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Each webinar in PSW's CCE Collaborative will feature southwest funders in dialogue with nationally recognized organizations, sharing successes, strategies, and lessons learned from their partnerships to strengthen civic engagement and bring communities together across the region.

February's webinar highlights the importance of local journalism for the civic health of communities. The session will feature a powerful conversation between the executive leadership of the following organizations:

KERA is a not-for-profit public media organization serving North Texas through KERA TV, KERA Create, KERA World, KERA Kids 24/7, KERA News 90.1, KXT 91.7, WRR 101.1 and the Denton Record-Chronicle. For over 60 years, North Texans have turned to KERA as a vibrant destination for community engagement and lifelong learning. KERA produces original multimedia content, carries the best in national and international public television and radio programs, and provides online resources.

Press Forward is a national philanthropic coalition, launched in 2023, devoted to fortifying local journalism across the U.S.—it mobilizes major funders, backs place-based chapters in 40+ communities, and invests hundreds of millions of dollars so that communities stay informed, connected and engaged.

Media Impact Funders is a U.S. nonprofit membership organization founded in 1984 (formally incorporated in 2008) that brings together foundations and individual funders to support and advance media in the public interest—through research, convenings, networking and strategy-development.