Media Impact Funders collaborates with organizations across philanthropy and media to support shared learning, coordination and field-wide progress.

MIF works with a wide range of partners, including philanthropy-serving organizations (PSOs), media institutions, research groups, and convening partners. These collaborations reflect our commitment to working across silos and supporting a diverse, evolving media ecosystem.

We pursue partnerships where we can add distinctive value: connecting funders who might not otherwise find one another, bringing field-level context into the room, and supporting collective learning that informs funding decisions. Our role is not to set the agenda for the field, but to help structure conversations so collaboration is genuinely useful to participants.

MIF collaborations take many forms, depending on the needs of the field and our members. Recent collaborations:

• Research exploring ethics, trust and accountability in journalism with The Lenfest Institute and NORC
• Research on the state of global journalism with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Dot Connector Studio
• A partnership with the Glen Nelson Center at American Public Media Group on the Next Challenge Awards, a program that surfaces and supports early-stage innovation in media. For the past two years, the Next Challenge Awards have been presented at the Media Impact Forum, MIF’s flagship annual event.

Interested in collaborating? Email Nina Sachdev, Deputy Director of External Affairs, at nina@mediafunders.org.