Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education

Fiscal Sponsorships - NAAME supported various organizations that all provide a wide range of alternative perspectives and educational advocacy, with a particular emphasis on the voices of the marginalized. Focus areas ranged from antiracism to gender liberation, from prisoners to the unhoused, from international solidarity to community youth organizing - and, of course, music and performance.

Other various programs to support the mission of NAAME.

Keys Beats Bars - An arts-integrated, culturally and trama-responsive project, providing audiovisual and holistic music programming for justice-involved, incarcerated, and marginalized youth in Oregon. We work with a range of music artists who raise awareness of cultural music and support youth in skills building and alternative forms of healing. In 2023, Keys Beats Bars served approximately 75 underserved youth in Oregon ages 14-25, offering general service hours 5 hours per week and provided approximately 150 events, workshops and classes.