To support critical data collection and analysis by West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media to document and analyze the networks and strategies being used to expose, recruit, and radicalize white youth in the Appalachian region in order to determine opportunities for intervention.
Program Area: Public Square
Public Knowledge
From the Grant Start Date up to the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, August 14, 2020, the Grant funds are restricted for the following purpose:
To support the creation of a Communications Justice fellowship at Public Knowledge to examine early career diversity in tech advocacy nonprofits, publish research and findings, and promote practices to increase representation of marginalized and lower-income applicants.
Any remaining funds from this Grant as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, August 14, 2020, are hereby released from the project restriction outlined above and can be used to support Grantee’s charitable, educational, and/or scientific purposes as described in Grantee’s charter documents.
Institute for Nonprofit News
The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) will create and revise resources on libel and defamation insurance for nonprofit news organizations. INN will expand their insurance program and partner with nonprofit organizations to develop short- and long-term solutions to lowering the cost of insurance for nonprofit journalists so that they are protected against lawsuits related to their reporting.
Student Press Law Center
Founded in 1974, the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) promotes, supports and defends the First Amendment and free press rights of student journalists and their advisers.
Hearken
Hearken’s Election SOS project, a fiscally sponsored project of the American Press Institute, provides training, coaching, and capacity support to journalists for more engaged, trusted, and responsive elections coverage in 2022.
International Women’s Media Foundation
The International Women’s Media Foundation’s Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund offers stipends to women-identifying Black journalists facing financial hardship to access critical mental health services.
City Bureau NFP
City Bureau works to address inequality in Chicago media. Their innovative programs engage Chicagoans directly in the process of producing civic media.
Upturn, Inc.
From the October 01, 2019 up to May 01, 2020, the Grant funds are restricted for the following purpose: To support Upturn’s research, publication, and coordination on the topic of discriminatory targeting by social media platform companies.
Any remaining funds from this Grant as of May 01, 2020 are hereby released from the project restriction outlined above and can be used for General Operating Support.
Bold Impact
The purpose of this grant is to support Bold Impact in their coordination work to organize action within their stakeholder network to generate momentum to advance data policy innovation within a human rights framework through the event series Rights x Tech.
American Journalism Project
This general operating grant to The American Journalism Project will support the organization’s mission to make transformative investments in Civic News Organizations, building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by and looks like the public it serves.