DONATE TO SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISM
Bay City News Foundation raises money from individuals, family funds, community foundations and other journalism funders to support our public service work. Generous supporters helped us go from $0 in 2018 when we started to about $450,000 each of the last three years. That money supports original, local journalism, informing the region’s nearly 9 million residents about important news that might otherwise go uncovered. Read these stories on our free site: LocalNewsMatters.org.
HOW YOUR DONATION MAKES A DIFFERENCE:
Bay City News Foundation fills significant gaps in coverage that are growing as a result of legacy media companies contracting. Without our work, many stories about local government, courts and cops, breaking news, and core issues like transportation, education, the environment, and arts and culture would go unreported. Your donation will help us tell more of those stories and distribute them widely.
In addition, thanks to the Hogan-Newton Fund at the Miami Foundation, the Arjay and Frances Miller Foundation, the Connemara Fund and other donors, we are able to provide real-world training to young journalists seeking mentorship and experience. Bay City News, which for 45 years has provided around-the-clock news coverage to most of the San Francisco Bay Area’s news outlets, routinely hires young journalists to launch their careers and do substantive journalistic projects that set their portfolios apart.
MORE WAYS TO DONATE
Bay City News Foundation accepts tax-deductible donations as a 501(c)3 organization based in the Bay Area with Tax ID 83-0654488. Your donations, including those made via stock donations or directly from investment accounts and retirement funds, are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law but please consult with your tax accountant.
MAIL A CHECK TO BAY CITY NEWS FOUNDATION
Checks can be mailed to:
Bay City News Foundation
900 Hilldale Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94708
USE YOUR DONOR ADVISED FUND
If you donate through Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable or BNY Mellon, make your recommendation through the DAF Direct website. If you have another donor-advised fund, please make the recommendation to your fund with our address and federal tax ID number: 83-0654488
DONATE SHARES OF STOCK
Donating appreciated stock is easy and may have significant tax benefits for you. Please check with your tax advisor.
Stock transfers often arrive without the donor’s contact information, so please email donations@baycitynews.com to notify us and share your contact information so we may send an acknowledgment and tax receipt.
DONATE FROM YOUR IRA
A qualified charitable distribution (QCD) from your Individual Retirement Account can be a great, tax-advantaged way to support Bay City News Foundation.
TRANSFER OR WIRE FUNDS
Sending a gift from your bank directly to ours is easy and safe. Please contact us for the banking information required to make a transfer at donations@baycitynews.com.
INCLUDE US IN YOUR ESTATE PLAN
What will be your legacy? Please consider leaving a gift to Bay City News Foundation through your estate plans. If you add us to your estate plan, please let us know so we can recognize your generous intent and keep you informed about the impact of our work.
MATCHING GIFTS
Many employers will donate to the charities you select. Check with your employer, and if they have a matching gift program that we can assist you with, please email donations@baycitynews.com.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
Thank you for helping us grow Bay City News Foundation and the dedicated team of journalists who do the work every day. Your contributions support credible, community-based, public-service journalism that matters to you, informs you and inspires you. We could not do this important work without you.
A Note About Our Firewall: Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and business interests of our organization. We will maintain a firewall between news coverage decisions and sources of all revenue. Acceptance of financial support does not constitute implied or actual endorsement of donors or their products, services or opinions.
We accept gifts, grants and sponsorships from individuals and organizations for the general support of our activities, but our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support.
Our organization also may consider donations to support the coverage of particular topics, but our organization maintains editorial control of the coverage. We will cede no right of review or influence of editorial content, nor of unauthorized distribution of editorial content.
Our organization will make public all donors who give more than $5,000. We will accept anonymous donations for general support only if it is clear that sufficient safeguards have been put into place that the expenditure of that donation is made independently by our organization and in compliance with INN’s Membership Standards.