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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. Stories surround us on the radio, in newspapers, in our music boxes, in short web videos and on large screens in movie theatres. Now, fast forward to 2012.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. BB: What advice do you have for artists who want to use their art for social change? One section is all about understanding women all over the world through their own creative work, their music, their movies, their books, their fashion, their food.