The International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute has awarded $750,000 to 25 fact-checking organizations through SUSTAIN, a Global Fact Check Fund program that helps fact-checkers keep publishing while they build more stable sources of support. Each organization receives $30,000. The grants come as fact-checkers face shrinking institutional funding, fewer platform partnerships and rising demand for fact-checking. The recipients include organizations in Ukraine, Venezuela, Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where reliable information is scarce and contested. The recipients also included organizations in countries where fact-checking has an important role in developed media environments, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, Spain, France and the United Kingdom. The awards arrive as fact-checkers worldwide face shrinking institutional funding, fewer platform partnerships and rising demand for fact-checking. That pressure is not limited to smaller or newer organizations.…