American Journalism Project
- Makes grants to nonprofit news organizations, partnering with communities to launch new organizations, and coaching leaders as they grow and sustain their newsrooms.
Bucket List Community Cafe
- Works as a news-academic partnership for Denver, Colorado and is looking to expand the model in other places where partnerships with already established local media aren’t an option.
College Media Association
- Serves student media pros, staffs and programs with education, research and resources; communicates and works with professional media organizations and education associations on the local, state and national levels.
Gather
- Makes journalism more responsive to the public’s needs and more inclusive of the public’s voices and diversity, by helping journalists, educators, and students who share these values find each other, find resources and best practices, and find support and mentorship.
Google News Initiative
- Collaborates with Google-based tools focused on journalists and publishers’ business models through audience growth, digital technologies and additional revenue streams (Google for Nonprofits)
Institute for Nonprofit News
- Creates a nonprofit news network that ensures access to trusted news in all communities by providing education and business support services to nonprofit member organizations and promoting the value and benefit of public-service and investigative journalism. Once a member, can participate in the NewsMatch fundraising program.
Journalism Trust Initiative
The Knight Foundation
- Invests in free expression and journalism, arts and culture in community, research in areas of media and democracy, and in the success of American cities and towns where the Knight brothers once published newspapers.
Lenfest Institute for Journalism
- Provides grant funding, runs training programs, and synthesizes best practices to develop and disseminate sustainable solutions to the business challenges facing local news providers.
LION Publishers
- Strengthens the local news industry by helping independent news publishers through teaching, resources and community to independent news entrepreneurs as they build and develop sustainable businesses.
Local Media Association
- Works with 3,000+ newspapers, broadcasters, digital news sites and R&D partners to help achieve business goals, and then Local Media Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable trust, leads innovative programs that promote sustainability of journalism and news media.
Local Media Consortium
- Helps members — local newspapers, broadcasters, and online news outlets — by forming strategic partnerships with digital platforms and service providers to save money, increase revenue and grow audiences.
News Revenue Hub
- Helps news organizations build membership and crowdfunding programs, providing strategy, technology and best practices to its partners.
Rebuild Local News
- Advances public policies, as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, to counter the collapse of local news, revitalize community journalism and strengthen democracy.
Report for America
- Places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. Part of The GroundTruth Project, news organizations make the case that they have urgent gaps in coverage and RFA provides emerging journalists to serve these communities.
Solutions Journalism Network
- Teaches, trains and tracks the practice of solutions journalism — rigorous reporting on responses to problems — so people have access to news that helps them envision and build a more equitable and sustainable world.
Tiny News Collective
- Helps communities build newsrooms by providing the tools, resources and commonwealth of knowledge to help people build sustainable news organizations that reflect and serve their communities, with a particular focus on voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.
Trusting News
- Trains journalists to take responsibility for demonstrating credibility and actively earning trust through transparency and engagement through research, learning and sharing with the industry and incorporating trust-building into journalism’s standards and practices.
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