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Top 10 Ways to Support YMP on #GivingTuesday and Beyond

11/27/2017

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First, a thank you for those of you who generously supported the YMP Fall Showcase at the Capital Club on Nov. 16. Many of the summer 2017 students attended with their families, guests and sponsors; enjoyed wonderful food and beautiful city views; and screened their documentaries and read from their powerful work. (All work available at jxnpulse.com.) We appreciate you so much for helping young people create powerful, honest stories about their communities.
 
Please include the Youth Media Project in your year-end giving to help YMP have space and resources to continue producing year-rounddocumentaries on their education needs and Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba’s first year, as well as produce a series of crime-prevention neighborhood dialogues to build on their crime-prevention journalism to date leading up to a big YMP Youth Crime Summit in late spring. And please come visit the YMP learning space in Capital Towers when you get a chance. Write info@youthmediaproject.com to schedule a time.
 
In fact, here are 10 ways you can help the Mississippi Youth Media Project grow and keep producing vital solutions-focused media to help improve both the narrative about young people in Mississippi, as well as empower and inspire the community to engage in these solutions together:

  1. Include the Youth Media Project in your holiday and year-end giving. You can make a tax-deductible contribution directly here or mail a check made out to our fiscal sponsor, Dialogue Jackson, to Youth Media Project, 125 S. Congress St., Suite 1330, Jackson, MS 39201. And please share and encourage others to donate to YMP as well.

  2. Tell everyone you know about the project. And especially ask them to read student work at jxnpulse.com and more about the project at youthmediaproject.com.youthmediaproject.com. 

  3. Share, share, share their student work on your social media accounts.

  4. Go comment under the stories to encourage the team!

  5. Tell us about grant and other funding opportunities you can suggest. (And thanks to those who have already!) Write info@youthmediaproject.com.

  6. Encourage other teenagers, age 14 to 18, to write info@youthmediaproject.com to get involved.

  7. Suggest story ideas and opportunities to info@youthmediaproject.com.

  8. Get in touch about volunteering, including to help with the YMP Youth Crime Summit in 2018.
    Write info@youthmediaproject.com.

  9. Suggest collaboration opportunities for YMP. We love to work with other groups (adults or youth) with similar goals. Help us network! Write info@youthmediaproject.com with ideas.

  10. Ask YMP students to speak to your organization or company about what we do. Write donna@youthmediaproject.com to arrange a visit.

    Thank you for your support!

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Major Sponsors and Supporters of YMP

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Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) is a leader in informational broadcasting. MPB has exhibited a commitment to educating and informing Mississippians. MPB has partnered with YMP to lend tech equipment and provide youth engagement and media specialists to train students. 
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E3, a project of Parents of Public Schools of Jackson (now Ask for More), supported YMP in summers 2016 and 2017 with stipends for students, and other  resources.
The Community Foundation of Greater Jackson (now The Community Foundation of Mississippi) is the
​fiscal sponsor for E3.
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Podastery Studios in downtown Jackson offers a network of locally produced podcasts. Beau York, founder of Podastery, has generously donated his time to train YMP students in podcasting skills and allowed Youth Media Project students to borrow professional podcasting equipment to learn
​production skills.
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Dialogue Jackson, formerly Jackson 2000 Inc., is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to fostering understanding and building harmony between people of different races, ethnicities and backgrounds. The group became YMP's fiscal sponsor in 2017 and hosts youth dialogues for teens.. 

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Choice Printing in downtown Jackson is an in-kind sponsor of YMP offering YMP copying and printing services from its Capitol Towers location.

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Good Design & Code >>

Good Design & Co offers high-end UI/UX, web development, app development and branding services. Principal J.C. Hiatt is helping YMP students publish their own website for stories, video, podcasts and more.
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Jackson-based Workplace Solutions by Barefield is a Steelcase authorized dealer offering high-end office furniture and technology solutions. Workplace Solutions has loaned chairs, mobile desks and mobile whiteboards to create a collaborative office for YMP participants.

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Jackson-based Fuse.cloud (formerly Broadband Voice) offers Voice-over-IP phone systems, fiber Internet connections and technical services. Fuse.cloud has sponsored phones, VoIP phone service and technical assistance for YMP.

SPECIAL THANKS TO DR. GEORGE SCHIMMEL and NATALIE IRBY FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATIONS OF PRODUCTION IMACS FOR THE YOUTH MEDIA PROJECT.
CLICK HERE TO MAKE YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TO YMP.
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