In the year since we launched the first Peace and Security Funding Index, elections around the world brought authoritarian populist leaders and governments to power, the United States and Europe saw an increase in hate crimes, and violent conflict continued to affect civilians across the globe. Within this dynamic global context, we see both new threats to peace and security emerging and long-term challenges persisting, like the protracted conflicts in Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.Yet, people all over the globe continue to work to move towards a more peaceful world. In Colombia, a longnegotiated peace accord was signed with the potential to bring decades of conflict to an end. Around the world, even in countries with contentious elections, we saw the smooth and non-violent transition of power that is the hallmark of functioning democracies. The hard work of peace goes on, and while it may take years to see progress, what we do know is that peace and security funders continue to support it. In 2014, the latest year complete data is available, 290 foundations supported over 1,800 organizations with $357 million.The hundreds of millions of dollars granted every year in this sector are helping to prevent and mitigate conflict and build stable, resilient societies across the globe.Both in this report and on peaceandsecurityindex.org, we once again showcase stories of the incredible work peace and security funders support across a wide range of strategies, issues, and contexts. These stories, as well as the sample grants found throughout the Index, help bring the data to life. They also illustrate the long-term, evolutionary nature of peace and security work: though all of the stories found in the Index directly correspond to grants made in 2014, the work those grants supported remains relevant in 2017 and beyond. With the 2,773 grants they made in 2014, funders built coalitions, trained journalists, and empowered grantees to tackle a variety of peace and security issues, laying the groundwork for more recent funding and progress.The 2017 Index tracks funding across 23 diverse issue areas, many of which overlap with other sectors, like

Over the last decade, media-the means by which we communicate-has evolved significantly. Television, radio, and print newspapers and magazines were once the primary means to obtain news and information. However, the rapid evolution of the Internet and mobile technology has generated new media platforms and expanded the universe of information creators, producers, and distributors. Media information once flowed in one direction, but the expansion of the field has made the movement more diffuse. With this changing landscape as a backdrop, the Foundation Center, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation, and in collaboration with Media Impact Funders, GuideStar, and the Ford Foundation, sought to provide a fuller picture of media-related grantmaking by U.S. foundations. Tracking investments from 2009 to 2011, the data reveals that foundations are increasingly supporting media-related work across multiple areas. At the same time, they are tapping into larger trends, with investments in new media growing at a faster pace than traditional media investments. However, growth in grantmaking across the spectrum of media is inconsistent-with growth in public broadcasting falling behind growth in investments in other areas. Recent data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project capture these trends: Over two-thirds of the U.S. adult population access local news through a mix of traditional, Web-based, and mobile media 2 72 percent of U.S. adults on the Internet use social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter 3 80 percent of U.S. adults have a broadband connection at home and/or own a smartphone 4 With this changing landscape as a backdrop, the Foundation Center, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation, and in collaboration with Media Impact Funders, GuideStar, and the Ford Foundation, sought to provide a fuller picture of media-related grantmaking by U.S. foundations.

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Some nonprofits are not required to register. How many is unknown. Public charitiesPublic charities are everywhere You can find them in every state, and in U.S. territories. Public charities per capita by U.S. state <35 35-39 40-44 45+ Number of public charities for every 10,000 residents