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Who's Who in Maine
CD&M Communications
http://www.cdmcomm.com/
CD&M is the media contractor for Partnership For A Tobacco-Free Maine and the Healthy Maine Partnerships.
Blunt Youth Radio
http://www.bluntradio.org/index.htm
Founded in 1994, Blunt Youth Radio Project is a nationally award winning, youth produced, call-in radio program that airs Monday evenings at 7:30pm on USM's community radio station WMPG. Fifty high school-aged members of the program from nine area high schools, Portland's Kennedy Park neighborhood, and the Long Creek Youth Development Center work together to produce the weekly program. Blunt-produced stories regularly air on National Public Radio and regional outlets around the country.
Print Resources
Additional Web Resources
Nonprofit PR
http://nonprofitpr.com/
This website includes a wide range of information to help nonprofits of all sizes get their messages out. A fantastic resource!
GuideStar's Back to Basics: The New Web Site Essentials
http://www.guidestar.org/news/features/web_essentials.jsp
As times change so does technology. That's certainly true for the internet. Almost two decades ago, websites were practically non-existent luxuries in the nonprofit world. Today they are common practice. With that said, what may have been a helpful and well-designed site five to ten years ago is probably outdated today. That means it's time to step back and carefully evaluate your organization's website to make sure it maximizes what the internet has to offer your mission.
The Nonprofit Communicator--Community Media Workshop
http://communitymediaworkshop.org/
Check out the free tools and trainings designed to help organizations communicate effectively with all their target audiences. Blog and companion toolkit site, www.newstips.org.
About.com's Nonprofit Section on Local Media
http://nonprofit.about.com/od/nonprofitpromotion/tp/localmedia.htm
Most of the news and information you see on the TV news or in the daily newspaper is generated by people just like you. They send information to the media, usually via news releases and personal contact. The best media outlets won't run your news releases verbatim, but they will use the information from them, supplemented with a call to you or a spokesperson. Here are some tips for getting your organization noticed by your local media. Connect for Kids
http://www.connectforkids.org
Connect for Kids makes the best use of communications technologies, specifically the Internet, to give adults – parents, grandparents, guardians, educators, advocates, policymakers, elected officials and others – the tools and information they need to improve the lives of children, youth and families. The Connect for Kids online publication covers more than 30 topics ranging from arts to youth development, foster care to adoption, and welfare reform to oral health.
In the Mix
http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/
“Your issues. Your interests. Your favorite celebs. In the Mix, the national award-winning TV series for teens and by teens, brings you all of it…and gets everyone talking. On-air every week on PBS.”
Listen Up!
http://www.listenup.org
Listen UP! is a youth media network for young filmmakers and their allies.
Media Education Foundation
http://www.mediaed.org
The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes video documentaries to encourage critical thinking and debate about the relationship between media ownership, commercial media content, and the democratic demand for free flows of information, diverse representations of ideas and people, and informed citizen participation.
