[V]TDigger is ending our annual fund campaign a few days early, thanks to the nearly 2,000 donations that helped us to meet our $300,000 goal. We are truly grateful for your gifts, which are so necessary to keeping our newsroom humming.
By supporting a local, trusted news source, you are helping to keep Vermonters informed. VTDigger publishes in-depth, daily news about topics you care about, including politics, health care, education, energy and the environment, criminal justice and business. VTDigger expanded in the past year to deepen coverage of local communities in Chittenden, Windham, Bennington and Rutland counties.
We appreciate that readers support VTDigger’s mission to hold public officials accountable, fill gaps in the media landscape and explain complex public policy matters. We strive to be rigorous, thorough and fair-minded in our coverage.
We are delighted to end our annual fund campaign early. This couldn’t have happened without your generosity. Gifts at every level helped us to reach this goal.
We also appreciate the matching gifts pledged to us from generous large donors. The Girlfriends for VTDigger and Boyfriends for VTDigger campaigns, for example, drew 100 contributors.
We are also grateful to the Knight Foundation for a $25,000 grant that readers matched in just three days with donations of $1,000 or less. The Knight Foundation has been a longtime financial supporter of VTDigger as part of its commitment to journalism that strengthens communities. The foundation’s help over the years has made all the difference.
And many, many thanks to Peter Miller, whose gift of 50 photographs in memory of the late Fred Tuttle helped us to remind folks of the power of individual political action.
There is still time to donate in 2016. By doing so, you will join a growing roster of people who care about where our democracy is headed. We hope you’ll join us if you haven’t already.