North Carolina Local News Lab Fund Portfolio
The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund works to ensure that all North Carolinians have access to the local news and information they need to make their communities thrive.
Learn about the Fund and how to get involved.
Read more about the grantees and work supported by the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund:
2018
- Asheville Writers: Word on the Street/La Voz de los Jóvenes
- Carolina Public Press: North Carolina Investigative Journalism Collaborative
- Colectivo de Comunicación Participativa de Carolina del Norte (CCPNC): Enlace Latino NC
- Duke University Reporters Lab: North Carolina Fact-Checking Project
- NC Health News: General Operating Support
- NC Press Association: Training Program
- UNC Center for Public TV: Public Media NC and HBCU Radio Together
- UNC School of Media and Journalism: Trail Blazer
- WNCU: Advancement of Emerging Young, Diverse News Journalists
- Working Narratives: Wilmington Media Ecology Project
2019: Disaster Relief Information and Engagement Grants
Read more about these grantees
Funded by the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund:
- North Carolina Farmworkers Project: Farmworker Disaster Preparedness
- Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center: “Florence: Wake-Up Call for Down East Carteret County”
- Lenoir Community College Foundation: Jones County Chat, “Engaging, Informing, Advancing”
- ISeeChange: Cocreating Community Flood Records and Alert Networks
- Duke University: “The Coming Storm: Storm preparation and recovery in a time of climate change”
- Enlace Latino NC
- Working Narratives: Flood Zone
- The News & Observer: “Washed Away: The impact of floods and politics on North Carolina’s most fragile communities”
Funded by the North Carolina Community Foundation Disaster Relief Fund in partnership with the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund:
- Black River Health Services: Farmworker Disaster Resilience Plan
- UNC Center for Public Television: “Before the Storm/Beyond the Storm: Public Media NC Connects Communities During Times of Disaster”
- Support the Port: Health and Wellness Program
- RAFI – USA (Rural Advancement Foundation International)
- North Carolina Health News: NC Health News/ Coastal Youth Media Proposal
- EducationNC: A Force Amplifier for Communities in Need