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[Community TV Network]

Hello and thanks for reading the newest edition of Youthflick from
Community TV Network!

In this e-newsletter, learn about our latest award from Manhattan
Neighborhood Network's Youth Channel, a new grant from the Starbucks
Foundation, Hard Cover's 20th Anniversary Party, and the start of the
Spring Hard Cover programs.

For more information, go to www.ctvnetwork.org, email
ctvnchicago at yahoo.com, or call (773)278-8500.

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Hard Cover Voted Best TV Series
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Everyone at CTVN is excited to hear that our TV series, Hard Cover,
was voted Best Series on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Youth
Channel in New York City for the Fall 2006 season. In their letter,
Programming Coordinator Maximiliano Benitez writes:

"New York City teens, your peers and fans, watched a selection of
excerpts of high-quality youth produced media and chose Hard Cover as
the series they found most engaging. MNN Youth Channel would like to
thank you for so many years of diligent work and supplying us with
thought provoking, first-rate productions. The work you do is
inspirational and important to our viewers."

Community TV Network has partnered with the Youth Channel for three
years, airing Hard Cover on a weekly basis. The channel reaches
estimated audiences of 9 million in New York City. Congratulations to
the Hard Cover team!

The Youth Channel
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Hard Cover's 20th Anniversary Party
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Hard Cover, the longest running youth-produced TV series in the
country, is hosting an event to celebrate its 20 years of
achievements. The event is scheduled for the evening of April 27,
2007, 5:30-8:30, at Community TV Network’s Youth Media Center (2418 W.
Bloomingdale Ave). The keynote speaker will be Dawn Turner Trice,
columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Attendees can expect a night of
great food, fun, and civic engagement as youth screen Hard Cover’s
best videos from the past two decades.

CTVN would like to thank Stewarts Private Blend Foods and Fifth Third
Bank for sponsoring our event. We are still looking for corporate
sponsors and fantastic raffle prizes so let us know if you can help!

www.ctvnetwork.org
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Community TV Network Receives $10,000 from the Starbucks Foundation
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The Starbucks Foundation has just announced Community TV Network a
winner of the Giving Voice literacy grant for $10,000.	The grant will
fund a literacy initiative through Hard Cover, improving the digital
media arts program through literacy training.  Starbucks awarded a
total of 121 grants for this category out of 1,400 grant applications,
one of the most competitive rounds for the Giving Voice program.

The Starbucks Foundation
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Hard Cover Programs Start Off Strong This Spring
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Hard Cover programs are off to a great start at CTVN for the new year!
Here's a breakdown of what's going on:

Starting in February and lasting until April, CTVN hosts two
afterschool programs - one at Roosevelt High School, Chicago Public
School, and one at CTVN's Youth Media Center through Chicago's youth
organization, After School Matters. The programs offer participating
youth stipends and a chance to exhibit their work at a downtown
screening. The Youth Media Center also hosts a drop-in program where
youth can come in anytime and work on projects, go online, and receive
guidance from staff. The Youth Outreach Campaign has five students
from Juarez High School working on a history video that will be
entered into a city-wide history fair. Interns from Young Women's
Leadership Charter School are working on a PSA about misogynistic
images in hip-hop and rap music videos. Starting in April, Hard Cover
will also be hosting another group of interns from ACT Charter School
with 4-5 participants. The SOAR program is off and running at
Washington Park and Maywood Park, teaching video to foster kids in
DCFS. 

This February, an astounding 41 young people participated in Hard
Cover programs just at the Youth Media Center! This includes 25 ASM
apprentices, two Illinois Arts Council Interns, two Chicago Commons
Interns, and many drop-in youth and volunteers. 38 of these young
people are from Chicago Public Schools. Many of the apprentices are
returning youth, producing work on a whole new level of production
quality. (Check it out by clicking the link below!)

Whitney Smith, currently an Advanced Producer and an Illinois Arts
Council Intern, has been accepted to California Institute of the Arts
to study film. She also won a $5,000 scholarship from the Chicago Park
District. Whitney and Derell Bonner, another IAC Intern, are waiting
to hear if they won a coveted spot in the Emma Bowen Foundation
program to receive multi-year internships with major network
companies, such as ABC, Fox, NBC, and Time Warner Cable. Look out for
more exciting news from our youth participants...

 Watch "Fading Away"
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Thanks to All Community TV Network Supporters
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After School Matters; Albert J. Pick, Jr. Fund; Alliance of Logan
Square Organizations/ALSO; Alphawood Foundation; Chicago Community
Trust; Chicago Dept. of Children and Youth Services; Circle of Service
Foundation; City Arts III -- City of Chicago Department of Cultural
Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, a State Agency; Illinois
Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity/Digital Divide
Initiative; Hot Topic Foundation; Illinois Arts Council, a State
Agency; Illinois Arts Council Youth Employment; Mayor Daley’s YouthNet
Region 2; National Endowment for the Arts; Polk Bros Foundation;
William Wood Skinner Foundation; Woods Fund of Chicago; Youth
Creates/Alternative Schools Network

Individual Donors: Ronit Bezalel, Spiro Bobs, Leslie and Philip
Goulet, Mrs. Virginia Monarque Boyle, Ron and Jill Rohde, Kathryn
Simon, and Ed Zwirner

In-Kind Contributions: Microsoft Unlimited Potential, California Pizza
Kitchen, Chicago Rehab Network, Jungle Software, and Video Replay

click here
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As always, we are continuously looking for new opportunities for
organizational growth. Please consider donating online at
www.ctvnetwork.org. We appreciate your help!


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