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Sundance Film Festival Panel: “Editing History” Journalists Are Saving Lives, at a Cost to Their Own Storytelling to Support Civic Engagement Supporting Chicago-Area Journalism During COVID-19
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Grantees in the Media
"Investing in Local News Is More Important Than Ever"
Chicago Reader
"Define American Sets ‘Building Solidarity For Black And Asian Communities Through COVID-19’ Forum With Jon M. Chu, Franklin Leonard, Prabal Gurung And Nikole Hannah-Jones"
Deadline
Related Grantee: Define American
"Census Response Rates in City, State Are Strong Overall, but Some Communities Lag"
Chicago Sun-Times
Related Grantee: Chicago Urban League
"Sundance Institute Pledges $1 Million to Artists Hurt Economically by Coronavirus Pandemic"
Salt Lake Tribune
Related Grantee: Sundance Institute
"Universal Basic Income Was a Fringe Idea. Then the COVID-19 Pandemic Happened."
Marketplace
Related Grantee: University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
"Bail Out Journalists. Let Newspaper Chains Die."
The New York Times
Related Grantee: ProPublica
Ken Ward Jr., 2018 MacArthur Fellow
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Representative Grants
Voto Latino
Washington, D.C. 2019
$ 900,000 in support of general operations.
Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, New York 2019
$ 400,000 in support of general operations.
Institute for Nonprofit News
Los Angeles, California 2019
$ 600,000 in support of general operations.
Define American
Louisville, Kentucky 2019
$ 750,000 in support of general operations.
BlackStar Film Festival
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2019
$ 150,000 in support of general operations.
Sundance Institute
Los Angeles, California 2019
$ 2,050,000 in support of the Sundance Institute Nonfiction Storytelling project.
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