The Power of Partnerships

It’s often said that you know who your REAL friends are when the going gets tough. Black Public Media is fortunate to have A LOT of powerful partnerships with friends — old and new. Just recently, we’ve had a chance to partner with our longtime friends at Color Congress for a community screening. Earlier this month, we partnered with our new friends at the LA84 Foundation for an event in their Los Angeles headquarters. And this week, our BPM-Carson Center Residency partners at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are hosting the fourth annual cohort of BPMplus immersive media fellows. 

Next month, we’re partnering with our friends at BlackStar, ITVS, Firelight Media, and WORLD to once again co-sponsor the Filmmaker Mixer at BlackStar Film Festival. Our forever friends in the National Multicultural Alliance are our ride-or-die partners as are our station partners within the PBS system. Our corporate and foundation partnerships with Netflix, Shutterstock, MacArthur Foundation, Acton Family Giving, Agog Foundation LLC and others enable us to provide significant opportunities for our makers. 

Our Shared Commitment

All of these partnerships are rooted in a shared commitment to our communities and to the mission of public media. Partnerships allow BPM to optimize our impact so that makers get what they need to produce the programming that audiences love and need. The power of partnerships is they give all of us a chance to grow. 

As a subscriber to our monthly newsletter, our Weekly Dispatch and our social media platforms, we consider you one of our partners. We couldn’t do all that we do without you. So, thank you, for being a part of this journey. There are still a lot of unanswered questions about the future of public media. This week’s Capitol Hill vote on the Rescissions Act is a high-stakes piece of legislation that we hope you and other supporters of public media will weigh in on with your representatives.

Most Americans have never lived in a world without federal support for public media. I hope we don’t have to find out what that’s like. But regardless of what happens, the power of our partnerships gives me confidence that BPM will always find ways to deliver content that educates, entertains and celebrates Black experiences.  

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