Fact-checking organizations awarded IFCN grants to encourage financial sustainability work
25 groups share $750,000 in awards through Global Fact Check Fund
The International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute has awarded $750,000 to 25 fact-checking organizations through SUSTAIN, a Global Fact Check Fund program that helps fact-checkers keep publishing while they build more stable sources of support.
Each organization receives $30,000. The grants come as fact-checkers face shrinking institutional funding, fewer platform partnerships and rising demand for fact-checking.
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