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Local News Grant Guidelines - MacArthur Foundation Login into your grantee account, reset your password, or submit an idea to the MacArthur Foundation. Local News, in collaboration with Press Forward, dramatically strengthens and expands local news in America’s most underserved communities. The Local News Program, in collaboration with Press Forward , operates through a time-limited investment through 2028.
Organized around four approaches—Equity, Engagement, Infrastructure, and Visibility—our grantmaking is designed to create the conditions that help local news ecosystems progress from nascent to emerging to thriving. Together, these investments build ecosystem-level capacity across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Appalachia, the American South, and Chicago - filling gaps and complementing existing investments.
We also fund national organizations, with clear and measurable impact in our priority geographies, and replicable models of strategic innovation—including AI- and tech-enabled applications, new sustainability models, and collaborative approaches.
Each year, we assess the state of each priority geography across key dimensions—including ecosystem stage, intermediary capacity, subgrant reach, and policy infrastructure—and adapt our grantmaking focus accordingly. Local news ecosystems are the interconnected networks of news organizations, journalists, and civic institutions that serve a place.
We’re focused on four: Chicago, the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Appalachia, and the South.
By the end of 2028, Local News aims to have helped catalyze at least three local news ecosystems characterized by diverse local news archetypes, sustainable funding, innovative delivery of content and engagement with audiences, and strong backbone organizations and connections with journalism serving organizations that increase capacity and reduce costs.
While we are not accepting unsolicited proposals at this time, we are always eager to hear new ideas and perspectives .
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