John,

Here’s how it works:

2 days: For the next two days, your tax-deductible donation to Circle of Blue will be matched by NewsMatch, a challenge from the Institute for Nonprofit News to stimulate support for independent journalism like Circle of Blue.

2 ways: NewsMatch will double your one-time gift dollar-for-dollar, or your new monthly pledge will be matched x12 to represent a year’s donations, each up to $1000. 

Here’s what happens:

With a total of $14,000 from people like you, Circle of Blue can earn a total of $28,000 in this important year-end stimulus for a busy year ahead.  

With your help, we’ll continue to lead a growing public focus on water in health and climate change and press ahead with emergent issues in environmental justice, food, energy and the economy. And we’ll be a key voice in covering the Great Lakes as one of four media organizations allied in the Great Lakes News Collaborative, the news source of record for water. There is great strength, and hope, in working together.

We’re ready to put your support toward informing a better water future. Can we count you in?

  Though the central government discouraged self-identity by almost every means imaginable, thousands of Inner Mongolians like this duo followed the nomadic ways of their heirs, freely herding livestock from one range to the next. Photo © Palani Mohan / Getty Images for Circle of Blue