Community Media Services

Community Media Services

122 W. 27th St, 10th fl

New York, NY 10001
(212) 463-7411
fax: 212 741-4563

nanrubin@nanrubin.com

Expertise and Services

Clients and links to their websites

Highlander Media Justice Gathering

Nan goes to the Grotto of Lourdes, France

Nan Rubin: Who She is.

NAN RUBIN has been involved with public broadcasting production, media management, and non-profit development for more than twenty years. She has built two community-based public radio stations, has been involved with producing and distributing national public radio programming, and has extensive background in all aspects of station management, fundraising, policy development, and technical operations.

Her business COMMUNITY MEDIA SERVICES has been providing management and fundraising assistance to public television and radio stations, independent radio and video producers, media service organizations, grassroots arts organizations, non-profit groups and foundations since 1985. Services include feasibility studies, policy analysis, organizational assessments, program planning, budget planning, Board training, grantwriting and fundraising, promotion, community participation, and program marketing and distribution.

Because she has a very strong technical bent, Nan also provides technical assessments, facilities planning, and operations support. With the growing importance of new technologies and interactive media, Nan is increasingly active in planning interactive internet uses, digital conversions, multi-media design, and other technology and telecommunications applications for non-profit and grassroots groups. She was one of only three women chosen by NPR to evaluate new digital satellite equipment, and she is one of a few consultants considered specialists at preparing applications for the PTFP and TIIAP programs of the National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA.) at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Nan has acted as Producer or Project Director on many media productions, including the much-acclaimed public radio series The Family of Women: Stories from a World Gathering; Women’s Summit for Peace; Behind the Mask, an award-winning animation on prejudice reduction; and the highly popular long-running project Search for the Buried Past: The Hidden Jews of New Mexico.

She produced the important marketing study "Jewish Audio Resources" for the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and currently she is Project Coordinator for an upcoming series of radio profiles on American Indians, "Living Voices", under development by the National Museum of the American Indian/Smithsonian Institution. She is also a frequent advisor on public radio to the New York State Council for the Arts and recently prepared a report for them on independent radio producers in New York State "Fostering the Independent Spirit".

Nan spent more than two years as Director of Special Projects at the Funding Exchange in New York City, a national membership organization of social change foundations. There, she oversaw promotional activities aimed at strengthening the funding base for donor-supported progressive grantmaking institutions. Her responsibilities included developing new publications, donor programs, special events, foundation relations and promoting progressive philanthropy to the public.

She learned many of her skills during six years in Washington D.C. as Director of Station Development at the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (N.F.C.B.) a membership organization of community-based public radio stations which she helped to create in 1973 when she was building community radio station WAIF in Cincinnati, OH. At N.F.C.B, Nan provided technical assistance in station operations, decision-making, community involvement, funding, FCC procedures, and facilities construction to more than 200 public radio stations and production groups around the country. She also served on many grantmaking and policy panels, building ongoing ties to national public broadcasting and arts organizations and agencies.

On leaving Washington, Nan spent two years as the Associate Director and Technical Coordinator of KUVO Radio in Denver, building the first public radio station to serve an urban audience with a bilingual English/Spanish program format. Afterwards, she served as Special Management Consultant to the Native American Radio Training Project, providing on-site training to eight public radio stations based on Indian reservations.

Nan has traveled widely to public radio, television and production facilities throughout the United States and abroad, and she has worked extensively in support of minority public radio and television producers and minority arts and media projects. For example, she is the only non-Indian member of the Operating Committee for AIROS, the American Indian Radio On Satellite national interconnection for Native American radio stations and program production groups.
In addition to being an incorporator of N.F.C.B., Nan is a founding member of AMARC (Association Mondiale des Radio Diffuseurs Communautaires/World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters) based in Montreal Canada, and she serves on the Board of Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc., and the Executive Committee of the newly-formed Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action at Manhattanville College in Purchase NY.

As an expression of her firm belief in social justice, Nan is a founder and Secretary of the Board of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, a New York City organization committed to addressing issues relating to race within the New York City Jewish community and racism within the city as a whole. She also sits on the board of the Brecht Forum, a 25-year old New York institution dedicated to nonsectarian, progressive political education and culture.

Nan holds a B.A. degree in Sociology/Mass Communications from Antioch College, Yellow Springs OH (‘71) and a Certificate in Public Broadcasting Management from the University of North Carolina Business School, a former program sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She was born in Newton, Massachusetts and resides in New York City.

Steering Committee – Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action
Founding Member - AMARC (World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters)
Founding Member - Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Founding Member - National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Board Member - Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc.
Board Member – The Brecht Forum
Interviewer -- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Project
Panelist - 1996-97 Public Radio Program Fund, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Organizer - South Africa Community Radio Project
Two German-Marshall Fund Travel Grants to Europe as Trainer in community media

RECENT CLIENTS

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, Washington DC

http://www.aft.org/

CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Tel Aviv Israel

THE COALITION OF VOLUNTARY MENTAL HEALTH AGENCIES, New York City NY

CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING MANAGEMENT CONSULTING SERVICE, Washington DC

http://www.cpb.org

FRIENDS OF DAVID YELLIN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, New York City NY/Jerusalem,Israel

FUND FOR THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, Brooklyn NY,/Brooklyn Information Center

http://www.bkny.net/

HAWAI’I LABOR HERITAGE COUNCIL/MURAL RESTORATION PROJECT, Honolulu HI

THE HIDDEN JEWS OF NEW MEXICO RADIO PROJECT, Santa Fe NM

THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION, Hogansburg NY/Albuquerque NM