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"We are pleased to continue our support for media centers, which provide access to film and video production for individuals and groups otherwise unlikely to be able to take advantage of these media for public interest purposes," said Woodward A. Wickham, vice president for the General Program at the MacArthur Foundation.
The awards were made to centers in 10 states and the District of Columbia for film and video projects in three categories: those that foster community engagement; those that serve and involve children and youth; and those that stimulate community discussion about issues related to welfare, workforce development, and economic inequality.
The projects supported include the Minnesota-based Center for Arts Criticism’s media arts program for rural and urban youth; the production and screening of documentaries about sweatshops and human rights issues by New York’s Educational Video Center in collaboration with National Mobilization Against Sweatshops and Human Rights Watch; and "Youth Metro," a weekly bilingual discussion series on Chicago's WRTE, an eight-watt radio station managed by teenagers.
Media centers supported by the MacArthur program provide community-based and independent film and video producers with access to training and other resources needed to produce, exhibit, and distribute film and video. National media organizations supported by the foundation provide support for independent producers, services to the field, and exhibition and distribution of independent media to the public.
FCnote: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (IL) had assets of $4,168,672,836 and made grants totaling $123,517,237 in the year ending 12/31/98.
"MacArthur Foundation Makes Grants to Twenty-Three Media Centers." MacArthur Foundation Press Release 4/10/2000.
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