Upstart: Report For America Will Help Support A Reporter At Mission Local

San Francisco CA

12 December, 2021

5:40 PM

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By Lydia Chávez, Mission Local December 10, 2021 We have great news … again. Report for America announced this week that Mission Local is one of 150 newsrooms awarded a $25,000 grant toward hiring an additional beat reporter. While Report for America selected 70 new newsrooms this year, it also went back to the previous year's recipients, like Mission Local, to add another reporter. That's a great compliment to the training we do here. And, while this is splendid news, it also means we must raise enough money to cover the reporter's salary and health benefits. Since we met our NewsMatch goal early, raising $61,463 in November (thank you!), including our match money, we have decided to use the rest of December to take advantage of end-of-the-year giving and extend that goal to cover our Report for America reporter. Already we are at $64,456 and our goal is to reach $100,000. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.