Many of the big decisions that impact your pocketbook, your family and your community get made in planning committees, school board meetings, and State House hearing rooms across New Hampshire. And sadly, those decisions are often made in front of empty rooms save for a lone local news reporter.

National and cable news are not going to cover these decisions. You won’t know about them without local news reporters.

Local journalism is a critical part of the civic infrastructure holding up democracy. Like solid roads and water pipes in your neighborhood, our local information systems need to be strong and sustainable.

In New Hampshire, we are proud that many local news outlets are working closely together to keep that infrastructure strong. The local news partners in the Granite State News Collaborative have set aside generations of deeply ingrained competition to focus on the shared belief that our communities are stronger when we work together.

On Giving Tuesday, we are pleased to introduce the New Hampshire Community News Fund. It is a way for you to make a donation to strengthen local journalism and increase the number of reporters here in the Capital Region and across the state.

Through the Community News Fund, you can donate to the Concord Monitor, other participating media outlets, the Granite State News Collaborative, or a combination. Your donation will directly support news operations and strengthen the connections local news fosters in our communities.

To donate, follow this link. You can also send a check to GSNC, PO Box 87, Keene, NH, 03431. If you’d like that check to go specifically to the Monitor, just write “Concord Monitor” in the memo field.

Your donations may be eligible to be matched through Newsmatch, a national fundraising campaign.

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The Monitor has in recent years added to its reporting capacity through your generous donations. You’ve seen that in our coverage of climate change, the New Hampshire State House and education. Last year’s rounds of donations helped us introduce a new program – News For Your Neighbors – in which our readers donated a gift subscription to someone who otherwise would not be able to afford one. We worked with several nonprofits, including Overcomers Refugee Services, Family Promise and Second Start, and are planning to add recipients from CATCH Housing, Granite State Independent Living and select classes at NHTI.

Any donations received by the Monitor will go to bolstering our reporting efforts and getting more news into the hands of our communities.

The Concord Monitor is part of a family-owned newsgroup focused on the communities we cover. We want to make sure you have more information you can trust, not less, well into the future. Make a donation, and make a difference. We are here, working for you.

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