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Causes: Telecommunications
Mission: Creatv san jose is a non-profit, public benefit corporation serving the city of san jose. The specific purposes of the corporation are:1. To encourage and support the use of public and educational access channels (bandwidth) and resources among a wide range of individuals, organizations, and institutions within the city of san jose. 2. To serve the community by providing support, management, and distribution of noncommercial, community-based media access programs. 3. To develop and promote the use of community media access resources and bandwidth in a non-discriminatory manner that promotes a free exchange of ideas and information. 4. To provide institutions, agencies, organizations, and individuals on a nondiscriminatory basis the necessary resources including studio and mobile equipment, video equipment and computers, and training to create and distribute noncommercial programming and information on public and educational access channels on the cable system and online.
Programs: The organization is responsible for operating one or more community media centers (cmc). The organization is also responsible for operating the public and educational access channels and distributing community based video content on the comcast system. The organization provides training on video/computer techniques necessary to create videos that can be cablecast over the local public and educational access, streamed on the internet, or made available on dvd. The organization provides all of the necessary support services that will permit the cmc and the public and educational access channels to function, including broadcast of programming/content, equipment maintenance, developing and managing volunteers, outreach, promotion and public relations.