Tyee Fellowship Funds

Your opportunity to create the best independent journalism in BC.

In our short time online, The Tyee has broken many important stories that may never have been published otherwise.

But our resources pale compared to corporate media's.

Serious journalism costs serious money. So we created two Fellowship Funds to increase our ability to bring you the serious journalism you need.

The Tyee Fellowship Funds are a way for readers to make tax deductible donations, and give independent journalists from all over B.C. the support they need to work on longer series that relate to important issues of public interest. The support to file freedom of information requests, run up phone bills, and travel to where the stories are unfolding.

Two funds, and why

• The Tyee Investigative Fellowship Fund
• The Tyee Solutions Fellowship Fund

Their names tell you a lot. The investigative fund will provide resources for reporters wanting to research and document unfolding, possibly hidden problems facing BC. The solutions fund provides support for journalists seeking to report on and explain promising experiments that might lead to solving those problems.

The goal of each is to educate and engage citizens in thinking through our shared future.

We leave it to you to decide which approach appeals most to you by contributing to the fund of your choice.

And in making your donation, we invite you to tell us which issues most concern you. The environment? Poverty? Aboriginal rights? Multiculturalism? Workplace safety? The shifting economy? Please let us know.

How will it work?

From now until Dec. 15, 2007, journalists are invited to submit proposals for an Investigative or Solutions Fellowship. A blue ribbon, independent advisory board will select winning entrants. The resulting journalism will be published first on The Tyee, but will be available for publication elsewhere, the findings rippling out well beyond The Tyee's readership.

The advisory board, to operate at arm's length from Tyee editors, comprises UBC Journalism Professor Mary Lynn Young, Langara Journalism Professor Ross Howard and University of Toronto Professor of Journalism Minelle Mahtani. To read their impressive bios, click here [PDF 152 k].

The two funds are held at and managed by Tides Canada Foundation, a national public foundation. Guaranteed: Your tax deductible, charitable donation goes directly to supporting individual journalists.

Building on success

In our first four years The Tyee has run over 1200 original articles, including many investigative and solutions oriented pieces taken up by the wider media. Clearly we have become a catalyst for wider public education. Our audience keeps growing by leaps and bounds.

We thank you for helping us become an independent media experiment gaining local, national, and global attention.

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Secure ONLINE donations (recommended)

• Investigative Fellowship Fund
  
• Solutions Fellowship Fund
  

OFFLINE donations

One-time by cheque or credit card -- Download PDF form

Monthly donation by credit card or automatic withdrawal -- Download PDF form

To discuss other methods of giving (planned gifts, donation of publicly traded shares etc.), please call Mary Hiebert at Tides Canada: 604-647-6611 ext. 610.