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I intend to add another journalist with his or her own skills and passions to NMPolitics.net’s reporting staff, but I need your help to make it happen. This year’s fundraising drive begins today, and I’m trying to raise $18,000. Donate today!
Gwyneth Doland has done a great job covering the current session of the N.M. Legislature for NMPolitics.net with articles, video and webcasting.
Her temporary position is ending at the conclusion of the session, and Gwyneth is heading to a different job. But her work has added a new dimension to the site, and I want to keep that going.
I intend to add another journalist with his or her own skills and passions to NMPolitics.net’s reporting staff – someone who will provide coverage of politics and government on a regular basis. But I need your help to make it happen.
NMPolitics.net’s annual fundraising drive begins today. This year I’ve set a goal of raising $18,000 (last year I raised $12,000), and I’m hoping to raise it by April 30. Click on one of the buttons on the right to make a donation.
I know this is a significant increase in what I’m asking you, NMPolitics.net’s loyal readers, to pitch in to help keep this site going. But I’m a firm believer in having a diversity of voices on the site. I’ve been able to dramatically expand the commentary section to include a plethora of viewpoints, but news coverage remains largely my responsibility.
It’s time for NMPolitics.net to grow.
Nearly 200,000 unique visitors came to NMPolitics.net in 2011. If even a small fraction of those – say, 5,000 – donated $10 apiece, we’d blow this year’s $18,000 fundraising goal out of the water.
Asking you to become a partner
In 2011, the Las Cruces Sun-News and other New Mexico newspapers in that media chain joined the growing trend of making most or all content available online only to people who subscribe. The Albuquerque Journal’s content has been behind a paywall for years.
Heath Haussamen
I remain a firm believer in keeping this site’s content free, and I have no plans to require you to pay to access it.
What I’m asking instead is that you become a partner in helping NMPolitics.net provide coverage that makes a difference in New Mexico, if you can afford to do so.
The site’s mission is, in the tradition of non-partisan journalism, to hold government and political leaders accountable through hard-hitting but fair reporting while also encouraging policy and political debate that promotes the common good.
You can help NMPolitics.net expand its capacity to carry out that mission.
Make a contribution today
You can give a one-time contribution in any amount, or you can sign up to have your credit or debit card automatically charged $10 or $20 each month with the ability to cancel at any time.
Those who sign up for automatic contributions will receive a monthly newsletter containing exclusive analysis and interesting tidbits about what’s happening in New Mexico and news about NMPolitics.net. Those who give a one-time contribution of at least $120 will also receive the monthly newsletter for a year.
If you want to see a sample of the newsletter, e-mail me at heath@haussamen.com and I’ll send you the January edition.
If you’re already signed up to make monthly donations, you don’t have to do anything. Unless you cancel them, those contributions will continue automatically and so will the delivery of the newsletter to your inbox. If you receive the newsletter because of a one-time contribution you gave last year, you’ll need to make another donation of at least $120 to continue receiving it.
Your contribution will be publicly listed along with others on NMPolitics.net, and it’s not tax-deductible. Click here to read NMPolitics.net’s entire financial contributor policy.
As it did last year, if NMPolitics.net succeeds in reaching its fundraising goal, the publisher of this site, Haussamen Publications, will make donations of $250 apiece to two organizations that share NMPolitics.net’s mission – the N.M. Foundation for Open Government and New Mexico First. The first fights for increased transparency in government, and the second leads the way in facilitating productive political and policy debate that promotes the common good.
I hope you’ll make a financial contribution to NMPolitics.net today. Click on one of the three buttons above to get started. As always, thank you for your support!