The Legal Clinic Fund, a joint fund housed at The Miami Foundation, makes grants to university legal clinics to expand their capacity as critical First Amendment advocates and resources for legal support for local newsrooms around the country.
Strategy: News & Information Ecosystems
The Miami Foundation Inc.
The purpose of this grant is to grow and continue The Fund for Nonprofit News, hosted at The Miami Foundation, in support of NewsMatch, a fundraising campaign for nonprofit news.
Conecta Arizona
Conecta Arizona (CA) started as an experiment to respond to misinformation about Covid with accurate and timely information in Spanish. Using the community-based approach they developed over the past three years, they are expanding their focus to include more deeply reported stories.
Inland Empire Community Foundation
The Inland Empire Journalism Hub at the Inland Empire Community Foundation is a platform for cooperative journalism, fostering collaboration, community engagement, and a vibrant exchange of ideas.
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.
Colorado Media Project
The Colorado Media Project, a fiscally sponsored project of the Rose Community Foundation, supports people and organizations working to build a more connected, collaborative and sustainable local news and information ecosystem in Colorado.
Field Foundation of Illinois Inc.
The Chicago Media and Storytelling Program at the Field Foundation supports pivotal investments to increase the production of news and innovative content that is by, for, and about African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) communities and helps create a more inclusive, accurate, and comprehensive narrative of Chicago.
Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. dba The Vance Center
Lawyers for Reporters, a project of the Vance Center, and in partnership with the Press Freedom Defense Fund, provides pro bono legal services to local and social mission-driven organizations in the United States.
Institute for Nonprofit News
The Institute for Nonprofit News is a critical anchor organization, providing support, training and networking for America’s almost 250 nonprofit journalism organizations.
Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc
The Chicago Independent Media Alliance project at the Reader Institute for Community Journalism works to create a self-sustaining media ecosystem in Chicago. The Chicago Independent Media Alliance project is a partnership of independent and local media entities collaborating on editorial and revenue-generating models.