ASNE Endowment Announced; Sunshine Week
Among Programs to be Funded by Challenge Grant
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ASNE has received a $3.4 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and launched a campaign to endow its work on the First Amendment and to assist editors in leading change in the evolving business of journalism. |
The largest portion of Knight Foundation's grant, which will underwrite the Knight First Amendment Fund, is a $2.5 million challenge grant that requires a three-to-two match by ASNE. The Knight fund will help permanently endow ASNE's leadership of Sunshine Week and other efforts in support and defense of the First Amendment. In addition to the challenge grant, Knight is making direct grants of $900,000 in operational funds – a $300,000 bridge grant for Sunshine Week and $600,000 for assistance in the fund-raising campaign.
