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Colorado Press Association, along with partners throughout the state, is working with newsrooms and other support organizations to facilitate collaborative problem solving and work around some of the toughest challenges facing local newsrooms and communities in Colorado. This work is supported by the Colorado Workforce Development Council and the Colorado Media Project.
This work is industry-led, with CPA and partners convening industry leaders in each working group under the Next Generation Sector Partnerships model, which the Colorado Workforce Development Council (CWDC) launched in Colorado in 2005 and has been growing since to foster industry-driven alignment across economic development, workforce development, and education. As higher education, community-based organizations, and philanthropy increasingly play new roles in new models for local civic news, the working groups also will incorporate elements of collective impact to articulate a common agenda, shared goals and measurements. And we will utilize design thinking processes to understand pain points and systemic gaps, and to develop and test innovative solutions through pilot projects.
CPA’s leadership of the working groups is made possible thanks to a three-year grants to CPA from the CWDC (awarded in late 2022) and from the Colorado Media Project (awarded in 2023). The Regional Sector Staffing Grant is supported by federal award number SLFRF0126 to the State of Colorado by the U.S. Department of Treasury. This includes funding appropriated to the CWDC through Colorado House Bill 21-1264.