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You are improving lives, building communities, advocating for change, innovating, addressing the most pressing issues of our time.

We’re here to help you tell and amplify those stories. We bring together deep experience in working with nonprofit organizations and creating compelling films to help you engage your audiences and raise visibility for the world-changing work you do.

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We help nonprofits working on a wide range of issues tackle communications and fundraising challenges through beautiful video storytelling.

Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge

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Really Useful Media’s agile, strategic support elevated and amplified the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge – a $20 million initiative to source urgently needed housing solutions. From a flawlessly produced two-day virtual pitch event, to a delightfully human video celebrating our winning innovations, their clear vision, technical command and post-production mastery proved invaluable. We can always count on Really Useful Media to deliver excellence.

- Nicole Gudzowsky, Senior Director, Marketing, Enterprise Community Partners Through this video series we followed the journey of the six winners of Enterprise Community Partners’ Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge. Our work with the teams began in 2020 while producing the online pitch-day events where their innovations were chosen for the Challenge. In 2022, we went on location to document their progress and impact, spending 14 days in production across six communities, from Brownsville, Texas to Tacoma, Washington; New York City to Jackson, Mississippi; Boston to Oakland, California. During an extensive pre-production process, we worked closely with Enterprise and each team on story development, identifying visual themes and community voices to tell the story of their innovations, as well as the impact of Enterprise’s partnership in helping bring them to life. We conducted pre-interviews to refine the story, align messaging goals with production logistics and prepare for location filming in each of their communities. These seven videos introduce audiences to an inspiring array of solutions to the nationwide housing crisis, and have been distributed across social media channels as well as forming the heart of an experiential exhibit at The National Building Museum in Washington, DC. video_type: series client: Enterprise Community Partners credits: 7 text_content: button_text: Contact Us link_override: credits_0_role: Executive Producer/Story Editor credits_0_name: Emily Kornblut credits_1_role: Director credits_1_name: Dan Winckler credits_2_role: Directors of Photography credits_2_name: Dan Winckler, Patrick Mandeville (cdcb) credits_3_role: Project Manager credits_3_name: Susan Lanier series_videos_0_host: youtube series_videos_0_video_id: IH981vXXaus series_videos_0_thumbnail_override: 5157 series_videos: 5 series_videos_1_host: youtube series_videos_1_video_id: P8u8VUGkLh4 series_videos_1_thumbnail_override: 5156 series_videos_2_host: youtube series_videos_2_video_id: OIHGsmoFNCA series_videos_2_thumbnail_override: series_videos_3_host: youtube series_videos_3_video_id: 5gvT2Ffp_QE series_videos_3_thumbnail_override: 5152 series_videos_4_host: youtube series_videos_4_video_id: mbgRcD4q1Dc series_videos_4_thumbnail_override: 5158 credits_4_role: Sound/Second camera credits_4_name: Chandler Griffin (GCHP), Joel Barham (Forterra), Johnny Coleman (GCHP), Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre (CNYCN, POAH), Khalid Straker (CNYCN), David Zlutnick (Impact Justice), Paul Toohey (cdcb) credits_5_role: Editors credits_5_name: Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre, Dan Winckler credits_6_role: Post-production Audio credits_6_name: Chris Burke

New York Hall of Science Gala Videos

Fundraising / homepage / Impact / Landing Page / Project video_host: youtube video_id: 2Nq4t8X3_wg video_description: Since 2019 we’ve been proud to produce the videos that have become a cornerstone of NYSCI’s dynamic annual gala. For the 2022 Evening of Science and Inspiration we created four profile videos highlighting how each honoree’s achievements align with NYSCI’s mission to create and deliver equitable STEM learning experiences around their core principles of design, make, and play. To open the evening, we created a video celebrating the museum’s full reopening after damage caused by Hurricane Ida the previous year and highlighting NYSCI’s local and national impact. video_type: series client: New York Hall of Science credits_0_role: Executive Producer/Story Editor credits_0_name: Emily Kornblut credits: 6 text_content: Ready to create videos that will inspire your gala audience? button_text: Contact Us link_override: credits_1_role: Director of Photography credits_1_name: Dan Winckler credits_2_role: Sound operator and second camera credits_2_name: Sherwin Chao, Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre, Joshua Louis Simon, Khalid Straker credits_3_role: Editor credits_3_name: Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre series_videos_0_video_id: CPmxRb7rawI series_videos_0_thumbnail_override: 5169 series_videos: 4 embed_code:

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National Book Awards

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We have been tremendously grateful to collaborate with the wonderful team at Really Useful Media to produce the livestreams of both the National Book Awards Ceremony (since 2020) and Finalist Reading (since 2013). Their team is truly exceptional in thinking through every detail or challenge, and in producing an extraordinary event, and I couldn’t recommend them more highly!

- Ruth Dickey, Executive Director, National Book Foundation

For the return to an in-person, black-tie ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street, we produced the 73rd National Book Awards as a live, multi-camera broadcast for at-home audiences. Building on the successful online and hybrid productions in 2020 and 2021, we partnered closely with the National Book Foundation to refine the run of show and develop a sophisticated look and feel with online viewers in mind. From capturing audience and winner reactions to integrating dynamic graphics, we provided creative solutions to elevate production values and worked closely with the venue audio and video teams to flawlessly implement technical solutions and cues. video_type: series client: National Book Foundation credits_0_role: Director credits_0_name: Dan Winckler credits: 11 text_content: button_text: Contact Us link_override: credits_1_role: Executive Producer credits_1_name: Emily Kornblut credits_2_role: Project Manager credits_2_name: Susan Lanier credits_3_role: Technical Director credits_3_name: Joshua Simon credits_4_role: Video Engineer credits_4_name: Khalid Straker credits_5_role: Audio Engineer credits_5_name: Corey Poindexter credits_6_role: Camera Operators credits_6_name: Lawrence Crocker, Jessica Glass, Khyber Jones, Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre series_videos: 2 credits_7_role: Teleprompter credits_7_name: Ashley Zazzarino/Prompster credits_8_role: Hair/Makeup for Ruth Dickey credits_8_name: Nicolae Rita credits_9_role: Production Support credits_9_name: Sherwin Chao credits_10_role: Post-Production Audio and Music Supervision credits_10_name: Chris Burke series_videos_0_video_id: 653004594 series_videos_0_thumbnail_override: 5003 series_videos_0_host: vimeo series_videos_1_host: youtube series_videos_1_video_id: 654266808 series_videos_1_thumbnail_override: 4817

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