2004 Awards

To train East Palo Alto youth in the use of media and communications technologies to advocate on behalf of themselves, their families, and their neighborhoods in a series of upcoming campaigns which will incorporate the perspectives of local community residents in their anti-gentrification campaigns and seek to hold local companies accountable for toxic waste violations.

To support Young Reporters Ask What Matters to You?: Multimedia Technology in Action-a project in which young reporters use a variety of technologies (audio, web, video) for reporting and civic engagement.

To support YO! Youth Outlook’s mobile publishing teams will enhance civic discourse on youth issues by teaching and producing multi-media communications to marginalized youth and their communities.

To improve the technology knowledge and life skills of low-income, culturally diverse, urban high school students by providing year-round enrichment experiences that fully integrate and emphasize state-of-the-art technology.

Raising awareness of and improving the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of low income/underserved women and girls in California through the production and distribution of health related Public Service Announcements, in-depth radio programming, web postings, and links.

To build the multimedia capacity and media literacy of California grassroots community-based organizations to create and share digital stories; analyze and impact public policy through a communications rights framework; and to build a community of media-active organizations. Third World Majority will organize three regional convenings, launch StoryLink--a digital story website, author a media and communications justice curriculum, and organize a 2005 national media justice summit.

To increase information technology career opportunities for Street Tech students by providing training and mentoring in the use of the current generation of on-line and social networking web-based job search tools and websites. Street Tech will integrate on-line job search into its training curriculum and provide the curriculum to other nonprofit workforce development organizations.

To increase the community's educational level and civic involvement in Mariposa through the use of locally-relevant and locally-driven community screenings of diverse media content and electronic tools for community collaboration.

To create a youth-driven website which will serve as a vehicle to promote positive identity and visibility of LGBT youth, that provides a safe space for dialogue and resources, and that engages LGBT youth into civic action.

To provide Election 2004-related coverage through 15 Spanish-language radio broadcasts; to expand the functionality and content of Radio Bilingüe's bilingual website to include enhanced tracking of users, increase Spanish language content surrounding Election 2004 coverage, and connect to partners' websites; and to demonstrate the effectiveness of Radio Bilingüe's cross-referenced web and audio based distribution network and to solicit sustained funding from national funders.