OpenNews, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Partners, creates and supports a diverse community of peers working, learning, and solving problems in technology for local newsrooms to create the stronger, more representative ecosystem that journalism needs to thrive.
Program Area: Public Square
The Miami Foundation Inc.
The purpose of this grant is to create a joint Legal Clinic Fund administered by the Miami Foundation to support and expand legal clinics that are housed at law schools and focus on the first amendment, media access, and transparency. This grant will help strengthen legal clinics as a backbone of legal support for local newsrooms.
Take The Lead Inc
To support Take the Lead’s “50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism” program, providing training, cohort building, and networking opportunities for women leading in the media industry.
The Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc.
To support the Center for Investigative Reporting’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide the Center for Investigative Reporting with critical support for their local news collaborations through the Reveal Local Labs to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate. This project will help expand investigative capacity around the country and at the national level.
Public Agenda, Inc.
As a partner to the Participatory Budgeting Project, Public Agenda will play a lead role in the development of participatory budgeting through surfacing local evaluation research, performing independent research and communicating research results to key constituencies.
Participatory Budgeting Project Inc.
Provide project support to the Participatory Budgeting Project to foster increased use of participatory budgeting in the US.
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
FlackCheck.org will use satire and deconstructions of political ads to assist reporters and the public in identifying and rejecting fear-mongering and fact-mangling in the 2012 elections.
Asian Americans Journalists Association
The Asian American Journalists Association builds programming that engages Asian American and Pacific Islander community voices, grows membership, and leads in developing entrepreneurship/enterprise projects in the journalism industry.
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
The purpose of this grant is to convene a group of journalists and people passionate about the news along with one or two featured journalist guests over a meal. The idea, dubbed “Let’s Read the News,” is a form of book club for journalism.
American Press Institute
The American Press Institute ias a catalyst for meaningful change in journalism using a research-driven approach to fostering more sustainable, audience-centered journalism.