The goal of the Reporting on Violence project was to improve journalists’ coverage of crime and to provide consumers of news with more accurate and comprehensive information on violence and violence prevention. To do this, we published two reporting handbooks and conducted numerous workshops for news organizations.
Through funding from The Kresge Foundation, The Praxis Project and Berkeley Media Studies Group supported the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) to identify opportunities to achieve health justice and racial equity throughout the state by being more intentional about integrating a deep social justice lens into the department’s internal and external work.
The California Wellness Foundation is a grantmaker that aims to address the health needs of underserved populations and to support the nonprofit organizations that work with these populations. To that end, Cal Wellness commissioned Berkeley Media Studies Group to provide strategic communication assistance to such nonprofits, specifically its grantees transitioning out of the foundation’s Advancing Wellness program.
The Consumer Health Foundation icollaborated with the Praxis Project and the Berkeley Media Studies Group to expand and strengthen its current communication around racial equity as a fundamental factor in health equity.
BMSG worked for two years with the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, which seeks to improve environments in and around Cleveland so that they better support healthy eating and physical activity.
BMSG is providing strategic communication support to grantees of the Healing Justice Alliance (HJA), which is committed to helping communities address violence as a public health issue and providing culturally appropriate services to young men of color who are survivors of violence.
BMSG worked with BARHII to build the staff and members’ capacity for media advocacy, including assessing news coverage of BARHII and key BARHII issues, conducting media advocacy trainings, advising the Data and Built Environment Working Groups, commissioning linguistic analyses of key BARHII terminology, providing strategic consultation and more.
As part of this project, Berkeley Media Studies Group helped select grantees of the Community Clinics Initiative identify a media advocacy strategy, strengthen their current media materials and brainstorm training goals.
BMSG advised the Foundation on developing a policy and media strategy for releasing, The unequal distribution of health in the Twin Cities, a study the Foundation commissioned from the Wilder Foundation.
In this project, BMSG helped local advocates learn to use mass media to educate the community and to influence policy makers.
