam and Muslims. They wish to be a source of education to broaden people's perspectives and promote tolerance and understanding of the cultural and ethnic diversity that constitutes the heart of Islam.

National Constitution Center
The National Constitution Center is an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of, and appreciation for, the Constitution, its history and its contemporary relevance, through an interactive, interpretive facility within Independence National Historical Park and a program of national outreach, so that We the People may better secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

National Hip-Hop Political Convention – Philadelphia Chapter
The National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC) is a developing national organization operating in 20 states throughout the U.S. working on issues facing the hip-hop generation. Our keystone event is the bi-annual National Hip Hop Political Convention, where delegates and local organizing committees from the hip-hop generation vote on, adopt and endorse an agenda. The purpose of the National Hip Hop Political Convention is to support the movement towards increased civic and political participation within the hip-hop generation.

Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (PICC)
PICC represents the needs of immigrants, migrants, refugees and other new Americans to policymakers, public officials and the general public. Advocacy areas include increasing access to public services, improving law-enforcement relations, ensuring worker rights and expanding access to driver's licenses, Social Security numbers and other documentation. PICC also registers new voters.

Pennsylvania Prison Society
The Prison Society advocates on behalf of people in prison and their families. The Pennsylvania Prison Society is a membership organization.

Penn Arab Student Society
The goal of the University of Pennsylvania's Arab Student Society (PASS) is to provide the university with an organization geared towards exploring Arab heritage and culture. PASS provides a forum for Arab students and all interested in Arab culture to meet and discuss issues relevant to the Arab World and Arab communities in the United States. They achieve this through hosting seminars, student panels, guest speakers, dinners and social outings. They also seek to provide newly admitted and prospective Arab students with information to assist their transition to Penn.

Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Founded in 1997, Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty (PAUADP) has energized the movement to end capital punishment in Pennsylvania. By mobilizing a powerful network of individuals and groups, PAUADP has implemented a comprehensive strategy designed to put a stop to all executions, death warrants and death penalty prosecutions in Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association (PIFVA)
The Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association (PIFVA) is a nonprofit organization, providing services to independent film, video and media makers working in all styles and at every level of experience. Membership is open to anyone interested in creating and supporting independent media.

Philadelphia Film Society (PFS)
Formed in 2001, The Philadelphia Film Society is dedicated to the presentation of film and video in the Greater Philadelphia area as a powerful form of artistic expression and a unique force for cultural diversity and international understanding. Its mission is to engage the diverse communities of the region by producing major film events and other year-round programming. Among its most prominent activities are The Philadelphia Film Festival and the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Pittsburgh Friends of Immigrants

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For over 200 years, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has been providing the people of Pittsburgh with breaking local news, sports, insightful editorials, national and global coverage, classifieds and countless helpful hints. Today, more people read the Post-Gazette than any other newspaper in Western Pennsylvania, over a million people each week.

Point Park University (Producing Partner)
Located in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh, Point Park is a small, private, accredited, liberal arts university with 3,200 students. An emphasis on career-based education provides Point Park University students with excellent opportunities for hands-on, real-world experiences.

The Rotunda
The Rotunda, maintained by The Foundation Community Arts Initiative, is a community gathering place for the promotion of arts and culture. This center seeks to bring together the Penn student community with the people of West Philadelphia and the greater Philadelphia area. They work from the belief that art is a catalyst for social change, and that arts events can lead to the formation of meaningful Penn-West Philadelphia partnerships.

Scribe Video Center
Scribe Video Center, a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization, was founded in 1982 as a place where people could work together and gain skills in media making. Scribe Video Center seeks to explore, develop and advance the use of video as an artistic medium and as a tool for progressive social change. "Scribe" is a metaphor for the use of video as a modern medium to record significant contemporary concerns and events.

The Society of Professional Journalists-Greater Philadelphia Chapter
The Society of Professional Journalists has roughly 300 members in the Greater Philadelphia area including southern New Jersey and northern Delaware. Members include reporters, editors, photographers, graphic artists, broadcasters and other media professionals. They sponsor several programs a year including panels on topics and workshops timely to the profession.

Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition, Inc.
SEAMAAC was founded in 1984 to be an agency of service and advocacy for the Southeast Asian communities in Philadelphia. It was created to be a dynamic coalition of several mutual assistance associations already serving those communities. For the past 22 years, SEAMAAC has been a refugee and immigrant-operated organization that has helped to bring immigrant and refugee interests and issues to the collective agendas of agencies concerned with refugee resettlement, social services, employment and job training, health, education and culture.

Southeastern Pennsylvania Support Group of the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
The Dystonia support group meets at the Paoli Memorial Hospital four times a year and provides an opportunity for individuals and families affected by dystonia to share companionship, valuable lessons and adaptive strategies. Additional information may be obtained by contacting the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation.

