The Guardian Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Foundation funding=== [[File:The Guardian Foundation - Senate House History Day 2019.jpg|thumb|The Guardian Foundation at the Senate House History Day, 2019]] In 2016, the company established a U.S.-based philanthropic arm to raise money from individuals and organizations including think tanks and corporate foundations.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Tsang|first=Amie|date=28 August 2017|title=The Guardian Sets Up a Nonprofit to Support Its Journalism|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/business/media/guardian-non-profit-philanthropy.html|access-date=31 December 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=12 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112014842/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/business/media/guardian-non-profit-philanthropy.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The grants are focused by the donors on particular issues. By the following year, the organization had raised $1 million from the likes of [[Pierre Omidyar]]'s Humanity United, the [[Skoll Foundation]], and the [[Conrad N. Hilton Foundation]] to finance reporting on topics including modern-day slavery and climate change. ''The Guardian'' has stated that it has secured $6 million "in multi-year funding commitments" thus far.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/could-the-guardians-quest-for-philanthropic-support-squeeze-out-other-news-nonprofits/|title=Could The Guardian's quest for philanthropic support squeeze out other news nonprofits?|work=Nieman Lab|access-date=6 August 2018|archive-date=7 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807032914/http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/could-the-guardians-quest-for-philanthropic-support-squeeze-out-other-news-nonprofits/|url-status=live}}</ref> The new project developed from funding relationships which the paper already had with the [[Ford Foundation|Ford]], [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller]], and [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation|Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/guardian-announces-launch-of-u.s.-nonprofit|title=Guardian Announces Launch of U.S. Nonprofit|last=Center|first=Foundation|work=Philanthropy News Digest (PND)|access-date=6 August 2018|language=en|archive-date=7 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807032508/https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/guardian-announces-launch-of-u.s.-nonprofit|url-status=live}}</ref> Gates had given the organization $5 million<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database/Grants/2011/08/OPP1034962|title=OPP1034962|website=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation|language=en|access-date=8 August 2018|archive-date=9 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809024955/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database/Grants/2011/08/OPP1034962|url-status=live}}</ref> for its Global Development webpage.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Schiffrin|first=Anya|date=2015|title=Can We Measure Media Impact? Surveying the Field|url=https://ssir.org/articles/entry/can_we_measure_media_impact_surveying_the_field|journal=Stanford Social Innovation Review|location=Warrendale, PA|edition=Fall 2015|access-date=8 August 2018|archive-date=8 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808233940/https://ssir.org/articles/entry/can_we_measure_media_impact_surveying_the_field|url-status=live}}</ref> As of March 2020, the journal claims to be "the first major global news organisation to institute an outright ban on taking money from companies that extract fossil fuels."<ref>{{cite web | first1 = Jim | last1 = Waterson | url = https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/29/guardian-to-ban-advertising-from-fossil-fuel-firms-climate-crisis | title = Guardian to ban advertising from fossil fuel firms | website = [[TheGuardian.com]] | date = 29 January 2020 | access-date = 11 February 2021 | archive-date = 5 March 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210305150159/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/29/guardian-to-ban-advertising-from-fossil-fuel-firms-climate-crisis | url-status = live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page