Accelerate Change Media Network

Overview

Accelerate Change Media Network is a nonprofit digital media lab dedicated to increasing civic engagement within BIPOC and low-income communities through digital media. The organization invests in cultural media properties, builds networks, and conducts civic engagement campaigns to enhance participation and awareness. Founded in 2012, it has evolved from an incubator for new ventures to a full-fledged media lab that has helped develop some of the largest nonprofit media ventures in the country. The organization's approach includes scaling emerging cultural media properties, investing in established cultural media properties, building influencer networks, leading a digital media lab, and driving civic engagement campaigns. Their mission is to develop and test new models for citizen organizing, particularly in communities of color, that are scalable, financially self-sustaining, and build deep, trusted relationships that can move people to take action. Accelerate Change Media Network's impact is measured through the collective scale, engagement, and impact of the emerging cultural media properties that they advise and support and invest in, the breakthroughs catalyzed and enabled by their media lab and the digital organizing success of the ventures they incubate, and the efficiency of their civic engagement campaigns with their networks.

Investment Focus

• Focus on increasing civic engagement within BIPOC and low-income communities through digital media
• Alignment with mission to develop and test new models for citizen organizing in communities of color
• Scalable and financially self-sustaining models
• Ability to build deep, trusted relationships that can move people to take action

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