The Jerome Foundation Board approved a two-year commitment of $5,000 to RENEW MEDIA, New York City, acting as fiscal sponsor for GRANTMAKERS IN FILM AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA (GFEM). Open to all foundations as well as government agencies and nonprofit organizations with significant media grantmaking programs, GFEM is an active forum and source of learning for grantmakers concerned with media. It also advocates for the funding of innovative and public interest media as a vital and essential cultural force within the dominant forms of creative, social and journalistic expressions of our time. GFEM engages funders in key media issues and developments in the field through festivals, grantmaker briefings, annual conferences, regional conferences, a media policy working group, information services and special projects including searchable databases.