The Granite State News Collaborative has been selected by a national foundation to receive an additional match for its year end NewsMatch 2022 fundraising campaign. This foundation is supporting newsrooms, “upholding democracy through their coverage of elections, voting rights, and local and statewide government.”
“We’ve got something special happening in journalism right here in New Hampshire and that is getting noticed,” said GSNC Director Melanie Plenda.
This is a goal-based match. That means, as long as GSNC can raise a minimum of $4,000 locally, those dollars will be matched twice–once, by Newsmatch, once by the partner foundation. So, for every dollar donated, GSNC gets an additional two dollars.
“We’re so excited,” Plenda said. “We’re already picturing all of the in-depth, solutions focused stories these funds can help us get out to Granite Staters across New Hampshire.”
Within just a few hours of announcing the match, Granite Staters quickly started pitching in with donations.
“It was amazing to see people really sort of rally in those few hours to show how much they value having local, trusted news in their communities,” Plenda said. “It really does feel like we’re all a big team trying to get to that goal together. It was really wonderful and I hope it keeps up.”
If you would like to support this effort visit GSNC’s Read. Watch. Listen. Support. Local News Campaign Page.
The Collaborative is a collective of more than 20 local media, education and community partners working together to produce and share news stories on issues impacting people in the Granite State. Since March of 2020, The Collaborative’s partners have published more than 4,000 shared news stories and Collaborative reporters have contributed nearly 600 in-depth and investigative pieces including single stories, series and projects.
For more information contact Melanie Plenda at melanie.plenda@collaborativenh.org or visit collaborativenh.org