Civic Tech Field Guide

Africa Data Capacity Accelerator

2300 N Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20037, USA

In partnership with The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) and their lead training partner, The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), the Africa Accelerator will produce a cohort of purpose-driven data practitioners with interdisciplinary subject-matter expertise in climate and health data to effectively drive social impact.

Common Good AI

PO Box 880264, San Francisco, CA 94188-0264

Common Good AI is a new non-profit organization that leverages human abilities to innovate and find solutions by integrating AI to empower groups of any size to collaboratively ideate, debate diverse ideas, identify shared goals, and find a path forward together.

Nook CRM

London

The open source CRM for community energy groups.

Affordable and clean energy

The Daily Catch

Red Hook, NY

The Daily Catch was founded on the premise that every community deserves the benefits of incisive, accurate, and sensitive journalism. As such, the Catch is dedicated to reporting on the news, personalities, and activities of people, schools, merchants, farms, and government in and around New York’s Hudson Valley towns of Red Hook and Rhinebeck.

BLCK Press

Saint Paul, MN

BLCK Press is advancing equity through media. Its mission is to utilize the power of stories as a catalyst to shift culture, normalize inclusion, and weave equity into the fabric of society. A distinguished news and production powerhouse, it believes storytelling transcends racial and socioeconomic boundaries, captivating hearts and minds and influencing more empathetic actions.

LOOKOUT Publications

Phoenix, AZ

LOOKOUT Publications delivers fearless journalism and dynamic community events that amplify and expand LGBTQ+ representation in Arizona on every news stage, engaging, empowering, and strengthen LGBTQ+ communities and their allies by telling authentic, impactful stories that transcend stereotypes, hold power to account, and champion equality and respect for all.

La Prensa Iowa

Denison, IA

La Prensa Iowa is a Spanish-language biweekly newspaper founded in 2006 in the rural community of Denison, Iowa, that is committed to providing accurate, balanced, and impactful local journalism that addresses the needs, interests, and concerns of its readers. It is offered free of charge at multiple locations throughout the state.

Eugene Weekly

Eugene, OR

Eugene Weekly exposes corporate practices and public policies that benefit the few at the expense of the many, providing a voice for the oppressed and dismissed and supporting unfettered artistic expression. It advocates for environmental sanity, government accountability, sustainable economics, social justice, cultural diversity, tolerance, and the lively free interchange of ideas and opinions.

The Lund Report

Portland, OR

The Lund Report is an independent, nonpartisan news service that produces high-quality journalism about health care in Oregon and southwest Washington. Its public-service journalism promotes the awareness and understanding required for positive progress, while holding industry and government accountable, bringing to light the underlying dynamics of health care that affect patients, practitioners, and the public, spotlighting disparities and inequities in the system.

BenitoLink

Hollister, CA

BenitoLink connects San Benito County residents through trustworthy local news and information while encouraging public dialogue to foster an engaged community. It has built a trusted news site that covers government actions in the county, explores issues while educating readers, and publishes stories about everyday heroes and nonprofits that knit people together in common purpose.

Mineral Independent

Plains, MT

Mineral Independent serves as the cornerstone of the communities in Sanders and Mineral counties through a steadfast commitment to community journalism and the delivery of factual information.

The Independent News

Albuquerque, NM

The Independent News is the only local news source serving the rural communities of the East Mountains, Edgewood, and the Estancia Valley in New Mexico. It is dedicated to preserving and protecting the local communities by providing a platform to understand the people, places, and stories that make those communities unique and providing a hub for readers to engage with local businesses and participate in local decisions that impact their lives.

El Planeta

Boston, MA

El Planeta empowers, informs, and connects the vibrant Hispanic community of Greater Boston. As the largest Spanish-language news provider in the state, it is dedicated to delivering timely, relevant, and impactful news and information. More than just a newspaper, El Planeta is a community advocate and a cultural bridge that enriches the lives of Hispanic individuals and families throughout Massachusetts.

Hola Carolina

Asheville, NC

Hola Carolina is an impact-driven nonprofit dedicated to exploring and amplifying the diverse voices of its community. Through impactful dialogues and empowerment, it aims to drive positive changes in policies, systems, and environments that uplift the immigrant community.

Tri-City Collective

Tulsa, OK

Tri-City Collective builds community through creativity, educational programs, and shared history, offering creative projects/programs that serve as catalysts for community activation and an array of human experiences.

KVNF Mountain Grown Community Radio

Paonia, CO

KVNF engages its communities by providing access to diverse music, news, and voices, envisioning listeners who are participating, inspired, active, and well-informed with a local and global perspective that emphasizes journalistic integrity.

Henrico Citizen

Henrico, VA

Across five digital daily weekday platforms, the 23-year-old Henrico Citizen seeks to tell the story of Henrico County, Va., through fair, tenacious, thorough, and clear nonpartisan journalism that enlightens, informs, and impacts the county and its nearly 335,000 citizens.

