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SEJ Funding Sources — Support Hard-Hitting Environmental Journalism

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These are important times for environmental journalism. Washington has been taken over by an administration that works to reverse environmental regulations and has been openly hostile to journalists and journalism. We need your support to ensure that the Society of Environmental Journalists can continue its important work supporting hard-hitting environmental reporting. As a nonprofit, we rely on your donations to help us make that work possible. Can you make a gift now? Please give generously and share SEJ's donor link with your followers today: www.sej.org/donate-sej. Now more than ever, you make the difference!

Your generous gifts, provided by SEJ founders, members and friends, university hosts of SEJ annual conferences and media company sponsors, support SEJ’s lively network of journalists, students and educators worldwide. You power news-making conferences, training and tours, publications, awards, story grants and Freedom of Information WatchDog project. Please also consider SEJ in your estate planning.

Environmental coverage is keeping the change. Thank you.

 

Current and Recent Funding Sources:

2025

 

SEJ 2024 Gifts From Individuals*

$2,501-5,000

Mark and Diane Schleifstein

 

Host and Sponsors of #SEJ2025, 34th Annual Conference, April 23-26

 

Arizona State University logoConference Host

 

2024

 

SEJ 2024 Gifts From Individuals*

$2,501-5,000

Kelly Walker

$1,001-2,500

Jay Letto  |  Thomas Minka  |  Sara Shipley Hiles

$501-1,000

Tony Barboza  |  Michael Warren

$101-500

Len Ackland  |  David Boraks  |  Gloria Gonzalez  |  Nancy Grossman (in memory of Lizzie Grossman)  |  Christopher Iovenko  |  Meagan Jeanette  |  William Kistner  |  Kathiann Kowalski (in memory of Bethany Meissner)  |  Rebecca Leber  |  Cindy MacDonald  |  Oscar Mace  |  Meg McGuire  |  Rico Moore  |  Maitreyee Mukherjee (in honor of Aparna Mukherjee)  |  Annie Ropeik  |  Luke Runyon  |  David Sassoon  |  Mark Schleifstein  |  Meera Subramanian  |  Roger Witherspoon  |  Edward Wolf & Karen McKay (in memory of Lizzie Grossman)

$5-100

Jay Austin  |  Frances Backhouse  |  Bill Birchard  |  Valerie Brown  |  Russell Clemings  |  Eli Flournoy (in memory of Peter Dykstra)  |  Carrie Freeman (in memory of Peter Dykstra)  |  Sharon Friedman  |  Christy George  |  Michael Hans  |  David Helvarg (in memory of Kevin Carmody)  |  Erik Hoffner  |  Emma Johnson  |  Cheryl Katz  |  Jo Knight (in memory of Peter Dykstra)  |  Chuck Kutscher  |  Leonore Lakshmanan  |  Robert McClure  |  Lisa Morse  |  Beth Parke  |  Spoorthy Raman  |  Bruce Ritchie (in memory of Peter Dykstra)  |  James Werner (in memory of Peter Dykstra)

 

Host and Sponsors of #SEJ2024, 33rd Annual Conference, April 3-7

 

University of Pennsylvania logoConference Host

Visionary Sponsor

Fellowships Sponsor

Good Morning Sponsor

Hospitality Sponsor

Exhibit Sponsor

Workshop Sponsor

 

SEJ 2024 Program and Operating Grants

 

SEJ 2024 Unrestricted Gifts From Any Source

$101-500

The UK Online Giving Foundation

 

Past Supporters

 

*   The gifts from individuals do not include names of those who requested anonymity.

You may support SEJ in its mission — to strengthen the quality, reach and viability of journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues — by making a tax-deductible donation.

 

 

 

Alternatively, donors with a Donor Advised Fund can initiate a grant recommendation directly from our website.

 

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Programs and operations of the Society of Environmental Journalists are funded by foundation grants in response to SEJ proposals, media company contributions, earned income, university, media company and foundation sponsorship of the annual conference, occasional regional events, individual donations, and unrestricted contributions of general support up to $15,000 from diverse sources.

 

SEJ does not seek or accept corporate, advocacy group or government sponsorship of the annual conference. Diverse sources participate in SEJ's annual conference as advertisers, exhibitors and hosts of independent hospitality events. These activities do not designate or constitute program sponsorship. All program agenda choices, editorial choices for publications, winner decisions for fellowships, awards and mini-grant winners are made at the sole discretion of SEJ staff and volunteer program leaders, independent of any organizational revenue source, including foundation underwriters, individual donors, advertisers, exhibitors, and university and media company hosts of annual conferences. For more information on policies of the Society of Environmental Journalists, see www.sej.org/about-sej/financial-policies.

Many foundation grants to SEJ are awarded as general support. Grants received by SEJ for specific projects are based on proposals that originate from SEJ's executive director, with guidance from the Board of Directors. Sources of earned income for the organization include conference registration fees, conference exhibitors, IHEs, and advertisement fees, membership dues, mail list rental, and subscription fees.

As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, SEJ files an annual Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service. The public may also view a copy of the most recent independent audits of SEJ's finances here. In addition, SEJ maintains a current profile on Candid/GuideStar and the Charity Directory (formerly, Foundation Source Access).

 

Public

Objectives

All programs and services of the Society of Environmental Journalists are designed by journalists to strengthen and increase news coverage of environmental issues.

 

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