Colorado Media Project is excited to announce that this year, in partnership with the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab), News Revenue Hub and NewsMatch, our year-end #newsCOneeds campaign will become an ecosystem-wide, public awareness-building opportunity for Colorado newsrooms to join forces to amplify the positive impacts they are making in their communities, and to build trust in and support for their local public-service journalism. Colorado newsrooms selected for the cohort will work with COLab and News Revenue Hub to co-create messaging, graphics, and collateral.

In addition, CMP will offer $5,000 matching grants to selected nonprofit and locally-owned Colorado newsrooms, in collaboration with the national NewsMatch campaign. Applications are due by 5 p.m. MT on Monday, September 28.

Full details for the #newsCOneeds awareness campaign and matching challenge are here, including eligibility information, participation and reporting requirements, meetings and project timeline, rules for meeting the match, and additional support offered to participants via CMP, COLab, and News Revenue Hub.