The Access Board
(United States Architectural and Transportation Barrier Compliance Board)
1331 F Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004-1111
202.272.0080 (V)
202.272.0082 (TTY)
202.272.0081 (FAX)
800.872.2253 (V)
800.993.2822 (TTY)
email: info@access-board.gov
website: www.access-board.gov/

An independent federal agency that developed the ADA Accessibility Guidelines and the minimum guidelines and requirements on which the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards are based. Free publications on the minimum guidelines for design, construction, and alteration to buildings and vehicles to make them accessible to people with disabilities can be downloaded from the Web site. The Board provides technical assistance and information on architectural requirements of the ADA and other access-related legislation; and on architectural, communication, and transportation accessibility. Check the "Publications" page of the Web site or write or call for a list of free publications.

American Film Institute
2021 North Western Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323.856.7600 (V)
323.467.4578 (FAX)
website: www.afi.com

Grants for film makers; advanced production grants to experienced video and film artists; applicants may not be enrolled as students and must show prior directional work.

Audio Description Associates--Joel Snyder
6502 Westmoreland Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Voice: 301.920.0218 (24hr. voice message service)
FAX: 208.445.0079
Email: jsnyder@audiodescribe.com
Web: www.audiodescribe.com

The following organization can provide assistance in the development of an audio described tour and the training of docents in AD techniques

Corporation for Public Broadcasting
401 Ninth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004-2129
202.879.9600 (V)
202.879.9700 (FAX)
email: comments@cpb.org
website: www.cpb.org/

CPB, a private nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967, is a leader in public broadcasting's transition to digital educational and programming services for the American people. The corporation is public broadcasting's largest single source of funds for analog and digital program development and production. CPB also funds more than 1,000 local public radio and television stations across the country.

Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Civil Rights Division
Disability Rights Section - NYAVE
Washington, D.C. 20530
800.514.0301 (V)
800.514.0383 (TTY)
202.307.1198 (FAX)
website:
www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm

Responsible for developing and enforcing the ADA state and local government (Title II) and public accommodations (Title III) regulations. Also coordinates technical assistance programs for Federal Agencies. A list free publications can be found on the website or by calling the ADA information hotline.

Documentary Research, Inc.
96 Rumsey Road
Buffalo, NY 14209
716.881.3626 (V)

Publishes Get the Money and Shoot, a 170 page funding guide for documentary filmmakers. (Currently inactive, but some publications & films available.)

The Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc.
35 University Boulevard East
Silver Spring, MD 20901
301. 681.6636 (V)
301. 681.5227 (FAX)
email: information@washear.org
website: www.washear.org/

A national organization that conducts research and provides services for persons who are blind or have partial vision, as well as people with other disabilities. The Ear has developed and perfected audio description-a technique that uses trained narrators to describe, between lines of dialogue, what is happening on the screen, television, or stage.

National Endowment for the Arts
Office for AccessAbility
National Endowment for the Arts
202.682.5532 (V)
202.682.5496 (TTY)
202.682.5715 (FAX)
email: richards@arts.endow.gov
website: www.arts.gov
Contact: Ms. Suzanne Richard
Accessibility Specialist

Visit or contact the Endowment to find out what grants are available to nonprofit organizations. Also available is the Arts and 504 Handbook that outlines how to make art accessible to artists and audiences with disabilities and older Americans.

National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506
800.NEH.1121 (V)
202.606.8282 (TTY)
202.682.5715 (FAX)
email: info@neh.gov
website: www.neh.gov/grants/index.html

NEH is a federal agency that, among other things, gives grants that support quality humanities programming for the public.

National Public Radio
635 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
202.513.2000 (V)
202.513.3329 (FAX)
email: nprhelp@npr.org
website: www.npr.org

Programming for older adults and people with disabilities by satellite to public audiences nationwide.

Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, Room 4625
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20230
202.482.5802 (V)
202.482.2156 (FAX)
email: ptfp@ntia.doc.gov
website: www.ntia.doc.gov/ptfp/

PTFP is a competitive grant program to help stations, state and local governments, Indian Tribes and nonprofit organizations construct facilities to bring educational and cultural programs to the American Public using broadcasting and nonbroadcasting telecommunications technologies.

Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
RID, Inc.
333 Commerce Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.838.0030 (V)
703.838.0459 (TTY)
703.838.0454 (FAX)
email: pr@rid.org
website: www.rid.org/

Will refer to interpreters and interpreter services in your area as well as providing an online searchable index of certified interpreters.

Research Grant Guides
P.O. Box 1214
Loxahatchee, FL 33470
561.795.6129 (V)
561.795.7794 (FAX)

Publishers of Directory of Grants to Organizations Serving People with Disabilities, now on its 11^th addition.

Rockefeller Foundation: New York
420 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY  10018-2702
212.869.8500 (V)
Rockefeller Foundation:San Francisco
88 Kearny Street
Suite 1850
San Francisco, CA  94108-5530
415.343.0223 (V)
email: csc@rockfound.org
website: www.rockfound.org

The Rockefeller Foundation is a knowledge-based, global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world. They offer among many other things, grants that involve creative use of technology to include excluded groups in technology.

Resources for providing technical assistance and/or services captioning for television, film and video.

The Caption Center:

Boston:
125 Western Avenue
Boston, MA 02134
617.300.3600 (V/TTY)
617.300.1020 (FAX)

Los Angeles:
300 E. Magnolia Blvd.
2nd. Floor
Burbank, CA 91502
818.562.3344 (V)
818.562.1919 (TTY)
818.562.3388 (FAX)

New York:
545 Fifth Avenue
Suite 609
New York, NY 10017
212.490.3677 (V)
212.490.3688 (FAX)
email: access@wgbh.org
website:
main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/captioncenter/

The Caption Center is the world's first captioning agency and a non-profit service of the WGBH Educational Foundation. With offices in Boston, Los Angeles and New York, The Caption Center captions nearly 250 hours per week of programming from all segments of the television industry. Their mission is: to produce captions for the greatest number of television programs, videos, digital media formats and feature films; heighten awareness of captioning and cultivate caption funders; develop software and systems to improve the caption production process; develop new captioning markets and broaden existing ones; serve as a resource for captioning software, systems and information to consumers and organizations that have an interest in captioning services among other things.

National Captioning Institute: California
303 North Glenoaks Boulevard, Suite 200
Burbank, CA 91502
818.238.0068 (V/TTY)
818.238.4266 (FAX)

National Captioning Institute: New York
333 Seventh Avenue, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10001
212.557.7011 (V/TTY)
212.557.6975 (FAX)
email: mail@ncicap.org
website: www.ncicap.org/

National Captioning Institute: Virginia
1900 Gallows Road, Suite 3000
Vienna, VA 22182
703.917.7600 (V/TTY)
703.917.9853 (FAX)

NCI provides domestic and international captioning for broadcast and cablecast television programs, home video programs, TV commercials, and the U.S. Government. For assistance with audio description, contact Joel Snyder at: 703.917.7693.

Resources for providing technical assistance and/or services in developing descriptive video (audio description) service for television, film and video.

Arts and Visually Impaired Services
332 17th Ave. E
Seattle, WA 98112-5107
206.323.7190 (V)
206.323.7190 (FAX)
email: AVIABoss@aol.com

Audio Description Associates--Joel Snyder
6502 Westmoreland Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912
301.920.0218 (24hr. voice message service)
208.445.0079 (FAX)
email: jsnyder@audiodescribe.com
website: www.audiodescribe.com

Audio Optics, Inc.
24 Hutton Avenue, #26
West Orange, NY 07052
201.736.5490 (V)

AudioVision
416 Holladay Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.641.4589 (V)

Descriptive Video Service
WGBH-TV
125 Western Avenue
Boston, MA 02134
617.492.2777 x3490 (V)
617.492.9225 (TTY) caption center

Houston Taping for the Blind
3935 Essex Lane
Houston, TX 77027
713.622.2767 (V)

The Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc.
35 University Boulevard East
Silver Spring, MD 20901
301.681.6636 (V)
301.681.5227 (FAX)
email: information@washear.org
website: www.washear.org/

Narrative Television Network
5840 South Memorial Drive
Suite 312
Tulsa, OK 74145
918.627.1000 (V)