The Miami Foundation

This grant is a contribution to the Press Forward pooled fund at the Miami Foundation. Press Forward is a national initiative to expand funding for local journalism in the United States at an unprecedented scale. The Press Forward fund will invest in the strongest ideas to sustain local news, seed new ideas that have not yet had a chance to emerge, and build powerful networks and learning communities.

Representative Democracy is a fiscally sponsored project of The Miami Foundation. Founded in 2019 as a broad-based coalition supporting diversity efforts in Congress and providing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) technical support and resources in government, Representative Democracy is collaboratively building a 21st century public sector workplace. Through a stakeholder-driven model, Representative Democracy offers programming, leadership development resources, and DEIB advisory services that support modernization in government administration and strengthen organizational capacity.

NewsMatch is a national funding initiative led by the Miami Foundation, with the goal of increasing stable funding opportunities for local nonprofit newsrooms. With the explicit goal of helping outlets strengthen their local news coverage and enhance sustainability in a fast-changing media environment, the fund has provided access to over $15 million in funding for nonprofit news since 2016. This grant will support NewsMatch in providing funding to newsrooms that are producing and telling stories about education in local contexts. (Substrategy: Student and Community Voice)