Inside Climate News has been awarded three major new grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The Meadows Foundation and Knight Foundation.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant of $457,500 will fund a New York City-based-and-focused reporter over the next three years. The Meadows Foundation award of $100,000 will support a clean energy reporter in Texas, making ICN’s Texas bureau its largest, with three journalists covering the state’s most crucial climate and environmental issues.
These new hires will add muscle to ICN Local, the news outlet’s reporting network that is expanding and revitalizing environmental reporting at the state and local level across the country.
To sustain funding for these and other local reporting positions and ongoing operations, ICN will hire a senior development officer early next year, a new fundraising position made possible by a grant from Knight Foundation.
These grants follow closely on the heels of $725,000 in new awards ICN announced last month from the MacArthur Foundation and the Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation
“We are grateful that our work, particularly at this consequential moment, is attracting brand new support from outstanding national and regional foundations,” said David Sassoon, ICN’s founder and publisher. “It’s enormously empowering, and underscores the indispensable need for environmental journalism in a dangerously warming world.”
Founded in 2007, Inside Climate News is the oldest dedicated climate and environment newsroom in the nation. Nonprofit and non-partisan, ICN publishes essential reporting, investigation and analysis about the biggest crisis facing the planet. A watchdog of government, industry and advocates, ICN holds them accountable for their policies and actions by countering misinformation, exposing environmental injustice and scrutinizing solutions.
ICN has earned many of the most prestigious awards in journalism, including the Pulitzer Prize. It is a 501(c)3 public charity that makes its work available without a paywall to ensure that anyone can read it, wherever they are. ICN also works closely with media partners through ICN Local, sharing stories and combining resources to strengthen local environmental journalism and improve public understanding of science, health and the environment in communities across the nation. For more on ICN, visit its About page.
About the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants primarily to support original research and education related to science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics. The Foundation believes that these fields—and the scholars and practitioners who work in them—are chief drivers of the nation’s health and prosperity. The Foundation also believes that a reasoned, systematic understanding of the forces of nature and society, when applied inventively and wisely, can lead to a better world for all. For additional information, visit www.sloan.org.
About The Meadows Foundation
The Meadows Foundation was established in 1948 by Algur H. and Virginia Meadows to benefit and serve the people of Texas. The Foundation has disbursed more than $1.36 billion to 3,800 organizations across the state. Grants are awarded to 501(c)(3) organizations and public institutions in arts and culture, civic and public affairs, education, environment, health and human services, and initiatives focused on postsecondary completion, educator preparation, water conservation, depression and homelessness. For additional information, visit www.mfi.org.
About John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
We are social investors who support democracy by funding free expression and journalism, arts and culture in community, research in areas of media and democracy, and in the success of American cities and towns where the Knight brothers once had newspapers. Learn more at kf.org and follow @knightfdn on social media.
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