Our in-person and online events gather leaders to advance knowledge about issues that are critical to the public interest.

These conversations are meant to serve as an opportunity for you to share what your organization is doing, learn about collaborative efforts from your peers, and stay connected to what’s happening in the field. If you’d like to share an update on your work or want to bounce an idea off your colleagues, let us […]

Join your peers for a discussion on the current state of the documentary film ecosystem and the challenges and opportunities for funders moving forward. This conversation will build off discussions started at our funder meeting in Park City, Utah, earlier this month adjacent to the Sundance Film Festival. Don’t worry if you didn’t make it […]

Join frank and Media Impact Funders—a national network of funders who support public interest media—for an invitation-only preview of intriguing ideas from the conference and an opportunity to have a more intimate dialogue with key speakers. The meeting will take place from 9-11 a.m. ET  on Wednesday, Feb. 15 at the Hampton Inn, 101 SE […]

frank, the gathering for people who change the world, is back in person and online in 2023.

Film funders! Are you heading to Park City, Utah? It’s been three long years since we’ve been able to hold this important and lively gathering. Please join us and your peers to discuss your work and your priorities from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. MT on Friday, Jan. 20, at the Miners Club, 4070 Willow Draw Park City, […]

These conversations are meant to serve as an opportunity for you to share what your organization is doing, learn about collaborative efforts from your peers, and stay connected to what’s happening in the field. If you’d like to share an update on your work or want to bounce an idea off your colleagues, let us […]

Philanthropy has long been critical in sustaining public interest media through the various stages of landscape shifts. Now as the country faces unprecedented polarization, rampant disinformation, and the overall erosion of trust in media, philanthropy must again shift – this time, to target investment in sustainable, scalable media companies and organizations.  Across the board, media […]

Join the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, Media Impact Funders and the Raising Child Care Fund for a discussion about how “Clarissa’s Battle,” a new documentary film, and other social movement documentaries can be used as powerful grassroots organizing tools. Driven by her own experience losing child care and becoming unhoused with her infant son, Xavier, single mother and […]

These conversations are meant to serve as an opportunity for you to share what your organization is doing, learn about collaborative efforts from your peers, and stay connected to what’s happening in the field. If you’d like to share an update on your work or want to bounce an idea off your colleagues, let us […]

We’ve come a long way since 2002, when a handful of journalism funders got together to compare notes about the most pressing issues facing journalism and how funders could address them. We hope you’ll join us on Oct. 18-19 to celebrate and reflect on the last 20 years of journalism funders in community, and to […]