New York Community Media Alliance was founded in March 2007 to help strengthen the immigrant and community press in New York City, recognizing the critical role it plays in helping to organize, advocate for, and encourage civic engagement in the communities it serves. This media sector, comprised of close to 350 weeklies and 26 foreign-language dailies, reaches a readership of well over 3.5 million, of which 1.8 million have little or no English-language skills, according to the Mayor's Office on Immigrant Affairs. Well over a third of these publications are distributed nationally, thereby extending the impact of its reporting beyond the confines of their neighborhood, city and state.

With foundation support, NYCMA has developed a sophisticated cluster of programs to encourage informed civic participation in communities that are not well served by the mainstream media: low-income and working-class communities, communities of color, and immigrant communities where English is not the primary language. As well, the programs work to project news and analyses from these communities beyond the confines of ethnicity and the boundaries of their neighborhoods.

NYCMA's program work is made possible by the generous support of:

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