National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Oakland, CA
$95,000
First phase—information gathering and initial planning—of a multiphase initiative using broadband media technologies to build and sustain healthy, engaged, independent Native communities. The project enables Native public radio stations throughout the system to expand their audiences, especially to Native Americans living outside tribal homelands.
Our Non-Licensee Partner(s)
National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB), Oakland, California—NFCB is a private, not-for-profit membership organization providing advocacy, training, and professional development services to its nearly 200 community-oriented, noncommercial, member radio stations—most of them licensed to private, non-profit organizations that are principally devoted to broadcasting, although some others are licensed to Native American tribal governments—and its other members, both individuals and related non–broadcast station organizations. NFCB also provides an organizational umbrella for three other organizations which are dedicated to serving the interests of racial and ethnic minority groups among public radio’s audiences and workforce—Native Public Media , Latino Public Radio, and African American Public Radio Stations (AAPRS).