Locally owned and non-profit newsrooms serving communities across Colorado are invited to apply to join the 2024 #newsCOneeds Year-End Giving Challenge, and apply for matching grant funding from CMP.
Colorado Media Project, Local Media Association partner to create Colorado News Philanthropy Lab
Meet the 28 Colorado Community Newsrooms Poised to Collaboratively Raise $1 Million for Local News This Holiday Season
Apply by July 17 for a 2023 #newsCOneeds Matching Grant
Meet the 33 Newsrooms in the 2022 #newsCOneeds Campaign
These locally owned and nonprofit Colorado newsrooms are set to earn dollar-for-dollar matches from CMP this giving season in the 2022 #newsCOneeds campaign — aimed at inspiring more Coloradans to support locally created, public-service journalism that informs and engages communities and strengthens civic engagement statewide.
How #newsCOneeds helped Colorado newsrooms raise $700K+ in Dec. 2021
The 2022 #newsCOneeds cohort of participating news organizations included small, locally-owned rural and urban newspapers, local public radio stations, statewide digital outlets, nonprofit newsrooms, a public benefit corporation, a big city alt-weekly, a one-person startup, and more. In the end, the effort raised more than $700,000 for newsrooms across Colorado.
Meet the 2021 #newsCOneeds Matching Challenge Grantees
How #newsCOneeds helped Colorado newsrooms raise $578K+ in Dec. 2020
Participating news organizations included small, locally-owned rural and urban newspapers, local public radio stations, statewide digital outlets, nonprofit newsrooms, a public benefit corporation, a big city alt-weekly, a one-person startup, and more. In the end, the effort raised more than $578,000 for newsrooms across Colorado.
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How Your Newsroom Can Participate in the #newsCOneeds Awareness Campaign
Meet the 2020 #newsCOneeds Matching Challenge Grantees
Best Practices: What Your Newsroom Can Learn from the 2019 #newsCOneeds Campaign
Newsrooms Join Forces to Rally Public Support on #GivingNewsDay
In a first-ever joint appeal to readers, local newsrooms raised nearly $50,000 in a single day for local news. A $1,500 challenge grant from the Colorado Media Project to each outlet was doubled, tripled, and even quadrupled by local and national donors and foundations — filling newsroom coffers to ensure more and better local journalism in 2019.