Allied Media Projects

Allied Media Projects Media strategies for a more just, creative, and collaborative world. and beyond, who come to Detroit every year to teach and to learn.

AMP grew out of the annual Allied Media Conference, which began in 1999 as a celebration of independent publishing and do-it-yourself culture. The AMC has expanded to a large and diverse gathering, offering hands-on trainings in a wide-range of media practices, from breakdancing to video-blogging to building radio transmitters and wireless mesh networks. The AMC fosters strategies for how these pr

actices can support and inspire grassroots organizing for social justice. AMP moved the AMC from its original home in Bowling Green, OH to Detroit, MI in 2007, connecting with the city’s rich legacy of community media and social movements. The AMC has become a one-of-a-kind convergence point for the most visionary and effective media-based organizers from across the U.S. AMP’s local programs model and innovate practices in education, economic development and community organizing. We facilitate organizing around issues of technology access, participation, common ownership, and healthy communities through the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition. Our Detroit Future Media program is a 6-month training course in core digital media competencies, and their application in shaping Detroit’s future through education, entrepreneurship and community organizing. Through Detroit Future Schools, we pair graduates from Detroit Future Media with K-12 teachers to design and implement digital media arts-integrated curricula in the classroom. We are building web platforms that support and celebrate the collaboration and creativity of our network. AMPTalk is an online forum for idea-development and resource-sharing amongst the participants of the Allied Media Projects network. Allied365.org is an online catalog where participants in the Allied Media Conference, Detroit Future Media, and Detroit Future Schools showcase and distribute their services, curricula, and other offerings.

AMP is Hiring for a Development Manager! Come join our team 🌱The Development Manager plays a key role in securing instit...
08/05/2025

AMP is Hiring for a Development Manager! Come join our team 🌱

The Development Manager plays a key role in securing institutional support for Allied Media Projects (AMP) and its Sponsored Projects. This position is responsible for drafting, submitting, and managing grant proposals and reports, developing and maintaining grant management systems, and supporting a diverse portfolio of fundraising initiatives. This role requires exceptional writing, project management, and relationship-building skills, and a passion for social justice, grassroots organizing, and a passion for our collective mission of cultivating media for liberation.

- Full time position (32-hour work week)
- Hybrid, based in Detroit, MI
- Salary range is $67,000 - $77,000 with a competitive benefits package including: employer-sponsored Medical, Vision, Dental, and retirement matching

The ideal start date for this role is September 8th, 2025. Apply by August 13th, 2025!

🔗 full job description and more info on our website. Link in bio

How do we dream freedom while living in the ruins of disaster?Join us for the Detroit launch of Beyond Disaster: Buildin...
06/30/2025

How do we dream freedom while living in the ruins of disaster?

Join us for the Detroit launch of Beyond Disaster: Building Collective Futures in Puerto Rico by Dr. Melissa L. Rosario (Meli, she/they) — a powerful offering on ancestral reclamation, healing, and resistance in the face of colonial crisis.

📖✨ Told from the perspective of a rematriated Nuyorican, this book invites us to imagine beyond survival — toward futures rooted in care, memory, and possibility.

🗓️ Friday, July 11th
📍 The LOVE Building (Detroit)
🕖 7 PM | Free & open to all

Books available for purchase + signing to follow.

Dr. Rosario (Meli, she/they) is a cultural worker and healing justice practitioner. They are co-founder and co-director of Center for Embodied Pedagogy and Action (CEPA), a sponsored project of Allied Media based in Puerto Rico whose mission is to foster decolonization through a diverse array of intersectional practices grounded in community care, creative expression and reclamation of afro indigenous traditions.

📚 Let’s gather, learn, and envision liberatory growth.

OPEN CALL!We are excited to open our fiscal sponsorship services to new projects this Summer.Join us for to learn more a...
06/03/2025

OPEN CALL!

We are excited to open our fiscal sponsorship services to new projects this Summer.

