Public Interest News Network (PINN) is a news media enterprise operating through a fiscal sponsorship relationship with the Foundation for Local News, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. We focus initially on locations where local news deserts and broadband inequities exacerbate the digital divide. The research and development of PINN is being funded and conducted by Sectorforce, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that provides public interest technology and consulting services.
https://foundationforlocalnews.org/ - http://www.sectorforce.us
PINN functions to illuminate and empower resilient states, cities, communities and individuals, as they align the emerging fields and diverse disciplines of public interest communications, publishing, technology and law within a Metaverse dedicated to serving the social good. Self-determined employees and employers, along with business, civic, academic and social entrepreneurs, Vetrepreneurs and others, can play vital roles in building healthy, safe and age-friendly neighborhoods in which they can live, work, create, play and prosper.
PINN forms the connective tissue of a network of digital statehouse news bureaus and local newsrooms, informed by human resource and grants management data to enhance solutions storytelling. The process can also help to build trust-based relationships between nonprofit and philanthropic organizations and potentially leverage cross-sector financial and other resource support.
PINN also works to create job and small business development opportunities in journalism, digital media and marketing, public interest communications and human capital management for all individuals, including the intended beneficiaries of the public works, health, housing, education, workforce development and library systems.