Summer 2008:

($30,000 Large Grants, 2nd Round)

• Assessing for Change: A Study on Latino Media Advocacy Efforts
• Building a Democratic Regulatory Framework for Community Radios in Thailand
• Creating a Women’s Media Equity Collaborative: New Funding Models for Feminist Media
• Digital Inclusion: Working Both Sides of the Equation
• From the Digital Divide to Digital Excellence: Global Best Practices for Community Wireless Networks
• Hate Speech in the Media
• Mobile Voices: Participatory Action Research for Mobile Community Among Immigrants in Los Angeles

Spring 2008 (Research Bounties):

• A Strategy, Acquisition, and Revenue Model of Evangelical Radio Networks ($5,000)
• Are HD Radio Stations Serving the Public Interest? ($5,000)
• Measuring Ethnic Media's Online Capacity ($5,000)
• Who Gets Cable? Why We Don't Know and Why That Matters ($5,000)

Winter 2007:

($7,500 Small Grants, 4th Round)

• Barriers to Entry in Minority Radio and Television Ownership -- Follow Up and Longitudinal Analysis

• Mapping Federal Radio Spectrum Holdings

• Rural Telecommunications Access / Montana Media Partnership
• Toward a Taxonomy for Public Interest Communications Infrastructure

Fall 2007:

($30,000 Large Grants, 1st Round. 1st Emergency Grant)

• Alternative Media and Democratic Praxis: Developing a ‘Media Reform Through Media Empowerment Toolkit Curriculum’

• Assessing the Impact of the Spitzer Payola Investigation

• The Convergence of Telecommunications and Consumers Rights in Brazil

• Local TV News Content and Media Ownership ($30,000 Emergency Grant)

• Measuring Noncommercial Radio’s Impact in Rural Communities ($30,000)

• New Media and Empowerment of Communities of Color in the U.S. Urban Heartland ($30,000)

• Youth Channel All-City: Building a Municipal Infrastructure for Media Education, Production, and Distribution ($30,000)

Spring 2007:

($7,500 Small Grants, 3rd Round)

• Assessing Public Access in a Changing Media Landscape

• Citizen Journalism: The Case for Including Homeless People

• Monitoring Local News Coverage's Ability to Meet the Public's Informational Needs 

• The Public FM Project: Supporting Non-Profit FM Radio Licensing 

Winter 2006:

($7,500 Small Grants, 2nd Round)

• A Development-based Critique of Telecentre Deployment in India 
• Building Community Communication Infrastructure: A Case Study of the Tribal Digital Village 
• The Case for "Open Access" in Africa: Mauritius Case Study 
• Local Issues, Local Voices: A Media Education and Monitoring Project 
• Localism, the Ethnic Minority News Audience, and Community Participation 
• Information Asymmetries, Commercial Data Access and Usage in the Policymaking Process 
• Migrant Voices: Communication for Social Change with Garment Workers and Day Laborers in Los Angeles 
• Radio Programming Variety and the Local Ownership Cap 

Fall 2006:

($7,500 Small Grants, 1st Round)

• Assessing the Diversity of Latino-Oriented Media in Local Settings 
• Big Media, Little Kids 2 -- The Impact of Concentrated Station Ownership on Children's Educational TV

• Ownership Matters? Content, Localism & Ownership on Local Television News -- The Impact of Media Concentration on Local TV News Coverage 

• Radio as a Mobilization Tool in Latino Communities 

• Understanding Barriers to Entry for Minority and Female Broadcasters 

• What's Meant By Digital Inclusion? An Interrogation of Municipal Broadband Policy in the City of San Francisco