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About Us: Mission
Statement
The
purposes of Community Media Access Partnership are:
1. To support, manage, produce and distribute noncommercial,
community based media programs (public, educational and government
access);
2. To establish, maintain and operate one (1) or more media
access centers:
a.
To educate and provide training to individuals and nonprofit
organizations in the use of various media tools and techniques;
b. To provide individuals and nonprofit organizations with
access to various media tools and assistance in their use;
c. To promote programs and support the use of various media
as vehicles of artistic expression;
d. To produce programs and other media materials in the public
interest; and
e. To establish, maintain and operate a system or systems
for the distribution of various non-commercial media programs
and materials in the public interest.
3. To provide
individuals, organizations and institutions on a nondiscriminatory
basis the necessary resources to produce noncommercial programming
and information for distribution on noncommercial access channel(s)
including production studio and video equipment, training and
channel time.
4. To produce cable subscribers with programming reflecting
the activities, concerns and interests of the residents of Gilroy,
Hollister and San Juan Bautista in a manner that promotes a
free exchange of ideas and information.
5. To promote and foster the use of access channels among a
wide range of individuals, organizations and institutions and
to facilitate the use of access channels as a public forum which
promotes a free exchange of ideas and information.
6. To ensure that no individual is discriminated against with
regard to membership services, access to information or any
activity of CMAP because of race, national origin, sex, age,
sexual preference, religion, disability, political affiliation,
or economic status.
7. To assure that there is no censorship over program content
of the public access channel(s), except as necessary to comply
with the Cable Communication Policy Act of 1984 (as amended)
or the corresponding provision of any future federal cable television
of telecommunications law and the Federal Communications Commission
prohibition of materials that is obscene, contains commercial
advertising or conducts a lottery.
8. To develop funding proposals, collaborative projects and
administer grant funds obtained for the ongoing development
of CMAP.
9. To apply for, to receive, and to distribute contributions,
grants, donations and loans of all types from individuals, organizations,
profit and nonprofit, public and private corporations, government
agencies and others to support these purposes.
10. To determine and conduct or support and all other lawful
activities in furtherance of the foregoing charitable and educational
purposes, either manifest of latent.
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