The Sacramento Bee is building a new reporting team. You can help: Support The Equity Lab
Dec. 31, 2020, was the last day of this fall/winter campaign. You can still support The Equity Lab! We are raising money to fund this local reporting team for years to come.
Donate now through the Sacramento Region Community Foundation.
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We’ve been hard at work telling the stories that impact our communities. We’re asking again for your investment in community-funded journalism built from the ground up.
When the pandemic struck our region, The Sacramento Bee, like other news organizations, suffered losses in ad revenue. And you stepped up, donating nearly $140,000 to a coronavirus reporting fund that allowed us to continue delivering high-quality journalism in a time of crisis. We didn’t miss a day on the job and we haven’t lost a single member of our reporting team, unlike many other news organizations. Thank you.
Now, it’s time to invest in what the future holds for our region, examining and elevating stories of our recovery with an eye to those who have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
»» Contribute to The Sacramento Bee Equity Lab Fund
To do this, we’ve added 4 dedicated and contributing writers who investigate and present solutions-focused journalism. And we are engaging with you, our readers, in the process and telling the stories you most want told. We were able to expand our team, during the pandemic, due to the community’s initial investment.
Simply put: We can’t do this without you. We recently launched our official campaign in partnership with the Local Media Foundation. You can contribute here.
The long and hard work of resolving a history of racist and classist policy inequities is not close to being done.
We covered COVID’s uneven impact on a working class, mostly low-income Sacramento neighborhood.
We’ve shown Sacramento’s largest school district’s struggle to serve all of its students amid the challenges of distance learning.
We’ve told stories that better represent the triumphs and culture of Sacramento’s Black communities with a story about alternative higher education options for California’s Black students and profiled the vibrant African Marketplace on Florin Road.
We’ve translated our stories for Spanish-speaking audiences and worked with local community groups to bring our stories directly to those residents.
You can help shine light on a path toward a brighter, more inclusive future.
Your tax-deductible donation — whatever you can give — will directly support coverage that is reported by journalists who live right here in the Sacramento area. This is our community. This is local journalism.
Want to donate by check? Here’s how
Make the check payable to the Local Media Foundation, and in the notes field on the check, write “The Sacramento Bee.” If you include your email address, you will receive a tax donation letter. The check then needs to be mailed to:
Local Media Foundation
PO Box 85015
Chicago, IL 60689-5015
This story was originally published October 30, 2020 at 10:01 AM.