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YMP Sponsors and Partners

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Mississippi Public Broadcasting joined YMP in spring 2017 and is providing staff, trainers, snacks, supplies,  equipment and expertise.
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Dialogue Jackson, formerly Jackson 2000 Inc., became YMP's fiscal sponsor in spring 2017. The group facilitates youth dialogues for YMP students and visiting teens.

Additional Donors and Supporters


Since it launched in June 2016, the Mississippi Youth Media Project has enjoyed wide and growing community support for our goals of training young people to tell needed stories effectively, presenting a more effective and honest narrative about young people, providing career and workforce development to under-served youth, and helping prevent school dropouts in central Mississippi. We thank the following for financial or in-kind donations and volunteer assistance. You can write YMP at [email protected] to find out ways to help, or click here to make a tax-deductible contribution to our fiscal sponsor on YMP's behalf.

A special thanks to the supporters of the 2017 YMP Fall Showcase at the Capital Club:
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Neel-Schaffer Inc.
​Vicki R. Slater, Attorney at Law, P.A.
Dr. George Schimmel
Dr. Robert Luckett
Dr. Clinton Smith
Rims and Judy Barber

We thank the following groups and individuals for supporting YMP with financial, volunteer
and/or in-kind support since it launched in summer 2016.


W.K. Kellogg Foundation/Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance
Jackson Council PTA
Jackson Public Schools
Parents for Public Schools/E3 (Ask for More)
United Way of the Capital Area Inc.
Entergy Legal Department
Carson Law Firm

Mississippi Scholastic Press Association
Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting 
fuse.cloud
Workplace Solutions/Barefield
Podastery Studios/Beau York
Choice Printing
The New Hollywood LGBT/Emerging Voices Grant
​Kit Williamson
NMHA Unlimited Film Productions
Dr. Wilma Mosley Clopton
Crossroads Film Society
Katherine Dieckman, Filmmaker
Mattiace/Capital Towers
good. design & code
PMI Central Mississippi 
Red Squared Productions 
Greater Jackson Arts Council 
​OffBeat
1 Million Cups/Coalesce
TEDx Jackson Women 
Jackson Free Press
Dr. George Schimmel
Natalie Irby
Karla Vazquez-Elmore
Vicki Slater
Deborah Stringer
Melanie Paige-Brown
Nakesha Watkins

Angel Eaves
Christie Herring
Natalie Mayor
Vanessa Wallace

John Gentry
Roberta Avila
Kate McNeel
Rachel Myers
Joy Hogge
Rosaline McCoy
Victoria Leech
Amy Haimerl

Stephen Barnett/Davaine Lighting
Bilal Qizilbash

Cassio Batteast
Christopher Herron
Pam Confer
Lynne Schneider, Murrah High School 

Olivia Coté, Murrah High School
Imani Khayyam
Zilpha Young
William Kelly 
Onelia Hawa
Justin Burch
Lynsey Wood Jeffries
​Adria Walker
Todd Stauffer
Emily Henderson
Sharon Person
Tara Wren
Ronnie Agnew
Dr. Willie Killins
Thea Faulkner
Allison Cox
Talameika and Charles Brice
David Castro
daniel johnson
Ebony Lumumba


Click here to donate to the Mississippi Youth Media Project through fiscal sponsor Dialogue Jackson Inc.
Your contribution is tax-deductible.

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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