Sunlight Media Collective

Lamoine, ME

Sunlight Media Collective is an organization of Indigenous and non-Indigenous media makers and activists, including Wabanaki citizens, working to document and present stories affecting Wabanaki people and highlighting Wabanaki perspectives, with a particular emphasis on the intersection between environmental issues and Indigenous rights.

The Philadelphia Hall Monitor

Philadelphia, PA

The Philadelphia Hall Monitor covers news that impacts Philadelphia’s diverse neighborhood organizations and concerned citizens, focusing on how city programs impact families experiencing poverty, consumers, and those without access to traditional power structures.

Iron String Press Inc. (Publisher of The Freeman's Journal/Hometown Oneonta/AllOtsego.com)

Cooperstown, NY

Iron String Press publications serve rural Otsego County, N.Y. The award-winning newspapers are locally owned and disseminate information in a thoughtful, impartial, and unbiased fashion, covering topics that impact county residents directly on a local, statewide, regional, national, and/or international level.

Sierra Nevada Ally

Carson City, NV

Sierra Nevada Ally builds healthy communities informed by facts with a focus on environmental, civics, and cultural reporting from underserved communities of the Sierra Nevada and beyond.

Amplify Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Amplify Utah empowers student and emerging journalists by providing the resources, opportunities, and mentorship needed to develop their skills and make a meaningful impact. In collaboration with local media, it works to ensure that every voice is heard and valued, bridging gaps and building understanding across all communities in Utah.

365 Media Foundation

Fitchburg, WI

365 Media Foundation provides news coverage that starts conversations, finds lasting solutions, builds community, invites action, fosters dialogue among diverse communities, and encourages emerging leaders of color. Its online and print publications, such as Madison365 and Blueprint365, tell stories from a lens of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

The Maine Monitor

Augusta, ME

The Maine Monitor delivers fearless, independent, citizen-supported, nonpartisan journalism that informs Mainers about the issues impacting their state and inspires them to take action. Through investigative and in-depth stories, it engages readers to participate and connect to create a better Maine.

SPEAK MPLS

Minneapolis, MN

SPEAK MPLS is reimagining the future of media by activating community connections and creative opportunities to amplify the voices of its neighbors.

Queer Kentucky

Covington, KY

Queer Kentucky bolsters queer health and culture through storytelling, education, and action. Its leaders and team members self-identify as queer and have lived experience of the systemic oppression experienced by the LGBTQ+ community. It uses storytelling, photography, digital art, painting, and poetry to share a rich and dynamic LGBTQ+ culture.

The Bell

New York, NY

The Bell equips New York City students with the tools to tell impactful stories today and thrive in the media careers of tomorrow by running audio journalism internship programs for public high school students; partnering with adult journalists and newsrooms to extend the reach of its stories and provide valuable mentorship; and collaborating with partners across the city and country to advocate for equitable investment in youth journalism programs.

The Recorder

Monterey, VA

The Recorder is a weekly newspaper determined to help maintain an informed, active citizenry in its area of Appalachia. It provides timely, accurate information; preserves the area’s rich history; and supports and defends the hard-working, independent people who live in the Allegheny Highlands.

Ouray County Plaindealer

Ridgway, CO

The Ouray County Plaindealer is the only trusted source of local news in a rural Colorado mountain community of roughly 5,000 residents. The Plaindealer’s journalists seek truth and report it, with the goal of informing the community with fact-based, nonpartisan articles. While maintaining high standards for accuracy and fairness, the Plaindealer produces quality journalism for the community, which would be a news desert without it.

The News-Gazette

Lexington, VA

The News-Gazette comprehensively provides the residents of the Rockbridge County, Va., area with local news and information in print and online, following the best practices of journalism to provide a forum to the community for the exchange of ideas and to be a force for positive change and understanding.

Carolina Public Press

Durham, NC

Carolina Public Press is an independent nonprofit news organization dedicated to nonpartisan, in-depth, and investigative news built on the facts and context North Carolinians need to know. Its award-winning journalism dismantles barriers and shines a light on the critical overlooked and under-reported issues facing the state’s almost 10.7 million residents.

Montclair Local Nonprofit News

Montclair, NJ

Montclair Local Nonprofit News is an independent local news organization founded in 2017 with the mission to spark dialogue, objectively inform, and build community in Montclair through independent, in-depth, factual reporting on local issues and events such as schools, elected officials, institutions, businesses, restaurants, and culture.

Shoresides

Wilmington, NC

Shoresides, a nonprofit digital news site in Wilmington, N.C., is dedicated to reporting on the intersection of racial justice, community, culture, and power in the region. Its mission is to serve as an active voice telling regional stories through journalism that reaches the BIPOC community while creating a living archive preserving the community’s collective history.

Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk

Columbia, MO

The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk enhances the quantity, quality, and impact of journalism on agriculture, water, and related environmental issues throughout the nation’s largest watershed. The news collaborative helps to fill news deserts across the heartland by creating and distributing scientifically accurate and locally relevant stories on critical topics such as climate change, food systems, biodiversity, energy, and environmental justice.

La Raza

Chicago, IL

La Raza informs, defends, educates, enlightens, and empowers the Hispanic community in Chicago through Spanish journalism and literature, outreach activities, and business opportunities while promoting the values of democracy, freedom, justice, diversity, equality, cultural heritage, and opportunity for all.

The Portager

Mogadore, OH

The Portager is the local news source of Portage County, Ohio. Its mission is to be a catalyst for ideas and action to help its community thrive.

The Haitian Times

Brooklyn, NY

The Haitian Times was founded in 1999 to be a leading voice in the community’s evolution and to bridge the generational and geographical gaps among Haitians. To gather and share this nuanced narrative, it actively engages with its audiences in the ongoing journey toward real solutions for Haitians’ thorniest issues. It prioritizes people and humanizes policy decisions with coverage that brings a deeper understanding of Haitian and American culture and politics.

The Copper River Record

Kenny Lake, AK

The Copper River Record is a weekly print newspaper and online news site that connects far-flung communities within Alaska’s rural Copper Basin. It highlights people, places, and natural phenomena that make the region unique and informs readers about local government and land management activities, delivering trusted news and community information to readers with varied cultures, beliefs, and values.

The JOLT News Organization

Tumwater, WA

The Journal of Olympia, Lacey & Tumwater (The JOLT) nourishes the civic lives of the residents of Thurston County, Wash., and grows community capacity by publishing accurate, relevant, and entertaining stories that help people become better informed and more involved in local issues, events, and activities.

SJV Water

Bakersfield, CA

SJV Water provides independent, unbiased news about water issues in the San Joaquin Valley, including who controls the water; how it is moved, traded, and sold; and its various impacts on local communities.

KHASOKHAS

Corona, NY

Khasokhas, or “verified truth,” has been the voice of the Nepali community in New York City since 2012, breaking down language barriers and providing accessible, vital information on immigration, housing, taxes, health, and more. Its goal is to be the bridge for Nepali-speaking immigrants who struggle with English, offering resources in the Nepali language through distinctive reporting, impactful storytelling, interviews, and analysis.

West Texas Tribune

Abilene, TX

The West Texas Tribune informs and engages the citizens of Abilene and surrounding communities by providing fair, factual, and reliable in-depth news stories about local government, institutions, nonprofit institutions, issues, and people. Its nonprofit journalism amplifies voices in divested neighborhoods and explores solutions for those seeking social, economic, and criminal justice and racial equity.

News Letter Journal

Newcastle, WY

News Letter Journal covers the news, sports, and entertainment important to the people of Weston County, Wyo., and provides them with the information they need to be active and engaged citizens.

Michael I. Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism at Indiana University

Bloomington, IN

The Michael I. Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism is dedicated to educating students in investigative reporting techniques and creating provocative, original journalism for the public in Indiana and beyond. As a working newsroom, it strives to protect the vulnerable, expose wrongdoing, and act as a watchdog in Indiana and nationally.

BirminghamWatch

Birmingham, AL

BirminghamWatch serves the civic good of Birmingham and Alabama by supporting journalism that makes a positive impact and encourages citizen engagement with fair, factual, unflinching, and focused news.

Project Optimist

Saint Michael, MN

Project Optimist engages residents of greater Minnesota to help them collaborate across common divides, tackle seemingly intractable problems, and grow more optimistic about the future of their communities, region, and world by tapping Minnesota’s creative and independent talent to produce solution-focused stories and local art to inform and inspire.

Lorton Media Group

Tulsa, OK

The Frontier produces fearless independent journalism with impact and moral force. It holds those in power accountable, gives a voice to the powerless, and tells stories that matter to Oklahomans.

Aurora Sentinel Community Media

Aurora, CO

Aurora Sentinel Community Media provides factual, trusted, nonpartisan news, investigations, and features about the Aurora region and its diverse community. The nonprofit corporation was created to grow a robust, thriving news organization with the capacity to cover the issues and interests of the greater community of Aurora.

El Informador Newspaper

Mount Pleasant, SC

El Informador Newspaper informs, engages, and empowers the Latino community in South Carolina through journalism that is trustworthy, accurate, culturally resonant, and impactful.

The Land

Cleveland, OH

The Land is a local nonprofit news organization that reports on Cleveland’s neighborhoods. Through in-depth solutions journalism, it aims to foster accountability, inform the community, and inspire people to take action.

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