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Community Foundations & Media: Funding Data from 2009-2021
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders; Knight Foundation (2021), 29 pp.
Decoding Media Impact: Insights, Advice and Recommendations
Philadelphia, Penns.: Media Impact Funders (2020), 31 pp.
"This guide is meant to serve as a practical resource for funders who want to understand where to start. Informed by feedback from our network, it represents a synthesis of the past seven years of work we’ve done in the impact space, and includes examples of successful media impact evaluation, too
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Environmental Media Grantmaking: How Funders Are Tipping the Scales Toward Change
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders (2020), 32 pp.
"This report—which complements MIF’s in-person and online convenings throughout the year—aims to highlight trends in environmental media grantmaking, impact studies and examples of promising media projects, and insights from funders in the space. This report focuses on U.S. funders who give in
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Global Media Philanthropy: What Funders Need to Know About Data, Trends and Pressing Issues Facing the Field
Deep Insights
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders (2019), 50 pp.
"Both funding and making media are now dangerous in new ways: Foundations, publishers, editors and journalists across the world are facing not just familiar forms of repression and censorship, but new threats from breaches to digital privacy and a notably uncivil online culture. Funders need to work
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Radio & Audio Grantmaking: Reaching New Audiences Through Old Platforms
Philadelphia, PA: Media Impact Funders (2019), 17 pp.
"Both radio and audio funding levels are growing, reflecting both overall funding trends in media and particular interest in using old and new sound-based formats in creative and compelling ways. Both formats are driving innovation across programming, with radio often serving as a curator of news an
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Journalism Grantmaking: New Funding, Models and Partnerships to Sustain and Grow the Field
Philadelphia, PA: Media Impact Funders (2019), 13 pp.
"Since 2009, 3,106 funders gave $1.7 billion in journalism-related grants [in the U.S.]. Of that, $306 million was directed toward the Newseum. Excluding grants to the Newseum, the top 9 journalism funders to U.S.-based organizations have given $550 million, via 1,776 grants since 2009. Of the $1.7
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Journalism and Media Grantmaking: Five Things You Need to Know. Five Ways to Get Started
Philadelphia: Wyncote Foundation; Media Impact Funders, new ed. (2018), 34 pp.
"This booklet is a starter guide for foundations interested in exploring how to make impactful journalism and community-information grants. It shares the experiences of dozens of foundations that have recently funded news and information projects. It also introduces the work of peer foundations that
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Funding Journalism, Finding Innovation: Success Stories and Ideas for Creative, Sustainable Partnerships
Philadelphia, Pa.: Media Impact Funders; Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2018), 19 pp.
"While this guide shows only a small sampling of how funders and publishers are working together to financially sustain the fourth estate, we hope that it nonetheless serves as a starting point for your own work by providing solid examples of groundbreaking funding efforts—ones that are both pione
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Foundation Maps for Media Funding: Introducing a New Tool for Unlocking the Power of Media Grants Data
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders; Foundation Center (2016), 15 pp.
"Foundation Maps for Media Funding is a data mapping platform that brings the diverse and expansive field of media and philanthropy to light, allowing users to research and explore media and technology funding around the world. The tool captures activities related to media content and platforms; tel
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"Media funders are still looking at questions of media assessment through many different lenses. The survey results indicated that the two biggest challenges facing this field are lack of consensus about what constitutes “impact” (33%) and lack of clarity about methods/measures within the media
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"In the end, impact assessment comes down to a dialogue—about goals; how news informs, connects and engages communities; and how best to maintain journalistic integrity in the process. That’s why we’ve created this guide, which features both conceptual perspectives for foundations and nuts-and
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