MDIF funders and impact investors
Strength through diversity
Our work is supported by a broad spectrum of foundations, impact investors, development agencies and individuals who share our commitment to free media. Drawing on a robust funding mix that leverages blended capital, we stand proudly as an independent organization driven forward by our own principles and values.
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A selection of our funders and investors
Adessium
Adessium Foundation is a charitable foundation which contributes to a balanced society characterized by integrity, a balance between people and nature, and social harmony.
Allianz Foundation
Allianz Foundation is an independent foundation which supports marginalized communities, promotes open and diverse societies and focuses on combating climate change.
Arjuna Capital
Arjuna Capital is a sustainable wealth management firm which works with high net-worth individuals, families and foundations to create sustainable investments.
Association of Alternative Newsmedia
AAN is a not-for-profit organization which provides services and leadership that ensure the success of its members, and strengthens alternative journalism.
Bank Vontobel
Bank Vontobel is a globally operating financial expert with Swiss roots specialising in wealth management, active asset management and investment solutions.
Calvert Impact Capital
Calvert is a non-profit investment firm that works with investors to move capital into communities around the world.
DOEN Foundation
DOEN supports pioneers who are committed to a green, socially-inclusive and creative society.
Dutch Postcode Lottery
The Dutch Postcode Lottery believes the world benefits from strong social organizations and supports those dedicated to people and the planet worldwide.
ERSTE
Erste is a private Austrian savings bank’s foundation that invests parts of its dividends into the region in which Erste Group operates: Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
Fritt Ord Foundation
Fritt Ord Foundation protects and promotes freedom of expression and the environment for freedom of expression in Norway and, in special cases, in other countries.
German Postcode Lottery
The German Postcode Lottery is a private, state-licensed social lottery. It supports charitable organisations and projects.
GLS
GLS Bank is the largest and first social-ecological bank in Germany. GLS Crowd is an online platform for crowd investing.
Investeringsfonden for Udviklingslande (IFU)
IFU provides advisory services and risk capital to Danish companies wishing to do business in developing countries and emerging markets.
JP/Politikens Hus
JP/Politikens Hus is one of Denmark’s leading media companies. It publishes several news media and its activities include publishing houses, weekly newspapers and niche media.
Luminate
Luminate works to ensure everyone – especially those who are underrepresented – has the information, rights and power to influence the decisions that affect their lives.
MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation is a private foundation that supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world.
Mediahuis
Mediahuis is an international media company behind a wide range of cross-media brands. News consumers have constant access to the journalistic heart of its brands via a wide range of platforms.
New Island Capital
New Island’s mission is to help its clients invest patient capital – at scale – to achieve financial returns and transform the way natural resources are used, businesses are built and communities thrive.
Oak Foundation
Oak Foundation is a humanitarian organisation that commits its resources to address issues of global, social, and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.
Open Society Foundations
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people.
People’s Postcode Lottery
People’s Postcode Lottery manages lotteries for 20 Postcode Trusts and a minimum of 33% from each ticket goes to charities and good causes.
responsAbility
responsAbility Investments AG is an asset manager in the field of development investments and offers professionally-managed investment solutions to private, institutional and public investors.
SEDF
Soros Economic Development Fund is a social investment fund whose mission is to alleviate poverty and community deterioration through investments—in the form of equity, loans, guarantees and deposits.
Sida
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida, is a government agency with the mission to reduce poverty and oppression around the world.
Stichting Democratie & Media
The Democracy and Media Foundation invests in independent, critical media and a strong, just democratic state.
Svenska Postkod Stiftelsen
The Swedish Postcode Lottery believes that a strong civil society is essential for creating a better world. The Postcode Foundation’s goal is to carry out that mission through projects that challenge, inspire and promote change.
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation fosters economic self-reliance and state autonomy and contributes to the improvement of production conditions.
The King Baudouin Foundation
The King Baudouin Foundation’s mission is to contribute to a better society in Belgium, in Europe and in the world. The Foundation is an actor for change and innovation, serving the public interest and increasing social cohesion.
Tinius Trust
Tinius Trust holds the largest block of shares in Schibsted ASA. Its main objective is to strive for a long-term sustainable development of Schibsted to ensure quality and credibility in all of its publications as well as free and independent newsrooms.
The Reva & David Logan Foundation
The Foundation is a Chicago-based family foundation that provides strategic grants to support social justice, scholarship, the arts and investigative journalism, both in Chicago and around the world.
Wyncote Foundation
Wyncote Foundation supports efforts that strengthen and enrich culture, community and the natural environment. The public Media and Journalism program works to further a thriving public media ecosystem that is vital to animating and sustaining democracy’s public sphere.
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