The Urban Media Foundation received a $35,000 grant from the NBCUniversal Foundation, as part of its commitment to public secondary education in local communities. UMF was one of six nonprofit organizations in the Los Angeles area to be awarded a grant to continue their work.
The other grant recipients were Big Brothers Big Sister of Greater Los Angeles ($50,000), City Year Los Angeles ($37,500), Communities in Schools Los Angeles ($30,000) Los Angeles Education Partnership ($21,250) and Project Grad Los Angeles ($26,259).
The UMF educates, mentors, and advocates for inner-city students interested in journalism, media technology and mass communication. It offers multimedia training, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, college readiness and professional development for inner city youth, ages 13 to 17 years old.
For more information call (323) 905-1335. Online at http://www.urbanmediafoundation.org or twitter.com/urbanmediala.
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