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Editorial: BINJ Seeks Major Donors To Support Our Intern Program

For several months, at the suggestion of Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism Board President Felicia Sullivan—who has deep experience in such matters—BINJ Development Director Linda Pinkow has been leading our search for educational and vocational training grants that we can use to fund our truly large reporting intern program. However,

JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2026

Editorial: BINJ Is In Great Shape … Until Late June

You’d think I wouldn’t be in fundraising mode in mid-February. At the moment, by our modest standards at least, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism is doing fine. We raised $100,000 during our annual year-end fundraiser. Our new website and new database system are helping all our output from our

JASON PRAMAS February 20, 2026

Editor’s Note: Why Support BINJ?

Anyone that’s read me asking for donations for the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism over the years will have seen me mentioning certain themes over and over. I often stress the importance of journalism to a democratic society, for example. I effuse about the fine work that our “intern army”

JASON PRAMAS December 4, 2025

Editor’s Note: Give To BINJ

With Thanksgiving behind us, it’s only four days until the “holiday” that every nonprofit leader (who I know, anyway) dreads: “Giving Tuesday.” It has only been 13 years since one Henry Timms of the 92nd Street Y in New York City created a marketing gimmick meant to spark a “global

JASON PRAMAS November 28, 2025