The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC) is the telecom, media, and tech (TMT) industries’ leading non-partisan, national nonprofit diversity organization. Since opening our doors in 1986, MMTC has worked tirelessly to promote and preserve equal opportunity, civil rights, and social justice in the mass media, telecom, and broadband industries, and to close the digital divide.
Widely recognized as the leading policy advocacy organization working at the intersection of communications policy, diversity, and equal opportunity, MMTC’s Broadband and Social Justice and Access to Capital and Telecom Policy conferences, policy salons, and other convenings have attracted members of Congress, federal agency and industry chiefs, and leading civil rights and social justice leaders. Go here to learn more about MMTC and its achievements.
MMTC’s Social Justice and Digital Equity Policy Program
MMTC seeks your support to officially launch MMTC’s Social Justice and Digital Equity Policy Program (DE Policy Program), a think tank comprised of innovative thought leadership and TMT advocacy to provide a greater impact on the discussion of how to support our nation’s most vulnerable communities as they face TMT issues such as the digital divide; social justice; essential communications and technology access; employment, leadership, and ownership; and more.
Through this initiative, MMTC would like to fund the development of a think tank of experienced thought leaders (DE Policy Associates) in three focus areas in the tech, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sectors:
- Technology, Privacy, and Civil Rights in the Digital Age
- Infrastructure, Connectivity, and Digital Inclusion
- Media Ownership and Multicultural Media Content Diversity
MMTC’s DE Policy Program will provide a forum for innovative thinking, data-driven knowledge dissemination, and consensus-building among those on multiple sides of the major TMT policy issues impacting communities of color. MMTC’s DE Policy Associates would become the trusted, “go-to” sources in these areas to solve problems that uniquely impact communities of color, filling a gap where the conversation is often dominated by institutions who either do not represent voices of color or do not have them prominently featured in leadership positions.
Click on the links below to learn more about the DE Policy Program.
- The Need: Diverse Thought Leadership
- Overview of the Digital Equity Policy Program – Focus Areas
- Proposed Budget and Organizational Chart
MMTC requests your support for our initiative to significantly expand diverse thought leadership in the tech, media, and telecom industries. Your logo and level of support will be listed in our 2020 Social Justice and Digital Equity Awardsevent, which will be held virtually in the Fall of 2020. We also would love to receive your suggestions for inductees to the MMTC Hall of Fame, nominations for our Excellence in Pro Bono Service Award, and for our highest honor, the Everett C. Parker Lifetime Achievement Award that will be presented at our Awards program.
We would greatly appreciate your support at any one of the following levels to help us reach our goal. Contact us for a customized donation or to contribute to one of our fellowship programs. Donate here.
| Luminary Sponsor – $250,000 | Freedom Fighter Sponsor – $125,000 |
| Advocate Sponsor – $37,500 | Sustaining Sponsor – $12,500 |
| General Sponsor – $5,000 | Other – under $5,000 |
The overall campaign goal is to raise $5 million over the next two years to restore MMTC’s budget and capacity to approximately $2.5 million per year. The minimum fundraising goal for 2020 is $1,600,000, $807,000 of which has been raised, leaving us with a 2020 goal of $793,000. These funds will enable us to bring on a senior policy director, and one or two subject matter experts to get the program launched in 2020 and enable an orderly transition and on-boarding process. In 2021 we will continue the campaign with the goal of achieving an annual budget of $2.5 million/year.