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Christine SchmidtOctober 9, 2019

Fundraising like reporting: How eight nonprofit newsrooms majorly increased their major gifts

“These skills are in some ways very similar to doing journalism. As that was impressed upon the cohort, that helped make a shift: It helped give people a mindset where they felt more confident and realized, ‘Yes, I do have the skills to do this.'”

Christine SchmidtSeptember 25, 2019

Treating individual donors and major givers alike, Mother Jones is on track to raise $25 million in its first major campaign

“It was really important to us to have the same kind of high-level conversation with somebody who gives $5 or $500,000.”

Christine SchmidtSeptember 19, 2019

Here’s Chalkbeat’s vision for local education news by 2025

The network’s pitch to local funders: “By the time the school reforms reached their zenith, there was not a single local education reporter dedicated to covering them.”

Christine SchmidtSeptember 18, 2019

Nonprofit news outlets aren’t relying as heavily on foundations — but journalism philanthropy continues to grow

“Nonprofit news organizations have much in common even if their scope or mission differs. Their journalistic missions are shaped largely by the gaps they are trying to fill — investigative at the state, national and global level; more general news at the local level.”

Christine SchmidtJuly 11, 2019

Here’s how some for-profit local news outlets are building subscriptions

Sixteen percent of Americans pay for news, a report earlier this year found. It’s not exactly trickling down to local outlets.

Christine SchmidtJune 3, 2019

Here’s The Salt Lake Tribune’s plan for securing 501(c)(3) status

Now it’ll take the IRS judging whether a nonprofit newspaper needs to stick to hard news of civic importance — or whether it can cover Jazz games too.

Christine SchmidtMarch 20, 2019

50,000 first-time donors? Here’s how four nonprofit organizations used NewsMatch to the fullest

“The biggest takeaway for us is there is a pool of donors there that was untapped, and now we realize they do exist.”

More than 240,000 people donated to nonprofit newsrooms via NewsMatch in 2018 (50,000 for the first time)

How nonprofit news outlets make a collaboration/syndication work

Christine SchmidtOctober 2, 2018

This is the state of nonprofit news in 2018

What was once a space characterized by scrappy upstarts is now a third-of-a-billion-dollar endeavor — but still with a lot of scrappy upstarts.

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