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Grant request: To provide two Advocacy Media Clinics to train community-based nonprofit organizations and individual activists to effectively, creatively and regularly advance their issues and constituency interests in the media. Both workshops will utilize the Progressive Media Project’s “Voices of Diversity  media tool kit, but will further develop writing skills and provide follow-up assistance with editing, placing and tracking commentaries in local, statewide and regional newspapers, as well as web-based publishing venues.

WINS serves working people through the US by producing and distributing news stories that feature issues that affect working people.  Commercial broadcast media often presents these stories using so called experts, people who are not directly involved with that community. WINS seeks to   remedy this inequality and gives working people a voice through radio as well as other formats, i.e. internet, podcast etc. 

Center for Democracy in Action, Inc. is an organization dedicated to increasing the spaces, places and events for inclusive dialogue and strategic grassroots action.  The organization is a broad resource for individuals and organizations to work together to build healthy, viable, proactive communities. They are committed to assuring that voices that are too often marginalized or unheard are not only heard, but are understood as important assets and contributors to the common good.

Grant request: Three Race and Media Forums will be conducted within one year time period of the grant. The purpose of these Forums will be to connect print and electronic media, not only to create relationships that provide sources "beyond the usual suspects" in the communities of color, but also to educate media representatives on key issues relating to both individual communities of color and issues that span the spectrum of such communities.

CityWIDE LPFM, a coalition of 7 social change groups and the Madison Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, shares a frequency with another station (SoulWIDE LPFM) as part of an FCC approved settlement of competing applications for the same frequency. CityWIDE operates from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM weekdays and all day Saturday.  The day to day operation of the station including fundraising and scheduling of airtime is the primary responsibility of the Radio Council which is made up of the people and organizations providing programming. CityWIDE and SoulWIDE share the costs of the transmitter and other broadcast equipment as well as licensing fees.  However, each station broadcasts from a different studio.

Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, a volunteer driven organization for more than 13 years is the only Muslim women’s organization in the Milwaukee area.  It provides support for Muslim women, both native and foreign born in the Milwaukee area.

Grant request: Grant funds will be used to conduct a one-day seminar on the role of the media and the current climate of Islamophobia (racism and bigotry towards Muslims). The funds will be used to secure national experts with extensive experience conducting workshops and seminars for members of the media. Funds will cover travel, hotel, stipends, and meals for the speakers. Funds will also be used for brochures, mailings, and any needed handouts to members of the media, university communication departments, anti-racism organizations, etc. Funds will also cover audio-visual rental the day of the event as well as some of the staff's time.