Access Humboldt [1]
Access Humboldt is a non-profit, community based, public service media organization formed in April 2006 to manage local cable franchise benefits on behalf of the County of Humboldt, California and the Cities of Eureka, Arcata, Fortuna, Rio Dell, Ferndale and Blue Lake.

Alliance for Community Media [2]
The Alliance for Community Media is committed to assuring everyone's access to electronic media. A nonprofit, national membership organization founded in 1976, the Alliance represents over 1,000 Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access organizations and community media centers throughout the country.

Benton Foundation [3]
The mission of the Benton Foundation is to articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems. Current priorities include: promoting a vision and policy alternatives for the digital age in which the benefit to the public is paramount; raising awareness among funders and nonprofits on their stake in critical policy issues; enabling communities and nonprofits to produce diverse and locally responsive media content.

Center for Creative Voices in Media [4]
The Center for Creative Voices in Media is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving in America's media the original, independent, and diverse creative voices that enrich our nation's culture and safeguard its democracy.

Center for Digital Democracy [5]
The Center for Digital Democracy is committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming.

CCTV Center for Media and Democracy [6]
Since 1984, CCTV has worked to promote democracy, alternatives to mainstream media, and economic opportunity for our fellow citizens. CCTV's Center for Media and Democracy includes: Cyberskills Vermont [7], Channel 17 [8], and CCTV Productions [9].

Center for Media Justice [10]
Recently renamed, CMJ was launched in April 2001 as the Youth Media Council, a Bay Area-based youth organizing, leadership development, media capacity-building and watchdog project dedicated to developing youth-led strategies for media justice. We believe that youth and other marginalized communities need the tools, resources, strategies and skills to become strong and effective media spokespeople and advocates for social justice.

CMJ continues to work closely with the Bay Area youth movement while expanding their work to an intergenerational constituency of disenfranchised communities and grassroots organizers nation-wide to transform the public debate on race and poverty- and build a powerful movement for media justice.

The Center for Rural Strategies [11]
The Center for Rural Strategies seeks to improve economic and social conditions for communities in the countryside and around the world through the creative and innovative use of media and communications. By presenting accurate and compelling portraits of rural lives and cultures, we hope to deepen public debate and create a national environment in which positive change for rural communities can occur.

Common Cause [12]
Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to restoring the core values of American democracy, reinventing an open, honest and accountable government that serves the public interest, and empowering ordinary people to make their voices heard in the political process.

Common Frequency [13]
Common Frequency is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to innovative new community and college radio. By providing free and low-cost aid to regular people educating themselves to be the media, Common Frequency (CF) has been supporting the launch of grassroots stations since 2006.

Consumer Federation of America [14]
Since 1968, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) has provided consumers a well-reasoned and articulate voice in decisions that affect their lives. Day in and out, CFA's professional staff gathers facts, analyzes issues, and disseminates information to the public, policymakers, and rest of the consumer movement.

Consumers Union [15]
Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, is an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization serving only consumers. We are a comprehensive source for unbiased advice about products and services, personal finance, health and nutrition, and other consumer concerns. Since 1936, our mission has been to test products, inform the public, and protect consumers.

Free Press [16]
Free Press is a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector.

Future of Music Coalition [17]
The Future of Music Coalition is a not-for-profit collaboration between members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property law communities. The FMC seeks to educate the media, policymakers, and the public about music / technology issues, while also bringing together diverse voices in an effort to come up with creative solutions to some of the challenges in this space.

Main Street Project [18]
Main Street Project is a grassroots cultural organizing, media justice and economic development initiative working to help rural communities face today's realities with hope. We provide creative and practical tools to give rural residents of all ages, cultures, economic and immigration status the opportunity to more fully participate in all aspects of community life.

Media Access Project [19]
Media Access Project (MAP) is a thirty year old non-profit tax exempt public interest telecommunications law firm which promotes the public's First Amendment right to hear and be heard on the electronic media of today and tomorrow. MAP is the only Washington-based organization devoted to representing listeners' and speakers' interests in electronic media and telecommunications issues before the Federal Communications Commission, other policy-making bodies, and in the courts.

Media Alliance [20]
Media Alliance is a 30 year-old media resource and advocacy center for media workers, non-profit organizations, and social justice activists. Our mission is excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility.

