• by Ray Schultz , May 19, 2025

The Chronicle of Philanthropy has announced the recipients of this year’s Philanthropy & Nonprofit Accountability Fellowships.

The publications include Black Voice News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Smoky Mountain News.

The selected local newsrooms will each receive $30,000 to support their coverage of nonprofits and philanthropy. In addition, journalists at each publication will receive coaching from Chronicle editors and reporters and nonprofit and journalism experts nationwide.

A $10,000 award is also being granted to The Breeze, the student newspaper at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California, to examine how the school is using a $25 million unrestricted grant from the philanthropist MacKenzie Scott provided in 2021.

“At a moment when the nation’s nonprofits and philanthropies are facing tectonic shifts because of economic, policy, demographic and environmental changes, it’s more important than ever that local communities understand what all that disruption means for residents,” says Stacy Palmer.chief executive, the Chronicle.