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IPMF Announces $395,000 Made in Grants

April 28, 2021

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IPMF announces $395,000 made in grants as well as further detail about its 2021 grant-making plans, which include open calls for digital equity proposals and the 2021 Community Voices Fund in May.

Additionally, the foundation is supporting workshops and peer-to-peer learning on topics that grantees have identified are most important to them such as fundraising, nonprofit governance, and communications.

For more information, please read this essay by IPMF President Molly de Aguiar.

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Molly de Aguiar

Molly de Aguiar is the President of the Independence Public Media Foundation. Previously she spent 12 years at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, where she launched and directed the Informed Communities program, which attracted partnerships with national funders and helped New Jersey become a model for local journalism innovation. She also served as the first Managing Director of the News Integrity Initiative, a globally-focused philanthropic project at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. She co-founded the Local News Lab, sits on the board of the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium and the advisory committee for Documented. She writes and speaks frequently about reimagining philanthropy.

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