Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Durham, NC, Scalawag is a Southern media organization that builds social and political consciousness through journalism and storytelling. Their mission is to work in solidarity with oppressed communities in the South to disrupt and shift the narratives that keep power and wealth in the hands of the few.
Program Area: Public Square
Media Democracy Fund
The Digital Equity and Opportunity Initiative at Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is a major opportunity for national, state, and place-based funders to engage with one of the most significant digital equity opportunities in history: the implementation of the broadband portions of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This grant will support initial research into the surveillance, experimentation, and persuasion capabilities of platforms such as Facebook and Google and the ways we can prevent or mitigate the use of these capabilities by authoritarians. The initial funding will support the development of a plan for an academic center devoted to these issues as well as the hiring of research support staff for the primary investigator.
And She Could Be Next LLC
This grant supports impact campaign activities for And She Could Be Next, a documentary series celebrating women of color in leadership. The campaign aims to inspire and encourage the participation of young, more diverse, and politically skeptical American audiences in civic and democratic life.
Detroit Community Technology Project
Detroit Community Tech Project (DCTP), a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects Inc., uses and creates technology rooted in community needs that strengthens neighbors’ connection to each other, and to the planet.
Borealis Philanthropy
The Racial Equity in Journalism Fund (REJ) seeks to strengthen a future where communities of color are powerful. They do this by nourishing and building up the capacity and sustainability of both news organizations and journalism ecosystem partners led by people of color.
Duke University
The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy project brings together local news researchers and others to collaborate on a journalism ecosystem funding model that explores how to fund healthy local news ecosystems.
Granite State News Collaborative
The Granite State News Collaborative was established to enable local news, community and educational partners to work together to ensure that all communities have access to trusted and ethically reported information on the issues and solutions that impact them most; newsrooms and content reflect our communities; and, they all continue serving the public well into the future.
Outlier Media
Outlier Media is a Detroit-based nonprofit news organization. They identify, report, and deliver valuable information to empower residents to hold landlords, municipal government, and elected officials accountable for long-standing problems.
Charlottesville Tomorrow
Charlottesville Tomorrow is a community-driven, socially conscious news organization. They serve their neighbors by connecting them to each other and to the issues that affect them most.