Join us for to learn more about our program at either of these times:

—Jun 12, 2025 11:00 AM EST
—Jun 24, 2025 03:00 PM EST

🔗Registration link in bio!

💸 AMP is hiring a Finance Administrator!🪙The Finance Administrator at Allied Media Projects plays a vital role in overse...
04/16/2025

💸 AMP is hiring a Finance Administrator!

🪙The Finance Administrator at Allied Media Projects plays a vital role in overseeing daily treasury activities, ensuring ecient coordination of accounting tasks, and oering interdepartmental support for finance-related projects and requests. This position is responsible for overseeing accounting processes, including managing email correspondence, processing banking transactions, and reconciling financial records. The Finance Administrator also provides crucial administrative support for day-to-day finance operations, ensuring smooth and timely completion of tasks.

📆 Apply by April 30!

🔗 Full job description on our website. Link is in our bio!

We’re Hiring!AMP is seeking a Network Liaison to join our Sponsored Projects Team!Are you passionate about supporting mo...
02/13/2025

We’re Hiring!

AMP is seeking a Network Liaison to join our Sponsored Projects Team!

Are you passionate about supporting movements and resource-building? As a key member of our team, you’ll play an essential role in guiding and supporting fiscally sponsored projects. Your work will be vital in fostering collaborative relationships across our network, ensuring exceptional support, and coordinating with various departments to meet project needs.

💻full time position
📍hybrid, based in Detroit, MI
💸 Salary range is $64,000-$67,000 with competitive benefits package

If you’re ready to make an impact and help expand our network, we want to hear from you! To learn more about this position, and application process, check out the full job description on our website.

We Presume Our Power Not Our Powerlessness 💜This month we are uplifting our network principles to explore how we provide...
12/10/2024

We Presume Our Power Not Our Powerlessness 💜

This month we are uplifting our network principles to explore how we provide radical movement infrastructure.

Learn more about how we support our projects by signing up for our newsletter at the link in our bio.

💸💸All donors who give $25 in the month of December will receive a limited edition sticker pack! Nourish our ecosystem with your gift which is critical to keep our fiscal sponsorship fees low allowing access to projects who need our support.

💜 Help sustain Allied Media Projects in 2025! AMP works closely with our projects by listening to their unique needs. Al...
12/03/2024

💜 Help sustain Allied Media Projects in 2025!

AMP works closely with our projects by listening to their unique needs. Alongside our projects, we identify areas of support that allow our projects to meet their goals.

Join us in celebrating our network principles by giving $25 in December, and you’ll receive a limited edition sticker pack from Allied Media Projects.

Sign up for our newsletter at the link in our bio to read stories about how we support our projects. All donors who give in the month of December will receive a limited edition sticker pack! Your gift will nourish our ecosystem, which is critical to keeping our fiscal sponsorship fees low and allowing access to projects that need our support. 💸

Help sustain Allied Media Projects in 2025! Join us in celebrating our network principles by giving $25 in December, and...
12/03/2024

Help sustain Allied Media Projects in 2025! Join us in celebrating our network principles by giving $25 in December, and you’ll receive a limited edition sticker pack from Allied Media Projects.

Sign up for our newsletter at the link in our bio to read stories about how we support our projects. All donors who give in the month of December will receive a limited edition sticker pack! Your gift will nourish our ecosystem, which is critical to keeping our fiscal sponsorship fees low and allowing access to projects that need our support.

Project Hajra, one of our fiscally sponsored projects, is running their fall fundraiser! Project Hajra is a peer-run sur...
10/29/2024

Project Hajra, one of our fiscally sponsored projects, is running their fall fundraiser! Project Hajra is a peer-run survivor-led transformative justice program in Queens, NYC. Their current work offers long term, community based alternatives to mainstream interpersonal violence crisis-response services. They’re aiming to raise $35K by Nov. 5 to keep building safe, thriving, and resilient AMEMSA communities. Please consider supporting this vital neighborhood support network. Info and fundraiser link: tiny.cc/project-hajra-2024 (also in their bio) Thank you!

