nonprofit Archives

Collage by Jason Pramas. Downloaded from BINJ's paid Canva account on August 21, 2025.

Editorial: Why Left Unions, Nonprofits, And Foundations Don’t Fund Left Journalism

And why they need to stop dumping millions on PR firms and start funding left news organizations before we all collapse

JASON PRAMAS August 21, 2025

BINJ SEEKS REPORTING, MARKETING INTERNS

Fall internship cohort to start in mid-September, apply today!

JASON PRAMAS September 8, 2023

EDITORIAL: SOMERVILLE WIRE ON HIATUS UNTIL SPRING

BINJ Needs $15,000 to Pay a Quarter-Time Staff Reporter for a Year It has been almost four years since the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism held a well-attended community forum in the big room at (the sadly shuttered) ONCE club on Highland Ave. that led to the launch of our

JASON PRAMAS January 13, 2023

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SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE: MAJOR FUNDERS NEED TO GIVE EQUALLY TO ALL NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLETS

Because the current practice of “every outlet for itself” is absolutely failing to rebuild local news in the US The original mandate of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism was to produce longform investigative reporting and syndicate it to independent community news outlets around Massachusetts that cannot afford to produce

JASON PRAMAS July 29, 2022

Andrea Shapiro (founder and CEO) and Jessica Callaghan (program manager) sort donations at Second Chances. Photo by Kat Rutkin.

SECOND CHANCES FOR YOUR CLOTHES AND YOUR NEIGHBORS

Somerville nonprofit partners with service providers to match used clothing with people in need Do you need some motivation to get rid of those clothes taking up space in the back of your closet? Consider this: It’s relatively easy for you to get those clothes into the hands of people

LINDA PINKOW May 10, 2022

ANNOUNCING THE BINJ PANDEMIC DEMOCRACY PROJECT

Funding 100 local news articles covering Boston area communities during the coronavirus crisis

JASON PRAMAS March 21, 2020

WHY WE’RE HELPING BUILD JOURNALISM NONPROFITS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY

“The public benefited, too, from the much greater availability of new visions and values, which broadened the political, cultural, and spiritual options of millions”

BINJ ONLINE July 21, 2019