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Active Grants

The Foundation's Journalism Program supports nonprofit organizations and educational institutions conducting programs that contribute to the program's areas of interest. With an annual budget of approximately $6 million, the program makes grants ranging in size from $10,000 to $20,000,000. Only a handful of grantees, with whom the McCormick Foundation has formed longstanding partnerships, receive more than $300,000 per year from the Foundation. Most grants are for either one-or three-year periods.

News Leadership
 
American Press Institute Inc., Reston, VA
www.americanpressinstitute.org
$75,000
For support of the Transformation Series
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2009
American Society of Newspaper Editors Foundation, Inc., Reston, VA
http://www.asne.org
$125,000
For continued support of the online readership workshops for editors
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
American Society of Newspaper Editors Foundation, Inc., Reston, VA
http://www.asne.org
$250,000
For general support and organizational capacity building
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
American University, Washington, DC
www.american.edu
$40,000
For support of J-Lab's McCormick Initiative for New Media Women Entrepreneurs
Effective: 6/6/2008 - 12/31/2009
Asian American Journalists Association, San Francisco, CA
www.aaja.org
$120,000
For support of the Executive Leadership Program
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Center for Media and Security Ltd., Millwood, NY
www.cmsdwg.org
$100,000
For general support
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2009
Community Renewal Society, Chicago, IL
www.chicagoreporter.com
$140,000
For continued support of The Chicago Reporter
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
iFOCOS, Reston, VA
www.ifocos.org
$75,000
For general support
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
International Women's Media Foundation, Washington, DC
www.IWMF.org
$150,000
For continued support of the Leadership Institute for Women Journalists
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media, St. Paul, MN
www.americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org
$150,000
For support of the Public Insight Journalism Initiative
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago, IL
www.Museum.tv
$10,000
For online programming of digitized content
Effective: 12/1/2007 - 11/30/2008
NAMME Foundation, McLean, VA
www.namme.org
$25,000
For continued marketing support of the McCormick Tribune Fellowship
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
NAMME Foundation, McLean, VA
www.namme.org
$30,000
For general operating support
Effective: 3/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation, Washington, DC
http://www.nabef.org/
$60,000
For broadcast executive development, diversity programs and a college PSA contest
Effective: 10/1/2007 - 9/30/2008
National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation, Washington, DC
http://www.nabef.org/
$150,000
For broadcast diversity development programs and a college public service announcement contest
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Washington, DC
www.nahj.org
$300,000
For support of the Parity Project
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
New York University, New York, NY
www.beatblogging.org
$25,000
For Beatblogging.org
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
Northwestern University - Media Management Center, Evanston, IL
www.mediamanagementcenter.org
$600,000
For continued support of the McCormick Tribune Fellows program
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Northwestern University - Media Management Center, Evanston, IL
www.mediamanagementcenter.org
$750,000
For general operating support
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Pacific News Service, San Francisco, CA
www.newamericamedia.org
$200,000
For support of New America Media's journalism school initiative
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, Inc., Fredericksburg, VA
www.rtndf.org/rtndf
$250,000
For news leadership training
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Research Foundation of the City of New York, New York, NY

$155,000
For support of a New Business Models for News initiative
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Oakland, CA
www.maynardije.org
$80,000
For the editing program and diversity development research
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Oakland, CA
www.maynardije.org
$160,000
For the Media Academy, the Editing Program and Web operations
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
TCC Group, New York, NY
www.tccgrp.com
$150,000
For continued support of the Challenge Fund for Journalism
Effective: 6/1/2008 - 9/30/2009
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
www.latinosandmedia.org
$50,000
For a study of emergency communications with non-English speaking populations
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 6/30/2009
The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, FL
www.poynter.org
$90,000
For support of the McCormick Change Leadership Fellows
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/24/2009
Twin Cities Media Alliance, Minneapolis, MN
www.tcdailyplanet.net
$40,000
For strengthening local news
Effective: 10/1/2007 - 9/30/2008
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

$50,000
For research project into South Florida Haitian newsrooms and audience
Effective: 6/1/2008 - 4/30/2009
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
www.knightnewmediacenter.org
$50,000
For a leadership conference on digital media strategy
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
Wayne State University -- Department of Journalsim, Detroit, MI
www.comm.wayne.edu
$50,000
For an Ethnic Media initiative
Effective: 10/1/2007 - 12/31/2008
Youth Voices
 
