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By supporting the Workshop, you are helping nonprofits around Chicago and the Midwest tell their stories about issues including hunger, affordable housing, clean water, civil rights, immigration, poverty and education.

Only with your support are we able to provide communications training and tools to nonprofits and journalists to help them keep up with the shifting media landscape.

Whether you’re an individual or a corporation, any amount makes a difference.

Consider:

$20 will allow us to provide handouts for everyone in a training workshop

$50 would cover a custom phone coaching session with a Workshop expert

$100 allows an ethnic media editor to receive training in investigative journalism

$250 covers equipment needs for video-on-the-web workshop

$500 provides five scholarships for community leaders to attend our conference

$750 subsidizes spokesperson coaching for grassroots volunteers

$1500 provides 8 print media guides or 3 online media guide subscriptions to financially-strapped Chicago nonprofits

In these trying economic times Community Media Workshop is on pace to serve over 2,000 nonprofit communicators this year. Help us continue this work.


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Donate by mail: Please download & print our form (available by clicking here)

Donate by phone (credit card only): Please call us at 312-369-6400

Donate online by clicking here

Questions? Please call or e-mail Maggie Walker at 312-369-6400.

We greatly appreciate your donation. Thank you!

Your donation to the Workshop is 100% tax deductable.


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