We have some troubling news to share.
Over the last 18 months, the number of readers making recurring monthly donations to The Intercept has declined by nearly 20 percent. That’s over 4,000 donors. Most of those contributions were small donations of $5 or $10 a month. But together, they really add up.
We understand that a lot of people are squeezed financially and simply can’t give as much as they’d like.
But this is no time for investigative journalism to be cutting back or trimming sails. The war in Ukraine. A still raging pandemic. Authoritarianism on the rise in the U.S. and around the world.
So we’ve set an ambitious goal of reaching 16,000 sustaining monthly donors during this April fundraising campaign. We can do it, but we need you to step up.
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As a nonprofit organization, we rely on our monthly sustaining donors to provide a strong foundation to fund our work. We don’t accept corporate ads on our website or charge a subscription fee.
Our base of sustaining monthly donors is a key part of what allows us to take on costly, long-term investigations.
There are a million places where you can go for hot takes in response to the latest news. What we do is different. We’ll spend months tracking down leads, developing sources, analyzing data, and sometimes even filing lawsuits to get access to the information we need to get to the truth.
Unless we’re able to reverse the current trend and hit our goal of 16,000 recurring monthly donors, we’ll face some very difficult choices. That’s why we’re coming to you today and asking you to step up and become a sustaining donor.
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