The Media Literacy Project [21]
The Media Literacy Project, founded in 1993, cultivates critical thinking and activism. We are committed to building a healthy world through media justice. Our organizing campaigns such as Siembra la palabra digna [22], and our role as an Anchor Organization for the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) [23] center communities of color, poor communities, rural communities, and immigrant communities in the creation of local, regional, and national media policy.

Media Mobilizing Project [24]
The Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) exists to unleash the powerful combination of communications, media making and organizing in order to clarify the issues at stake, document lived human realities, and act as a tool to inspire and unite those who have a vested interested in change. 

Media Justice League [25] (formerly the Texas Media Empowerment Project)
We are diverse media justice organizers collaborating with communities, advocating for social justice, and providing support to organizations; strategically using all aspects of music, media, and technology at the grassroots. San Antonio’s Media Justice League believes that fighting for a fair media system cannot be separate from making the world a more just and equitable place.

Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN) [26]
MAIN is a nonprofit community network using integrated media technologies to expand the local public sphere and to support: participatory democracy, citizen access to media, independent journalism, local cultural and artistic expression, locally-owned businesses, social and economic justice and environmental stewardship.

National Alliance for Media, Arts & Culture [27]
The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) is a nonprofit association whose membership comprises a diverse mix of organizations and individuals dedicated to a common goal: the support and advocacy of independent film, video, audio and online/multimedia arts.

National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) [28]
The National Federation of Community Broadcasters is a national alliance of stations, producers, and others committed to community radio. NFCB advocates for national public policy, funding, recognition, and resources on behalf of its membership, while providing services to empower and strengthen community broadcasters through the core values of localism, diversity, and public service.

National Hispanic Media Coalition [29]
The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) is a twenty-four year old non-profit, civil rights and media advocacy organization. NHMC’s mission is to improve the image of American Latinos as portrayed by the media, to increase Latino employment in all facets of the media industry, and to advocate for media and telecommunications policies that benefit the Latino community and other communities of color.

Native Public Media [30]
Native Public Media (NPM) promotes healthy, engaged, independent Native communities by strengthening and expanding Native American media capacity and by empowering a strong, proud Native American voice.

New America Foundation [31]
The New America Foundation is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy institute that was conceived through the collaborative work of a diverse and intergenerational group of public intellectuals, civic leaders, and business executives. The purpose of the New America Foundation is to bring exceptionally promising new voices and new ideas to the fore of our nation's public discourse.

[32]United Church of Christ, Office of Communication Inc. [33]
As an outgrowth of the United Church of Christ’s historic commitment to civil rights, the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, Inc. (OC, Inc.) was incorporated in 1959 to advocate on behalf of those who had been historically excluded from the media, especially people of color and women. OC, Inc., as it is commonly called, was the first voice to demand that those holding FCC licenses and authorizations act on behalf of the public interest and be held accountable as stewards of the public trust.

Prometheus Radio Project [34]
The Prometheus Radio Project is a non-profit organization founded by a small group of radio activists in 1998.Our primary focus is on building a large community of LPFM stations and listeners. We hope that this community will grow into a powerful force working toward the democratic media future we envision. Prometheus recently completed its 10th Radio Barnraising with the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos de Noroeste, a farmworker union in Oregon. Prometheus is currently preparing to help community organizations around the country apply for the last full power noncommercial radio licenses available in a generation.

Public Knowledge [35]
Public Knowledge is a Washington, D.C.-based public interest group working to defend citizens' rights in the emerging digital culture.

Reclaim the Media [36]
Reclaim the Media is a Seattle-based nonprofit founded in spring 2002, 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.We advocate for a free and diverse press, community access to communications tools and technology, and media policy that serves the public interest.

The Transmission Project [37]
The Transmission Project amplifies the power of public media and technology.
Our vision is a robust and diverse media ecology enabling a world built upon the full participation of society. For nearly ten years, we have worked to build the capacity of nonprofit organizations that use media and technology to strengthen communities. The Transmission Project fulfills its mission by supporting a diverse network of partner organizations that provide services to benefit communities nationwide.

U.S. Public Interest Research Groups [38]
The state PIRGs created U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) in 1983 to act as watchdog for the public interest in our nation's capital, much as PIRGs have worked to safeguard the public interest in state capitals since 1971. Our organization's roots at the state level, and U.S. PIRG members across the country, give us a unique "outside the beltway" perspective and provide the grassroots power necessary to influence the national policy debate.