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Welcome to the Online Home of MPI.
What’s Our Mission?

• To support the civil society non-profit sector to interact more effectively with mainstream media
• Help develop new media projects that strengthen communities and report on social, community and environmental issues that affect people in their daily lives
• Assist journalists in covering the non-profit public interest community

“The media’s job is to interest the public in the public interest,” said American educator John Dewey. MPI takes that charge very seriously and believes the strength of a democracy depends on informed citizens making educated decisions. With this in mind, MPI was founded in 2003 to enhance public debate and promote civic journalism by amplifying the often marginalized progressive perspective and grassroots non-profit voices that today are effectively cut out of the public dialogue by inserting them into mainstream media.

Browse our site to learn more about our efforts.