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| Name: | Sound Partners for Community Health |
| Founded: | 1997 |
| Directors: | Beth Mastin and Mark Sachs |
| Address: | 8730 Georgia Ave., Suite 408 Silver Spring, MD 20910 |
| Phone: | 301.565.0805 |
| Fax: | 301.565.0808 |
| URL: | http://www.soundpartners.org/ |
| Mission: | To increase public awareness of specific health issues and facilitate citizens' involvement in making decisions affecting health care by emphasizing collaboration in health care problem solving between broadcasters and community organizations. |
| Background: | Sound Partners is a competitive national grant program for public radio stations. It is a program of the Benton Foundation, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. These two foundations share the belief that broadcasters can help equip people to participate in community problem-solving. Grants are awarded to public radio stations submitting proposals that demonstrate how community-centered journalism can positively affect the ways in which local health care issues are addressed. |
| Current Programs: | Sound Partners currently provides funding to 33 public and community radio stations around the country that focus on one of five health care topics: Maintaining the Health Care Safety Net; Providing Health Care for Young Children; New Approaches to Curtailing Youth Substance Abuse; Health Care Decision-Making at the End of Life; and Caring for the Aging and Chronically Ill. Short-term projects may receive up to $15,000; long-term projects may receive up to $35,000. |
| Recent Successes: | Sound Partners has awarded 68 grants to 59 public radio stations nationwide. To date, recipients of grants from Sound Partner's first year have collected 28 national, regional, and local awards for their efforts. |
| Web Site: | The Sound Partners Web site features up to date and archived coverage on the five health care topic areas, information about funding opportunities, and resources on issues related to content, production, and outreach, as well as tips on promoting programming, developing more effective and successful partnerships, and managing projects. The site also includes a "Listening Room," which houses audio clips produced by Sound Partners grantees, case studies documenting lessons learned by Round One grantees, and profiles of the partnering radio stations and community organizations. |
| Funding Needs: | Sound Partners is a program of the Benton Foundation, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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