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

Getting Real is a biennial conference on documentary media.

The pandemic has forced The Network to move all of our work online while the world has gotten more complicated. If you work in comms for good, you don’t have to go it alone.

In July, the Ford Foundation published Reconstructing American News: Investing in the transformation of journalistic processes and power relations to strengthen civil society. 

Good Pitch Local returns to Philadelphia in partnership with PhillyCAM.

Blue Sky Funders Forum invites funders to our 2020 Virtual Convening on September 8, 9, and 10.

BlackStar Film Festival, the world’s premier celebration of Black, Brown, and Indigenous film and video artists, is pleased to announce that the ninth edition of our annual festival will take place August 20-26, 2020.

In August 2019, Media Impact Funders held a special meeting to help chart a course for the field of media impact assessment. We convened leading practitioners to identify best practices, assess the state of practice more broadly, and explore new ways of doing media impact assessment. We reconvened the group at the 2020 Sundance Film […]

With the ongoing protests seeking racial justice in our communities, especially in concern for victims of excessive police force, local journalism needs our support more than ever.

If you are unable to locate the zoom information of any session, please contact Marie Porter at marie@mediafunders.org.   With the health and safety of our network in mind, we have decided to revise our plans for our upcoming Media Impact Forum. We are converting what would normally have been our daylong funder gathering into […]

The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on our society, changing every aspect of our lives. Hundreds of thousands of people have died. Economies around the world have collapsed, forcing many into unemployment and untenable situations.