Future Of Real Music & Entertainment (FOR ME Inc.)The Future Of Real Music & Entertainment (FOR ME) is a music business education youth program for teens. The program provides education and business opportunities for youth who plan to pursue a career in the entertainment industry, it focuses on the business, creative, and technical aspects of the industry and has proven to be hugely successful in its first year of existence. FOR ME provides after school, outreach and summer programs in the Metro Atlanta area.
http://www.theformeprogram.ning.com
Bay Area Video CoalitionThe Bay Area Video Coalition, or BAVC ("bay-vac"), was launched in 1976 as a way to make emerging video technology accessible to independent film makers. Today, with that mission still at its core, BAVC has evolved into a community media arts resource center.
http://www.bavc.org/The DJ ProjectThe DJ Project, a youth focused venture of Horizons Unlimited, is an arts and entrepreneurship youth program grounded in hip-hop culture. In 2000 the DJ Project began to bring culturally relevant educational and technology training opportunities to San Francisco Bay Area youth. The DJ Project uses music to nurture the creative spirit of disconnected youth. It imparts credible, realistic, and practical information about the entertainment industry and provides training in emerging digital technologies. The DJ Project currently operates after-school, project-driven arts and music programs, as well as hip-hop employment and entrepreneurship modules at four different sites in the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.thedjproject.com/Flipping The ScriptJust Think teaches young people to lead healthy, responsible, and independent lives in a culture highly impacted by media. Founded in 1995 as a concerned response to the ever-increasing deluge of messages youth receive from television, radio, film, print media, electronic games, and the Internet, Just Think has successfully created and delivered media arts and technology education locally, nationally, and internationally for ten years. Just Think’s programs have reached nearly 7,000 students, teachers, and parents.
http://www.flippingthescript.orgMovement Strategy CenterMovement Strategy Center (MSC) was created in 1999 to actively support movements that aim to increase youth and adult participation in social justice issues. MSC uses a variety of tools to achieve its objectives: collective visioning and mapping, formal and informal collaborations among organizations and joint strategies to develop stronger and more effective movements.
http://www.movementstrategy.org/