- NONPROFIT OPEN HOUSE - Monday, March 20th Nonprofit Open House & Community Celebration ** PLEASE JOIN US ** - Access SF / Cable Channel 29 Facility Open House & Community Celebration for San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofits - In Honor Of National Media & Democracy Week. WHEN: Monday, March 20th, 2006 3:00pm - 7:00pm WHERE: Access SF - 1720 Market Street (at Valencia) ------------------------- WHO SHOULD ATTEND: The open house is designed for San Francisco Bay Area non-profit organizations, non-profit professionals, board members and related community organizers and volunteers who are involved with nonprofit organizations. WHAT WILL HAPPEN: The open house will provide nonprofits with a chance to learn more about the station's state of the art resources & our award winning non-profit collaborations program THE SAN FRANCISCANS. Access SF is one the City's leading affordable pathways for local non-profits to indulge that always-aching part of an agency's annual budget - MEDIA! ------------------------- * Food & Drink Will Be Served. * Tours will be provided of Access SF’s 1.75 million dollar television station & production facility. * Non-profit Professionals will be given the chance to appear in station I.D.’s that will promote their agency. * Access SF will provide demonstrations of newly acquired equipment. * Access SF will launch its new non-profit membership program, which includes a dynamic set of new services that are affordably packaged and designed to benefit the media needs of the local non-profit sector. ------------------------- FOR INFORMATION & TO RSVP: Marc Smolowitz Access SF Development Ph: 415-575-4947 Email: marc@accessf.org ABOUT ACCESS SF / CABLE CHANNEL 29 Access SF is the dba of San Francisco Community Television Corporation (SFCTC), which has served as the City's designated nonprofit manager of public access television since 1999. Prior, SFCTC had built and managed Citywatch, the City’s first government access channel launched during Mayor Frank Jordan’s administration. In April 2002, the agency opened a 4,500 square foot facility located at 1720 Market Street where citizens and nonprofits are offered low-cost training in media and television, access to equipment and channel time, and state of the art facility resources. Currently, 300+ producer members submit 225+ regular series for playback each month. Annually, the station cablecasts 4800+ hours of original local programming on Cable Channel 29, which reaches into 217,000+ households across all neighborhoods on both Comcast and RCN cable. The mission of Access SF is to strengthen the fabric of community life be enabling open communication through public access television and other forms of electronic media. Learn more about Access SF – Cable Channel 29 at www.accessf.org.