Religion News Foundation
Mission
Religion News Foundation's mission is be the most trusted resource for news, features, and commentary about religion and spirituality, where people come together to understand each other’s beliefs.
Ruling year
2017
Chief Executive Officer
Deborah Caldwell
Main address
P. O. Box 1808
Columbia, MO 65205 USA
Formerly known as
Religion Newswriters Foundation
EIN
31-1650883
NTEE code
Printing, Publishing (A33)
Interfaith Issues (X90)
Professional Societies & Associations (B03)
IRS filing requirement
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
RNF seeks to increase the dialog in media about religion and faith in American life. It is a topic mainstream news organizations rarely cover, leaving a gaping coverage hole that begs to be filled, particularly as we are plunged into a new and uncertain world.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Religion News Service
The Religion News Service (religionnews.com) tells the stories of people and faith communities that might otherwise go untold. Religion and beliefs impact every aspect of the world around us but are rarely covered in media. We bring knowledge and depth to the conversation through in-depth articles, a wire service and other media, including opinion articles and podcasts.
Where we work
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of Readers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Christians, Muslims, Secular groups, Interfaith groups
Related Program
Religion News Service
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
In 2023, we're counting annual visitors to our website. The previous years we counted monthly.
Number of newsletter offerings
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Christians, Interfaith groups, Muslims, Secular groups
Related Program
Religion News Service
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Religion News Foundation (RNF) seeks to support religion journalism and religion journalists in order to improve the public conversation about religion and faith's role in American life. We aim to accomplish this through:
• Providing our bedrock, independent, non-secular journalism at religionnews.com;
• Continuing to report on every major faith tradition;
• Distributing RNS journalism on additional media platforms as appropriate;
• Collaborating with community partners on journalism (including the AP and The Conversation), event partnerships and other special initiatives; and
• Providing educational resources and training to religion journalists, as well as resources including the Religion Stylebook and the ReligionLink source guide database.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Religion News Foundation works to achieve its goals through the creation of events, resources, and workshops for journalists at large and the development and support of religion journalism at Religion News Service (RNS).
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Religion News Foundation
Board of directorsas of 04/09/2024
John Terrill
Ken Chitwood
Dawn Araujo-hawkins
Won Kim
Tom Levinson
Betsy Shirley
Steven Waldman
David Roberson
Deborah Caldwell
Robyn Tomlin
Shahed Amanullah
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
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