Company Profile

Company Description:

Founded in late 2019, Journalism Funding Partners (JFP) is a start-up nonprofit with the mission to “help local news organizations serve their fundamental role of informing citizens about their communities.” JFP works directly with newsrooms (both nonprofit and for-profit), foundations, philanthropic entities, individual donors and members of the public to create new ways to fund journalism.
Established in response to the crisis in local journalism, Journalism Funding Partners (formerly McClatchy Journalism Institute) is dedicated to connecting funders and newsrooms to provide content and resources for local journalism. With every part of the local news landscape under threat, JFP seeks to support local professional and academic newsrooms regardless of size, structure, ownership or location – playing a matchmaking role in the growing realm of philanthropy-supported journalism. The majority of JFP’s first-year projects focused on connecting local newsrooms with support from community funders – successfully partnering with 12 news media organizations and shepherding over $1.2 million in philanthropy for specific reporting projects, labs and positions. 

Looking at 2021 and beyond, JFP aspires to evolve and expand its philanthropic and programmatic offerings, with possibilities including working with funders to identify projects that fit with their philanthropic goals, raising unrestricted funds from major contributors to make awards to local newsrooms, developing a newsroom fellowship program, and providing training and guidance to newsroom leaders on how to effectively work with funders in their local communities.

www.jfp-local.org