BINJ Needs $15,000 to Pay a Quarter-Time Staff Reporter for a Year It has been almost four years since the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism held a well-attended community forum in the big room at (the sadly shuttered) ONCE club on Highland Ave. that led to the launch of our Somerville News Garden project. The […]
SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE: MAJOR FUNDERS NEED TO GIVE EQUALLY TO ALL NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLETS
Because the current practice of “every outlet for itself” is absolutely failing to rebuild local news in the US The original mandate of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism was to produce longform investigative reporting and syndicate it to independent community news outlets around Massachusetts that cannot afford to produce deep dives themselves. Seven years […]
SECOND CHANCES FOR YOUR CLOTHES AND YOUR NEIGHBORS
Somerville nonprofit partners with service providers to match used clothing with people in need Do you need some motivation to get rid of those clothes taking up space in the back of your closet? Consider this: It’s relatively easy for you to get those clothes into the hands of people in our community who could […]
ANNOUNCING THE BINJ PANDEMIC DEMOCRACY PROJECT
Funding 100 local news articles covering Boston area communities during the coronavirus crisis
WHY WE’RE HELPING BUILD JOURNALISM NONPROFITS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY
“The public benefited, too, from the much greater availability of new visions and values, which broadened the political, cultural, and spiritual options of millions”