Beyondmedia Education, Chicago, IL
www.beyondmedia.org
$30,000
For Girls! Action! Media!
Effective: 10/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL

$40,000
For support of YouthLAB, a model youth media summer program
Effective: 6/1/2008 - 5/31/2009
Children First Fund, Chicago, IL

$10,000
For support of the journalism program at York Alternative High School
Effective: 9/1/2007 - 7/31/2009
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
www.colum.edu
$125,000
For continued support of Columbia Links high school journalism project
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
www.colum.edu
$15,000
For a city-wide conference on environmental issues for high school reporters
Effective: 8/1/2008 - 7/31/2009
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
www.colum.edu
$250,000
For continued support of Columbia Links
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
Community Television Network, Chicago, IL
www.ctvnetwork.org
$90,000
For "Hard Cover" journalism training
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
Free Spirit Media NFP, Chicago, IL
www.freespiritmedia.org
$80,000
For support of the FSM Connections initiative
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Free Spirit Media NFP, Chicago, IL
www.freespiritmedia.org
$25,000
For a documentary film project
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
Free Spirit Media NFP, Chicago, IL
www.freespiritmedia.org
$50,000
For HoopsHIGH
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2009
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Chicago, IL

$20,000
For a youth radio and Election Day program
Effective: 10/1/2008 - 9/30/2009
Illinois First Amendment Center, Springfield, IL
www.illinoisfirstamendmentcenter.com
$150,000
For continued support of a First Amendment education campaign
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL

$100,000
For Radio Arte's First Voice/Primera Voz News Program
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, Inc., Fredericksburg, VA
www.rtndf.org/rtndf
$50,000
For Camp STN Chicago 2008
Effective: 6/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
www.roosevelt.edu/
$40,000
For the MTF high school Media Awards and other scholastic journalism projects
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
www.roosevelt.edu/
$100,000
For continued support of the McCormick Foundation High School Media Awards and scholastic press activities
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
Strategic Human Services, Chicago, IL
www.nlcn.org
$35,000
For the Youth Writers Journalism program
Effective: 10/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Street Level Youth Media, Chicago, IL
www.street-level.org
$40,000
For radio production workshops
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
Student Press Law Center, Arlington, VA
www.splc.org
$125,000
For a McCormick Tribune Publications Fellowship
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
The National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Oakland, CA
www.nfcb.org
$35,000
For a youth journalism training project
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
The University of Montana Foundation, Missoula, MT
www.reznetnews.org
$30,000
For Native American journalism programs
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
True Star Foundation, Inc., Chicago, IL
www.truestarmagazine.com
$35,000
For youth media activities
Effective: 8/1/2008 - 7/31/2009
UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., McLean, VA
www.unityjournalists.org
$40,000
For UNITY 2008 student projects
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
We The People Media, Chicago, IL
www.wethepeoplemedia.org
$90,000
For the Urban Youth International Journalism Program
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2010
What Kids Can Do, Inc., Providence, RI
www.whatkidscando.org
$20,000
For a photo essay project in Chicago
Effective: 2/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
Y-Press, Indianapolis, IN
www.ypress.org
$40,000
For a website redesign and general operating support
Effective: 7/1/2007 - 12/31/2008
Young Chicago Authors, Chicago, IL
www.youngchicagoauthors.org
$40,000
For "Say What" magazine and the Louder Than a Bomb Poetry Festival
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008
Youth Communication, Chicago, IL

$25,000
For city-wide teen journalism initiatives
Effective: 3/1/2008 - 2/28/2009
Youth News Service L.A. Bureau, Los Angeles, CA
www.layouth.com
$80,000
For general support
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009
Youth News Service L.A. Bureau, Los Angeles, CA
www.layouth.com
$30,000
For a Los Angeles high school journalism study
Effective: 4/1/2008 - 3/31/2009
Free Speech
 
American Society of Newspaper Editors Foundation, Inc., Reston, VA
http://www.asne.org
$100,000
For the Liberty Tree initiative
Effective: 1/1/2009 - 12/31/2009
Ball State University, Muncie, IN
www.jideas.com
$40,000
For a First Amendment Project for high school administrators
Effective: 10/1/2007 - 9/30/2008
Committee to Protect Journalists, Inc., New York, NY
www.cpj.org
$150,000
For an online journalism initiative and Latin American program
Effective: