Communications Consortium Media Center
1200 New York Avenue NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-326-8700; FAX: 202-682-2154
E-mail: kbonk@ccmc.org (Kathy Bonk); WWW: http://www.ccmc.org/

The Communications Consortium Media Center is a public interest media center dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations use media and new telecommunications technologies for public education and policy change. CCMC was created in 1988 by veteran nonprofit communications and media specialists who understood that effective communications strategies are essential in order to turn ideas into public policy. CCMC's founders believed that a mastery of communications, especially outreach to media, is essential to the job of building a better society. CCMC specializes in strategic communications, media readiness training, and multiyear issues campaigns. Their work has focused on a cluster of issues: children and families, including family and medical leave; child care and early education; learning disabilities; adoption; juvenile justice; foster care and child welfare reform; health care; gender equality; reproductive rights; global population, the environment, and energy efficiency; civil society, voting, and citizenship; civil rights; and immigration. They also provide technical assistance to nonprofits across the nation and around the world, helping them gain access to the media and helping make the media more accountable and diverse.