Project outline

MEP is currently working with three diverse communities of color across the United States. Through a collaborative process, we are:

• Enabling the formation of community campaigns, coalitions (or both), that collectively identify key local concerns, evaluate the media’s performance on them, and describe community-media relations in depth.
• Based on this research, empowering communities to design and implement appropriate and effective strategies for change in media access, accountability or policy at the local or national level (or both).
• With consultation from an advisory committee of activists, and community organizers themselves, producing materials useful to this and other campaigns.
• Making widely available these resources as well as materials documenting the community organizing experiences as models for practice, and train pubic interest media advocates to carry grassroots efforts forward.