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We "Make Messages That Matter" by working with organizations who are changing our world for the better. Since I started the company in 1988 we have won nearly three dozen television production awards in peer-reviewed national and international competitions. If you have a socially redeeming message that requires high production qualities, please review this web site and then contact me. Thank you. J.W. Gregg Meister, President.

The first week of March we're in the Dominican Republic with the Foundation For Peace taping a nursing school from Tennesee. They'll be conducting clinics for impoverished Dominicans and Haitians on the western side of the country. We'll also be taping at an orphanage, located just north of Santo Domingo, that was founded a few years ago by Jeff and Joy Spraghens, Christian businesspeople from the DC area.

In January and February 2008 we finished editing an 8-minute program on the work of the Foundation For Peace on the bateys in the Dominican Republic. A batey is a Haitian enclave consisting of perhaps 500 persons, living is unbelievable poverty, throughout the Dominican Republic. Approximately 300 copies of the program have been distributed to schools and churches throughout the Northeast. We also completed the 15-minute program on the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative, and are in pre-production for the sequel.

 In November 2007 we traveled to Buffalo, New York to tape lawyers in their volunteer efforts to tutor inner-city youth. We maintain their web site, LawyersForLearning.org. Soon we'll add a 3-5 minute video that will illustrate their fine work and help them recruit more volunteer lawyers.

In October we taped a professional training conference for teachers involved in the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative, funded by The Annenberg Foundation, in Hershey, PA. This stellar program, designed to improve student classroom performance among high school students (it involves supporting literacy and math teachers and has nothing to do with sports), is the only one of its kind in the United States. The DVD shows how advanced teacher training leads to higher student performance and achievement.

During September 2007 we were on location in Israel producing a documentary and educational series on the history of Israel, designed for churches and synagogues. Without understanding Israel's past you cannot appreciate that small country's significance and the continual danger it faces from its Muslim neighbors. This program, available for distribution during the first half of 2008, will serve as a needed prelude to Christian adult Bible studies.

In September we won the Blingy Sapphire Award for our production, "Within God's Great Love," which features the inner-city work of the San Francisco Network Ministries. The SFNM helped create the nation's first AIDS clinic, has built a multimillion dollar low income housing unit in the heart of San Francisco, and is one of the very few organizations in the country seeking to help prostitutes who are trying to leave that demeaning life style. The DVD we produced for them helps them find new volunteers and new sources of funding.

We just won the Blingy Emerald Award for our production, "Children of Hope," a fundraising video for the Foundation For Peace that features their work on behalf of impoverished children in the Dominican Republic. Please see their web site, www.foundationforpeace.org, for a full description of their remarkable work. The DVD/video assists the Foundation For Peace in carrying their message to public schools in the US, as well as churches.

We won another highly regarded Telly Award for our production showcasing the after-schools program in Flint, Michigan, a program supported by Foundations, Inc. and the C.S. Mott Foundation. The DVD/video enables them to find volunteers through showings on cable television, and is also used for training volunteers.

In Philadelphia we just completed a documentary series four years in the making on the Neighborhood School Network and the Martin Luther King High School, for Foundations, Inc. The programs show how these public schools have improved under private management, and in fact may serve as a model for urban education for the rest of the country.

In Santo Domingo and other more remote sections of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, we are producing documentaries for the Foundation For Peace that show this foundation's remarkable work among some of the poorest persons in our hemisphere. Over the course of the summer, nearly 500 volunteers built schools and churches, dug latrines and clean water systems, and conducted Bible schools and medical clinics. It was both a joy and a privilege to travel with them to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on four occasions between May and August 2007. Selected clips will be posted to their site, www.foundationforpeace.org, and to YouTube. Several programs will be completed in the next few months.

In cities across Pennsylvania, such as Uniontown, Altoona, Philadelphia, and Reading, we continue work on the Pennsylvania High School Coaching Initiative DVD. Funded through The Annenberg Foundation and Foundations, Inc., this program will target legislators and stakeholders across the country in their efforts to improve the quality of teaching at the high school level.

In Las Vegas, we attended the National Association of Broadcasters annual meeting (along with 103,000 of our closest friends) to survey the merging fields of television production and Internet streaming. Upon our return we purchased the latest Sony High Definition camcorder and upgraded to the latest versions of Final Cut Pro, PhotoShop CS3, and Dreamweaver CS3. Our future television production work will be in HD (high def) rather than SD (standard definition). (April 2007)

In Washington DC, with press credentials to the Washington National Cathedral, we videotaped the March 16, 2007 Christian Peace Witness For Iraq. To view selected Flash clips visit PresbyterianChurchUSA.com. Nearly three dozen Christian organizations, including Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans, Episcopalians and Mennonites, organized and participated in the events.

In Michigan, we produced three videos for the Bridges to the Future afterschool program. Funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and managed through the United Way of Genesee County, Bridges serves 17,000 children in 21 school districts. Our educational and fundraising DVD, produced under the direction of Foundations, Inc., included a 30-second spot for cable and broadcast television, an 8-minute program for recruiting volunteers and interpreting Bridges to local community groups and churches, and a 15-minute program for training staff and volunteers.

In California, we produced a 15-minute documentary and fundraising television program for the San Francisco Network Ministries (SFNM). This award-winning program shows the impact a small group of committed individuals can make. The SFNM provides housing for the underserved, and sponsors a safe house for women seeking to leave prostitution, and job training for the unemployed.

In the Dominican Republic, under the auspices of Foundation For Peace, we produced the 12-minute program, "Children of Hope." This fundraising documentary visits schools in some of the most impoverished communities in our hemisphere. These young people care so much about learning that they carry their own chairs to school every day. Foundation For Peace builds churches and schools, conducts medical clinics, and installs clean water systems.

At Interlink Media, we want to communicate messages like these. It's Interlink Media's mission to produce documentaries, fundraising videos, DVDs, and web sites for organizations that promote peace and redeeming social values. We believe it really is important to combat the causes of poverty, illiteracy, disease, racism and war.