Renaissance Journalism Center Employee Directory
Non-profit OrganizationsCalifornia, United States2-10 Employees
Renaissance Journalism Center is a small San Francisco-based nonprofit pursuing bold, new approaches to news and storytelling to position media as a resource for education, engagement, and empowerment in underserved communities. The organization offers training, technical assistance, consultation, and grants to journalists and organizations that pursue media innovations aimed at strengthening communities. It emphasizes cross-sector collaboration, building partnerships among mainstream news outlets, ethnic and community media, hyperlocal websites, foundations, academia, and nonprofits. In December 2023, it launched SAMVĀD, a series on books, authors, and book lovers, in collaboration with Auropublications. Its history includes leading collaborative projects such as a U.S. Census reporting initiative that connected Bay Area newsrooms with community groups to reach immigrant and hard-to-count populations.