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KUOW receives grant from M.J. Murdock Charitable trust to enhance digital infrastructure and online presence
March 3, 2025
Seattle, WA—KUOW recently received a grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust of Vancouver, Washington to support a major digital infrastructure project in 2025. This grant award, totaling $261,500, will be used to migrate KUOW's website from a custom Content Management System (CMS) to Grove, a public media-specific platform used by NPR, PBS and many member stations.
This one-time migration of KUOW’s existing website infrastructure is an essential body of back-end work that will bring greater efficiency and functionality to KUOW's digital platforms. It will also make KUOW’s local news and programming more easily discoverable and accessible to the public we serve, enhancing our ability to fulfill our mission of creating and serving an informed public.
As KUOW continues to expand our digital content, this migration will bring much needed stability and sustainability to our technical infrastructure, lowering our ongoing maintenance costs so more of KUOW's revenue can go directly into programming.
By embracing digital technologies, KUOW hopes to enhance our reach, engagement, and overall impact, ensuring we remain a vital and accessible source of information and entertainment in the digital age.
This is KUOW’s first grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. This major digital infrastructure project was contingent upon receiving this grant, and will also be funded by grant support from the Norcliffe Foundation and extraordinary gifts from two individual KUOW donors.
About KUOW
KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent, nonprofit news organization that produces award-winning journalism, innovative podcasts, engaging community events, and more. We work every day in service of our mission to create and serve a more informed public, because we believe an informed public is essential to a thriving community, a vibrant democracy, and a better future.
About M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, created by the will of the late Melvin J. (Jack) Murdock, provides grants, programs, initiatives, and convenings for nonprofit organizations in five states of the Pacific Northwest—Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington—that seek to strengthen the region’s educational, social, spiritual, and cultural base in creative and sustainable ways.
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