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Mary Lou Fulton
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Organization The California Endowment

Title Program Manager

Location Los Angeles, CA

Contact Details (email, twitter, other) email: mfulton@calendow.org twitter: mlfulton blog: mediaoptimist.wordpress.com

Your most pressing questions about networks.

What are the most impactful things that funders can do to serve as catalysts for network development and growth?

Live network experiments (include multiple, if relevant).

The Endowment is actively working to develop a foundation for a network among the 14 California communities that are part of our Building Healthy Communities initiative. We also are working to develop networks in specific topic areas, including health and human services, issues affecting boys and men of color, and youth media grantees.

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I am a new to the foundation world, having joined The Endowment last year after 20 years spent working in media. I started out as a print journalist working for The Associated Press and The Los Angeles Times, then moved to the online world in 1995 where I worked at washingtonpost.com, AOL, GeoCities and other startups. I returned to the local media world in 2001, when I joined The Bakersfield Californian and led new product development work there for six years. At The Endowment, I have worked to create a new family of place-based media grants to increase the quantity and quality of community health reporting at traditional media and journalism startups, as well as community, ethnic and youth media. We also support education and training of journalists through the USC Health Journalism Fellowships program, the largest program of its kind in the nation.