. >> host: michael wilner, thanks for spending a few minutes with c-span at the show. >> guest: sure, susan. >> host: david porter is the executive director of the walter case foundation. thanks for being with us at the chicago cable show, 2011. the new head of the national cable television association has suggested that cable hasn't told its stories very well and how much good work it actually has done. walter cates foundation is one of those good stories. tell me what it does. >> guest: the foundation was founded over 30 years ago with the idea of increasing diversity across the entire cable industry for our work force, for our programming content, for our suppliers, and it really represents the commitment of the industry that the ceos of most of the major companies serve with our board of trustees and have allowed us over the years to create programs and activities to provide funding for be organizations within the industry to continue to advance the work of diversity across the entire industry. >> host: how does it work? give me an example of a major program that you do. >> guest: