Nonprofit Capitalism is a road on which the power of self-interest meets the ethics of social responsibility; a journey to where the lions and lambs of globalization stop the hunt and peacefully use local economics to transform their swords into plowshares to restore a long lost balance of Life; a means and not an end – why we are here and what we can do together.

Do you have a vision for a better future with more justice for all?

Artists for Media Diversity reaches out for conscious collaboration with the growing national movement for cooperative economics and social entrepreneurship. Across this country, large networks of organizations have already tested and established a variety of business and service models with different forms of worker/owner management, production/distribution, and public/member participation. Fair trade is a significant component and value in action.

A4MD is ready to merge its model of culture, community media and public service with these existing nonprofit alternative economic and fair trade networks. By creating a national touring network for artists and activists, through simultaneous support of public media, we leverage our collective assets to develop expanded resources to be shared by all.

Our planetary cultures are strangled by the greed of those whose vision is limited to looking at life through the lens of illusion of human separation and disconnection. A4MD’s vision is that culture enhances and media supports a sustainable future that is locally based, locally scaled and locally controllable.

A4MD’s business model of nonprofit capitalism encourages a co-creation of shared opportunities, harnessing the power achieved from breaking down the isolation of self-interest of individuals and organizations, then channeling the new economic energy into larger, more sustainable and regenerative outcomes.

The A4MD economic engine consists of three complementary functions, mutually supportive parts of the same service.

• The Archive of Music Diversity—for Internet-based distribution and sale of original music recorded at noncommercial radio stations and live concerts at local venues in collaboration with local nonprofits and coops. https://a4md.org/home/archive-for-music-diversity/
• The Artist Activist Network— a manifestation of music, creativity and positive social action in the form of events and special gatherings of people to celebrate what unites them and serves the quality of their inner and social lives. A4MD is creating a regional/national touring network of radio stations and local venues for artists to connect with people and organizations that share interests and concerns on a wired range of issues. https://a4md.org/artists/artist-activist-network/
• Nonprofit Capitalism — Cooperative economics and social responsibility for sustaining community media, local culture and nonprofit organizations. For more background, please reference “An Ethical Context for Economic Reform: The Business and Public Service Model of Artists for Media Diversity” https://a4md.org/about/philosophy/.

Together, we build movements for positive change. Together, we create social spaces for people to gather, to share their stories and to build relationships of mutual trust and understanding. Effective teamwork becomes possible even in times of extreme stress. We are living in such times. Together, we can do anything.

For more information, contact Artists for Media Diversity.

Artists for Media Diversity (A4MD) is creating a new national network for artist touring that combines support for noncommercial radio stations and the local communities they serve.

The Artist Activist Network represents a new and unique artist-led and community media based movement to co-create a positive response to the serious economic and social challenges facing people across the country. A4MD affiliated radio stations may choose to participate in a national touring network of community service for artists to connect their activist concerns in a myriad of areas with local organizations that share the same mission and purpose.

The goal of this network of artists, noncom radio stations and local organizations is to unite, energize and support people while simultaneously generating ongoing support for the noncom stations that make this network possible.

As local touring sites are identified and links are established between artists and local activist organizations, regional and national sources will be identified to provide top down support as the grass roots grow up. As this circuit of artists, people, organizations and local media is activated, the energy and spirit can flow to all areas creating a self-supporting, renewable and sustainable cultural and economic model for further community service development.

A4MD launched it’s unique and innovative service project for noncommercial radio, the Archive for Music Diversity, in October, and already several stations have registered at https://a4md.org. Affiliated stations will be submitting songs recorded during live broadcasts by artists who want to support local noncom radio and the spirit of community service. Artists who donate downloads of their recorded songs from the broadcasts, for sale to the public by A4MD, will receive valuable and strategic national exposure for their music. The combined services of the Archive and the Network will help to grow the local, regional and national audiences for both community radio and artists, something that is becoming increasingly difficult and rare in the current media environment.

For more information about A4MD, the Archive for Music Diversity and the Artist Activist Network, contact Artists for Media Diversity.

Artists for Media Diversity, https://a4md.org.

The Archive for Music Diversity – A “Musical Stimulus Package” to Support Noncommercial Radio Stations

Artists for Media Diversity (A4MD) announces the beginning of a new service for noncommercial radio stations:  The Archive for Music Diversity.

The Archive for Music Diversity turns live music recordings from recording artist broadcasts into studio equipment for noncommercial stations and more. It’s all about recording artists and radio broadcasters working together, supporting each other and growing the audience.

Music downloads contributed by participating artists generated from recordings made at noncommercial radio stations provides a simple investment by conscious partners to co-create a new national programming tool exclusively for community, college, low-power-fm and public radio stations.

Internet-based sales from the forthcoming A4MD online catalog of songs donated to the Archive for Music Diversity will provide ongoing resources to support the noncommercial radio stations.

All across the country, community and college-based radio stations are facing major challenges and unprecedented levels of financial stress. The once-powerful and influential relationship between artists and radio has been marginalized by excess greed and lack of creative long-term thinking. People, by being treated primarily as consumer objects, have lost the desire to make a deeper and more respectful financial connection with the creators and the broadcasters of local music.

Artists for Media Diversity, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was founded to restore and renew the sacred relationship between music and community through support for the noncommercial broadcast medium.

Radio stations and recording artists interested in joining A4MD’s campaign are encouraged to sign up at http://a4md.org.

For more information, contact Artists for Media Diversity.
Artists for Media Diversity http://a4md.org