Media
Tank is pleased to announce that it is currently accepting
applications for board positions. If you’re interested
in changing our nation’s profit-driven, corporate-controlled
media system, then Media Tank wants YOU to consider joining
with like-minded folks on its board of directors. We invite
you to nominate yourself (or someone you know) to help
build the movement for media justice and reform!
Media Tank is a
non-profit media education organization working to provide
communities with tools and resources to understand and
participate in critical decisions about our nation's media
system and culture. Our programs encourage people to think
critically about the media and have a voice in the development
of a more democratic and socially responsible media system.
Through community media education, public events, and grassroots
organizing Media Tank is helping to broaden the movement for
media democracy at a local and national level.
In the few years
since our inception, we have emerged as a model organization
in our field. By joining the Media Tank board, you have a
unique opportunity to help define and be part of an emerging
new social movement for media change!
The Media Tank board currently meets once a
month. Aside from attending board meetings, responsibilities
include:
- Helping to set organizational priorities
and goals
- Membership on a board committee
- Financial
oversight of the organization
- Assistance with fundraising
We are seeking individuals with a broad range
of knowledge and experience. Do you know about:
- Non-profit
administration and operations
- Philadelphia’s cultural
philanthropic, political and/or activist communities
- Program
and event planning, strategic planning
- Movements for independent
media, media democracy or media reform
- Education, legal,
journalism, labor, finance or public health fields
- Prior
board experience a plus but not essential
Media issues affect ALL people, particularly
those most marginalized in mainstream society. Media Tank seeks
to nurture diverse new leadership on these issues, and wishes
to encourage women, young people, people of color, LGTBQ, seniors
and other traditionally underrepresented individuals to apply.
If
you are interested in joining the Media Tank board, please
download a Board
Application Form (PDF). Be sure to also download and review
the Board Job Description
(PDF).
If you know someone else who might be interested
in a board position, please download and submit a Board
Nomination Form (PDF).
Please submit a recently updated résumé with
all Media Tank Board Applications.
Copies
of these forms are also available by calling the Media Tank
office at 215-563-1100.
If you have any questions, please email Inja
Coates, Executive Director: click
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