Foundation fundraising needs the support of NCEW members.Last year at the NCEW NCEW National Conference of Editorial Writers convention, you heard about the success of the NCEW Foundation in winning a grant from the Miami-based John and James Knight Knight was born in England and joined the Hudson's Bay Company in 1676 as a carpenter; in 1682 he became Chief Factor of the trading post of Fort Albany in James Bay where he made himself rich. In 1697 he bought stock in HBC and in 1711 he gained a seat on the board of directors. Foundation for one hundred fifty thousand dollars to finance the Minority Writers Seminar for five years. At the same time, Sigma Delta For sigma-delta in electronics, see . Sigma Delta is a local sorority at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. First established on the campus in 1972, Sigma Delta, known as "Sigma Delt" by students, as a chapter of the national sorority Sigma Kappa. Chi Foundation of Indianapolis pledged one hundred thousand dollars towards a half-million dollar endowment goal for the program, which the Knight Foundation challenged us to raise over five years. Today, I am pleased to tell you that the McClatchy Company, a West Coast newspaper corporate owner, has pledged one hundred thousand dollars over five years towards the endowment. That means that in one year, NCEW Foundation already has raised forty percent of the five-year goal. This is a tremendous performance and the result of hard work by a lot of people. But I would like particularly to note the recent efforts of David Holwerk, editorial page editor of The Sacramento Bee, in securing McClatchy's commitment. The Fundraising Committee of NCEW, headed by Holwerk and working closely with the NCEW Foundation, has developed a Powerpoint presentation that NCEW members will present to top officials at other corporate chain newspapers as NCEW makes similar requests to support the endowment. At least two of these corporate presentations are in process now, and several more will follow over the next few months. In addition to training some twenty to twenty-five minority journalists annually on site at the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn.; coeducational; chartered 1872 as Central Univ. of Methodist Episcopal Church, founded and renamed 1873, opened 1875 through a gift from Cornelius Vanderbilt. Until 1914 it operated under the auspices of the Methodist Church. , the NCEW Foundation will begin producing videos that will reflect the kind of training going on at Vanderbilt. Neil Heinen, of Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The 2006 population estimate of Madison was 223,389, making it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and , heads this effort. NCEW will distribute these videos widely in an effort to attract more minorities to editorial pages and to broadcast editorial departments. The efforts to fully endow the Minority Writers Seminar came out of a strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. session by NCEW and the Foundation in the spring of 2004. We identified important priorities that will enhance the value of NCEW to members and will attract new recruits to the organization. One of the most important of these is regional workshops designed to provide professional development opportunities all over the nation for NCEW members. In particular, we were concerned that many NCEW members were not able to attend the annual convention, largely for financial reasons, but could benefit directly from local, or regional, workshops. These workshops are not new. NCEW long has attempted to conduct strong professional programs in local areas. The difference is that these programs were largely run on a shoestring in the past. Now, we will concentrate on raising money to endow these regional workshops so that they have reasonable budgets that will subsidize the cost of the training for editors and writers. In addition, the Foundation and the Development Committee will focus on securing foundation grants that will help us raise money for foreign travel. The idea is to make the wonderful foreign trips run by NCEW affordable for virtually any NCEW members, and not just for those from large newspapers who have more generous travel budgets. NCEW Foundation has used seed money from the Knight Foundation to hire Patricia Schwartz, a professional fundraiser from Pennsylvania, to help raise money for the Minority Writers endowment. She has already begun identifying potential sources of revenue for our programs. I am convinced that we are on the cusp of a tremendous surge in the ability of NCEW to persuade philanthropic organizations of the value of the work we are doing. I am proud to join outstanding members of this organization to make NCEW even stronger and to raise the money that will provide compelling professional development opportunities. In the coming months, all NCEW members will be asked to make contributions to the NCEW Foundation. I believe this article outlines just a small portion of the good work being done by the NCEW and Foundation boards to improve our organization. But we need, most of all, the financial support of our own members, because foundations that might give money to us want to be assured that we have the financial support of NCEW members. No matter how large or small, please make a contribution to the NCEW