Independent Press Clubs
Our frequent Independent Press Clubs give your reporters a chance to pose questions to public figures in the news. Past Press Clubs featured the police commissioner, schools chancellor, and state attorney general. Watch the announcements on the right-hand side of our main page for upcoming press clubs. You can also sign up to receive bulletins about press clubs by email or fax.

All Communities Advertising Service (allCAS)
AllCAS makes it easy for national and local advertisers to reach your publication. In addition, your staff can apply to sell ads for allCAS on commission. Visit the allCAS website for more information.

Technical Assistance
Our yearly Member Conference and more frequent technical assistance sessions provide you with essential knowledge about graphic design, marketing, distribution, newsroom management, and preparing for an audit. Watch the announcements on the right-hand side of our main page for upcoming workshops. You can also sign up to receive bulletins about workshops by email or fax.

Programs of NYCMA

All members of the IPA may apply to borrow up to $50,000 from our Revolving Loan Fund, run from our San Francisco headquarters, and receive free technical assistance manuals on key publishing topics such as advertising and postal rates. Our brokerage handles distribution for 75 magazines. Programs just for NY members include:

Ethnic Press Directory
Many Voices, One City, published in March 2001, raises the profile of over 200 ethnic publications in New York. The guide has won NYCMA national press attention, including a story on the AP wire, in the PR and advertising trade press, and segments on National Public Radio's On The Media and Voice of America.

Local nonprofits, organizers, and politicians are buying it to improve their outreach to a diverse range of the ethnic press. Two foundations have given out the directory to a total of about 110 groups at media trainings facilitated by NYCMA. We consult informally with groups and media who want a clearer picture of the city's independent press landscape.

Publishing Workshops
Past workshops have covered graphic design, ad sales, and preparing for an audit. Our members are also invited to area workshops of the Center for Community Journalism.

Independent Press Club
Part of our larger initiative to raise the profile of the ethnic press in New York City, these monthly forums introduce our editors to newsmakers to whom they might not otherwise have access. Past Press Clubs featured the police commissioner, schools chancellor, state attorney general, and representatives working to bring to light the post 9/11 detentions, including a prominent civil rights lawyer.

Advertising Service
The Advertising All-Communities Advertising Service (allCAS) provides one-stop shopping for advertisers interested in our members. By developing strategies for group sales, allCAS staff are able to direct advertising into publications which are overlooked by most large campaigns. Within the first four months of operation, allCAS managed $101,000 worth of accounts for 75 publications, with ads translated into seventeen languages. Read more about allCAS.

Voices That Must Be Heard
Voices That Must Be Heard translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals.

Each week, a different member editor works with IPA staff to produce Voices. The team reviews article ideas submitted by papers and translators and makes selections. NYCMA funds the translation and distribution of the articles via fax and web.

After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city.

Our network offers a point of access to communities that are greatly affected by national and local policies, but are often left out of the debate over these policies.