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

The Institute for Nonprofit News is inviting Media Impact Funders members to attend INN Days, the annual conference on nonprofit news for journalists, funders, researchers and others interested in growth of this emerging field. They’ll have the latest briefings on efforts to build government funding that can preserve an independent press, equity and inclusion advances, community […]

Support for essential public interest information often overlooks work that fosters personal expression, celebrates cultures of locally distinct communities, or introduces the work of a local community’s artists to broader audiences. A new report from the Wyncote Foundation that pprofiles eight place-based organizations that use media for cultural expression will serve as the backdrop for this discussion. 

The first two sessions of our Media Impact Forum focused on the ways funders can and are currently using media to support vaccine confidence and access.

We remain committed to hosting monthly calls for funders who currently support or who are interested in supporting journalism.

Through years of data research and other field-building activities, we know that community foundations are playing an increasingly important role in the media and journalism funding ecosystem. (The scale of increased giving is substantial: community foundation support for journalism has increased 1000% since 2009.) As such, Media Impact Funders (MIF) is testing support in the […]

Since 1999, journalists, media executives and scholars from around the world have had an annual meeting in Austin, Texas to discuss the impact of the digital revolution on  journalism. The International Symposium on Online Journalism is a program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin, a unique conference […]

This program is organized by The International Documentary Association, JustFilms at the Ford Foundation and the Center for Media & Social Impact. The past year has exposed long-standing fissures in the documentary ecosystem. Although the phrase “Golden Age of Documentary” gets bandied about, the narrative and economic wealth of this industry are inequitably divided. The […]

We remain committed to hosting monthly calls for funders who currently support or who are interested in supporting journalism.

The Skoll World Forum is going virtual from April 13-15, 2021! This year’s program is a mix of plenaries, sessions, networking activities, and more. Our theme “Closing the Distance” examines local and global divides as we work together to build bridges. Together, we’ll explore ways to close the distance between the world’s toughest challenges and the innovative solutions […]

The economic, health and social destruction wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic has been enormous, with over half a million U.S. deaths and millions more facing detrimental health consequences.