Deadline: 19 February 2024
The Fundraising for Community Media is a 3-month, tuition-free, online program that trains teams from Asian, Black and Latine newsrooms to build skills and competencies needed to develop business strategies and sustainable revenue streams around fundraising.
It is a collaboration between the Center for Community Media and The Lenfest Institute for Journalism’s News Philanthropy Network.
The Fundraising for Community Media program will train teams from both for-profit and nonprofit newsrooms in the skills of fundraising, models and strategies, grant writing and the philanthropic landscape as a whole.
Benefits
- Participants will:
- Gain a big-picture perspective on the philanthropic landscape for journalism and how to use fiscal sponsorship to fundraise as a for-profit organization
- Goal-setting, budgeting, and campaign planning for your newsroom’s fundraising strategy
- Learn how to prospect your audience and community for donors, and how to make the ask
- Receive coaching from other newsroom leaders who have had success fundraising
Eligibility Criteria
- This training is designed for journalists and media professionals working in Asian, Black and Latine newsrooms in the United States, and its territories and freely associated states.
- Candidates may have little or no experience with fundraising.
- All that is required is an interest in building a new fundraising strategy as a path toward sustainability.
- Finally, they encourage journalists from all backgrounds to apply; diversity is at the core of the educational mission.
- Only one person per newsroom should fill out the application, ideally a lead editor or publisher, but a team of up to three people (all included) from a selected newsroom can participate in the cohort.
For more information, visit The Lenfest Institute for Journalism.