TLA Video
An award-winning group of six video stores in Philadelphia and New York City, the stores are renowned for their vast and varied selection along with a knowledgeable and dedicated staff. In Philadelphia, where TLA operated the city's premiere repertory movie theatre from 1981-87, the name is synonymous with movies that are hip, foreign, alternative and otherwise not in the mainstream. Their stores serve thousands of people weekly in their quest for the perfect video, served up, of course, with a smile and a flair for the unconventional.

Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians
The Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians connects newly arrived individuals from around the world with the economic opportunities that they need to succeed in the region. Since opening its doors in 2003, they have assisted more than 1500 clients from 54 countries.

WHYY
WHYY TV12, serving the Delaware Valley for more than 30 years, broadcasts to more than 2.6 million households in Philadelphia and the surrounding area, which extends south to approximately Dover, Delaware; east to Atlantic City and northeast to New Brunswick, New Jersey; north to Bethlehem and west to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. WHYY also operates TV64 in Seaford, which transmits TV12 programming to southern Delaware.

Women in Thought at UPenn
"Women in Thought (WIT) is a group of Penn students, both male and female, who seek to expand discourse on the gender perspective in the Penn community. WIT is the only feminist group on campus aiming to address all women's issues in general and facilitate the free exchange of viewpoints.

WQED
Founded in 1954, WQED was the country's first community-owned television station and became a production center of national programs for the Public Broadcasting Service. Over 1,000,000 households of viewers and listeners rely on WQED each week.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Charleston County Public Library
They are committed to continually identifying, evaluating and responding to informational, educational, cultural and recreational needs. Their readily accessible, user designed services are provided by trained professional and support staff. They promise to continue in their efforts to make the Charleston County libraries essential to the life of every person who seeks their services.

ChasDOC
ChasDOC inc.'s mission is to educate the community about how to produce award-winning documentary films and videos on issues of concern, and in correlation with top environmental and human rights groups, to produce significant works of social art, measurable in economic and cultural change through the mantra: think global, act local.

College of Charleston
The College of Charleston is a state-supported comprehensive institution providing a high quality education in the arts and sciences, education and business. Consistent with its heritage since its founding in 1770, the college retains a strong liberal arts undergraduate curriculum. Located in the heart of historic Charleston, it strives to meet the growing educational demands primarily of the Low country and the state and, secondarily, of the Southeast.

South Carolina ETV
ETV is South Carolina's statewide network with 11 television stations, eight radio stations and a closed-circuit educational telecommunications system in more than 2,000 schools, colleges, businesses and government agencies. ETV uses the power of TV, radio, satellite and the Internet to advance education, culture and citizenship.

WASHINGTON

Amnesty International, Group 4 of Seattle
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. Amnesty International’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international Human Rights standards.

Asian Counseling and Referral Service
Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS) is a nationally recognized non-profit organization offering a broad array of human services and behavioral health programs to Asian Pacific Americans in King County. ACRS is the largest multi-service organization serving all the different Asian Pacific American communities—immigrants, refugees and American born—in the Pacific Northwest.

The Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas
The Central District Forum presents and produces African American cultural programs that encourage thought and debate for the greater Seattle area.

The City of Seattle Office for Civil Rights
Applying both federal and local laws, the SOCR addresses illegal discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations and contracting within the Seattle city limits. Since 1969, the Seattle Office for Civil Rights (SOCR) has helped make Seattle a city where all people enjoy equal rights, equal opportunity and freedom from illegal discrimination.

Fair Trade Puget Sound
Fair Trade Puget Sound is a coalition of community groups, businesses, NGOs, faith communities, students and individuals who have come together to spearhead an effort to educate local consumers about fair trade coffee. They aim to measurably increase the availability and consumption of Fair Trade Certified coffee within Seattle and throughout the greater Puget Sound area.

Hate Free Zone
Hate Free Zone's mission is to advance the fundamental principles of democracy and justice at the local, state and national levels by building power within immigrant communities, in collaboration with key allies.

The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival (April 21-29, 2007)
The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival (LHAAFF) supports community building by providing opportunities for artists and audiences to connect using the medium of film as a catalyst for dialogue that leads to social change. This annual event provides films from independent black filmmakers featuring panel discussions, screenplay eadings, matinee screenings for middle and high school youth and in-depth chats with filmmakers, industry professionals and local community leaders.

The Northwest Puppet Center
This internationally renowned puppet center presents performances by Carter Family Marionettes and esteemed guest artists. In addition, it features a museum, archive and library focused on the puppetry arts. Programs are also brought to communities near and far with touring performances and educational outreach.

Reclaim The Media
Based in Seattle, Reclaim the Media is a small nonprofit organization dedicated to pursuing a more just society by transforming our media system and expanding the communications rights of ordinary people through grassroots organizing, education, networking and advocacy. Reclaim the Media advocates for a free and diverse press, community access to communications tools and technology and media policy that serves the public interest.

