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22: 134:, provides training and technical assistance to community and grassroots organizations. In collaboration with community and grassroots organizations, they address the problems of negative interaction between community and mass media and the lack of resources community organizations and groups experience when they attempt to change negative stereotypical images of their communities portrayed in the mass media. 152:, labor, and advocacy organizations with whom MRAP conducts collaborative action research on media related topics. MRAP began funded projects of direct action with community organizations in 1997 after several months of collaborative planning with the 163:. However, MRAP also collaborates with two national organizations offering technical assistance, training, and support for the development of public policy to community organizations and groups around the country. These organizations, the 180: 153: 43: 179:
share MRAP's vision of providing strategic development training to community organizations. MRAP's vision includes the development of a national media resource network (the
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at Boston College, and graduate student colleagues at Boston College founded MRAP in 1986. MRAP develops networks of community
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MRAP's primary focus of its work is with non-profit organizations in
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