Today, VTDigger became the recipient of a $25,000 match challenge from the Knight Foundation.
This is a rare opportunity to make your money go twice as far to support our reporting, and help VTDigger reach our end of year fundraising goal.
The Knight Foundation will match your dollar-to-dollar donation to VTDigger, up to $1,000.
UPDATE: We did it! Contributing readers helped us meet this challenge!
What is the Knight Foundation?
The Knight Foundation has been critical to VTDigger’s growth. The foundation has granted a mix of one-time and multi-year grants that have gone towards healthcare and environmental reporting, audience engagement and revenue growth activities, general operational support, and more. The Knight Foundation is committed to funding accountability reporting and quality journalism. They support VTDigger because we have shown we can be a successful, trustworthy nonprofit news organization.
The Knight News Match continues the legacy of Foundation’s founders, John S. and James L. Knight, who believed that informed and engaged communities are essential to a healthy democracy.
This match is a call to action for everyone who believes in quality, trustworthy, in-depth journalism and the role nonprofit news organizations play in building strong communities.
We are honored to be a part of a select group of nonprofit news organizations to take part in the Knight News Match challenge.
We hope you will show the Knight Foundation that VTDigger is a worthy recipient of this match. Please contribute what you can and help us secure this match.
Why make an end-of-year gift?
If you’ve been on the fence about contributing to VTDigger, we hope you will take this opportunity to have your gift matched and allow VTDigger to receive the full $25,000 grant.
If you’ve already given to VTDigger this year, we thank you. This match opportunity may not come around again, and we wanted you to know about it. We encourage you to share this news with others who may want to support our reporting.
Now, more than ever, VTDigger’s commitment to accountability journalism is needed amid concerns about fake news and misinformation flowing unchecked on social media. That’s why Knight Foundation has launched this initiative to help ensure that VTDigger.org continues to deliver the statewide and local news you’ve come to rely on.
Can you help today? VTDigger has $58,947 left to raise by December 31.
Your gift is fully tax-deductible. VTDigger.org is a project of The Vermont Journalism Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our Tax ID number is 27-1553931.
If you prefer to mail a gift, make checks payable to VTDigger, and mail to 97 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05602.
Or call us at 802-225-6224 and we can process your gift by phone.
