The Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund is an independent joint initiative of the Knight Foundation and The Lenfest Institute. Designed to strengthen local journalism at scale, with a focus on journalistic excellence and serving the information needs of communities in the U.S, The Knight-Lenfest Fund’s framing is a mutual aid approach to journalism, where news and information is seen as a vehicle for solidarity. It focuses on the relationship between sustainability and equity in its national and local work in Philadelphia. The Knight-Lenfest Fund collaborates with news organizations, leaders and communities to grow capacity and meet journalism’s technology, business, and audience realities of the future.