Media Greenhouse Grants

The Media Greenhouse supports ethnic media, community media, and nonprofit groups in an effort to incubate and test innovative models for gathering and distributing news. This support includes grants, technical assistance and training for news organizations. The goal is to foster growth and improvement in journalism. All projects awarded the grant will share what is learned with the greater journalism and philantrhopic communities.

The Renaissance Journalism Center awarded $20,000 grants to three Bay Area projects in February 2010. The grants represent the first awards under the Center’s Media Greenhouse. Recipients of the awards include:

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), a media technology center, to support the development of a neighborhood news network (n3) program. BAVC will train community television news producers and make use of a high-speed fiber optic network to enable live broadcast and Internet streaming of the news programs. The grant will help launch the first three neighborhood sites.

Nichi Bei Weekly, an educational and charitable organization, to support the launch of an online community hub to serve the news and information needs of the pan-Asian American community. The award helps the foundation, which publishes the Nichi Bei Weekly newspaper, to expand its content, audience and fundraising capabilities by going online.

Oakland Local, an online news and community site serving Oakland, to pilot two small-scale projects designed to deliver news and information to residents who utilize inexpensive, low-end technology cell phones.

For more information, please contact us at 415-773-0388 ext. 333 or by email at info@rjcmedia.org.