Non-Profit Media Guide and my Thesis

My thesis for the Master of Arts in Professional Studies degree at Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, NJ, involved the Media Guide I developed during my three-year tenure as Media Chair for SpiralHeart, Inc., a small, non-profit, religious educational organization. To make the work more applicable to the idea that a thesis should expand general knowledge, I added a section after the Media Guide with a commentary which should hopefully allow any small- to medium- sized non-profit organization to adapt the research and methods contained in the SpiralHeart Media Guide for their own organizations.

There are two downloads available here:

• the Media Guide with Adaptation Comments; and
  
• the full Thesis (known at TESC as a "capstone project").

Any non-profit organizations (whether incorporated or unincorporated) may use the Media Guide and Adaptation Comments as a base for their own Media or Communication guide, subject to the following stipulations:

1. You may produce guidebooks or other instructional media (referred to below collectively as “guidebooks”) for the use of your non-profit organization using material from these documents.
   
   
2. You may not sell such guidebooks for profit.
   
   
3. To the best of your organization’s ability you will make your guidebook available for the use of other non-profit organizations. If your organization has a website, you will make your guidebook available on your website.
   
   
4. You must include these stipulations in any work derived from these documents.

These stipulations are in the spirit of the General Public License (GPL) created by the Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html ), but this work is not covered specifically under the GPL.