AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

AdAge.com
Ovation TV is finally ready for its close-up. Ten years after its birth, and one year after a major overhaul and rebirth under new ownership, the now-national arts and culture TV channel has lined up marketing partnerships and integrated promotions to boost subscriber cable systems and attract more marketers by partnering with the [...]

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NewTeeVee
The creators of the copyright-critical movies Steal This Film and Steal This Film 2 are building a platform aimed at helping filmmakers get paid for releasing their works on file-sharing networks. The project, which goes by the name of VODO (it stands for “voluntary donations”), is based on lessons the two filmmakers have learned from [...]

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BusinessWeek
For the outgoing Microsoft president, heading the $37.3 billion philanthropic organization will be “a dream job”
It didn’t take long for Microsoft President Jeff Raikes to figure out his second career. Just four months after announcing plans to retire (BusinessWeek.com, 1/10/08) as president of Microsoft’s business software operations, Raikes said on May 12 that he would [...]

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$3 Million Donation For The Sum Of All Human Knowledge - Tech Crunch
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which operates Wikipedia, announced a $3 million donation from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today. The donation will be paid ratably over three years.
Last year the foundation had total income of $2.7 million and expenses of about [...]

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Wikipedia’s tin-cup approach wears thin
The nonprofit website needs to raise funds, but it resists selling ads.
The new headquarters of one of the world’s most popular websites is 3,000 square feet of rented space furnished with desks and chairs bought on the cheap from EBay and Craigslist.
A sheet of printer paper taped to the door says [...]

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The only nonprofit that matters - Fortune Magazine
Add one part tech, one part business smarts, hold the do-gooderism. What do you get? A whole new approach to charity.
Peter Mukasa needs $250 to buy some hooch. Care to help a guy who’s down on his luck if he promises to pay it back? Oops, too late. [...]

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A Capitalist Jolt for Charity - The New York Times

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The PBS Foundation and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced an award of $1 million to the PBS Foundation from the Adobe Foundation Fund at Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The grant, part of the Adobe Youth Voices global philanthropy initiative, will establish PBS’s Adobe Youth Voices Venture Fund and support PBS Foundation operations.
Through the venture [...]

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced the second round of recipients of CPB’s Public Media Innovation Fund Program.
The Public Media Innovation Fund, established by CPB to support public broadcasters’ efforts to experiment with emerging platforms, provides up to $20,000 per grantee for new media initiatives which demonstrate technical or service innovations. Round two [...]

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Wall Street Journal
In one of the most widely watched efforts in corporate giving in years, Google Inc. unveiled yesterday nearly $30 million in new grants and investments, outlining how it will focus a massive philanthropic endeavor that erases the usual boundaries between the for-profit and nonprofit worlds.
The first set of major five- to eight-year initiatives [...]

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