Media Justice is at the center of a social, economic, environmental and health justice agenda that seeks to redress inequalities of power, voice and knowledge in the popular, mainstream media. Media Justice in various settings is a frame for advocacy and direct action shaped by a race, class, gender and power analysis.

In 1966, a landmark civil rights case established that television stations must serve the needs of their entire viewing audiences and that citizens have the right to demand representation from both broadcasters and federal regulators. It is in the spirit of that case from Jackson, Mississippi, that the Media Justice Fund seeks to support efforts for access, opportunity, literacy and control of media resources in the service of social justice and human rights.

What is the Media Justice Fund? 

An increasingly corporate-biased media undermines the American people’s economic, social and cultural well-being. Worse still, most Americans have lacked access to open, vigorous public debates that could lead them to take direct action. As a result, many Americans, particularly those in marginalized communities that are most affected by a biased media, have simply ”tuned out,” rather than face the great difficulty of disentangling concepts of an unjust media from the complex systems and policy considerations that govern telecommunications.

Drawing on a civil rights legacy, activists are working hard to reclaim control of the media as a public resource and an essential tool in the fight for social justice. The Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange (MJF) is working with activists in marginalized communities to support their efforts and develop the American people’s ability to understand the ways they can effect change in the media they consume.

Funding Exchange Member Funds

Appalachian Community Fund
107 West Main , Suite 202
Knoxville TN 37902
Phone: 865.523.5783
Fax: 865.523.1896
info@appalachiancommunityfund.org
www.appalachiancommunityfund.org

Bread & Roses Community Fund
1500 Walnut Street #1305
Philadelphia , PA 19102
Phone: 215.731.1107
Fax: 215.731.0453
info@breadrosesfund.org
www.breadrosesfund.org

Chinook Fund
2418 West 32nd Avenue
Denver , CO 80211
Phone: 303.455.6905
Fax: 303.477.1617
office@chinookfund.org
www.chinookfund.org

Crossroads Fund
3411 West Diversey #20
Chicago , IL 60647
Phone: 773.227.7676
Fax: 773.227.7790
info@crossroadsfund.org
www.crossroadsfund.org

Fund for Santa Barbara
1524 ½ State St .
Santa Barbara , CA 93101
Phone: 805.962.9164
Fax: 805.965.0217
email@fundforsantabarbara.org
www.fundforsantabarbara.org

Fund for Southern Communities
315 West Ponce de Leon Ave.
Suite 1061
Decatur , GA 30030
Phone: 404. 371.8404
Fax: 404. 371.8496
fsc@fundforsouth.org
www.fundforsouth.org

Haymarket People's Fund
42 Seaverns Avenue
Boston , MA 02130
Phone: 617.522.7676
Fax: 617.522.9580
haymarket@igc.org
www.haymarket.org

Headwaters Foundation for Justice
2801 21st Ave S Ste 132B
Minneapolis , MN 55407
Phone: 612.879.0602
Fax: 612.879.0613 *2
info@headwatersfoundation.org
www.headwatersfoundation.org

Liberty Hill Foundation
2121 Cloverfield Blvd,
Suite # 113
Santa Monica , CA 90404
Phone: 310.453.3611
Fax: 310.453.7806
info@libertyhill.org
www.libertyhill.org

McKenzie River Gathering Foundation
2705 E. Burnside, Suite 210
Portland OR 97214-1768
Phone: 503.289.1517
info@mrgf.org
www.mrgf.org

North Star Fund
305 Seventh Ave. 5th Fl.
New York , NY 10001-6008
Phone: 212.620.9110
Fax: 620.8178
info@northstarfund.org
www.northstarfund.org

San Diego Foundation for Change
3758 30th Street
San Diego , CA 92104
Phone: 619.692.0527
Fax: 619.692.0527 (call first)
info@foundation4change.org
www.foundation4change.org

The Hawai'i People's Fund
810 N. Vineyard Blvd.
Honolulu HI , 96817
Phone: 808-845-4800
Fax: 808-845-4800
(press * to fax)
peoples@lava.net
www.hawaiipeoplesfund.org

Three Rivers Community Foundation
100 N. Braddock Ave #207
Pittsburgh , PA 15208
Phone: 412.243.9250
Fax: 412.243.0504
TRCFPgh@aol.com
www.trcf.net

Vanguard Public Foundation
383 Rhode Island St. #301
San Francisco , CA 94103
Phone: 415.487.2111
Fax: 415.487.2124
vpf@vanguardsf.org
www.vanguardsf.org

Wisconsin Community Fund
1202 Williamson St. , Suite D
Madison , WI 53703
Phone: 608.251.6834
Fax: 608.251.6846
info@wcfund.org
www.wcfund.org

MJF Grantees