Fostering Media Connections

“The return was reviewed by the board of directors prior to being filed”

“A review of all potential conflicts of interest is performed by the board annually.”

“Compensation of the ed was reviewed and approved by independent persons, using comparability data and the deliberation and decision were contemporaneously substantiated.”

“Compensation of key employees was reviewed and approved by independent persons, using comparability data and the deliberation and decision were contemporaneously substantiated.”

“Governing documents are available to the public upon request if necessary.”

“To make the solutions to americas child welfare problems headline news. We accomplish this through strict-adherence to solution-based journalism. First, we report on and produce solution-based media stories about foster care and vulnerable children. We then market those stories to mainstream and other media outlets in an effort to change the overarching foster care and child welfare narrative towards solutions, not simply problems”

“Fostering media connections core activities include reaching out to hundreds of journalists across the country to teach responsible journalism in regards to children's issues and seed solution based stories about the foster care system. Fmc's youth voice workshops engage new voices in journalism through training young people with lived experience in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, and helping them publish content across media outlets, including on the chronicle of social change and in fostering families today and adoption today magazines.”

“Fellows/interns 23,646 114 228 editor 45,000 0 0 freelance journalists 39,905 4,750 0 special projects 216 0 0 consulting 11,519 14,000 0 web designers 1,363 0 0 graphic designers 197 0 1,500 photography 500 0 0 research 513 0 0 total 122,859 18,864 1,728”