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As we put together to enter the vacation season, I’m excited to report that the Opinion Giving Information is again for its second yr, with suggestions from the writers you recurrently discover in our pages. Its inaugural outing confirmed practically immediate success, due to our beneficiant readers, who gave to a number of worthy causes — in some instances, doubling or tripling annual philanthropic funding, altering the trajectory of nonprofits doing nice work.
This yr, we’re delighted to current a brand new slate of organizations. Over the subsequent week, you’ll hear a few fund targeted on supporting Black farmers, a bunch dedicated to welcoming refugees to america and a few spectacular training initiatives, amongst others. We hope you’ll think about donating once more.
I’ll kick off the dialog. For final yr’s Giving Information, I wrote in regards to the innovation that nonprofits have been bringing to the media business, particularly on the native stage. This yr, I’m targeted on different necessary methods to solidify the way forward for journalism.
Mentorship has all the time been necessary to me. I’ve benefited in my very own profession from the recommendation and steering of those that have come earlier than, and I attempt to move on what I’ve realized. Having conversations with younger reporters who’re out within the area, practising the craft each day, is extremely rewarding and jogs my memory why I turned a journalist within the first place.
Please think about donating to 2 fellowships that assist journalists as they set off to study extra, search additional coaching and join with specialists: the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting Fellowship and the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship.
Ida B. Wells was a courageous investigative reporter who within the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries wrote unflinchingly on racism and lynching within the Deep South and wrote editorials within the newspaper she co-owned and edited, The Memphis Free Speech and Headlight. In her reminiscence, the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting has a fellowship program that could be a yearlong, intensive, no-cost coaching program that brings folks to New York Metropolis to study in-depth reporting methods from among the nation’s most completed journalists. Learn extra right here and donate right here.
Elizabeth Neuffer was a correspondent for The Boston Globe who died whereas reporting in Iraq on Could 9, 2003. After her loss of life, a retired U.S. Military main common, William Nash, who oversaw American troops in Bosnia, paid her the very best praise when he stated, “She educated me, each in her writings and in her questions.”
In collaboration along with her household and associates, the Worldwide Ladies’s Media Basis began the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship to honor her legacy by offering tutorial {and professional} alternatives to advance the reporting expertise of girls and nonbinary journalists who give attention to human rights and social justice. (For full disclosure: I’m proud to serve on the choice committee for the fellowship.) Learn extra right here and donate right here.
I owe a debt of gratitude to the numerous who’ve pioneered on this business and fought for what they believed in. As a small token of thanks, I spotlight these two extraordinary ladies’s work right this moment. Their namesake fellowships are two nice methods to assist the hard-working journalists who’ve come after them, are enthusiastic about their work and wish to enhance their craft.
My colleagues and I hope that Opinion’s Giving Information can function a place to begin for these searching for donation concepts. Some disclaimers: There are various worthy organizations deserving of assist; those we’re highlighting listed below are a number of which have come to the eye of our writers over the previous yr. The authors haven’t any direct connection to any group until particularly talked about in what they’ve written. If you happen to’re concerned about any group talked about, please go on to its web site. Neither the authors nor The Instances will have the ability to tackle queries in regards to the teams or facilitate donations.
Keep tuned for extra additions to our 2022 Giving Information. The writers you’ll hear from are enthusiastic about quite a lot of points and are grateful for no matter you may give.
