Dear Reader,
I’m Vandana Kumar, publisher of India Currents. I know you get a lot of emails asking for your year-end contribution. ThereĀ are so many worthy organizations that could use your help. But I wanted to take this opportunity to share why weāre different, and why we need your support now more than ever.
We were founded inĀ 1987Ā with the mission ofĀ filling the void of news about ourĀ community. Through the years, India Currents has chronicled the growth of the Indian American community, its triumphs, its tragedies, its luminaries, and those left behind.
We do this every day through stories like our currently-running series on aging, which focuses on the challenges most Indian Americans face:Ā how to successfully care for our parents, with little to no culturally appropriate support.
This is reporting you wonāt find anywhere else (certainly not in the national news!) It is nuanced reporting: our writers face those very challenges themselves, and deeply understand their complexities.
As a nonprofit, we depend on the support of readers like you to keep this critical work going. Thatās why Iām excited to share that we have an incredible opportunity to increase the impact of your donation through NewsMatch, a call-to-action to support nonprofit news organizations around the country.Ā From now through the end of the year, NewsMatchĀ will match your new monthly donation 12 times orĀ double your one-time gift,Ā all up to $1,000 per individual.Ā
For a small, independentĀ organization like ours, the NewsMatch fundraising driveĀ will help us deliver the kind of in-depth journalism youāve come to expect, every day. Itās the kind of reporting that can make a real difference in our community. And itās worthy of your support.
What do you say?Ā Will you invest in community-driven journalism?Ā |