To support Community Visions, The Documentary History Project for Youth and Precious Places, three media program initiatives that address issues of social and economic justice in the Philadelphia tri-state area. Scribe Video Center was founded in 1982 to explore, develop and advance the use of film, video, audio and interactive digital technologies as artistic media and as tools for progressive social change. Scribe provides workshops for artists, community organizations and novice media makers; collaborates with community-based organization that want to use media to document issues; screens new works and offers services to independent media makers. During 2002-2003, NCF supported Community Vision and The Documentary History Project for Youth. Notable projects include collaborations with the Lawnside Historical Society, Eco Tech Learning Community, Threshold, a volunteer prison mentoring project and El Comite de Apoya Los Trabajadores Agricolas, a farm workers group. In 2003-2004 Scribe will select and create media with four new Community Visions productions partners; work with youth to produce videos that document local history; and implement a new initiative that results in media about public spaces, buildings, street corners, parks and neighborhoods that hold community memories.