Scripps Howard Foundation

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Scripps Howard Fund
FormationFoundation: 1962;62 years ago (1962)
TypeCharitable foundation
Purpose"Creating informed and engaged communities through journalism education, childhood literacy, and local causes."
Headquarters Cincinnati, Ohio
CEO
Liz Carter [1]
Parent organization
E. W. Scripps Company
AffiliationsScripps Howard Foundation
Budget (c. 2009)
$100 million
Disbursements$6 million (2021)
Website scripps.com/fund/

The Scripps Howard Fund is a public charity [1] that supports philanthropic causes important to the E. W. Scripps Company, an American media conglomerate which owns television stations, cable television networks, and other media outlets. The Fund's mission, according to its website, is "creating informed and engaged communities through journalism education, childhood literacy, and local causes." [2] The It is located in Cincinnati, Ohio, home to the Scripps Company.

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The Scripps Howard Foundation, a sister organization of the Scripps Howard Fund, [1] supports Scripps’ charitable efforts through its endowment, key assets, and major donations. The foundation, established in 1962, [3] started small but has grown to be the largest corporate foundation in the Greater Cincinnati area. Its annual budget has grown from $100,000 in 1971[ citation needed ] to more than $100 million.[ citation needed ] It also manages the Greater Cincinnati Fund [4] and presents the annual Scripps Howard Awards, awarding $160,000 for 17 prizes for the 2020 awards given in 2021. [5]

Between the Fund and the Foundation, in 2021, Scripps gave away more than $6 million: "$1 million ... to childhood literacy, $3.1 million ... to journalism and First Amendment causes, and ... $2 million ... to nonprofits nationwide that were recommended by Scripps television stations and their audiences." [1]

The Scripps Howard Foundation, along with Roy Howard's children, established the Roy W. Howard Archive at the Indiana University School of Journalism in 1983. [6] Additionally, it established the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University in Virginia. [7]

In 2018, the foundation established the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism [8] [9] and Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. [10]

Scripps Howard Awards

The Scripps Howard Awards, formerly the National Journalism Awards, are $10,000 awards (in 17 categories in 2022) [11] in American journalism given by the foundation.

From 1980 to 2010, the foundation annually awarded the "College Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz Award" to a student drawing cartoons for their college newspaper. In 1997 the Award was for $2,000. [12] In the 2000s it was for $10,000. [13]

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