Foundation. It's tax deductible and it supports the good work of this magnificent organization. New members of NCEW January 1-June 30, 2005 Joe Adams, editorial writer, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Florida “Jacksonville” redirects here. For other uses, see Jacksonville (disambiguation). Jacksonville is the largest city in the state of Florida and the county seat of Duval County. Scott Ayers, opinion page editor, The Bellingham Herald, Washington Chris Bagdikian, deputy editorial page editor, The Bakersfield Californian, California Alfred M. Biddlecomb, opinion page editor, Potomac News The Potomac News is a newspaper published in Prince William County, Virginia and is one of a number of competing local papers covering the Washington, D.C. suburbs and exurbs in the region. A daily paper with a Manassas weekly supplement, it is owned by Media General. , Woodbridge, Virginia Woodbridge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County, Virginia, United States. The population was 31,941 at the 2000 census. It is the home of the Northern Virginia Royals soccer club and the Potomac Nationals baseball club. Ryan Blethen, associate editorial page editor, The Seattle Times, Washington Hoyt P. Canady, editorial page editor, News Sentinel, Knoxville, Tennessee “Knoxville” redirects here. For other uses, see Knoxville (disambiguation). Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the state of Tennessee, behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox CountyGR6. Michael P. Clark, editorial page editor, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Florida Barbara Curtin, opinion editor, Statesman Journal The Statesman Journal is the major daily newspaper published in Salem, Oregon, United States. It serves Salem, Keizer, and much of the Mid-Willamette Valley. It was formed in 1980 by the merger of the two main Salem newspapers, the Oregon Statesman and the , Salem, Oregon Anne-Marie D'Onofrio, student, Coastal Carolina University, Raleigh, North Carolina For other uses of this name, see Raleigh. Raleigh (IPA: /ˈrɑli/, ral-ee) is the capital of the State of North Carolina and the county seat of Wake County. Mike Dunbar, associate editor, The Modesto Bee, California Claude Duncan, editorial page editor, The Panama City News Herald, Florida C. Herbert Field, editorial writer, The Patriot News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Doug Firby, editorial page editor, Calgary Herald, Alberta, Canada Phil Fretz, editorial writer, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Florida Larry Gallup, editorial page editor, The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wisconsin Jennifer Haberkorn, student, Marquette University, Oak Lawn, Illinois Oak Lawn is a village in Cook County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 55,245. Oak Lawn is a suburb of the city of Chicago, located southwest of the city. Mike Hashimoto, assistant editorial page editor, The Dallas Morning News, Texas Tom Henderson, editorial writer/columnist, Lewiston Morning Tribune, Idaho Kamahria Hopkins, editorial writer, Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska Carol Hunter, editorial page editor, The Des Moines Register, Iowa S. Jennifer Hunter, editorial writer, Chicago Sun-Times, Illinois David Ignatius, associate editor and columnist, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. Lois Kazakoff, deputy editorial page editor, San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the , California Brian Lewis, associate editorial page editor, Springfield News-Leader, Missouri Jeanne Mariani-Belding, editorial and opinion editor, The Honolulu Advertiser, Hawaii John G. Mayne Jr., editor, West Seattle Herald The West Seattle Herald is a weekly newspaper serving the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1923. It is part of Robinson Newspapers, which includes the Ballard News-Tribune, White Center News, Highline Times, Des Moines News , Washington Dale B. McFeatters, chief editorial writer, Scripps Howard News Bureau, Washington, D.C. 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Nelson, assistant editorial page editor, The Arizona Republic, Mesa, Arizona Chris Sivula, editorial page editor, Tri-City Herald, Washington Stacey Stumpf, editorial writer, The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, Indiana Jim Sutton, opinion editor, St. Augustine Record, Florida Molly Thompson, managing editor, station website, WISC-TV, Madison, Wisconsin Susan Van Dusen, retired from WBBM Radio, Chicago Todd Von Kampen, editorial writer, Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska Stephen Woody, publisher and group manager, Montrose Daily Press, Colorado Joanne Zipperer, deputy editor, Green Bay Press-Gazette "Press-Gazette" redirects here. For the British media trade magazine, see Press Gazette. The Green Bay Press-Gazette is a newspaper that covers most of northeastern Wisconsin, including Green Bay. , Maribel, Wisconsin Morgan McGinley is the NCEW Foundation president and is editorial page editor of The Day in New London, Connecticut New London is a city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States. It is located at the mouth of the Thames River in southeastern Connecticut. New London was founded in 1646. . E-mail m.mcginley@theday.com |
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