Foundation & donor support

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Identify community needs and adapt to them in your pursuit for more revenue.

Here are 10 ideas to steal and adapt: From planning live events to tackling the audience funnel, these articles and case studies are the most-viewed in 2024 on BetterNews.org.

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Discover how a group of nonprofit, public media organizations in Kansas City joined forces to sustain local journalism.

While it’s normal to feel uncomfortable asking for funding to support your work, journalists are well-suited to be grant-seekers – ready to research and write for clarity.

Build a program of philanthropy to fund journalism. Digital subscriptions can pay for our daily journalism, but the deep investigative work is expensive and needs another funding source to be sustainable under our changing business model.

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Use this guide to convince those in charge that you need to turn your homepage into a donation destination during your fundraising campaign.

This guide captures the dynamics and practicalities of pursuing a chunk of the growing pool of grant funding for news. One part how-to, one part roadmap, one part reference, the sum of the parts is an efficient and application-ready toolkit for news organizations who are beginning to explore grants.

Matches are a powerful incentive for news orgs to recruit donors and engage existing supporters. These case studies show how local news organizations capitalized on the ground-breaking NewsMatch campaigns to fund their work with donor dollars.

A quick overview of tactics to improve prospecting for donors.

The Texas Tribune’s donor page is a searchable, public database of gifts to the publication over time.