Thanks to a generous $11,000 gift from the Lubbock-based Pickering Family Foundation, Lubbock Lights is raising its NewsMatch fundraising goal to $30,000.
“We are so excited to partner with your amazing nonprofit and are so excited for the awesome things you are doing in Lubbock,” said Jenea Stone, foundation president. “We challenge Lubbock to help Lubbock Lights meet this higher goal, allowing them do more quality local news for the community.”
Speaking for myself and our board of directors, we’re thrilled and humbled with this gift from a family that’s done so much for Lubbock.
This all started when we signed up for NewsMatch – a program of the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) – of which we’re a member. They’ll give us $15,000 if our audience can match it with individual gifts up to $1,000.
For more about this campaign, here’s my Nov. 3 Letter From The Editor with more details.
INN members are also allowed to raise more money to increase the amount we’re asking our readers to match.
So we’ve now raised an additional $15,000 we’re asking our readers to match between now and the end of the year.
Here’s where we are as of this morning:
Please consider giving to our first-ever fundraising campaign – any amount is appreciated.
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