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Jeanette Ageson is publisher of The Tyee.
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Our team appreciates our readers and we know most face tight finances. We’re grateful for whatever you feel comfortable contributing.

Today is officially the last day of our spring member drive. For three weeks, we’ve been on a mission to bring on 500 new recurring members (monthly or annual) to support our ongoing work. If you’ve been meaning to sign up, today would be the day. (It’s fast, easy and we don’t share your data with anyone.)

We’re a bit nervous, to be honest. We’ll need a last minute surge of support to make our goal. Will you help put us over the top?

That will send a signal that, even in these tight times, you want one of Canada’s leading experiments in independent online journalism to keep doing what we do.

The Tyee is non-profit, independent and largely funded through direct payments from readers in our Tyee Builders program. Over the years we’ve painstakingly built our team of reporters who cover beats like education, housing, politics, climate and health.

They go deep on issues that matter, and we share all of their work to the public with no paywall. All that we ask is that if folks value this work, that they consider chipping in an amount that works for them so that we can keep at it.

As newsrooms shrink, we aim to hold fast

This simple structure has allowed us to build our organization to a staff team of 20 plus a roster of regular contributors, who publish original articles and investigations. In an era of shrinking or even disappearing newsrooms, we’re bucking the trend and doing more than we were five years ago. And we’ve only been able to do this with the support of our readers.

Pledging to support The Tyee in an ongoing way not only puts resources behind our growing team, it is a vote of confidence in this new model for Canadian journalism: one that puts readers first and prioritizes good journalism above all else.

Today is the day

We’re just hours away from our deadline tonight, and as of this writing, we’re 143 people away from hitting our target.

If you believe like we do that Canada needs more non-profit independent journalism, join Tyee Builders today. [Tyee]

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