Seattle Girls’ School
Seattle Girls' School is dedicated to fostering academic excellence, strong self-esteem and a life-long love of learning in girls. With its emphasis on science, math and technology, the school will challenge girls to think critically and seek creative solutions to problems in an atmosphere that promotes respect for all, collaboration and hands-on learning.

Seattle King County Public Health Department
Seattle King County Public Health Department’s mission is to achieve and sustain healthy people and healthy communities throughout King County by providing public health services which promote health and prevent disease.

Seattle Office for Civil Rights
The Seattle Office for Civil Rights envisions a city where all people enjoy equal rights, equal opportunity and freedom from illegal discrimination. SOCR promotes racial and social justice for everyone in Seattle through education, policy work and enforcement of civil rights laws.

Seven Star Womens Kung Fu
Seven Star Women's Kung Fu was founded as a non-profit feminist martial arts school. It is more affordable and less hierarchical than many traditional martial arts schools and offers free childcare and partial scholarships to those who qualify.

Seattle University Communications Department
The mission of the communication department is to empower students and faculty to develop more meaningful and effective voices in a world shaped and continually remade through communication practices. The department believes in using communication skills to transform society and promote social justice.

The University of Washington Film Club
The Film Club at the University of Washington was founded in the Autumn of 1998 with the goal of promoting a greater understanding of film. Today we continue to bring together filmmakers and film appreciators by organizing and sponsoring film screenings, lectures, workshops, contests, and festivals. We boast an active membership of students, faculty, and general film lovers from the Seattle area and abroad.

Washington Defender Association's Immigration Project
In recognition of the severe immigration consequences facing non-citizen defendants accused and convicted of crimes, the Washington Defender Association established the Immigration Project in 1999. The mission of WDA's Immigration Project is to defend and advance the rights of non-citizens within the criminal justice system, non-citizens facing the immigration consequences of crimes, and non-citizens facing the detrimental impacts of selective state and federal enforcement policies post-9/11.

WASHINGTON D.C.

Busboys and Poets
Busboys and Poets restaurant, performance space and coffeehouse features dynamic events and a bookstore operated by Teaching for Change. Busboys & Poets, located in the historic U Street district of Washington, D.C., is a venture of peace activist Andy Shallal of Mimi's and Cafe Luna.

Greater Washington, D.C. Dystonia Support Group

Lakeland College
As a liberal arts college offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees, Lakeland provides students with an education that is broad in scope, comprehensive in spirit and focused in at least one area of study.

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Since its inception in 1976, NCADP has been the only fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment. NCADP provides information, advocates for public policy and mobilizes and supports individuals and institutions that share their unconditional rejection of capital punishment.

Peace Cafe
Co-founded by restaurateur Anas (Andy) Shallal, Mimi Conway of the Jewish Community Center, and Ari Roth of Theater J, the Peace Café promotes Arab and Jewish dialogue and improved understanding. Since its inception in 2000, the Peace Cafe has become the largest Arab-Jewish dialogue group in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. See the video on WashingtonPost.com

S.A.L.S.A.
The Social Action & Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) offers affordable evening classes in Washington, D.C., to make organizations more effective.

Search for Common Ground
Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground works to transform the way the world deals with conflict, away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. They work with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies' capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalities.

Sentencing Project
The Sentencing Project is a national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice and alternatives to incarceration.

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) is a national organization advancing the interests of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans through leadership development, capacity building and community empowerment.

TransAfrica Forum
TransAfrica Forum serves as a major research, educational and organizing institution for the African American community offering constructive analyses of issues concerning U.S. policy as it affects Africa and the Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America.

United Nations Association of the National Capital Area
UNANCA uses their unique position in the national capital to reach out to national and local citizens, opinion leaders and our government to educate, mobilize and inspire Americans to support the principles and vital work of the United Nations, to strengthen the United Nations system, to promote constructive United States leadership in that system and to achieve the goals of the UN Charter.

WHUT
Started in 1980, Howard University Television is the first African American owned and operated noncommercial television station in the United States. The station is the principal channel for diverse programming in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

WISCONSIN

Boys and Girls Club of Sheboygan County
In every community, boys and girls are left to find their own recreation and companionship in the streets. An increasing number of children are at home with no adult care or supervision. Young people need to know that someone cares about them. Boys and Girls Clubs offer that and more. Club programs and services promote and enhance the development of boys and girls by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging and influence.

John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Producing Partner)
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is a not-for-profit organization established in 1967 for aesthetic and educational purposes. Its mission is to encourage and support innovative explorations in the arts and to foster an exchange between a national community of artists and a broad public that will help realize the power of the arts to inspire and transform our world.

Sheboygan School District

Wisconsin Public Television
Wisconsin Public Television provides access to local and national content, extending its reach and impact in the communities it serves. WPT’s mission is to boldly enrich, educate and entertain diverse audiences of children and adults through the innovative use of television production and broadcasting, other communication technologies and community outreach.