Center for Asian American Media
For A Communication And Marketing Strategy
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/14/2017
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Center for Asian American Media is dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible. Its flagship program, CAAMFest, is the nation’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian films, and reaches 27,000 people. The organization provides funding and support for Asian American film and media projects from independent producers, and partners with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to present Asian American works on public television. This grant would support a large-scale communications and marketing plan for moving CAAMFest from May to March, in alignment with Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.naatanet.org
Address
145 Ninth Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA, 94103-2641, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The San Francisco-based Center for Asian American Media, or CAAM, is dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audiences possible. CAAM supports the creation of independent media by funding, producing, distributing, and exhibiting works in film, television, and digital media. The organization reaches an in-person audience of 31,000 people each year through its flagship film and culture festival in May, and an additional broadcast audience of 40 million through a partnership with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This grant to CAAM supports the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for an equity, inclusion, and diversity capacity-building project
The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audiences possible. This organizational effectiveness grant supports internal capacity building to deepen the organization’s awareness, knowledge, skill, policies and practices around equity, inclusion, and diversity. Strengthening an organizations’ equity-focused competencies supports its practices and outcomes and contributes to a Bay Area arts ecosystem that has examined and reflects an understanding of equity in the arts. Support for the Center for Asian American Media advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities Strategy.
