SEJ Funding Sources — Support Hard-Hitting Environmental Journalism

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These are important times for environmental journalism. Washington has been taken over by an administration that works to reverse environmental regulations and has been openly hostile to journalists and journalism. We need your support to ensure that the Society of Environmental Journalists can continue its important work supporting hard-hitting environmental reporting. As a nonprofit, we rely on your donations to help us make that work possible. Can you make a gift now? Please give generously and share SEJ's donor link with your followers today: www.sej.org/donate-sej. Now more than ever, you make the difference!

Your generous gifts, provided by SEJ founders, members and friends, university hosts of SEJ annual conferences and media company sponsors, support SEJ’s lively network of journalists, students and educators worldwide. You power news-making conferences, training and tours, publications, awards, story grants and Freedom of Information WatchDog project. Please also consider SEJ in your estate planning.

Environmental coverage is keeping the change. Thank you.

Current and Recent Funding Sources:

SEJ 2023 Gifts From Individuals
SEJ 2023 Conference Host and Sponsors
SEJ 2023 Program and Operating Grants
SEJ 2022 Gifts From Individuals
SEJ 2022 Conference Host and Sponsors
SEJ 2022 Program and Operating Grants
SEJ 2022 Unrestricted Gifts From Any Source
Past Supporters

2023

SEJ 2023 Gifts From Individuals*

$5,000+

Anonymous via American Endowment Foundation

$1,001-2,500

Damon Horn and Meaghan Parker | Jay Letto | Thomas Minka

$101-500

Bruce Ritchie | Sara Edelson | Kathie Florsheim | The Todd Family | anonymous via Fidelity Charitable

$5-100

Host and Sponsors of #SEJ2023, 32nd Annual Conference, April 19-23

Conference Host

Boise State University

Sponsors

SEJ 2023 Program and Operating Grants

2022

SEJ 2022 Gifts From Individuals*

$5,001-10,000

Amy Gulick | Dianne & Mark Schleifstein | anonymous

$1,001-2,500

Eleanor Drey and Warren Saunders | Thomas Minka | Meaghan Parker and Damon Horn | Carolyn Whetzel | anonymous

$501-1,000

$101-500

$5-100

Host and Sponsors of #SEJ2022, 31st Annual Conference, March 30-April 3

Conference Host

Rice University

Sponsors

See all #SEJ2022 sponsors, exhibitors and advertisers.

SEJ 2022 Program and Operating Grants

SEJ 2022 Unrestricted Gifts From Any Source

$2,501-5,000

Anthropocene Institute

Past Supporters

* The gifts from individuals do not include names of those who requested anonymity.

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Programs and operations of the Society of Environmental Journalists are funded by foundation grants in response to SEJ proposals, media company contributions, earned income, university, media company and foundation sponsorship of the annual conference, occasional regional events, individual donations, and unrestricted contributions of general support up to $15,000 from diverse sources.

SEJ does not seek or accept corporate, advocacy group or government sponsorship of the annual conference. Diverse sources participate in SEJ's annual conference as advertisers, exhibitors and hosts of independent hospitality events. These activities do not designate or constitute program sponsorship. All program agenda choices, editorial choices for publications, winner decisions for fellowships, awards and mini-grant winners are made at the sole discretion of SEJ staff and volunteer program leaders, independent of any organizational revenue source, including foundation underwriters, individual donors, advertisers, exhibitors, and university and media company hosts of annual conferences. For more information on policies of the Society of Environmental Journalists, see www.sej.org/about-sej/financial-policies.

Many foundation grants to SEJ are awarded as general support. Grants received by SEJ for specific projects are based on proposals that originate from SEJ's executive director, with guidance from the Board of Directors. Sources of earned income for the organization include conference registration fees, conference exhibitors, IHEs, and advertisement fees, membership dues, mail list rental, and subscription fees.

As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, SEJ files an annual Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service. The public may also view a copy of the most recent independent audits of SEJ's finances here. In addition, SEJ maintains a current profile on Candid/GuideStar and the Charity Directory (formerly, Foundation Source Access).

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