[Image IDs: A vibrant pink oval overlays a deep violet background, decorated with garlands of pink, yellow, and white flowers and green leaves. Inside the oval are yellow handwritten letters that read, “PROJECT HAJRA” above purple block letters that read, “FALL 2024 FUNDRAISER”. Below the letters in the oval is a drawing of a woman with soft brown skin and a sweet smile. She wears a cream colored hijab and a purple dress; a huge bouquet of peach, yellow, and white flowers with lots of green foliage spills from her arms. In a yellow cloud next to the woman is purple text that reads “Help Project Hajra reach our goal of raising $35,000 by Nov. 5.”

A vibrant pink oval overlays a deep violet background, decorated with garlands of pink, yellow, and white flowers and green leaves. Inside the oval, in black text, reads, “Project Hajra is a peer-led transformative justice membership initiative working out of our Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) community in Queens, New York City. ”.

A vibrant pink oval overlays a deep violet background, decorated with garlands of pink, yellow, and white flowers and green leaves. Inside the oval is a woman with soft brown skin and a sweet smile. She wears a cream colored hijab, a purple dress, and holds a huge bouquet of peach, yellow, and white flowers and foliage. Above the woman, in yellow script reads, “PROJECT HAJRA”.]

🎉✨After five years of development and one year of breathing life into the building, the team and tenant partners are op...
08/14/2024

🎉✨After five years of development and one year of breathing life into the building, the team and tenant partners are opening our doors to the greater community to celebrate our official grand opening celebration.

Join us for a four-day grand opening celebration filled with fun, connection, and community spirit!

🗓️September 3-6 at the LOVE Building
📍4731 Grand River Ave Detroit, MI 48208

🗓️ September 3: Open House
– Meet the amazing people behind The LOVE Building and our tenant-partners!
🗓️ September 4: Townhall
– Dive into our vision and initiatives with community discussions.
🗓️ September 5: Mural Unveiling & Art Exhibition
– Honor local heroes and enjoy Taylor Childs’ solo show.
🗓️ September 6: Party
– Dance the night away with us and celebrate in style! $10 entry fee.

Bring your family, friends, and neighbors, and let’s celebrate together! 🎨💃🏾🎊
RSVP now: Link in bio!

Through our lineage of transformation and liberation, AMP is committed to supporting media that helps us imagine, vision...
06/27/2024

Through our lineage of transformation and liberation, AMP is committed to supporting media that helps us imagine, vision, and implement the transformation we need to create more just worlds. Our Sponsored Projects are rooted in media for liberation and focus on the work of racial justice, education, Detroit based organizing, abolition, growing collectives, building solidarity, and transformative justice.

Media for liberation has a ripple effect on the way we think about ourselves, our environment, and the systems of power that surround us. Media for liberation not only help us understand our context, they support us in envisioning new possibilities for creating and practicing more just futures.

Our Sponsored Projects' encompass a lush ecosystem of media for liberation—from poetry to ceremony, from dance to community storytelling. Our over 100 projects, across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, organize in a myriad of ways using media through popular education, storytelling, facilitation, writing, film, art, publications, and zines.

Join us in supporting the ecosystem of media for liberation 🌿

Ever wonder what we mean when we say we are a fiscal sponsor? This month we are demystifying what fiscal sponsorship is ...
05/20/2024

Ever wonder what we mean when we say we are a fiscal sponsor? This month we are demystifying what fiscal sponsorship is and how we do it at AMP! Essentially, as stated by Jenny Lee, former ED of AMP, “We became a nonprofit so others didn't have to.” We strive to nourish, protect, connect, balance, and cultivate the ecosystem of media for liberation through radical shared infrastructure.

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4731 Grand River Avenue Suite 400
Detroit, MI
48208

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm

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+13137182267

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