Company: Room 17 Productions, Inc. Lexington, KY
Company Description: Room 17 Productions is a 501c3 organization that promotes the value of music and arts education, live performance and telling the stories of Appalachia through 1) live performance 2) documentary filmmaking 3) oral history projects through the University of Kentucky Louie B Nunn Center for Oral History and Special Collections Research Library, 4) preservation of aging recordings to digital format.
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Company of the Year - Media & Entertainment - Small
 Nomination Title: Listen Locally, Inc.
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the achievements of the nominated organization since 1 January 2022, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):
Written answers to the questions
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: Briefly describe the nominated organization: its history and past performance (up to 200 words):
Total 200 words used.
Listen Locally, LLC Renee Collins Cobb and Warren Cobb are Co-Presidents and Co-Owners. Listen Locally is a consulting company that specializes in career counseling, leadership development/ diversity and inclusion training, media content creation and broadcasting. It's mission is to help other organizations identify their own mission by igniting a spirit and essence in growth in individuals, teams and organizations and to impact change at the grass roots level. Our content is developed, designed and delivered in a diverse, inclusive and accessabile manner and features content that is multigenerational, multi-cultural and multi-genre in theme. We deliver classes at conferences, in person and/or on virtual platforms. We meet the clients where they are and at the comfort level they are as well. Our content for consulting ranges from Leadership Development, Diversity and Inclusion, Team Development, Mission Statement Writing and Strategic Business Planning for the corporate, governmental, institutional, and healthcare sectors and are custom designed to meet the needs of the organization through focus groups and front end needs assessment. We are also producers, hosts, directors and editors of our broadcast media offerings 1) Overtones LIVE Radio Show 2) Gray Matters Radio Show and Remarkably Purposed TV Show. We are also documentary filmmakers.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Outline the organization's achievements since the beginning of 2022 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
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Winners of Nextar Media Group Remarkable Woman of Kentucky 2023 - a women's initiative that honors and celebrates International Women's History Month by honoring "Remarkable Women" across the country who lead non-profit organizations and capture and present the work they do in their thought leadership contributions to public policy, social progress, and the quality of life while celebrating women who inspire, lead and forge the path of women for others.
The Alliance for Women in Media "The Gracie Awards" - Producer - Radio Show - Local Community Radio Category Honorable Mention 2024
2024 "Unapologetic Woman" for Lexington Community Action Council Honoring Women making a difference in Kentucky
2024 "Woman of Distinction" Honoree by broadcast community radio station WUKY, Lexington, KY
Winners of the Lexington Music Awards "Music Organization of the Year 2020, 2023, and 2024 recognizing the work that Room 17 Productions does in the community.
Winners of the Lexington Music Awards "Critics Choice of the Year" honoring the content produced by Room 17 Productions that honor the histories and celebrations of music/arts in the Appalachian Region
Winners of Appalachiacn Arts and Entertainment Awards "Documentary Film of the Year" 2023
Winners of Josie Music Awards "Music Organization of the Year" 2022 and 2023
Bronze Winner Stevie Women in Business Awards for Thought Leadership and Female Executive of the Year 2023 for Non-Profit Organizations.
Hollywood Indepedent Music Awards "Best LIVE Performance Video" 2023 for our work recording and producing the music of Appalachia.
Honored also for Concert Series, Videography, and Audio
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the organization's past performance (up to 250 words):
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We feel in many ways the fruits of our labor have been produced in the years 2022-2023 and in miraculous but well earned ways. For five years, after being nominated for a lot of honors but never achieving a top winner award, in 2023 we saw our efforts being recognized and in ways we never even thought we would be recognized. We feel by stay true to our mission even in a post-Covid world that did destroy organizations that we had served, that we have pivoted, flexed and reshifted our focus to meet the client whereever they were in the Post Covid World. For example, while many of our fellow production businesses shut down during that time, we just took our products into repurpose mode and also into virtual mode, so even though we could not use a studio, the end result of a broadcast or a delivery was seamless to the client and/or listener. We also have pivoted our products from the "studio" to the "stage" (live performance) to the "screen" (documentary film making and TV shows that are now seen in 33 countries across the globe on THE SCRIBE TV Network - a smart TV app that is free to download and making our products, themes, classes and entertainment offerings more accessible than ever. When I think about our business, I think about the story of the Chinese Bamboo Tree, that when planted, sees no growth above grown at least for five years when it finally grows 90ft.
- You have the option to answer this final question: Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):
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https://nashvillevoyager.com/interview/conversations-with-renee-collins-cobb/
https://thescribetv.lightcast.com/
https://uknow.uky.edu/campus-news/i-am-diversity-oral-histories-give-voice-wildcats-all-walks-life
http://www.ashlandbeacon.com/index.php?option=com_content&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3DvqAJLQto
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjrJGqnigc2oiQmdG4m4WLg
https://www.overtoneslive.com/blog
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