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An Award That Honors Community Broadcasters

Massachusetts resident Sue Schardt has been in communications since the early nineties, having launched numerous ventures - including SchardtMEDIA Strategies and bringing her tranformative leadership to AIRmedia over more than a decade. Today, Sue Schardt is head of Margin Media, a communications platform that focuses on new forms of journalism and storymaking. A few years ago, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) recognized Ms. Schardt by giving her the Michael Bader Award, one given for lifetime achievement in communications. Mike Bader was an attorney who worked with NFCB and was an advocate of community stations. Mr. Bader knew the difficulties that many community stations had to face day in and day out, driving him to help pioneer and defend many of them. According to NFCB, he relished in giving stations the freedom to do their magic while freely giving them his time, attention, and money. The award is given to honor other pioneers in the broadcast community who have exhibited the desire to promote community radio throughout their careers. Moreover, the award honors those who are willing to make things happen in the community.

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Margin Media and the Finding Sanctuary Multi-Media Production https://ift.tt/3hPrzYJ

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Philadelphia Foundation Supports Community through Media Innovation

Sue Schardt is a respected entrepreneur and leading public media figure whose musical training forms the bedrock of her creative work in audio and multimedia production. She studied at SUNY Potsdam, the New England Conservatory of Music, and Bard’s Conductors’ Institute. Sue Schardt recently launched Margin Media and serves as executive producer. She is developing a new production with a team of community collaborators in Philadelphia with support from the Wyncote Foundation and the Waterman III Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation, supporting community building through media innovation. The Red Elm Tree Foundation recently awarded a grant to Margin Media in support of the work. Schardt is working as producer-in-residence at the Fleisher Art Memorial throughout the period of the pandemic. The Wyncote Foundation is a family foundation established in Philadelphia in 2009 to support efforts that strengthen and enrich culture, community, and the natural environment. It was created with funds from the Otto and Phoebe Haas Charitable Trusts, at the direction of John C. Haas. The Foundation is named after the town Wyncote, located in Pennsylvania, where John C. Haas and his wife, Chara, owned their first home and raised their family. More information at https://www.wyncotefoundation.org/ Philadelphia Foundation supports the arts and culture through musical programs, festivals, and talent programs, the foundation works to improve innovation in the educational and healthcare systems. Moreover, the Philadelphia foundation champions civil rights and engages in support of the LGBTQ community while also working to improve human services. Finally, the organization advances hyperlocal communities that prioritize safety and constitutional rights. For additional information on community causes supported by the Philadelphia Foundation, visit www.philafound.org/. For more on Sue Schardt, visit https://MarginMedia.org

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Stories Inspire Courage and Change

Sue Schardt has extensive experience working in a range of media forms. The Localore production she created in 2010 gave rise to many new ways to tell stories and, through platforms like Hearken, ways to engage and aggregate the brain trust of communities across the country with digital innovation. Sue Schardt remarks at a Localore event in New Orleans, available now at MarginMedia.org, focus on the power of individual story. “Stories make us human,” she said. “The act of sitting across the table from another person – meeting them eye to eye – the act of standing up on a stage to share what is burning in your mind, that comes the deepest part of you, is an act of courage. Each time you do this is a demonstration of your power.” Schardt continued, “There is power in this because, when you choose to tell a story out loud, to have to overcome the fear you may have in committing this act, you are bearing witness to what it is to be a human being. You are demonstrating what is it to be alive in the world, and you are making it possible for another person to see themselves reflected in your experience. It is an act of helping; an act of healing.” We are experiencing, through Black Lives Matter and other contemporary “movements,” the impact of stories expressed through iPhone cameras, on stages, and street chants. In both the telling and the witnessing of story, people across the country and around the world feel a sense of unity, inspiration and courage during a fearful time a upheaval.