Our Mission

To encourage community participation and to teach youth about local history, culture and community events through the use of new media technology.  

RPM accomplishes this mission by providing training in media production, by providing access to production equipment, by serving as an educational and vocational resource, and by facilitating distribution of community productions locally, nationally and internationally. Find out more about us.


Tuesday

Share Your Story

Real People Media invites organizations to share their success stories, tips on surviving the recession, a great fundraising event, etc.  Submit your story to us and maybe we'll select it to do a documentary on your organization.  

Here's an example.   

After the only cafe in Ellsworth, Michigan went out of business, this tiny village lost a vital community center.  To rectify this situation, local churches rallied together, formed a non profit and purchased the building to create the "Front Porch" cafe.   The restaurant opened in September 2008 and has been a bustle of activity ever since.  There are 3 paid employees (cooks) but the rest of the work - waiting tables, cleaning, maintenance, etc. is done by volunteers.  What a great story.   One which could be replicated in other communities suffering the same fate.   Real People Media hopes to have the mini-documentary on the "Front Porch" on this site soon.      

Send us YOUR success story.  How are you beating the recession?  Community Gardens, Cooperative Housing?    Let us know.
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