Nonprofits
We Are Media Project: A Lesson in Eating Your Own Dog Food
A new project is building a toolkit to enable nonprofits to use social media strategies effectively.
Tag: Media
Innovations in print, online, and other forms of journalism that benefit civil society
Nonprofits
Storytelling for Nonprofits, in New Media and Old
It is more important for nonprofits to do their job than to focus on media coverage.
Podcast
Education
Brij Kothari - Literacy Through Entertainment
What do you get when you combine a love of Bollywood music videos with widespread illiteracy? Brij Kothari sees an opportunity to make the world a better place. By subtitling popular entertainment, he helps millions learn to read in a fun way. He's also creating multiplatform stories that will be seen on TV, read on mobile phones, and printed in books. Talking to Design for Change host Sheela Sethuraman in this audio interview, Kothari describes how he improves lives by incorporating education into everyday entertainment.
Health
Smart Soaps
The Population Media Center mixes science with soap operas to protect public health.
Social Entrepreneurship
Competing for a Change
How Changemakers’ “collaborative competitions” harness the wisdom of crowds.
Review
Social Innovations
Community Foundations Called To Fund Local Media
What can foundation funding do to improve local media information?
Social Innovations
Unselling Meth
The Montana Meth Project's graphic ads saturate TV, radio, billboards, and newspapers to portray the reality of methamphetamine use, in all its grit. Scabs and body sores are just the beginning. So far, the shock factor is working.
Nonprofits
Money for a Song
The Public Radio Fund gives investors a chance to protect nonprofit airwaves. With its help, KTOO-FM in Juneau, Alaska, recently debuted a 24-hour news show and two locally-hosted Alaska-flavored music stations.