Through the first eleven months of 2025, Gallatin Advisory has had the honor of working on behalf of 58 different clients, including directly with eleven funders and 57 news organizations. These engagements have included the following assignments:
Advising a local news nonprofit and its leading funders on adding additional locations, including updated governance
Advising a journalism funder on positioning and communications issues
Advising a for-profit news org on opportunities for philanthropic funding
Advising non-profit news organizations on strategic alternatives
Leading a Board retreat on strategic issues for a local news nonprofit
Facilitating a staff retreat for a nonprofit publisher
For a national news organization, assessing how it might most effectively support local news
Advising a news nonprofit on restructuring top management for growth
Advising an early stage local news nonprofit on operational questions
Meeting with news nonprofit Boards on issues of strategy, leadership and succession planning
With a funder, developing more effective libel insurance for smaller newsrooms
Interviewing candidates for local news nonprofit CEO roles
For a funder, assessing the professionalism and evenhandedness of a grantee
For a funder, reviewing the most innovative journalism and effective engagement in recent municipal elections
Advising on the agenda and structure of convenings
For funders and Boards, assessing alternative models of top management for news nonprofits
Advising a journalism funder on strategic opportunities for impact
Advising nonprofit news organizations on optimizing the relative roles of Board and management
Advising news nonprofits on ethical concerns
Advising a global news nonprofit on building awareness in the US
For a funder, assessing opportunities to support press freedom in the US
Advising a nonprofit news organization on structuring and investing their reserve funds
Advising an early stage news nonprofit on building its Board
For a university-based magazine, articulating a new editorial strategy
For a funder, helping to craft an approach to freedom of information issues
For a funder, assessing funding across the country for health coverage at the local level
For a funder, conducting in-depth due diligence on grantees
For the Lenfest Institute for Journalism (and their partners at the Associated Press), helping structure the program and select the participants for a Democracy Demo Day
Acting as a coach for four early-stage local news organizations in the LION Publishers/Google News Initiative lab on Building and Managing a Team
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