In Defense of the Local: How Community Foundations Across Canada are Supporting Local News

Magda Konieczna, Researcher – Concordia University

Jessica Botelho-Urbanski, Master’s student in Digital Innovation in Journalism Studies, Concordia University

Published on May 23 2025

This report examines an under-explored way to support some of this work: community foundations that fund local news. We present five case studies of foundations across Canada that are doing this work, and provide recommendations about how this work can grow into a movement.

  • Magda Konieczna
    Researcher
    Concordia University
  • Community Foundations Canada - Fondations communautaires du Canada

How to cite this publication

Magda Konieczna, Jessica Botelho-Urbanski. (2025). In Defense of the Local: How Community Foundations Across Canada are Supporting Local News, [Research paper], PhiLab – Canadian philanthropy partnership research network, https://philab.uqam.ca/en/community-foundations-and-local-news/