Alliance for Community Media
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
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.

CCTV Center for Media and Democracy
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, Channel 17, and CCTV Productions.

Center for Creative Voices in Media
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
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.

Center for International Media Action
CIMA affirms our goal of listening to, promoting, prioritizing and respecting the voices and concerns of those who have been marginalized from and by the media on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, class status or socio-economic situation. CIMA seeks to advance media access and representation and to support diverse voices and actors in media reform, media production and media accountability.

Center for Media Justice
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.

Common Cause
Common Cause is a nonpartisan nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1970 by John Gardner as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest. Common Cause is working to ensure that the media meet their obligations to serve the public by promoting diversity, accessibility, and accountability among media corporations and the government agencies that regulate the media.

Consumer Federation of America
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
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
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
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.

Institute for Public Representation
The Institute for Public Representation (IPR) is a public interest law firm and clinical education program founded by Georgetown University Law Center in 1971. The Institute works in the areas of communications law, environmental law, civil rights and general public interest matters.

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) was founded in 1950 by three giants of the civil rights movement: A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP; and Arnold Aronson, a leader of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. It is the nation's premier civil rights coalition, and has coordinated the national legislative campaign on behalf of every major civil rights law since 1957.

Media Access Project
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
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.

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. We encourage people to look critically at both the content of media (which we all consume everyday) and the corporate system that controls and produces most of what we see, hear and read.

National Alliance for Media, Arts & Culture
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 Hispanic Media Coalition
The NHMC is a coalition of Hispanic-American organizations that have joined together to address a variety of media related issues that affect the Hispanic-American community across the nation. The National Hispanic Media coalition is a non-profit organization.

New America Foundation
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.

Newspaper Guild - CWA
CWA, America's largest communications and media union, represents over 700,000 men and women in both private and public sectors, including over half a million workers who are building the Information Highway. CWA members are employed in telecommunications, broadcasting, cable TV, journalism, publishing, electronics and general manufacturing, as well as airline customer service, government service, health care, education and other fields.

Office of Communications of the United Church of Christ, Inc.
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
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.

Reclaim the Media
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.

U.S. Public Interest Research Groups
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.